How to Face Life ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ART OF LIFE SERIES Edward Howard Griggs, Editor --------------------- How to Face Life BY STEPHEN S. WISE Rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York [Illustration: B. W. H. logo] NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH MCMXVII ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY B. W. HUEBSCH PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY LOUTINJIM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS I YOUTH PREPARING FOR LIFE PAGE 9 II MATURITY HOW TO SERVE AND ACHIEVE PAGE 48 III AGE HOW NOT TO GROW OLD PAGE 62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I YOUTH: PREPARING FOR LIFE “How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams. With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Aladdin’s Lamp, and Fortunatus’ Purse! That holds the treasures of the universe! All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, ‘Be thou removed,’ it to the mountain saith, And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud.” —LONGFELLOW: _Morituri Salutamus_. How to face life, how to prepare for life, are questions that must be answered by those who believe, as Lecky put it, that the “map of life” must be marked out, that in the words of Emerson there is such a thing as the “conduct of life” which man is free to determine.