Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-10-20 | Page 8 | Oases

I Oases T I 4 Dy By y DR FRANK CRANE We Ve should h be he glad lad that in lifes life's desert are fre- fre luent oase We Ve f lo 10 o not have ha to travel tra all the time There are spots where the camels camel'S can re rest t and ro ease e their burdens and where you vou may d ink drink mk refreshIng refresh- refresh ng Ing ng draughts at the bubbling springs In the first lr t place there is sleep This usually comes to all of us once in twenty-four twenty hours If H we are fortunate enough h to be be- good sleepers we weIn ran n lay down our burdens no matter how se serious se-lous Ious they are and enjoy several hours of vacation even though Chough the burdens stand ready by bv the s Slide ide of our b bed l to tb leap upon u us the next morning Places of entertainment and shows are ate oaF oafs Their principal value to us is that while we are Ing them we forget forg-et ourselves The value of ot entertainment depends upon its absorbing ab ab- ab- ab power its ability to tal take e us away from ourse ourselves 1 v vS S To be sure the old man of the sea that ages aces us stands ready at the door to leap unon our backs as S we come out but for a while we have had surcease sur sur- cease A friend Is an oasis Goethe says say This world I l. l Is so waste weste and empty when we figure but towns townsand townsand townsand and hills and antl rivers in it it but to know that somene someone someone some some- one ne Is living 11 on w h IUS us In s' s this mal makes our earthly ball ban a peopled garden How a friend rests you To know that that- t someone someone some some- one Is for you no matter matter what happens to know that son someone loves Ou nu and believes in you you that that thatis is il decidedly an easement to our burdens Faith Is an oasis To believe in yourself in your star or destiny somehow eases ases the load you have to carry To believe In other people Is la a re rest t and above all to believe in the supreme goodness that there Is an all Father rather who will carry catTY all our budens burdens burdens bur bur- dens for tor us if we know lenow now how to cast cost our burden upon Him This males makes life Ufe bearable It Is not FO so arranged that we must carry our load continuallY Life is rhythmic There are nights and Sundays and other vacation tini times s when v we lay our harne harness s bv by and rest the chafed places Thank n n for the o n eq es o of life Jfe Copyright 1926 1026 by bv The McClure Newspaper Syndicate Syn Syn- I IncO mc I