As A Man Thinketh

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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak

sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest

visions of the soul a waking angle stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of

realities.

 

Your circumstance may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain

so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot

travel WITHIN and stand still WITHOUT. Here is a youth hard pressed by

poverty and labour; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop;

unschooled, and lacking all the arts of refinement. But he dreams of

better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, or grade and

beauty. He conceives of,mentally builds up, an ideal condition of

life! The vision of a wider liberty and a larger scope takes

possession of him; unrest urges him to action, and he utilises all his

spare time and means, small though they are, to the development of his

latent powers and resources. Very soon so altered has his mind become

that the workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so out of

harmony with his mentality that it falls about of his life as a

garment is cast aside, and with the growth of opportunities which fit

the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it for ever. Years

later we see this youth as a full-grown man. ?We find him a master of

certain fores of the mind which he wields with world-wide influence

and almost unequalled power. In his hands he holds the cords of

gigantic responsibilities; he sheaks, and Lo! lives are changed men

and women hang upon his words and remould their characters and

sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous centre round which

innumerable destinies revolve. He has realised the Vision of his

youth. He has become one with his Ideal.

 

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