"IF"

IF I can throw a single ray of light

Across the darkened pathway of another;

If I can aid some soul to clearer sight

Of life and duty, and thus bless my brother;

If I can wipe from any human cheek a tear,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If I can guide some erring one to truth,

Inspire within his heart a sense of duty;

If I can plant within the soul of rosy youth

A sense of right, a love of truth and beauty;

If I can teach one man that God and Heaven are near,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If from my mind I banish doubt and fear,

And keep my life attuned to love and kindness;

If I can scatter light and hope and cheer,

And help remove the curse of mental blindness;

If I can make more joy, more hope, less pain,

I shall not then have lived and loved in vain.

If by life's roadside I can plant a tree,

Beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest;

Though I may never share its shade, or see

Its beauty, I shall yet be truly blest-

Though no one knows my name, nor drops a flow'r upon my bier,

I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

By B. F. AUSTIN

"I can and I will."

"Lives of great men” and of great women as well, "all remind us, we can make our lives sublime." No truth in words impresses us so strongly as the truth in a life. Helen Wilmans' life story is a Bible of Revelations for the age in which we live full of the new thought, the new theology and the divinest inspiration.

The Way to Drive out Worry, Fear, Etc...

In place of centering our thought upon the Worry, Fears, Doubts and Irresolution, which constitute man's mental poison, the proper method is to forget that these have controlled us, and put all our mental effort into the cultivation of their antidotes : Peace, Trust, Faith, Resolution, Courage. B.F. Austin - How To Make Money - 1918

Benjamin Fish Austin (1850 – 1933) was a nineteenth-century Canadian educator, Methodist Minister, and Spiritualist.

B. F. Austin was born in Brighton, Ontario. He served as the principal of Alma College girl school from 1881 to 1897 during which time that institution was regarded as one of the most prestigious centres of female education in Canada.