Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — Dreaming With a Purpose Is the Most Worth-While Of Youthful Occupations. [ARTICLE]

Dreaming With a Purpose Is the Most Worth-While Of Youthful Occupations.

- “Oh, he’s only a dreamer.” This sentence is often spoken in derision of some voting mart or lonian whose visions appear impossible to those who consider themselves more practical. Yet the progress of the world is only the working out of the visions of dreamers. Joseph was called a dreamer. His dreams were prophetic of the service he was to render, not only to his family, but to the civilization of his day. But his brothers misunderstood his dreams, perhaps understood as little as did he himself at the time, and because they could not understand they hated him for having dreams and placed him in the way of realization by attempting to get rid of him, says the Christian Herald. Dreaming is the most worth-while of youthful occupations, if it is dreaming with a purpose. Idle dreams that carry no inspiration to action are worse than useless. But dreams that include a purpose shape the destinies of men and women. The young Carfield, treading the tow-path, dreamed of education and of leadership, and attained both. In every school and college of the country young men and vvomcri are held" to their tasks by the glorious vision of what they intend to be and to do, and every year those who have remained true to their visions are making good in the pulpit and press, in business and on the far-flung battle line, where Christianity is writihgliberty and love into the constitutions of ancient heathendoms.