The Little River news., 1921-10-12
Something to Wiuk Ab0uf
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IMAGINATION
B F. 4. WALKER

AS he placed the canvas upon tho easel asked him what he was ts paint.
 The answer that he made to me was so vivid and so strikingly tol1 that almost seemed to see upon the blank canvas the finished work.
 But knew what I saw was only Q dim counterpart of the thing that he saw, for in his imagination the whole picture was as plain in Its form and as distinct in its colors, in its then mental existence, as it was later to be to thousands of admiring eyes.
 This world would be a sad and desolate place without imagination.
 Art would falter and science would dry up and blow away.
 Imagination is the real mother of accomplishment.
 If the boy did not vision the man, did not imagine himself as he will be when he grows up, all the great incentives of youth would vanish and all - endeavor disappear.
 No-ning is so exhilarating a spur to endeavor as the imagination of what will result from effort.
 It is the imaginings of what money will buy for us in necessities, com- forts and luxuries that keep us keen ly at it's earning and conscientiously at its saving.
 It Is the imagining of what may be the result that keeps the chemist in his laboratory through night hours or the student at his books when m. ture would send him to bed.
 Imagination helps us to live and 1t not infrequently causes us to die.
 A felon in an English prison, who had been sentenced to death, was made the subject of an experiment which showed the power of imagined suffering.
 He was blindfolded and it was ex- plained to him that in the place of the usual form of execution he was to be bled to death.
 His arm was barred and across the large vein on the inside of the elbow joint was drawn, but without max. ing any wound, the edge of a knife, immediately there was caused to flow down his arm a stream of blOod-warm water.
 Attendants counted his pulse and carried on whispered conversation about the evidences of failing vital. ity.
 Slowly the man grew weaker, his flesh lost its color, and about the time that man would have bled to death from such a wound actually inflicted. Athe prisoner died from pure imagination.
 H.se our ills are no more substan. tial than was the cut in the prison- CTS arm. but we. like him, suffer through our imaginatlons all the pains of reality.
 Imagination" said Napoleon, "rules the world"
 Imagination ruled Napoleon. He lived on the vision of himself as conqueror of Europe.
 He imagined his battles long be- fore the first gun of conflict sounded, and though he dwelt on victory he saw in his imagination Waterloo as plainly as Marengo or Austerlitz.
 Swifter than light the imagination travels in an instant of time to the outermost star of our universe and returns as quickly as 1t went.
 It deies time and annihilates space.
 It disregards probability and over looks all laws.
 It has pioneered every progress that man has made since the world began and multiplied his happiness and his ills alike.
 II IS one IuuCLlOu WHICH Lndu pOo- sesses which he does not share with forms of life lower than himself.
 There are many animals who give proof of having the power of thought, even of reason.
 There Is not one that has ever shown the slightest evidence of be ing able to imagine anything outside of something 1t has already expert enced.
 Do you cultivate your imagination Do you guide it along right and use full lines and direct 1t into result getting endeavors?
 If you do not you are wasting a power that God bestowed on you when He said, Let them (man) have dominion over all the earth"
 Imagination will help you to have that dominion if you use 1t rightly.
 It will help the weakest thing in all the earth to havA dominion over