HOW TO TAKE LIFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3091, 7 May 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO TAKE LIFE.

Take life like a man. Take it just as though it was—as it is—an earnest, vital, essential affair. Take it just as though you personally were bom to the task of performing a merry part in it—as though the world had waited for your coming. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do and to achieve, to carry forward great and good schemes ; to help and cheer a suffering, weary, it may be heart-broken brother. The fact is, life is undervalued by a great majority of mankind. It is not made half as much of as should be the ease. Where is the man or woman who accomplishes one tithe of what might be done ? Who cannot look back upon opportunities lost, plans nnachieved, thoughts crushed, aspirations unfulfilled, and all caused from the lack of the necessary and possible effort ! If we know better how to take and make the most of life, it would be far greater than it is. Now and then a man stands aside from the crowd, labours earnestly, steadfastly, confidently, and straightway becomes famous for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of some sort. The world wonders, admires, idolises ; and yet it only illustrates what eacli may do if he takes hold of life with a purpose. If a man but says he will, and follows it up, there is nothing in reason he may not expect to accomplish. There is no magic, no miracle, no secret to him who is brave in heart and determined in spirit.