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Show CONTENTMENT. There are some things in the Avorld that nearly every normal man and woman recognizes as a rightful right-ful condition. And among those things which, may be classed as a cinch is the matter of a proper mental men-tal attitude toward .the Avhole scheme of life in general and toAvard the position occupied by the individual in-dividual in particular. "Proper" is used advisedlv in this connection, for avc believe in aspiration and ambition, as Avell as contentment. The possession of contentment as an elemental characteristic happily hap-pily does not preclude tho.posses.siou of an ambition ambi-tion to reach out and to better one's physical well- being. On the contrary, one of the duties a man owes to himself, to his family and friends and to the state is to get into the highest position he can creditably nil. When growth stops, progress is arrested, ar-rested, and the individual whose highest ambition has been reached, or avIio becomes too lazy to force himself on. tits into the place he has reached, but leaves the broad field further on for his more ambitious am-bitious fellow. If the world should suddenly become be-come perfectly satisfied, if the individual members mem-bers of society should .suddenly come to the conclusion con-clusion that the struggle is not worth while, the decay of the race and the death of many of the cherished institutions of our highly developed civilization civ-ilization Avould follow. God put high aspiration-into aspiration-into men not so much to develop individuals as t" maintain the progress of the-. race. And as th race can grow only as the individuals composing it do grow, it becomes incumbent upon the individual to do all in his power to facilitate that race progression pro-gression by extending moral support to the ambitious. ambi-tious. When a man becomes perfectly satisfied, there 1 should be some method of reducing him iu his own opinion to an appreciation of the fact that the avc rid needs Avorkers whose ultimate goal is perfection per-fection that indefinable thing which A-e have bee. approaching for thousands of years but which is never to be attained. Having lost some of the good opinion of himself, the man Avho had been perfectly satisfied can look ahead once more to see difficulties wo' thy of his steel. But in all the struggle, there is the element of content which absolute faith iu God alone can generate. gen-erate. Content is not indifference nor the indulgence indul-gence in selfish ease. It is the bonus Avhich goes with Avorl; avoII done. To enjoy its beneficence, to know the bliss of a contented mind, is possible onlv to fh.-.se Avho can look back oer a record of stri--ing end can look forward and see still more worlds to conquer. |