Life is a glorious privilege, and we can make anything we choose of it,
if we begin early and are in deep earnest, and realize our own divine
powers.
Nothing can hinder us or stay us. We can do and be whatsoever we will.
The prize of life is not "a thing which is neither enjoyed while had
nor missed when lost."
It is enjoyed by millions of souls to-day--this great prize of life. I
for one declare that for every day of misery in my existence I have had
a week of joy and happiness. For every hour of pain, I have had a day
of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.
I cannot be the only soul so endowed with the appreciation of life! I
know scores of happy people who enjoy the many delights of earth, and
there are thousands whom I do not know.
Of course "life is not missed when lost"--because it is never lost. It
is indestructible.
Life ever was, and ever will be. It is a continuous performance.
It is not "worthless" to the wholesome, normal mind. It is full of
interest, and rich with opportunities for usefulness.
When any man says his life is worthless, it is because he has eyes and
sees not, and ears and hears not.
It is his own fault, not the fault of God, fate or accident.
If every life seems at times "unsatisfactory" and "inadequate" it is
only due to the cry of the immortal soul longing for larger
opportunities and fewer limitations.
Neither is life "false to hope." He who trusts the divine Source of
Life, shall find his hopes more than realized here upon earth. I but
voice the knowledge of thousands of souls, when I make this assertion.
I know whereof I speak.
All that our dearest hopes desire will come to us, if we believe in
ourselves as rightful heirs to Divine Opulence, and work and think
always on those lines.
If "no whisper has ever reached us out of the void" confirming our
faith in immortality, then one-third of the seemingly intelligent and
sane beings of our acquaintance must be fools or liars. For we have
the assertion of fully this number that such whispers have come,
besides the Biblical statistics of numerous messages from the other
realm. "As it was in the beginning, is now and shall be ever more,
world without end, Amen."