The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-08
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Man Is not alone in his toilings.
All mankind and nature are ready and
willing to join hands with him. On
what price will nature not pay Tor a
man! Ages and aeons were nothing
for her to spend In preparing for his
coming or to make his existense pos
sible. She has rifled the centuries
for his development and placed the
universe at his disposal. Nature re-
sorts to a thousand expedients to de-
velop a perfect type Of her grandest
creation.
As the sculptor thinks only OF the
angel imprisoned in the marble block
so nature cares only for the man or
woman shut up In the human being.
The sculptor cares nothing for the
block as such, nature has little re-
greet for the mere lump Of breathing
clay. The sculptor will chip of all
unnecessary material and set free the
angel. Nature will chip and pound
remorselessly to bring out mans pos
sibilities. She will strip him Of his
wealth, humble his pride, humiliate
his ambition, let him down from the
ladder of fame, discipline him In a
thousand ways II she can develop a
little character. Everything else
must give way to that. Wealth is no
thing. position is nothing, fame is
nothing. Manhood is everything.
The strongest and most beautiful
characters are not developed in warm
climates, where man nnds his bread
ready made on the trees and where
exertion Is an effort, but rather in
. trying climate on a stubborn soil
It 10 no chance that returns to the
Hindoo peasant . penny and to the
American laborsr . dollar for hii
daily toll: II 10 ragged necessity; II
10 the struggle to obtain; It is pov
erty. the priceless spur, that devsl
ops the stamina OF manhood.
| We see ins0sient persons al
along life's pathway who started on
with q good sdHcation and grea
promise, bet they have gradual!
gone to seed" Their early ambl
tions died. their ideals gradual.
dropped TO lower standards. Nan.
of them did not have enough determ
nation to stick TO their task unit
they succeeded. They finally sui
sided and became In q sense, satisfe
to fall into the rear. There IL n
more lamentable sight than that Q
side tracked man who has lost hi
grip on life. Lost health, lost fortune
almost anything may be overcome
one does not lose courage and amb
ton; but when these are gone. ther
is not hope. When the struggle
given up and q man Voluntarily sui
: sides into asemi-satisfied state, theI
; is practically no chance of gettin
him started again.
II II required no brains, no nerv
|, no energy, no work, there would
no glory in achievement. The barrie
= are not erected which can say
J, aspiring talents and industry, "Th'
}, far and no farther" The youth wi
y does not look ~ win look down; a
= the spirit that dsss not soar 10 d.
ttnsd, perhaps "a srovsl. The gre
= problem Of today 10 TO convince 4
. struggling youth that all that 10 gre
n and noble and true In the history
It the world 10 the result Of innn
, pAinstaking. Of perpetual ploddins
r. short Of common everyday industr
! "AM are architects of fate
70 Working In these walls Of time,
o. Some with massive deeds and sr,
Some with ornaments OF rhyme.
- For the structure that We raise
70 Time 10 with materials filled,
40 Our todays and yesterdays
no Are the blocks with which we bull
80, Every mans soul is gallery.
at can hang 1t with works of art,
I'd, can fresco 1t with faithfulness O
dy decorate It with beauty, or he {