News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-14

ancient poet, God has made real ior
the men of our era. Electricity, fire,
wind, steam, tools and machinery are
friendly ministers that wait to do mans
bidding. They are becoming allies,
making man invincible. Verify all
things are being placed under mans
feet. This is proof of His divinity
If His foot rests on the clod, his fore
head grazes the heavens. Indeed,
"the very stars are sparks that flew
from the anvil when God fashioned
man."
If you haven't before stopped to
think of what it means to be woman
or a man, member Of the human
family in this age Of wondrousachieve-
ment, spend an hour alone some time
this week and hear and analyze the
challenge that comes to your soul with
a realization of your womanhood or
your manhood.
ut matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishment the
scroll,
I am the Master of my fate;
am the Captain of my soul!'
These powers we have suggested are
given into our keeping. They are the
mighty tools with which is to be
wrought out that marvellous thing call
ed life, and the way we use these tools
will determine whether we make OF life
a Career or a Mission, Now | am
quite sure that you need not have
pointed out at any length the thought
that underlies this alternative. 1t is
quite obvious that the Career, as we
use the word here, implies something
entirely self-chosen, with thoughts OF
self and self advancement, the pre-
dominant thoughts. Contrariwise, the
idea underlying Mission, is that it is
something to which one is sent. 1t is
our purpose to lead you in the con-
sideration of the Equipment, the
Motive Force, and the Destiny OF
each of these alternatives.
Part of the equipment for a career
is an unbounded self-confidence; a
narrow view of life, that makes things
work from the circumference to the
center. the center in this case being
self; the faculty of seeing from no
ones point of view but your own,
save where seeing from the other fel-
lows point of view increases your I'M
derstanding of the situation to his
harm for your advantage. The man
whose whole purpose is to make life
a career cares very little for theirs
whose lives touch his. What cared the
Pharaohs of ancient Egypt for the
masses if only they could emblazon
their names upon the worlds scroll
of fame. The pyramid became the
filter tomb for king if thousand, yea
ten thousand slaves and workmon were
killed in the construction thereof
What care some of those in our own
land who are carving out their own
gold-plated, luxuriously padded car
GERS, made possible by their special
privilege, drawn from the labor, the
tears, the heart-aches of those over
whom they dominate? The equip
ment for a career, like the armor of the
knights of old is very apt to encase one
in a metal shell, but in this case one
of self-interest, through which the
finer feelings that mellow and beauti-
fly life cannot come.
In speaking of the equipment for a
career, we have already limited at its
motive power, which is obviously sell
fshness, an enemy against which every
man should wage an effective and
never-ceasing warfare. If you would
defeat the devil and overcome the
power of He'll, do not waste your time
and energy beating at an imaginary
devil, but get right after the devil in
your own life, your selfish thought,
your selfish desire that prompts you
to self-enrichment by the sacrifice of
the interests of fellow being.
The destiny to which career leads
is not always such as to make happy
the closing hours of life. The tragedy
of success is something that is too plain
ly written upon the lives of those whose
ambition has been to make a career,
to be disregarded. Queen Elizabeth
on her death-bed, crying out millions
of money for an inch of timeW suggests
that the memories of the gaudy life
of a proud queen did not yield peace
when the sun was setting and twilight
shadows were creeping over her life.
Napoleon on lonely St. Helena, brought
his glittering career to a close amidst
the ruins of his shattered dreams in the
loneliness and friendlessness of that
island in the South At
lantic.
In our careless moods, we usually
divide men into two classes, those who
succeed and those who fail. But in