Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — Getting On In Life. [ARTICLE]

Getting On In Life.

Someone whose hair was growing iron-gray said: “I dm getting on in life.” His friend, who knew him very well, had his doubts. He mistook getting on in years for getting on in life. He was morally and spiritually just about where he had been 30 years before. Nobody gets on in life except those that achieve spiritually. When boyhood’s bad temper persists into manhood, When one is irritable, disobliging, selfish, haughty, proud, self-sufficient, immoral, godless, one should not talk about getting on in life, even if one is as rich as Croesus. To get on in life is to rise in moral stature. It is to have a soul big enough to love and admire without envy, to be content with treasures of the mind, to set character first of all. The man who is. “rich in faith” gets on. The others drift down the years, or accumulate great possessions, but in the essential 'things, the things of eternity, they are waterlogged and stationary.