The Washington herald., 1917-03-24
How to Get What You Want
ny oRIsON SWEET MARDEN.

your MIND, says James Allen, the
Ideal that you enthrone in your
heart-this you will build your life
by, this you will become.
The realization of our power to
create ideals and to make them live
in reality which is illustrated by the
new philosophy of life is destined
to revolutionize the world, because
we build life through our ideals.
This power to build mentally is the
pathway of achievement, the way
which will lead to the millennium.
We cannot accomplish anything, do
anything, create. anything excep,
through an ideal, a vision.
If you keep aspiring and always
heading toward your vision, strug-
Cling toward the light, whether you
see it or not, you will come to youl
own, which is always seeking you.
Never mind opposition, never mind
criticism, never mind if others call
you fool or crank-they called
the Christ the same-be true to the
mysterious message within, the di-
vine voice which bids you up and
on. No matter what other things
you have to give up, no matter VIVA,
sacrifices you have to make, let
everything else go if necessary, but
cling to the ideal which haunts your
dreams, for it points to the star of
your destiny, and if you follow it
! you will come out of the darkness
into beauty and brightness.
Your highest ideal, the vision o.
your life work which you long to
make real Is your best friend. Keep
Is close to It as you can, stick to
It and It will lead you to your goal.
You may not understand why the
star has been put so high above you
and why so many mountains of OBJ
stacles and difficulties intervene, but
if you keep your eye on the star and
listen to the voice of your soul
which bids you climb on, you will
reach it.
1t is astonishing what the desire,
the longing, tie effort to achieve,
will accomplish. The constant con-
centration of the mind upon the am
bition develops a marvellous power
for attracting the thing We long for.
1t is by the perpetual focusing of
his thought upon the solving OF
scientific problems added to his faith
in his ability to solve these problems
that Edison has attracted to himself
the forces which have made him the
greatest living inventor. His mind
has always run ahead of him, visual
izing the invention he was trying to
bring out into objective reality. He
was always picturing himself little
higher up, little further on, and his
success has followed his vision and
his faith.
The same concentration, the same
absorption, the same dreaming and
thinking and pushing along any other
line, law, medicine, engineering,
teaching, farming, whatever it may
be, will produce like results. The
idea is that the everlasting dreaming
and pushing, the alertness to take ad-
vantage of opportunity, the constant
visualizing of the thing one yearns
for must inevitably bring the desired
results. These are the constructive
processes, based on the mental vision,
which bring US the things We desire.
Desire is at the bottom of every
achievement. 1t has ever been the
great moulding, shaping force in civil
ization. Desire is prayer. Our
prayer is behind and at the bottom
of all our achievements, our accom-
plishments.
Desire is behind all progress. Civ
ilization rests upon it. Our cities
are the representations of the desire
of those who built them. Our in
ventions are desires objectifed.
Every railroad train is a bundle of
desires, of inventors discoveries, of
mechanics desires. Our homes are
manifested desires. Our libraries are
made up of multitudes of desires of
the authors who wrote its books.
Our schools, our colleges, our uni
versities arc nothing but desires full
filled, objecti6ed dreams of those
who have built them. Every institu-
ton rests upon desires. Our lives,
our homes, our friends, are all mani
tested desires.
If all our youth were taught to
keep their soul vision inviolable,
never to tamper with that sacred
something within which always
points heavenward if left alone, that
something which no matter how poor
our environment, bids us look up and
not down, aspire and not grovel, civ
ilization would advance with marvel
Gus strides towards the millennium.
Children should be instructed in
the law of attraction which fends to