La Junta tribune., 1917-05-24
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school Instruction. We cannot give
too much praise to the teachers for
their excellent work. This fine class !
II . high testimony to their eff |
cheney. Brain power Is what In this
age and day il needed. Never In the
history Of the world has education
been more In demand. Touch the
quarry with brains and you rear \
cathedral: touch iron with brains
and you have the worlds machinery
and railway systems all over the
world: touch electricity with brains
and you have heat, light and power.
In the competition OF life. the man
with brain power. other things be-
ing equal. will always win out
The next item is to have an ideal.
The clay said l was common clay
until roses were planted in me. SO
We remain common until an ideal
takes possession OF us. Weeds Just
grow. They do not need an ideal.
but the rose is the outcome OF an
ideal. An ideal Is mental picture
OF something you wish to do or
become. Its office Is to create. direct
and construct. II inolinations or
habits are not in accord with the
ideal they must be done away with.
in order to give the ideal the right
Of way.
Unless the mark OF life be high.
It's purposes will fail.
II learning lift not up the soul
OF learning what avail?
The next item Is that OF industry.
When the generals and statesmen OF
Italy titled the soil and made labor
honorable Rome flourished. but
when slaves were introduced and
they gave themselves up to pleasure
and Incidence Rome declined. Some
one has said that the little sentence
THAT will do" has done more harm
than any other. II leads to careless
ness and inefflciency. II requires
industry to win in great undertak-
ings. Hume wrote thirteen hours
a day for a long period to produce
his History OF England" Webster
took thirty-sir years to produce his
dictionary while Bancroft took TWEEN
ty-siI years to produce his History
OF the United States"
No man should place a limit to his
strength.
Such triumphs as no mortal ever
gained
May yet be thine II thou wilt but
believe
In thy Creator and thyseif; at
length
Some feet Will tread all heights now
unattained
Why not thine own press on, be-
lieye. achieve.
The next item in the reach OF
progress In life and character Is no.
BILE manhood and womanhood. The
world Is not simply place to get
wealth and high position. but to
rain a noble character. You can
take a piece OF clay and easily fash
ion Il into any form; you can take n
soft piece Of wood and readily carve
IL into figure OF beauty; you can
take a block OF marble though much
harder and shape u into thing of
loyeliness. bu; the hardest OF all Is
TO take a block Of humanity and
make II into the image of God. Yet
this Is the supreme task. In nature
the end realizes itself. The seed
grows and produces the flower; the
acorn produces the oak: but man
must meet adverse forces and temp
tations and through all OF these de-
velop toward the ideal. II Is an in
dividual task. Says one:
To every one who comes to earth
A ladder Is given by God. at birth.
And up this ladder the soul must go.
Step by step from the valley below:
In times departed which yet endur.s
] shaped my ladder and you shaped
yours.
Whatever they are. they are wha,
We made.
A ladder OF light or a ladder OF
shade.
A ladder OF love or a hateful thing.
A ladder OF strength or a waverins
string
A ladder OF gold or n ladder OF straw.
Though mine be narrow and yours
be broad
On my ladder alone can ! climb to
God.
On your ladder alone can your feet
ascend
For none may borrow and none
may lend.
II toll and trouble and pain are