TIME.
"The mill will never grind with the water that has past."
BY
JOHN McGOVERN,
(OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.)
AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF COMMUNISM," "WORLDS WITHOUT END," "CROWNJEWELS," "A PASTORAL POEM," ETC
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CHICAGO, ILL. COLUMBUS, OHIO. KANSAS CITY, MO.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LEXINGTON, KY. BUFFALO, N.Y.
1884.
COPYRIGHTED BY
M.B. DOWNER & F.C. SMEDLEY,
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
1881-1882.
I take pleasure in laying before my readers a volume the aim of which isto lighten the cares of to-day and heighten the hopes of to-morrow.Every human aspiration which is not an ignis fatuus or fool's beaconis built on the realities of to-day. Every young person evincing talentsin any direction hears predictions which are alone built on what he isdoing at present. He takes this hope and redoubles his efforts. Heusually succeeds—therefore, the inherited universality of hope.
Looking thus upon hope as a beautiful edifice rising above thefoundations of our lives, I have striven to give my special attention tothe duties of to-day, those stones whereon the structure is reared, thatthe first cruel tempest of adversity may not transport an unsubstantialfabric, like the palace of Aladdin, into the deserts of despair.
I have also tried to show that the lesson, so true in a proper view ofthis life, is also applicable to the far grander vista of eternitywhich, in the mind of philosopher as well as divine, lies so clearlybefore us.
In a Hard-Pan Series of ten chapters I have endeavored to point out, tothe young men just starting in practical life, some things less generalin their scope than the other thoughts spread forth in the book. Thenecessity of arming our youth with those qualities which lead tobusiness success has made me confident that this attempt would beapproved by the general reader.
Wherever a writer versed in the deep mysteries of the heart has left histhoughts on record, and they have fallen under my eye, I have eagerlychained them to my humble chariot, always, when possible, giving theauthorship of the idea. The value of a thoroughly good admonition isfrequently enhanced by the knowledge that it comes from the mouth of athoroughly good man.
Preface.
The Hopes of To-Morrow Must Have a Foundation in what We Are DoingTo-Day—The same Thing True of Our Hopes of the Next Life—The Hard-PanSeries. Page 3.
The Golden Censer.
The Golden Censer which Hangs in the Templ