Show WHAT ARE WE LIVING FOR what are rewe we living for very few of us know or care to enquire e we do not provide ourselves with charts chaite when we launch boxly oxly bark ark on the broad ocean of life but sail with sealed papers no care to know the porto port of tour four our destination lesti nation there is a pleasant mystery jn in floatie g about at random and gilding gliding down unknown currents our enjoyment heightened hight ened le by the uncertainty as to whither they will lead us if we think of the be life voyage on sunshiny days it is as a pleasure trip to be enjoyed as well as we may or as a rading trading voyage to gather floating sea aea wed weed barn barnacles barnacled yarn larn acles couch shells and all lawful awful currency curr ncy in exchange for brain and heart and time or as an idle undertaken der taken to kill the time to be accomplished with the least care and ft might thought then when the clouds darken and the rain falls headily about us when fierce minds siege our frail vessel in their grasp and briny bitter waves threaten to engulf us in then we watch the billows with mith a melancholy pleasure ure sadly hoping for the final alun plunge fard and thinking of our dreary voyage as a hard hand nece necessity sity from which it was a pleasure to be rel rei released a bed sed on any terms very few of us can breast the storm aarm borm with fortitude very few of us look out beyond the thick darkness to the glimmer of the faint beacon light which marks our goal or rather very few of us steer for the beacon light at all but go offin vague aimless excursions s co content tent with the pleasure of floating calmly in tn the waves what do we live for Is it to glide easily from birth to death then to die and make no sign nor leave any beyond the fragile stone which quickly crumbles beneath the breath of time jagged bricks are we fitting loosely in lifes structure fragmentary beings made up p of at doubts and hopes and fears without an e earnest a theat purpose glorious possibilities imperfectly developed into mediocre attainments lite life was wag given to us for a purpose it is a stepping seone stone to a higher more orious arlonious arl ati state ot of being bellig it is our business to fi ourselves for our transformation to keep up the sacred fire which la burning in incur our hearts and feed it plentifully with fragrant dils oils that its aroma and light may be diffused through all about us the possibility ot of 11 a glorious life ire lies hidden in each human breast it is the business of each owner to unearth the gem and ano to cut and polish it that its rays may spar sparkie sparkle klein in their purest brilliancy the true atrue end of life ia is self culture progression perfection to develop ani ana mature the germs implanted implanted in our natures no one attains this thia end cod who does not do the best thing in life that he la Is capable of talents were never given to men that they might bury them in a I 1 napkin every human being has baa a speciality it is his bis business to improve it he may not be an eagle soaring over ov erthe the mountain cliffs cliffa yet the sparrow gladdens as many hearts in the val vai valley vailey ley as the eagle iagle does in the eyrie the trouble is that through indolence or diffidence we do not cot try our oun or if we mount from the ground we fear to lose iose sight of itlear it iest lest some unknown bun SUD may dle die di solve olve nive our pinions and cast ps us from our giddy height be but no one ever yet attained to eminence who did not lose sight of himself in gazing on his big goal the purpose must swallow up the individual else the individual w will ill lii shallow up the purpose and stand dib dise crowned browned and alone in the midst of a desert debert aspiring aspirin 9 to be a kin king gud yet et without a prospective ki kins nedom dom As s regards el our 0 ir special work in life it itis ia evident t that blitt bilat 1 irl idl 1 on often otten takes tawes the place of capability and d dazzles the unwary by glittering bignis ignis fenis batul this does not do the world much harm for the lions skin must fit closely to be worn gracefully but to the misguided victims it Is a source of grear los jos for thereby their own work in life is left undone and no other can do it for them if we would do this dinall integrity we must prove our own natures with a skillful liu unsparing sparing g band seeing the limit of our ourbit et capacity and arid when found press earnestly ony on nor stop till we attain it taking care meanwhile that we do not overestimate our own abilities life hi i larger than most moat people think why be ambitious why not work calmly and er earnestly nestly toward the right we lye are ate but sand sando in the domain of time we can fill at best but a small smail corner in our century it ia Is scarcely worth while to be dazzled by the glare of personal ambition when it ml mist mist st nece necessarily searl 1 I y be so eo fleeting yet the corner is a i part of the w r rid ld and it is necessary essaiy to the general harmony harmon shat that it should be well diled filled we lose sight lit of personal ambition in the PO popular r a acceptation ot of uhe the term teim when we look up arn n lb the e world in a broad light we grow anto into a noble ambition that looks for its motion to the development of the world and struggle upward in our chosen vocation forgetful of self and willing that the planet is rolled alon by the force of our efforts yet it we look narrowly into the matter we find that it finally resolves resol vs itself into a personal ambi ion lon of noble type reason teaches tea cles cies that the growth of the world must be accomplished by the growth of individuals and that belt self culture must ever be the cornerstone corner stone of our efforts thus we work most truly for our century when we work moat most truly for ourselves cultivating and using our best beat capabilities purifying in b our lives from every unworthy thou though hir tir or action and letting our precepts always follow our examples while we aim at the reform of society we must begin the reform in our on own hearts while we mine for the resources of the age in which we live we must first explore the veins in our on onn natures and while we hope for the final perfect development of the human race we must remember that it will be delayed by just BO so much as our own is neglected the present is all ali with which we have to do as active agents it we aspire to a glorious future for those who shall cume come after us it must be our noblest ambition to pave rhevay uhe the way tor tot it jbv bt pure lives and noble actions do the duty that lies nearest thee seeking beeking earnestly for more light act up to your highest convictions ot of justice love your neg neighbor hor as yourself look to no motive but lut t the e right accept no guide but truth and so shall you attain to the true end of life 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