The Washington herald., 1916-10-18
Your Unused Wealth or the Great Within
BY ORIsoN SWEET MARDEN,

DPSdSiHs VI Inc chcIsy ana udsu oi SciSdiu
elderly French reservists who took part in the
recent fighting on the Somme, French official
says: These Breton reservists dashed at the
Germans with the spirit of young Many
times in this they have distinguished them
selves, but il difficult to imagine that these
men of such calm aspect could transform them
selves into impetuous troopers and rush at the
enemy with all the fire of youth. The extraor-
dinary resources OF their temperament had not
been fully realized before. These veterans
marched like the recruits of the youngest class.
At 9 o'clock they started forward singing the
Marseiles,' and at o;3o o'clock they dashed to
the attack with their sections aligned as though
on dress parade"
Science tells US that there is energy enough
in the sunshine which falls upon few acres Of
land to run all the machinery of an entire State.
There is sufficient unusued energy in you this
minute, even though you have long passed the
first stage of manhood or womanhood, to make
OF you an infinitely greater man or woman than
you are Even though you have reached, or
passed, the boundary Of middle age, there is suf-
hcient unused force, sleeping in the Great Within
of you to accomplish things you do not now
think possible.
Goethe, who went piling up triumphs to
the very end of his long career, said: Energy
will do anything that can be done in this world;
anu no Talents, no circumstances, no OppOTtunl-
ties will make a two-legged animal man with
out it,"
Fall into line, like those Breton reservists,
and move though you were alive in every fiber
of your being. Do not shuttle and lag and give
the impression that you played out, used up,
that you going, already have gone, to seed
Many of the men in the great failure army
today might be compared with what twenty-five
years ago were called "worked-out" mines, in
California and other parts of the West. Science
and efficiency redscovered these worked out"
mines and found large amount of precious
metal which the old-time ordinary methods had
not been able to reach. They are so-called fail
ures who still full of precious energy which
would put them their feet again, if they would
only arouse themselves and make use Of it.
There multitudes OF people who have never
amounted to anything because they allowed them
selves to become discouraged after few disap-
pointments and failures. They did not realize
that there is no such thing as ultimate failure
until a gives up. They didn't have the grit
and pluck to keep on and keep trying. They
did not hold themselves in conscious union with
the great Source of Power which would have
enabled them to to splendid advantage their
wealth of hidden energy.
When man loses courage and allows his am
bition to sag when, after being repeatedly beaten
ne loses his grip, he is as helpless as hsh
thrown up the beach by huge wave. He
still has fms but he cannot use them. If he
could only get back into the water his fms would
mean something again, his life would mean some
thing.
There is only thing for the man who finds
himself in such position to do-to call upon the
Great Within Of himself. There is divine energy
within and all around him with which he can, if
he will, reconstruct his life.
people do not lack strength" says Victor
Hugo; they lack will" "The world belongs to
the energetic" says Emerson
Who can ever enumerate the miracles which
energy and faith in the unseen Source of all
energy have performed in the worlds history.
There thousands of men and women in this
country who have utterly failed in one occupa-
ton or profession, perhaps in several, and finally
trumphed in some other field where their bent
found expression. There are thousands who had
reached middle life, without attaining even a COM
petence, but whose indomitable will and energy
held them steadfast until they finally won out in
their chosen fields
The energy in the Great Within of man is lin
itless. Most of US hardly scratch the surface of
our possibilities.
Charles Evans HUGHES and Theodore Roose-