The Washington times., 1918-07-11

bowed We HENLEY.
Very pretty lines indeed but to how many Of rs do they
app7 How many really captains Of the ship 'Myse?
Man Is ship the Of life. The captain is WILL
POWER
The win controls life; we must control the win
What call win is made up of all the impulses, pas
Eons and sppsttes within the body, PLUS REASON.
Reason the power to control ourselves to control nc
nations is the one thing that makes MAN of creature
that otherwise would be simply an improved animal
The biggest question in life is this els possible to
control the win and through the viii control oneself and
HES conditons?''
IT Is POSSIBLE in spite of the teachings of supsrsti-
tiOn, Of fstalsm, and of mental weakness
These words are plain:
'Sse have set before thee this day life and good and
death and evil = therefore choose life, that both
thou and thy seed may live Deuteronomy, Xxx: To- 10.
Man is born with all possibilities of good and Of evil
out Of the mouth Of God cometh neither good bad
Han is born also with the power TO CHOOSE, he viii
exert his viii
Exercise of the viii is as the English philosopher and
historian Leeky points out the power to CONCENTRATE
thought and keep it concentrated.
The monkey in his cage first thinks of peanut she'll
then Of piece Of straw then of the apeze his head
then of the bars, which he rattles.
He cannot keep his mind upon any one thing for a
quarter Of a second
mat Is why ne Is q monkey. Don't be like him. Prac-
tce concentration Of thought keeping your mind at
thing controlling your entire life and yourself by the power
Of the will which should be the captain Of your ship
All the education that all the colleges of the world could
give you would not equal in value the education that you
can give YOURSELF by compelling your mind to work
steadily and your viii to keep pointing in one direction
Nobody teach you that but yourself. Here is quo
tation from Lecy You might paste up on your little
mirror, thus making that you will see quite fire.
quenty when you study your thoughtful face or your new
necktie in the morning
The discipline of thought; the establishment of an as
cendancy Of the will of thinking the power
Of casting away morbid trains of reflection and turning
ouey to other subjects aspects Of % the power Of
cenrang the mind vigorously serious subject and pur
suing continuous trains of perhaps the best
fruits of judcious self education
''Its importance indeed, is manifold In the higher
walks Of intellect this power of mental concentration is of
supreme value Newton said to have ascribed mainly to-
unusual amount of it his achievements in philosophy
and probable that the might be said by most other
great thinkers.
'I is in such exercises of will that we chiefly realize
the truth Of the lines of Tennyson:
"oh, vel for him whose vii is strong,
He suffers, but he will not suffer long"
We all realize the importance Of telling the truth to
each other 1t is important to tell the truth to
YOURSELF.
Tp WILL that you will do thing and then fail is to lie
70 yourself Weakness of will like lying is a matter of
habit. Eventually it becomes fixed and hopeless.
Do you ask WHAT serious problems could be solved
absolutely by win power? Here are few:
The drink problem, the problem Of extravaganza the
problem Of immortality Of azness the problem Of an anx
tos penness old age and there thousand others
al problems that viii would solve.