Show I I o Easter 4 o 4 By DR FRANK CRANE The general ea a which underlies underlie Easter Easter Is la the Idea expressed by Longfellow that we can all risu ris b by stepping upon our dead selves to higher thing things I The most moat wonderful thing In this thU world world is il not death but ut th tbs rising from the dead Spring la is a aI continual miracle and symbolises for or u us u. that success I which can mount up from failure There are many failures amongst us 01 u in fact more failures failure than successes Thousands of people I who read this thin are failures That is I. what ma makes ea them interested In it U. I I Most of us are heirs to failure What little success suc- suc i cess co we have Mv had bad has been wrung uns from failure raUn Failure properly conceived is III but he the manure of I success With it grows growa suc success ess 8 It lL befell us in order order or or- der that we might succeed I As Aa winter contains the seeds of the future summer summer sum sum- mer wrapped away in Sn Its Ita bosom so 10 our failures contain within themselves the seeds of greater success success suc suc- cess Those who are blind or crippled or otherwise Unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate un un- fortunate have realized this They have ha demonstrated demon demon- that there is ia no failure except in the hu huI human human hu- hu m man n spirit As Aa long as s we have coura courage e left and a agun agun a agun I gun to be tired fired we should not ot speak of giving UI up f Viewed lowed In this light liCht sickness is more of an opI opt op- op I t port unity than It is a disaster i S meone has said that an optimist Is one who sees seea opportunity in every disaster and a pessimist Is one who sees disaster in every opportunity j I A young youns actress named Betty Ben field came to toi i New York seeking a job but she never never learned how to to lose She attempted to take her own sn life after aCter she had been walking the streets for two years She had mistaken temporary for permanent failure I One ought to have resources enough so that It If heI lie he liei i falls fait In one direction he he- can succeed in another Easter means that eternal hope bope that springs I from the human breast It It means that no matter how bloody our head heal may be and how often oCten we may be knocked down n we are still undaunted and 1 unafraid In the history of roost most successful men If It It 11 were I truthfully told there are many failures 8 J. J P P. Morgan when he died left a number of worthless stocks in which he had invested At one time or orI I another le e e all make mistakes The question is is what are we to do with them Are we to allow them to become incubi upon the spirit or are we to learn lern from them those lessons which guide us Into future success success success' I No o man should give up The realization realization-of of his dreams lies just around the corner It Is only those who go on who eventual eventually succeed The essential characteristic of the human being Is that he always rinds linda opportunity In itt defeat Or he ma may find It If it he has the proper spirit The most remarkable thing about the past is ot i its crumbling monuments of stone for tor these decay deca decaIn in time The most remarkable thing is the continuation of life ute The works of man disappear but man himself continually reappears Life LICe seems to hang upon an n uncertain thread but It is 18 firmer and more secure than anything that It It accomplishes Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |