Life's Gateways; Or, How to Win Real Success - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. CHANGE MEANS GROWTH. Which way are my feet set? Through infinite changes yet Shall I go on, Nearer and nearer drawn To thee, God of eternity? How shall the human grow, By changes fine and slow, To thy perfection from the Life-dawn sought?--Maurice Thompson. Always changing. There is absolutely nothing fixed in this world, nor do I imagine there can be in any other. Every atom that exists is constantly changing its conditions, moving onward according to law, varying its position with respect to all other atoms, and by new associations making new forms to carry out the Divine idea. It would be an absolute impossibility to find one thing which is not subject to this fiat of the Universal Mind. Always changing. Two mornings or two evenings will never paint the sky with exactly the same coloring. The clouds that float from horizon to horizon are constantly taking on new shapes that have no resemblance each to the other. In the whole vegetable world there is a never-ceasing variety. No two blades of grass are exactly alike; the leaves upon bush and tree differ in shape, in size, and in color, and the differences are constantly perpetuating themselves. Go where there are hundreds of blossoms belonging to one family and they never bud and bloom in exactly the same way or with the same results, nor does each individual even retain its appearance to the eye. A bud to-day, a blossom to-morrow; anon, the fruitage, and then it is gone to reappear again when the germ receives its awakening touch from the angel of life. This is the story of everything that lives in the vegetable world. Always changing. Did you ever stand by the side of the sea and watch the waves as they came rolling in to the shore, washing now far up on the shining sands, then falling bac...

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