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."

Preparation

Every day I hear middle-aged people bemoaning the fact that they were
not given advantages or did not seize the opportunities for an
education in early youth.

They believe that their lives would be happier, better and more useful
had an education been obtained.

Scarcely one of these people realizes that middle life is the
schooltime for old age, and that just as important an opportunity is
being missed or ignored day by day for the storing up of valuable
knowledge which will be of great importance in rendering old age
endurable.

Youth is the season to acquire knowledge, middle life is the time to
acquire wisdom.

Old age is the season to enjoy both, but wisdom is far the more
important of the two.

By wisdom I mean the philosophy which enables us to control our
tempers, curb our tendency to severe criticism, and cultivate our
sympathies.

The majority of people a