The sun., 1919-04-27
6 By EDWARD MARSHALL.

r T came as surprise, in the midst
of days like these. to hear her
urging love and gratitude in the
abstract--for we have been thinking
about hate and loss, both abstract and
concrete, for so long.
- 1.-THE trouble with the world" she
said to me. 'is that il docs not love
eAoueh; is that it uses force when
Eentleness would win and force must
lose; is. that We do not give thanks
enough for the blessings which the
hood God gives to our unworthiness.
We all lack so in gratitude! 1 know
+ do" 49,.
Is 1t not a certainty that any one
who from her Utmost heart can speak
thus must have been given by for
tune far more than her rightful share
o. the good things of this human life?
zssRnt the sweet faced young woman
who declared the worlds fault and
her own to be that neither 1t nor she
gives thanks enough for mercies
granted .(and meant 1t with splen-
did earnestness) was Helen Keller.
blind" deaf and dumb" the most
famous sufferer from these dreadful
disabilities known to human history
and famous purely through the vic
tories which she has Won over them
and in spite of them. I shrank before
her words, because they tore a veil
from my own soul and barred within
ingratitude at which did not like to
look. Perhaps they may induce a tiny
sense Of shame among some who will
read them here-a tiny sense of shame
and a resolution to be more appre-
ciative.
"Out of the sorrow Of the Worlds vast
war must come great happiness said
this celebrated conquerer of uncon-
iquerable bodily affliction. "If nature
sends us a cold winter she sends us
soon a warm summer A year Is never
wholly winter. All sorrows, / believe,
inevitably have their compensating
joys. The proof that God is good lies
in the fact that while humanity always
Is granted recompense for sorrow In
great Joy, 1t is not true that all and
always we must pay for JOY with sor-
row. Joy is the greater part of human
life. That have learned"
s. Her Right to Preach.
: Joy is the greater part Of human
ufe-that she has learned!
The tremendous lesson of this sem
tence from her lips, which despite her
utter lack of sight and utter lack OF
hearing, laboriously and wonderfully
have relearned the speech which was
snatched from them by the illness
which so terribly assailed her in mere
babyhood, must make a normal human
being hesitate forever before the mere
thought OF complaint. Joy" she says,
is the greater part of human life!"
No one who watched her as she spoke
the words cou' d have doubted the great
power of intellect alert behind her
'sightless but truly lovely eyes--the
power of intellect which gives her the
real right to teach to preach to all the
rest of us, II you care TO put 1t thus.
Always we can work." she went on
thoughtfully, with that marvellously
sweet smile which continually lights
her pleasing and extraordinarily eX-
pressive face. THE ability to work is
mans best heritage. Work is the great
wellspring of happiness. And all can
work.
:, what is a handicap? II is hard
for me to understand the expressions
of despair with which some folks re-
fer, for instance. to the soldiers re-
turning from this war whose fortune
It has been to suffer and who through
their suffering are handicapped Sym
pathy Is splendid and desirable;
despair is sin. A handicap Is a new
urge to work. Heed II and find a
greater happiness than the unhandi-
capped can know. for he whose work
succeeds, no matter how primary il
may, be- wins happiness therefrom
and he whose handicap is great must
make his work succeed. Making 4,
succeed he continually will win worthy
victories. The successful doing by one
Handicapped Of tasks which might
be easy for the normal, may make the
Handicapped ones life a real triumpha
progress. Sometimes ! wonder IL We
Handicapped are not the lucky ones
We know so many yictoriesI
''sureB. il We Viii ii 30, our happi-