The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-11-08
NOBILITY OF CHARACTER,


and woman, boy and girl, to lean to-
ward goodness no matter how de-
PRAYED the environment may be. To
them hope is a star. The upward
struggle is always contrary to that
which hes below. We are ever set
ting our whets to catch the full clear
observation of better things. That
which is true, that which is righte-
Gus This soul-stirring and hunger
ing emanates from the best that is
in our life.
Certainly We may demonstrate the
evil attributes, nothing is more nat
ural, and yet our self-fear often is the
balance wheel and the determining
factor. We are always striving to inn
prove our condition, dissatisfied with
conditions we are anxious to throw
off and so decisive in our insecurity
that we strive to reach the sure foot
ing that society applauds.
For centuries upon centuries men
have held up before their gaze the
lamp of light that gives lustre to
clearer conscience. That is why we
at once conclude that the world is
better and because the things that
tend to promote a nobler living we
are seeking to become better.
The facility of better living is our
greatest urge for better being. The
old shop-worn principles of chance do
not stimulate the energy in the same
proportion they formerly did. The
new era with new problems and great
er opportunity bring to US the revel-
alton of stronger beliefs and furnish
incentive for higher aims.
This is why men would mount an
aeroplane to fly from continent to
continent. this is why noble human
ity would be charitable. This is why
people strive to lift the fallen.
Seeking to become better is the
chief aim of a nobler humanity. How
elce can we make progress?
Keeping this constantly before you,
all that pertains to life eventually re-
veals a full fruition of ones fondest
hopes, embellished with all that is
beautiful, all that is worth while and
desirable.
The greatest thing in the world is
the we'll rounded individual with the
ideal contemplation of life. The scope
of such a ones mental reach encom-
passes the earth and its fullness. The
spirit that determines a human being
full grown in every lovely grace,
therefore must have emanated from |
the great central force of the uni
verse.
Coming from self-fear to a nobler |
realm where goodness and truth are
the chief factors of nobility of human |
life is almost as far as infancy is from /
old age.
Time has figured in the equation of |
our lives struggling forward through |
the years to this lofty estate and |
and harsh experiences have been |
the hot fire to bring into happy |
subsection the unregenerate parts |
of US that we may attain GER
tain degrees of human perfection.
Character Is then the end and aim
Of all, but few attain the summit |
whittier we trend, and yef while VIC
fall short of the mark il is the noblest
employment to which we might give |
the years, for in such achievements
we are adding our full quota to the
world and for our human kind TN
blessed a. we are blessed
1t 10 = great pity that there is q
somber glow to our life plane and
that 50 much of humanity is rudimen-
tary and ugly, and yet life has to have
its Iights AID itS shadows, There
must BE . point Of beginnings just as
there must be valleys At the base Of
the mountain peak.
The differences, inequalities, and
difficulties imbue the heart to strug-
gle and to have and to be and which
determines character.