Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1917 — Meaning of Life. [ARTICLE]

Meaning of Life.

The meaning of life is to be found beyond life. Life is not just existence, but also exertion, not mere action but as well achievement. To draw breath is not of Itself to be a human being. Everywhere the Bible appeals to men to make a life, and not just to earn a living; to rub the sleep from their eyes, to awake from the dead, and to press toward the mark of a highly developed, that is, a spiritualized manhood. To potter around in a social whirl is not to achieve a career, nor is the course of a man who spends his waking hours in a sustained effort to rob his fellows the road to success. The symbol of a true life is neither a dormouse nor a dragon, but a pilgrim s staff, a workman’s trowel, or the healing hand of a good physician! —Zion’s Herald.