A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

UNMINED WEALTH

I'hokhssok Wii.i.i a.m .Jam ks, the psychologist, lias said, “ If we could only turn a. great spiritual X-ray on ourselves, most of us would find powers and potentialities in the great within of us which may never reach the germinating stage.”

“ Most of us ” includes nearly all of us—you and me, and the majority of your friends and mine. How amazed many of us would he if we could see unfolded before us our character assets—our potentialities, our embryonic powers! Flow .few of us have even a bowing acquaintance with the man or woman wy might be! If such a tiling were possible, and We could catch a glimpse of the man or woman we would be if all our powers were unfolded, how many of us would say, “ But those remarkable qualities and powers belong to some great leader —some man amongst men—-not to poor mean little me.”

Yet till the possibilities of the giant mind of Lincoln slumbered in embryo in the crude, shy, awkward, unlettered

hoy of the log cabin of the American backwoods.

All tin l possibilities of the glorious and mighty oak are wrapped in the tinv acorn.

When a stunted dwarf oak emerges from a perfect acorn, only a fraction ol tne immense possibilities of the tree have been expressed. How many human dwarf oaks there are—men and women who live and die expressing only a tiny fraction of their powers—men and women who were intended to he generals in life and who .remain in the ranks, with all the stuff of wmch generals are made lying dor ninut within them ; just because the' had failed to discover their own mini i nod wealth !

Lincoln could never have become the statesman lie was ii he had not believed he could.

What efforts are you making to reach your maximum development? There may he great, undiscovered wealth and power within you. —M. PRESTON STANLEY