El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-12
Man Held Responsible
For His Mental Powers
Among the Things For Which We
VIII Have To Give an Account
Is Our Bodily Health
By MADISON c. PETERS.
Copyright. 1917. by Madison G Peters.
THE proof Of Gods faith in the
souls sublime possibilities is in

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Friends may have lost faith in you.
the church may have turned you out,
you may have lost faith in yourself,
but Cod believes in you and, there
fore, you need not despair.
People are better than they seem to
be. God Is love and his knock is at
the door
We are on trial He puts US in trust
| Of life and he can afford to wait. He
may long delay the reckoning. but he
will come and to employ the striking
words OF the Empess Anne Of Austria
to cardinal Richelieu. Ny lord cardi-
I nal, God does not pay at the end of
every week. but at last He pays"
Look at some of the constituent ele-
ments of that life, which is given TO
US in trust.
Among the things for which we will
have TO give account is our bodily
/ health. The saying OF the Roman
poet that a sound mind in a sound
i body constitutes the normal condition
+ Of man and woman. has attained the
celebrity Of proverb.
3 Exercise two hours a day under the
( blue sky, where you can look the sun
full in the face and the blood leaps to
meet the life giving oxygen
It is as true that God has given you
4 body to be kept from faint and i'm
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soul. an immortal nature, to be fitted
for a future life You have a bodily
as well as a spiritual Immortality.
Mental Horizon Must Expand
God viii hold you responsible for
your mental powers You are respon-
sible for the cultivation OF your con-
science and for giving the right direc-
tion to reason Your mental horizon
must expand Your information must
be enlarged and your opinions
changed.
Growth requires carefulness in
choosing companions, even the silent
companions OF your Solitude-the
books which you read. These must be
selected with scrupulous care
Milton says. a good book IS the
precious life-book Of master spirit
embalmed and treasured up on pur-
pose to a life beyond life
Fruits must grow up from your |
soil Of privilege.
It is not enough that you keep
yourself from outward sin. You must |
soar into the region OF positive we'll |
doing.
That is not good gardening which
is satisfied with suppressing the 1
weeds. but which produces good veg /
Another element Of your life trust |
is your time. Queen Elizabeth is /
said to have exclaimed on her death !
bed. Millions OF money for an inch Of !
time You should make your time I
your friend by a higher conservation !
so that the words of the poet may |
have their fulfillment;
Our yesterdays look backward with /
Nor like the Parthian. wound US as
they fly
Save your time by controlling It. In I
the United States mint at Philadel- |
phia the floor is covered with light I
grating. which is taken up at inter- /
walls and the floor carefully swept to /
recover the precious particles OF gold /
that. unseen. have fallen upon II.
Some years ago a workman IN the /
old mint was detected in wearing /
some adhesive substance on the soles 1
of his shoes with which he picked up /
and carried away a large amount OF /
gold. Would that you had the wit to I
furnish your minds with some adne- 4
siva quality that would seize the /
golden fragments OF time. which ev- I
cry day you thoughtlessly waste
breaches buoy connected the fore rig |
ging with the shore. II would have 4
been easy enough for Hatch to get /
to land that way. But the two men in |
the mizzen rigging could not get
across to reach the line.
Reseues His Comrades.
Accordingly, Hatch disengaged the 1
line from the fore rigging and pro-
ceeded to carry II over to the mizzen
rigging. his path being along the 4
gaff Of the forestaM which swayed to /
and fro in a frightful manner BY a /
miracle he got across IN safety.
In the meantime. however. the men 4
fetched ashore had reported the stu /
alton to those on land. and the beach |
gun fired another line over the miZ- /
brought into action again. and all 4
three were rescued Hatch being the /
last man to leave the vessel. which |
afterwards was raised and floated.
Most famous OF all the life savers I
on the great lake is John E Persons. I
keeper OF all the Thunder Bay Island .
station. on Lake Huron, near Alpens. J
You are safe II you see Persons's
boat" is an old saying among expert
enced mariners on that vast and often
stormy sheet Of water. And another
frequent remark Of theirs is. Per
sons would go through hell to save
a life" His station had the first life
boat on the great lakes. which to this
day. though long out OF service. Is
preserved as a relic with a placard
adventures in which it played a part.
HerOism of Capt. James.
But the coass guard has had IN its
service no Drawer or more daring man
ludn 1dpL JOSllud James. OF Hull. Inc
feat that won for him his gold medal
involved the rescue of the crews Of
several distressed vessels in a bunch.
It was, indeed, most extraordinary
exploit.
he saw several vessels dragging
their anchors IN Nantaslet Roads. a
big storm raging, and got his lifeboat
ready. No sooner was this done than
one Of the vessels. a large schooner,
ran aground not far off shore. The
sea ran so high that Il was thought
instead of launching the
boat, 20 shoot a line over her and
try TO land the crew with the breaches
buoy. This task was happily accom-
plished.
Meanwhile the coal laden schooner
Gertrude Abbott. Of Philadelphia, had
struck the rocks only a few hundred
Yards away and hoisted a signal OF
distress in her rigging. She was too ,
Tar off shore to be reached with line.
from the beach, and, inasmuch as it
he storm gaining in fury, James de-
sided to wait for lower water and !
hen launch his boat. A bonfire was ]
quilt on the bluff. so that the vessel {
,ould be kept in view a
At $50 2. m. the boat was launched {
through the breakers-fears being en- :
ertained lest the schooner might y
break up-and James and his men got y
rear enough to throw her a line. The 4
sight sailors on board swung by ropes q
nto the boat and a start was made I
ior the beach Wind and sea were ;
wildly along shore, and the {
,roWded boat. when 200 yards from )
he beach. struck a rock. filled and !