Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-20
Today Is Yours

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Pictorial Review for January Will
contain tho following inspiring edi-
,orial by DR.. Frank Crane:
The best thing you have in this world
* TODAY Hero ii is. Il wonderful
treasure. q marvellous jewel. It's yours,
ali yours. It's in Your hands. What
are YOU going 10 do with it
Today is your saviour: it is often
crucifed between two thieves. Yester-
DAY and Tomorrow.
Today you can be happy, not yester-
day nor tomorrow There is no happi-
ness excep, Today's.
Most Of our misery i left over from
Yesterday or borrowed from tomorrow
Keep tooay clean. Make w yolr mind
to enjoy your food, Your work. Your
play, Today anyhow.
Time is not divided into three parts.
past. present and future. There is on
Il one real time: il is Now.
Oh can any tHlHS, II YOU IL Oily
90 at it a day at time.
II you're bereaveG, betrayed. heart
will not matter Today put away your
fostering thoughts. Today take some
simple joys Today be a little happy
in the sunshine You can do it. Its
the burden of the coming days, weeks,
Years, that brushes US. The present is
always tolerable
Whoever planned this life Of ours did
we'll in giving it TO us one day at a
time We don't have 10 live it all at
once, thanks he. We've only got TO
get through till bedtime.
And at the end of every day we are
tathed in death. In sleep we 80 back
to ouf original nothngntss. ENery
morning We are born again.
Why let life Cypress YOU? You don I
hava 10 live your life, only a day of it.
Come, lets finish our small task man
fully. Its not long.
Don't let life mass against you. At
tack it in detail ard YOU can easily
triumph.
oh. but I cant help thinking of the
Past And one must plan for the Flu
ture''
To be sure. only forget not that il
is not the Past that determines the
Present: il is The Present that deter
mines the Past.
The Past is what we make of it. II
is the temper Of the Present that quail
ifies II. II all depends upon how YOU
now consider it, whether it bring You
despair OF encouragement.
Suck out its wisdom. keep its lessons,
utilize its experience. make of all those
things elements OF present power But
forget its septic qualities. Don't let
the Past unman you, benumb you with
remorse. weaken YOU with self-con-
tempt.
The poet says We rise by stepping on
our dead selves. And as for the Flu
lure. the best preparation for it is an
unafraid Today.
Whatever hills You have to climb,
whatever bridges YOU have to cross.
Whatever enemies are lying in wait for
rou. whatever crises are to be met. YOU
can be no better equipped for them
than by living this day soundIy. cheer
fully. and free from fear
Approximations, premonitions. wor-
ries. these are the poison gases of
our foe. the Future
II you are to die tomorrow, the best
way to be ready is to discharge faith
fully Today's duties, and to enjoy
heartily Today's simple pleasures.
Today is yours. God has given it to
YOU. All your Yesterdays He has TAX
en- back. All your Tomorrows are still
in His hands.
Today is yours. Take it's pleasures
and be glad. Take it's pains and play
the man.
Today is yours. just little strip of
light between two darknesses, just a
bit of life between two sleep deaths.
Today is yours. Use il so that at its
close you can say.
II have lived. and loved Today"