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 \n[New York]  \n[1928]  \n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nOBIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permision from Columbia University Libraries.  \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:            35mmREDUCTION RATIO:            9:/  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                    -12-97INITIALS:          班  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                    4326  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nIB  \n\n|  | How Can I Make My Life  \u003Cbr>Count Most?   |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | By  \u003Cbr>DR.A.WAKEFIELD SLATEN  \u003Cbr>308  \u003Cbr>Z  \u003Cbr>Bo× 324   |\n\nAddreas DeliveredSUNDAY,MAY 20,1928Published byTHE LAYMEN'S LEAGUEWEST SIDE UNITARIAN CHUBCH550 Cathedral ParkwayNew York City  \ne3H/AD13b1  \nNOTE:—Each service of the West Side Unitarian Church is plannedto give a unified and consistent expression and impression of Human-sm.There is no assumption of the supernatural.There are no prayersor other elements of worship in the sense of the utterance of adorationfor a divine being.The address which is here presented was precededby the following  \nWORDS OF ASPIRATION  \nWe seek to attain to \"the religion of healthy-mindedness.\"We would not be morbid,or artificial,or hypocritical.Weuould be.free from hollow sham and thin veneer.We uotaldbe committed to goodness and beauty and truth because of ourauareness of their eternal value.We toowld meet circumstancetwith conviction,dificulty twith character.To live by a saneidealism,to be realists who perceive spiritwal significances,tobe at once childres of earth and of sky,and to make our brieflives aids to human progress,to these things we aspire.  \nmay  \n# HOW CAN I MAKE MY LIFE COUNT MOST?\n\nHow Can I Make My Life Count Most?This is aquestion which strikes home at once with a person whohas reached the years of reflection,and has begun toask as Tolstoi did,\"What is the Meaning of Life?\"orto query,with Eucken,as to “Life's Meaning and Life'sIdeals,\"for these same deep questionings arise in theminds of people who do not regard themselves asphilosophers at all.They are questions which life castsup out of itself,as strange,curious things are cast upby the sea.  \nSomehow,here in America,there is a briskness andvigor about our ideals that makes it impossible for usto glide through life,like a swallow through the mellowair of evening,and leave no trace.We have somehowabsorbed the notion that life is so much energy to bedirected,so much capital to be invested,so much time  \nto be wisely spent.  \nIt is profitless to ask how we came to be in the grip ofthis idea.Is it a result of our stimulating climate?Isit part and parcel of the vigor and aggressiveness ofthe western nations?Is it a by-product of the Christianreligion?At any rate,it is an ideal of life that is con-trolling with many people,though it would be a grievousexaggeration to say with all,even in America.On thewhole,though,we take life as a serious business.  \nWhy is it we are so concerned that our lives shall besignificant?What is that toward which we wish themto count?  \nIt may well be that there is an element of egoism inour eagerness.A decent sense of self-respect urges uson.Yet there is a wider reason in which our strivingfinds its justification.Our personal ambitions merge ina great World-Hope.  \nWe have seen the vision of a world-civilization inwhich the immense fortunes that have hitherto beenperiodically swallowed up in the engulfing crater ofwar would be spent in the intensification of agriculture,the building of waterways,in municipal projects,andall that goes to improve living conditions.We havebeen like that French engineer who proposed to opena channel into the Sahara and cover its sands with thewaters of the Mediterranean,changing the climate ofa continent,and turning a ","cbCaichLn4hnFgl8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaichLn4hnFgl8","pdf",538265,12,"English","# HOW CAN I MAKE MY LIFE COUNT MOST?\n## Meaning-seeking and ideals\n## World-Hope and social progress\n## Time limits and the urgency of action","[{\"question\":\"What question anchors the address?\",\"answer\":\"The address centers on “How Can I Make My Life Count Most?” in connection with deeper inquiries into the meaning of life.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the speaker explain why people care about making life significant?\",\"answer\":\"The speaker suggests it can include egoism and self-respect, but ultimately it is justified by a wider striving toward a shared World-Hope.\"},{\"question\":\"Toward what goal does the speaker urge personal ambition to merge?\",\"answer\":\"Personal ambitions are said to merge in a World-Hope of improved human living—healthier conditions, ethical progress, and a better world, expressed religiously as the “Kingdom of God.”\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the speaker stress the brevity of life?\",\"answer\":\"The task is described as great, and lives are short; counting days highlights the urgency to act toward making life count most.\"}]","How Can I Make My Life Count Most? 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