Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-02-21
a CALL TO Youye MY.

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William VI. Tyler, the son of Prof. Tyler
after graduating at Amherst ia 1864 With
the sec9nd highest honor in his class, com
meaeed bis apprenticeship n the Ames
company wurks AZ Ehle0Bee, where he
now is, studying tle theory Of she business
and learning to DO Elth his Own hands al
Kinds Of the work. " give this faet be-
cause We Should REe tg see tie example OF
young lyleF initiated BY two or three haRd-
red ot the graduates af cur colleges No
aela 0l labqr rohers such prizes of wealth
and hgnor 20 iiteraily educated young Een
az the mechanic arts None In willeh they
can mere beuellc,ally serve with their lraIn-
ed lntellccts the community aud themselves.
For labor requires and the wofd s urgent
in its demands that hereafter the men who
work with E.- hands shall also work With
their brains. As inventors, as masters Of
machine shops, as managers OF factories as
engineers Of great public works and as ar
chitects, our educated Young men, IF they
VIII learn a trade, would find ample remu-
ueratI0n and broad margin for tie display
Of genius and talent. No merchant, no
lawyer no physician, we leave oUG the
ministry because it's q vocation which re
qaires supernatural cail-has such q
chance Tor the fame which lives from geuer-
alton to generation as the man who huks
bis name with beneficial invention or
stamps Il 5n a great public work. 1t is the
Eustons the Stephenses, the Bruuells, the
Elias Ho1es who now build to themselves
monuments more durable than brass. No
man in this country has such a household
immortality as Elias Howe, for wherever
the sewing machine lightens woman work
his name Is known.
The great want Of the day Is skilled Labor,
chat Is trained hands directed By trained
brains And the young men who, having
been literally educated, turn from the crow
ded professions Co labor. serve an appren-
tIceship at some trade and become masters
Of their business. will find themselves be-
| fore many years IA positions Of honor aHd
profit
" e are enterIag or q new era, the era of
/ Labor. All over the world the IaborIng
classes are seeking their emancipation la
this country, the working men, though Far
/ more advanced than those Of Europe, are
1 dissatisfied with their position aud tEe.r
wages, and have organized movement fT
/ their 0WG benefit The movement needs
/ the direction which only eaacated men can
give il. men of brains, who are themselves
/ workers, and wh0i from living with work
I men, know Their p7eiudlees and their wants,
are needed as leaders 20 gi.e clear express
/ sion 70 the InaEtieuiate demands Of the Ia
/ boring class, 70 adjust tremendously then
I relations to capitalists and % elevate the
/ iaborers themselves from the plane where
/ lite Is only a struggle for existence
/ 1t young mao OF education is q ph!!an
4 thr0pist, the Droade.t scope for the exeT
/ else Of bis vocation VIII lie furnished to HIM
I If he viii but Identify himself with the hr
Z boring class de must not stand WIthoui
/ and paToniZe them, they WIii net stand that
but be must be one Of them, able Co say
/ Ny hand Is az skilIful and a. hard as you,
t4a-.l .l& sii-la eta5 s,iil lzs lie Lrair7 Or
1 reef their movements
/ Oae % the omInous lgns OF the times Is,
/ that culture Is separating ltselt IN thought
and action from the Uneultivated masses
Even Ia the churches this Sign Is apparent
( Ic eZaItes unsasiuess among those who be
lieve that one 0i the distinctive marks d
/ Christianity Is that co the poor the Gosps
I IS preached.
The highest service that q young nan o.
plety aud education, II he be not called 4
I the ministry. can render to his generation
/ Is to enter a shop and serve a regular ap
/ premiership al trade. Like tue Morayia,
missionaries. who sold themselves as alayes
/ that they might labor among the slaves O
an island IN the West Indies, and fouBt
their reward In the conversion and love o.
I hundreds, so the young man who has tht
\ spirit 20 turn from the glamour of false so
cial and professional distinctions, and ideu-
I tiiy himself With the laboring class, viii md
not slaves, but earnest, devoted men, who
I viii gladly listen to his words Il they b
wise and follow his lead il be be leader
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