The Washington herald., 1915-01-17
WHICH WAY ARE YOU
FACING?
BY oRIsON SWEET MARDEN.

| During the hottest OF the fighting in
! Belgium a quick command4TOm Gen. Ber-
/ trand, at Haecht, turned a retreat Of
the Belgian forces into an attack.
| According to the story, as told in Cour-
/ rier des Armes, the official organ of the
Belgium soldiers, Gen. Bertrand, who
succeeded Gen Leman in command of the
division which withstood the Germans
at Liege, suddenly found his troops IN
retreat. Friends" he shouted, you've
mistaken the road! The enemy is IN
| the other direction
Electrified by their leaders words, the
soldiers wheeled about and charged the
German troops with renewed vigor.
| Which way are you facing in the bat
! tie aLead of you in 1915? Are you beaten
and discouraged, in full retreat before
the enemy-the mistakes, the failures
and disappOintments Of last yeaT-OF have
! you, like Gen. Bertrand, rallied your
forces and with renewed courage and
| Vigor gone into the fight with the Ge-
termination to win?
Are you blue and despondent because
the war in Europe has injured your husi-
ness, reduced your salary, or cut on
your income altogether by depriving YOU
of your position? Are you still further
depicting your courage by cOmpa rig tns
bright hopes and hapy promise of i year
ago with the changed conditions that
ing castles in Spain, DR. +aming of
bright future and making all MANNER Hr
good resolutions and plans for tOmof-
row, but letting today go by without any
effort to act on them?
II so, you are heading for defeat.
There's nothing in the future for the
man or woman who persists in looking
backward, bemoaning the past, or n
dreaming and looking forward without
getting down to realities and the On.y
thing that produces TeSultS-wCrk.
One Of the most impressive and I'm
pOrtant paragraphs in Prof. james
Psychology" is this:
when a resolve or fine glow of feel
ing is allowed to evapOrate without bear
Ing practical fruit, it is worse than
chance lost; ii works so IS positively
to hinder further resolutions and emo
tons from taking the normal path Of
discharge"
Act while the glow OF enthusiasm is at
white heat. while your Inspiration has
raised you to the nth degree II yOuI
power.
You are writing your biography t. day,
every day. You are not writing it in
the future. You are writing /. NOW.
and II will be all OF a piece. There will
he no great jump from ,Oday to to-
morrow. 1t will be along the same gen
eral level
You who pity yourself because you are
so poor and have so little opportunity,
did you ever realize tina: the capital
which YOU have right nOw-yUur nPalth.
your muscle. your brain. your ability
is the same kind Of asst that has pro-
duced the biggest things in tbs world,
the greatest works that have ever been
done by man. You have the same kind
of capital that Lincoln had. that Grant
had. that Wanamaaker rad. that Mar
shall Field had-the same hire of Capi-
tai with which the giants o: the race
have made their regulations. won fame
and fortune. Can't YOU do what they
did-yOur best? And can't you begin
this year. begin today ami make every
moment count in working out your ideal
Today is the biggest kind of capital
that any human being ever had. Every
hour, every minute is an asset, ard IN
it lives great possibilities, IL YOU are
capable of getting them out.
The ideal conditions which you are
dreaming of live right here and in this
moment. They are not in the past or
way in the future. Here and now Is the
ideal which you must work out and
match with reality in the year Of grace
1915
There is no such thing as defeat for
the courageous, confident soul who re-
fuses TO be beaten.
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