Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-26

aoie ana OF mahhs
tSslr .,t worth IT che count ,or,S on a Leg
advantage and wealth, wealth Of a ma
terial kind perhaps. or wealth In char
acter and service.
The safer view to take AMI the one
more respectful TO human nature and to
the Divine Author of that nature, is that
while some may he more richly endowed {
by birth than jthers. yet that no one is
by birth a par'per but comes into life
with certain amount Of outfit which
It depends " ON the man himself to take
care Of and tLrn to account Anything
less than that would argue injustice on
Gods part. We should como out ell
right IL we were as good to ourselves
as lie is good to us and had as much
interest as He in our well being and
success.
Every individual is in this respect like
q gold mine deep buried under the soil.
The gold is there, but the world is no
richer for its being there until, by mans
effort, the mine has been worked and
the hidden treasure brought out into tho
open and converted into some form OF
practical utility. And yet the owner OF
such a mine prizes Il oven before the
shafts are SUM. through which the metal
il to be carried to the surface; and he
PRICES It an' is wilkins to pay heavily
in order to become the possessor uf It,
because showing that however worth
less the golc Is 50 long az II remains
covered. there Is that there which. when
uncovered. will become TO him an inn
mense source Of revenue.
Now. the trouble with a lot Of you
young men is that yoT do not look upon
your own hidden powers with the Same
kind of respect and warm appreciation
with which a man. who has just become
the owner OF a mine, looks upon the
hidden metal. He banks upon the gold
even before ne has seen It, Yourselves
you do not bank upon. You do not credit
yourselves ~ith being al that you are.
You have rot taught yourselves to re-
alizc ali that 1t is in you to become
and to do.
You exist, but do not live. because il
you were really thoroughly alive You
| would grow and continue tn mean more
and more to yourselves and others. You
set limits to your possibilities Of char
actcr and accomplishment There are no
limits except those which you set. As
some one has said: The fault is in
ourselves that we are underlings."
/ For man to complain that he does not
amount to anything in the world is no
more reasonable than It would be for
farmer to complain that the com which
he Is still housing Ia the cornbin IL not
| recoming n fresh harvest out in the
corntieid. That which hosts OF uurro-
ductive young men most need is 10 have
something happen to them that VIII
arouse them from a condition OF seSnis
stupor The fault is not lack Of power
but lack of wakefulneSs. Something hat
pened to tho city OF Chicago good many
years ago and the result was that II
got stirred out OF It's dreams. So OF
San Francisco.
The story IS tolc OF Sir Isaac Newton
Il do net Know with what truthtulness)
that he never became thoroughly alive
and awake till some one kicked him just
below the belt. The story may be true.
There is no good reason why It might
mot be.
Even in the matter of physical strength
tno one quite realizes how strong he is
tin he falls into a hole where ne has to
gather himself together in order TO get
out That accounts for the fact that a
larger proportion OF people born In
straitenod circumstances come to some
thing than thee who enter life under
!
productive ranks OF society have contin-
ually 10 he ecluited frOrn families that
had to struggle in order to get along. A
young bird might never find its wings
were 1t not CONSIDERABLY lung out OF
the nest by the mother bird, who Is SEN
siile enough 70 understand that the
fledgling viii always remain a fiedgiing
TIL something happens to It disturbing
anough IN make A a real bird.
The point / arr making is illustrated
in lively way Ivy saying that certain
chiIdrea Immediately upon being born
have 90 De spanked in order TO start
respiration. There are people that have
beer born a long tine tiiat have never
been hit hard enough to set them taking
deep. discriminating breath There Is
nothing the matter with them except
that the machinery OF their existence
has never been really set a-running
1t is there. but no motive power has
put its pressure upon II Of sufficient
energy to sci 1t in operation. For that
reason there Is nothing so much TO the
. advantage q an apathetie young man as
to become interested In some bis enter
prise on to have put upon him some largs
responsibility II helps him to find HIM
self He Is made surprised by the dis
: coveIy OF WI at il contained in his own
nature Tie interest aroused In him
stirs into wax -fulne;s ana into action
tho powers tina, had already existed in
him. but that had been lying there like
the gold in an undiscovered OF unworked
mine There Is nothing like a Zig pur-
: pose in life 20 develop a hstless youn;
man from siuntcring possibility into a
splendid hse activity