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Show j ; c- DISENCHANTED EGOTISM I Bj Oil JAMES 1 W i: It Is a bad thing to get discouraged. It throws life's machinery out oi goal I The heart Is depressed the brain con-! con-! fu-e,l tin Judgment -.tamped, d, and the will sho t- irculled. 1 ilsoourage-I ilsoourage-I meat results In a paralysis of effort. The perspective Is spoiled. Initiative is put out of business, and SUCfjeSS made a forlorn hope. Nn cause can Win with discouraged adherents Even God I Himself, u would seem, can do nothing noth-ing through a discouraged man W hat causes d Iscouragement ? Not ai arily the circumstances because 'worse circumstances have been faced with courage, a nd darkness has lelded to dawn. The trouble with a discouraged discour-aged man is that he has become llf-centered. llf-centered. 1 It Is an egotist. He has banked on himself. id- has thought himself to be something when he is nothing and hi- has deceived himself. He has had a foolish confidence In his own powers t. put things across. Cuddling hi- '.t- CStecm, patting his pride, feeding his v ii-e of self-'mpnrtance. he has felt he can stand where other men have fallen, he ran succeed where other have failed and achieve what commor men have not been able io accomplish He Is a suporman. Then he has found himself out. Th-mask Th-mask has been torn off His pride has been punctured his conciet has col-; lapsed He has shrivelled upandi dwindled down and found that he could stumble and blunder and fail I like ' ommon mortals Under the blind-Ing blind-Ing terror of that discovery, he has lost his nerv e He has become a dls-1 couraged man. This Is what dlscour-l Lgement is. He is egotism disenchant-1 d. The cure la faith In God Take your eyes off vour disabilities, off your liabilities off vour difficulties and look, up. God has carried bigger burdens than yours. You will not break down! the Almighty He Is your friend, aii'l ! because He Is, "All's welli all's well!" I can do all things through hrlst I which strengthened me" Therefore up and at It again! |