| Show EttA X XI If I 1 Says That Right ight Living Is the Only G Really Worth Striving Striving ing for by Either Man or W Wogan Woman q qing Copyright 1907 4 A reader c. c r asks me inc to tu discuss the tIme following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing topic What Is the time highest e Ideal for fr a human human hu hu- l man being joy being joy pence peace serenity or 10 power wor 7 lh The human being who sots sets about the tIme task of cultivating his character and I making his spiritual nature master m of physical will wiil the mental and possess all the qualities JT mentioned in the time abO query Joy in the knowledge of or his bis own d dl i ivine vine nature peace Icaco I in hi the Lime conquer conquering of his appetites serenity in the C r cm I o of power cr and ancI power through I serenity M I But the way Is long and anel the tot In Incessant In- In to reach combination Y Ye xo Yell It ll Is 18 worth striving for Cor Doc I it t In ia to tn lie Uc A woman writes me a alife h life and asks It ru ra to goo good tOll Approbation she writes writes j is thc Slie h. h wine of life so that vo everything but bul character ti we try for everything but hut ha r lf It a n aman aman man reveals a Jl fine H t lit soul of fe feeling ling he lie Is looked at at urlo I as though to SO say lie He Is I XI encell Why hy should the time lush to reveal re themselves to time the Why hy arc the they not r of their mental attributes Ji 5 th v tb latter of theirs their ji f tl M Seneca says that tha t n i r rInK rry Ie a blessIng blessin bless bless- InK Ing in to u u. wise wh e man t Jim mm 1 misfortune mis- mis fortune l but ut we in 1 lae life that he took care to s1 fortune Rosseau hoe Ros- seau 1 says In iii cree amt t we cannot get alan along in life an hI p to our high high- est emit principles y fine things and when our at our 11 actions tell thell MK l Do us as I say not as I do 1 I have Jie e person In my life who lived d P i t p J his bis ideals t tb th tb measure of hId hlf J success I cannot determine a I do not know what he lie started yit and und I have stud stud- led iel the JH i a few tow clergymen lawyers rs newspaper men stenographers at etc I never was Intimately tl with a u. writer It seems to molt ls what one ha has and andriot not riot w what hat one I counts with the thea va a t majo f q w people Th This i cs a very superficial of Hr I lW P people tiC one own character character- lon J elo eM r striving to live to-live live up UI to hi Is et Is lit Indeed be wine 01 t life wine that bit bit- I tr ta 0 It Iw mouth 11 lie ho Itens to those who ar are Ing J In will vIll hear benr character IJ rings not only Its Own ro ro- lio continual appreciation and andin gt cn n i-n from those who do not what it is is but feel eel Its Us in- in fluence I 1 a man of no f financial or o prominence to win Limo respect r 1 i ail a uj rC of or un an entire club of w and influential per flub because his absolute intrinsic wh V ot of character was evident In Ini vo i act ct and word Of or cour course couro 0 culand cul- cul wo and refinement Vero his also for tor th ym arc are the Invariable outgrowths of character r. r I I 1 lido n not t know what society ny y sor- sor r la- la satirizing Is When hon I lie says f fr I f i i. i Si i k 1 ti t v J k AI K that m in io who vIm expresses tine IS upon curiously surely IlIs 11 It Itis is n m. m i typical society T lP ca eUca should inako mako o a fortune fortuno or ora ora ora a M after aftem sa saying ln that poverty PO Is 18 f meSsing ln Is according to the LIme law On Un thIlL hath bath wisdom more wealth s yc e given It It 1 IJ Is ithe the result of character to tobo be able ablo jt rd poverty as a blessing but It Is hs IsIK IK ut l for or the hc man maim of character i to ln In the grasp of absolute solute poverty time the Immortal spirit to remain in tJ tl body of clay Fl no 0 who builds character must of or necess s sy ty be Industrious He Ihle cannot endure 1 1 lIe He works and ancI enjoys his bis la- la r and that thal Invariably leads to success L Will Iii Polio Why hy sneer at nt his material profits Is 13 lu lit not worthier not worthier of ot our esteem than titan the snivelling pt pessimist nn and Idler idIot Who ho libs hims back railing at the thc world which he ho claims I owes him bun a a. living and does docs not bestow besloW It who who considers considers- his bis poverty po a curse cUne thrust I upon ullon him by ity others Temporary poverty may bo ho thrust upon a man by Others continual poverty Is his Ms own fault It Is ts the result of noL not cultivating sating a ling character If the opinion of the vast majority of people Is of more importance to us LIS titan than our nur own sell sen sei r und and love of rite tho minority minority mi mi- mi- mi of those near to us then we are Indeed characterless an and spiritual van pau I pers rs But oven even In regard to that thal assertion assertion asser asser- tion I take Issue with the author of or tho Limo Jolter U-lter quoted Tho The vast majority does docs not respect wealth more than luau nobility of or The pOI populace may run after the disT si honorable man of at wealth hoping fur tur l benefits ben ben- e l- l elite eilts but It does docs not or ol respect him In the secret heart of ot earths earth's most commonplace men and women those who Ii term form the vast majority there them lies a t for Worth orth which is ineradicable Whether we we- arouse that emotion Muff 1 cc E to become con conscious cious of I lt itz or not It yet ct pays to l be e goo good If It we can cnn sit It down alone with our souls at nightfall and feel th that t we wo have wron wronged no one and that we have help helped d Limo tho human race along a 1 little in Us Its upward courso course b by striving to live JIve as nearly right as wo mo 1 know kroV krOf how hov that Is pay enough |
