Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — What Life Gives. [ARTICLE]

What Life Gives.

Life gives to the individual precisely what he gives to life. Its divinest possibility is to offer place and power to work for some good outside one’s range of immediate personal interests. Life is a flue art in itself and demands the artist. It offers him his material, and he can shape it as he will—according to his own beauty and dignity of ideal conception. Force can be plucked from the unknown, as electric power can be evolved from masses of water. The habit of concentration cannot be too strongly insisted upon. In the hour of concentration lies the opportunity to pluck Force that will be transmitted into courage, into patience, into faith, into divination. As particles of sound arrange themselves in harmony with a musical note, so all outer circumstances rearrange themselves in harmony and beauty if the right spiritual note be struck. The power to strike it aright is gained in the hour of silence and solitude, when one lifts up his heart to the divine. One does not find, but creates, his future. The coming day, the coming month, or year, is plastic to the impress of spiritual force. It can be stamped into beauty and loveliness that will precisely correspond with the beauty and loveliness of purpose or thought Force—spiritual force—is the key to this diviner destiny which makes heaven here and now.—Lillian Whiting in Boston Budget The greater part of what we see when we look at Jupiter is probably a mass of more or less heated clouds, suspended around the hot core of the planet within—a cloud ball, 86,500 miles in diameter. Above Jupiter’s equator the surface of those clouds is whirling along at the rate of more than 27,000 miles an hour, In consequence of the planet’s rapid rotation on its axis. When through with wash tubs or wooden palls, turn them bottom side tip on the floor of the wood house or cellar, and set a can of fresh water under them to keep them from coming to pieces. -+Be not righteous overmuch, lest you use up the supply of a lifetime in a single season, and have not sufficient left to leaven the rest of your years.. Kate Field has been decorated by the French Government for her literary services. i