The Washington times., 1917-11-11
The Worst of All the Imps
If You Refuse to Believe What He Says, He
Hurt You.

| Hurt You
We have seen small boys tempted to 20 swimming or
play hockey against the paternal law strike the left
shoulder with the right hand-having been told that the
Dad angel stood on the left shoulder whispering In the ear
Every has had whispered in his ear, by some in
visible enemy the words You are discouraged" Napoleon
heard those words when he tempted to commit suicide
In Paris because he had waited long petty officer and
nothing had come to him
Columbus when he found himself in jail a reward
for discovering America heard the words Small and
great men and women and especially THE YOUNG hear
this whispering by the imp of discouragement
And the little demon whispers to them, you SEE in
the faces Of men and the destructive work done
Hunger and poverty comparatively feeble enemies
When Palsy burning up in his furnace the furniture
desperate determined experiment. he was not unhappy For
he sO0s not discouraged.
Discouragement deadens the mind stops its work
Dscouragement weakens the action of the heart you
feel dscouraement spread from your brain to your heart
as shoulders bend forward your chin drops and you
ask yourself, "What can do?"
Encouragement is a sickness of the mind INSIDE OF
YOURSELF. It cannot come from without you will not
admit it.
Mucius, the Roman determined to murder Porsenna,
who was beseging and starving Rome he entered Por
Senna's camp and stabbed the wrong
Having risked everything he caught but not dis
couraged he brought before Porsenna who had In
The captured messenger put his right hand in the fire. held
It there until it burned to crisp meanwhile looking
straight into the eyes of the whose prisoner he
He did that to let the invading general know what kind
S SWORD and
The greatest of this nation, George Washington
was just ONE hinga that would be discouraged
he defeated more often and more regularly than
any great general in history His proved unreliable
and again It was defeat retreat but fort-
Hatey for this nation, it NEVER discorageent with
George Washington.
One of the nobest in history stood tied the stake
he The
him little child picked up piece of wood Initiating the
soldiers and added to the pile for the fire Soon to die in
agony the man looked down smiling at the innocent child
and said in Latin, Sacred Simplicity. !
No hatred or bitterness there and discouragement
Your whole fight in life is fight against the little devil
in this picture.
Hope and confidence in ones self mean success
Discouragement failure The French poet Racine
makes his heroine say to her husband in prison. You have
no enemy but yourself"
That may always be said to the discouraged man.
You brush away a mosquito that bothers you, and do
quito buzzed"
Brush away in the fashion and with the same con
tempt the imp that whispers encouragement Do not say
because Of that buzng mpish whisper that your life is
worthless and failure.
Repeat to yourself and that all the world
greatest at time another have been utterly
couraged and have seen the world black before them
is by fighting encouragement defying and turning
despair into determination that the successful have risen
the top.
Imagine yourself that same Palissy, his wife pouring
out reproaches his starving children begging for food as
he put the household furniture into the furnace and then
tore the flooring of his house complete his experiments
that had failed over and and over.
Then imagine his intense delight and that of his wife
and the children when at the last he succeeded and
out Of his furnace the piece of enameed faence that
made him prosperous-and incidentally saved him. Hugue
not from St. Bartholomew day. because Cath
arine de Medici liked his enameled pottery.
The voice that seems to whisper, "You are dscour-
aged, really whispers "You coward"
Discouragemen only holds permanently those that are
cowards-others recover and get rid Of him.
Think Of all your friends the water that endure
hardship and every hour risk their lives You know that
victory viii be brought from Germany to America because
80 per cent Of the that send to do the fighting will
refuse to be discouraged