Part 27 (2/2)
What are the toil-sweated productions of wealth piled up in vast profusion around a Girard, or a Rothschild, eighed against the stores of wisdolory hich victorious virtue has enriched and adorned a great enerations?
”Lord, how enes hath no need!” exclai the miscellaneous articles at a country fair
”There are treasures laid up in the heart--treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world” (Buddhist Scriptures)
Is it any wonder that our children start out rong ideals of life, rong ideas of what constitutes success? The child is ”urged to get on,” to ”rise in the world,” to ” succeeds like success False standards are everywhere set up for him, and then the boy is blae youth on to success, but the great oal constantly preached to thereat lessons to teach in this century of sharp competition and the survival of the fittest is how to be rich withoutto the popular standard
Gold cannot ar poor
In the poeed Cross,” a weary wo that she was led to a place where many crosses lay, crosses of divers shapes and sizes The old It was so tiny and exquisite that she changed her own plain cross for it, thinking she was fortunate in finding one so an to ache under the glittering burden, and she changed it for another cross very beautiful and entwined with flowers But she soon found that underneath the floere piercing thorns which tore her flesh At last she ca, and with only the word, ”Love,” inscribed upon it She took this one up and it proved the easiest and best of all She was amazed, however, to find that it was her old cross which she had discarded It is easy to see the jewels and the flowers in other people's crosses, but the thorns and heavy weight are known only to the bearers How easy other people's burdens seem to us compared with our own We do not appreciate the secret burdens which al for delayed success--the aching hearts longing for sympathy, the hidden poverty, the suppressed ereat Commoner, considered money as dirt beneath his feet compared with the public interest and public esteem His hands were clean
The object for which we strive tells the story of our lives Men and woed by the happiness they create in those around them noble deeds always enrich, but millions of mere money may impoverish _Character is perpetual wealth_, and by the side of him who possesses it the millionaire who has it not seems a pauper
Compared with it, what are houses and lands, stocks and bonds? ”It is better that great souls should live in sreat houses” Plain living, rich thought, and grand effort are real riches
Invest in yourself, and you will never be poor Floods cannot carry your wealth away, fire cannot burn it, rust cannot consume it
”If a man empties his purse into his head,” says Franklin, ”no e always pays the best interest”
”There is a cunning juggle in riches I observe,” says Eive I look bigger, but I am less, I have e; more books, but less wit”
Howe'er it be, it seeood
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood
TENNYSON
CHAPTER XIV
OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE
To each ht, one hted hour, one h which subli with the stream, One Once, in balance 'twixt Too Late, Too Soon, And ready for the passing instant's boon To tip in favor the uncertain bea hoait, Knows also hoatch and work and stand On Life's broad deck alert, and at the prow To seize the passingwith fate, Froreat clock of destiny strikes Now!
MARY A TOWNSEND
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side
LOWELL
What is opportunity to a , which the waves of time wash away into nonentity--GEORGE ELIOT
A thousand years a poor ate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut Ah! was he wise?
W B ALGER
Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand--CARLYLE