The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-05
Editorial Comment
Life
Duluth Hcrald)


party of friends had come through storm ON
the water that, while not at all dangerous, had
made some of them think more than usual of the
perils of the deep.
The storm had been followed by peaceful calm.
storms always are; for in the depth of the might
lest storm it is possible to look forward confidently
to the calm that lies ahead and without the storm
we would not, perhaps, appreciate the calm as We
should In the ease of that peace they talk
ing, these friends Of life and death.
II just thinking said one, s'that it would
not be terrible to go that way all together with
out parting. Life is often hard for all of u.s. and it
is hard most Of the time for many of us. Death,
the common lot at least ends the struggle"
THAT is So" said another. 1--WE must go some
time. Human life, compared with eternity, is ap-
pallingly brief. What real difference does it make
whether we 90 now few breaths later?"
And then in little while that last one spoke
again.
"N0," he said, Il was thoughtlessly wrong-wc
were both wrong-about that. Life is-life ought
TO be-RlCH. If i. is meagcr, it is because we do
not take from it what it has to offer If it is hard
it is usually because We make it hard.
Think for moment what there is in life that
is precious, that ought to make cling to it-not
in fear Of DEATH but through love Of life Life is
III DcAuty-lHc beauty OF sea ana lana anu noun
tain and stream and hill and valley and forest and
plain; the beauty of affection and sacrifice and
love and friendship and service; the beauty of books
and pictures and plays and friendly talk; the beauty
Of worship, Of conscious unity with the invisible
glory that shapes and governs all that is lovely and
sweet; the beauty of work. of creation, of express
sicn Of the reflection in the visible life of the won
drous beauties Of the invisible realm of the spirit
OF the universe that God made and that man cannot
sroil he often does the world Of his material
! vision.
mo, life ought to be rich-CAN be rich; for it is
largely what make it by our thought. II it seems
hard and cruel and painful that, surely is because
we let ourselves see it SC, when by turning away
from the harsh and terrible and cutivating apprc.
citation Of the beauties Of life and gratitude fol
them we could as easily life to be rich and wide
and full and glorious
| I'VE are too much like the person who, with q
thousand things that he ought to be thankful for,
will let one little annoyance fill his heart with mis-
cry and make him forget, in senseless ingratitude
the thousand good things that he might reckon W
and be glad for instead Of wasting his time plying
himself because Of the petty irritation
"Rather than idly belittling life. we ought to b.
cuit'vat'ng it, enrchng it, appropriating the beaut,
and JOY it offers abundantly. We ought to clina
to it-not, said, in fear Of death, for We ought
TO fear death no more than we fear sleep, deaths
beautiful sister Life is spirit and it Is the things
OF the spirit-love joy, peace-that make it rich.
Let's not speak lightly Of It again Let's not stay
blind to its beauties and gories Let's rather know
y It's richness and learn to live It asit should b
lived And we can learn much a lho-reo He
from One who has said: 4 came tha4 they misa,
hsvs !as. and that they might lave Il moro aband
antiy.'"