El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-21
DANIEL Young Man Who Made Good;
II He Who Lives Right Lives Best
Easy Not Most Way Spending Ones Time
On This Earth
EVANS al Method Church

noble resolve, and through all the changing
scenes Of life have been loyal to their pur-
pose and persistent in their resolve.
Inc inspired record says Of Abraham and
me land Of Canaan and into the land of
I canaan they came" They came to the
4and Of Canaan because they went forth
70 go. That was their definite purpose.
/ They reached the place they purpOsed to
! reach and iOurneyed to-
} The words Of Columbus recorded in his
! Journal are striking and inspiring; This
] gay we sailed westward, which was our
/ course" Night after night the same words
/ we're written Crews might mutlny, did
! lIuIlny, storms came, and hope wavered,
7 but day after day he continued on his
! westward course and land was reached.
John Milton Had Inspiration.
J John Milton, when but a boy, awoke one
/ night and as he meditated the resolve was
! made to write poeu1t that the world
/ passed before ne wrote the poem that has
l stirred the world, years OF preparation, OF
! experience, Of study, Of loyalty to his pur-
] pose Old age came with poverty and
/ blindness, but he gave to the world his
poem.
/ Frances willard, in her youth purported
7 10 do her part in Kidding the world Of
I the monster curse" Everyone knows how
/ steadily loyal she was to her purpose and
! now wonderfully she succeeded.
! Instances and illustrations emphasizing
the power Of q lofty purpose could be given
Goethe saws: 'aThe important thing in
life is to have a great aim and to possess
: the aptitude and the perseverance to at
Dreaming Results in Failure.
There are many today and there have
Deen many in the past who, although they
| began life with keen intellect and unin-
Jured viii, have never gone anywhere or
accomplished anything worth accomplishing.
They have spent their days in sprawling, in
urlIIng, IN dreaming Ihey nave not gone
forth to go or to do and consequently they
have reached nowhere, have accomplished
nothing Such a man was COIeridge He
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tual faculties but his life was a failure.
He had no fixed purpose for life and for
some reason could scarcely ever come to
any definite decision He would walk on
both sides Of the stree. at the same time
because he could not decide which side he
wished to walk on His own commentary
on his life is found in these words, written
on the fly leaf Of his bible:
''When I received this volume small
My years were scarcely seventeen,
When it was hoped I should be all
Which once alas might have been
and now my years are thirty-five
And every mother hopes her lamb
And every happy child alive,
May never be what now am"
God has a plan for every life. Oftentimes
Gods plans are frustrated because men and
women fail to consult Him. or having had
their duty plainly placed before them fail
to follow the light which has come to them.
Should Follow Gods Plan.
Each person should seek to discover what
Gods plan is for their life and having dis
covered, as it is the priceless privilege Of
help to be and to do what God would have
him or her to be and to do.
Dr. VanDyke in one Of his poems, says;
Life is an arrow, therefore we must know,
What mark to aim at, how to the bow,
Ihen draw It to the head and let it go
Paul. when the revelation came to him on
the road to Damascus, inquired, Lord what
WOulQSt Thou have 90
That should be the earnest and reverent
question of every person who desires to be
and to do his or her best. You can be sure
that God will reveal His plan for you life to
you as truly as he did to Paul and Daniel. ,
Back Of the purpose to be and to do what
God would have you to be and to do there
must be strong viii holding the mind and /
BODY steadily to to the purpose.
U7,:eue Sentence on Tomb.
Joseph II, of Austria requested that this J
sentence should be carved upon his tomb. !
Here lies monarch. who with best in
tentions never carried out single plan"
Possible for the will to atrophy-to go to /
sleep. The ostrich lost the power to fly be- I
cause it failed to use its wings Rats and /
fish in the Mammoth cave cannot see. They
have had no occasion to use their ewes and !
consequently the optic nerve has atrOphied
Neglect to use the viii and it viii atrophy. B
II va would have strong wills, wills that I
persistent, we should and must yield them to {
God.
viii. but the will Of Him who sent me"
Can not, today, look up unto the facs
OF our Father and say,
Our wills are ours, we know not how
Our wills are ours to make them thine"
Drifting Is Easy But Disastrous.
To drift is easy but the easiest life is no. .
he best or the most satisfactory, or the most /.
successful life To have a lofty purpose il F,
you please a God given purpose, and to stick
10 that purpose through all the days bv
Gods help is best The person who lives
a life Of that kind has the best here and 4
viii have the best hereafter.
Better to stem with heart and hand /
The roaring tide of life. than lie
Jnmindful on its flowing strand
IF Gods occasions drifting by.
Better with naked nerve to bear
The needles of this goading air,
Than in the lap Of sensual ease fOregO
The GOdlike power to do, the Godli6e aim to
know"