The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-01-27

| God has not spoken the last word, he
Is waiting to give you one more word,
but before you can receive it you must
be alert, on your tip-toes in the spirit
of expectancy.
How easy it is to fall into conven-
tiOnal existence. To be robbed Of all
fresh inspiration, to be buried in a
grave Of custom. Some people have
come to rest on a dead level, they are
happy, they have lost their punch The
Light OF something more has died from
their eyes. They have eyesight, but
they don't see. They have ears, but
they don't hear.
Life can be pretty stale sort Of
business. 1t is for some youngsters /
know. They are very wise, nothing can
surprise them; they are very smart,
they can't be fooled; they are blase,
they know everything; they can't be
a,Oused to something fine. They say,
Oh, Yea?-So what? They are terribly
bored. You can't fool me- they say.
Il have no Illusions"
Education ceases for such people
They begin to rot. Some people may
consider you smart when you adopt an
attitude that is supercilious and blase.
You may win the praise of some if
you fiaunt your sOphistication and
cynicism, but in reality you will con-
denim yourself to mental and spiritual
death. Education will cease. and you
will live in a dull, cold, gray world, as
dull plOdder where nothing happens.
read the other day an account of
the fall of the Grecian and Roman
empires. This account pointed out the
reasons for their fall We have all
heard about Greece and the marvellous
civilization she built, reaching its pin
nacle Of greatne in the age of Peri
Giles. The granite ParthenOn on the
AcrOpOlis remains to this day one Of
the most perfect examples Of arehitec-
ture. The supremacy Of Phidias and
traxiteleS has not been successfully
challenged. Art, superb art, was part
Of the structure of the Grecian civili-
zatiOn. Education was part of the life
Of the common masses. The heights to
which her great teachers reached =
Aristotle, Plato, Socrates-have never
been over-crOwded. But Greece fell.
The Romans labored to connect their
far flung parts of empire with superb
roads. They tied the empire together
with a system of administration and
law, drawing its power from the gov
eminent of the capital city. The city of
Rome was filled with magnificent
buildings. The marching feet of the
Roman legiOns were heard upon the
highways Of the world. But the system
Gid not last. 1t fell.
Today the ruins of the two empires
are barely seen through the drifting
sands of time. Their ruins hide the
skulking jackal and other prOwling
beasts of prey. They are now the OBJ
jects Of silent wonder Of tourist par
ties. Their gods have fed from he
temples Their eommerce has bee1f
tswept from the seas, their u5Arlet
place6 ore 70 mora Theix init 16na
are but m4E5ot1G3 u me mind d nan.
The writer Of the article tried TO ac-
count for the fall of the empires. He
gave the usually accepted reasons
economic and 50 forth-then he made
this statement: Greece and Rome fell
because the people had ceased to ex-
poet.
2. Have faith in yourself.
You can't get the best out of life
unless you have faith In yourself.
Nothing is 50 dem0ralizing Us self
pity. The greatest calamity to any per-
son Is to feel poor, to feel beaten, to
say, what's the use Of trying. the cards
are stacked against me.
| To be defeated does not matter, but
it does matter ii you go around with
the spirit OF defeatiSm. There is book
/ which has caused considerable COM
ment. i refer to Gone With the Wind.
1 am. still reading ii, and / suppose
you are glad, along with me, that they
have found someone TO take the part
OF Scarlet O'Hara. That's q relief. j
understand that two million copies OF
this book have been sold. That means
about eight million have read it. Why
DIR. Link says Scarlet O'Hara, though
in many ways not an admirable char
acter, was a woman who remained
forever the master OF her world rather
than its victim Neither war, nor dis
Iappointment in love, nor scandal, nor
starvation, nor the burning Of her home
Eor bloodshed-none OF these catastro.
phies could daunt her spirit. She was
Ia woman who experienced in short
lifetime more tragedies than most peo-
Iple ever dream Of. and emerged with
lcourage undannted. This fact, says DR.
Link, made the book and made a ter.
Irible appeal to the reading public.
4 "A mother wrote to a pSychiatrist,
my boy fails in nearly everything be
undertakes, and he seems TO expect 1t. >
EXACTLY, something or someone broke
down his belief in himself and he was
defeated before the battle began. self
defeated with a negative pattern In
imind
God does not expect you to do an
impossible task. When he sent you into
this world he gave you equipment
Equipment to live You have intellect
reasoning power, you have sensibilities
all the way from the lowest hate to
highest sacrifcial love You have viii
lpower with which you call into action
1.-THE resources OF the universe and make
them your servants. Yon have powers
iof hand. brain and heart and spirit
surely We have every reason TO believe
in ourselves.
Surround yourself in an atmosphere
OF faith Live in a spirit OF optimism
tGod has given you everything neces,
Isary for the living Of wen balanced
life. The story is told of an empty cage
In the roo marked by An inscription
Timber Wolf, Dangerous One dsj