The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-06-22
GETTING Il LYING.


others. One man, if he gets enough TO iced and
cloihe himself; enough to keep his family CON-
Portable, year in and year out, in pretty much
the same condition, considers himself as making
living. He is the. man without opportunities
and reduces living to its minimum, and is likely
10 be the best contented, if not the most thriving
progressive man. Another man-wh hose income
you rate by thousands-will tell you he barely
makes a living, because his idea of life takes q
different range. He cannot be satisfied witt
what contents the other. The man of simple
tastes and habits the man whose life rises little
above the range of manual labor; the man with
no pressing demands upon him, makes Il living
out of what would in no way meet the desires
wants, Of more artificial habit or taste-whil'
many man. out OF penny, has made more life
than many another out OF fortune. Great men
the immortal men, have rarely been tapped il
luxury. They have been reared where the hom'
Dinched Out of kings houses do no, come tht
great We are apt to jeer at the line OF the BY mr.
MAN wants but little here below" He need!
but little for it is amazing how little mar car
'plake do, can do happily withLwhen be viii
f0rsgo luxury a1h s:sfp 10 10 bare necessity.
That is, perhaps, the first practical idea will
which a man starts in life-how am | TO make
living? Before we actually lace the necessity Of
looking cut for ourselyes-among the dreams
and reveries of youths this or that We would
very we'll like to be; but when the great necessi
ty of choice comes up, the question is what shall
| do that will pay-that can make my living
out of? Then, the young man of decided taste;
NAV have to force himself TO some uncongenia
career; then the anxiety may come to which Of
several things is most likely to be remuneraive,
which avenue is it that opens most speedily into
the broad field of money success? Getting laUlnS
the income of MONEYS the great arbier vi
fate thing, like the sword OF the indignant
warrior, flung arbitrarily into The scales while
vet more legitimate settlement hesiiaies. Aud
you will find promise, talent of every kind,
drawn away from the native hint BY that imper-
alive law which says 'thou must eat in very
many cases that more imperative law which says
as il il were an Eleventh Commandment of the
Decalogue-'thou shalt not do anything that is
not considered respectable" Really, too often
you know the fact-it is the question OF re-
spectabiity that decides the manner in which "A
living shall be made. The waste material, the
unused, unrecognized ability, lying about, doing
Lobody any good, Gripping and cursing the
owner is drawback TO the productive energies
of the world, as well cutting the lite OF the in
dividual off from just development. When God
gave in the beginning, the command increase
and multiply" | take it the idea was not of mere
animal increase. Thai, however worthy toe
necessary was not the ultimate object. 1t was
only a special adapting of a broad law. Man
was to increase and multiply every capacity and
the result of every capacity; to become producer
after bis kind of gift to let nothing stagnae and
smother TO make every part of himself yield its
highest increase. He was to bring himself all
into USE And civilization and culture more and
more show that thereis just demand for every hui
man ability that need none Of it be boted GU;
tecomt imperative thatit only needs judgment,
and that adjustment of society which comes about
SO slowly because medded with by every sort OF
srlf-iuterest. The difficulty, if there be one pre-
venting any man from the legitimate and re-
muuerative employment of his native git, lies
not in fact that his gift has corresponding de-
and in lite, but that he does not correctly adopt
10 the demdnd that society puts itself an has a0dy
BY its restrictions Of tariff, revenue, or ecen that
more stupidity autocratic thing-opinion. Men are,
shame 10 say it, compelled TO reduce themselves
within very restricted limits when they cOme TO
face exislence as something 10 which and out OF
a living is to be made. And so over glut in few
things; waste in many and in again many,
want.
To select some one honorable calling which
shall be the means of an honorable livelihood,
which one shall honorabIy follow out, is a thing
not merely of necessity but of responsibility, and
where one has no special, sharply defined leading
or where some thwarting of circumstance or man
prevents the following that the deciding is hedged
about with pain and difficulty. Arthur Helps
says, what many an adult will say amen TO-
The great labor Of life, that which tends more
to exhaust men than anything else, is deciding "
AT the threshold young men meet the great ex-
hausiion and labor oil deciding the great life
question OF pursut-meet it carelessy some
times; meet it ignorantly sometimes meet it as
things lead or compel sometimes. | think the
man who has wisely and bravely met that issue,
looked all round, looked above, and, of the same
necessity, looked within, has crossed the Rubicon.
He may say to his SOUL confidently, what the
Roman general said in the storm to the pilot
Cesar vetis H'--Thou earliest Cesar And to be
Cesar TO ones own soul, whose conquering way
no storms of sea, no perils of land, or OF inm-
nent edge of battle, no thwartUgs of Circumstance
or intrigues of man can stand against, that is TO
be the grandest thing mere man can be. There
is only one thing cumberland that is 20 be so
full Of the Christ spirit that you can say to your
soul-with tone perhaps not so jnbilant hut so
much more meaning and mighty ChriStes Uetis
thou earliest Christ. To have sci ones foot
resolutely out in tie way which one will resoute-
ly keep so long as God gives him breath and grace
to go therein to have entered into the great
mystery and copartnership of laborers TO have
ceased to be merely consumer and become pro-
Queer, if it be but hod-carryng, or ditch digging
or shoe cobbling, why it is one stride in the
manly and ascending series of toll and response
bility, happiness and honor, whose ladder-foot
may rest in the ooze of very humble sphere and
vocation, while its top leans against the throne
on which the Infinite sits; and one keeping his
faith an dholding his integrity may climb that
way, ascending all the while with the great white
light of Divine love looking down at him
heat, and strength and cheer in it beside. Do
l. he hO has tn DO 10
living in the black bowels Of the earth, and only
now and then tastes the sweetness of upper air,
may have just that bright way along which his
soul shall travel and that it is just rs possible
for one to have all the gories Of the life that God
loves growing there, as under the lotiest ceiling
Of kings houses? do not see in what man say S
about the grades in pursuit-tbat this is respect
able and that not-anythng that should deter n
resolute soul from following out the conviction o.
his own thought He can 6ud his manhood and
his way 10 God anywhere. Ia all history know
nothing more touching than what the old chron-
icler tells US of Sir Humphry Gilbert, one of the
earliest voyagers to this country. Returning to
England with a consort in one of those little
cookie shells in which our fathers did their voyag
ing, the little boat strained by storm and wind
and laboring in the gale, just On The edge oil
night, with CHEEKY voice out upon the wild wave,
be answered the anxious hail of his companion
and declined all aid 'for God was just as near
upon the sea as upon the land" Brave old
mingling of Puritan and chivalrous spirit He
comes TO me, many times, that lone man amid
midnight waves, away back there in The years,
shouting it out over the waters as over the cen.
turtles, --"God is as near on the sea as on the
land I" And when the morning came no ship MOI
brave Sir Humphry He had found God, nearer
than sea or land So we can find our way TO God
an m u M here-- hateyer nur Wav of making a livnu
and in the same path our manhood
Choose then that thing in which you may hes
work yourself. And then make of it something
more than the means of mere living, breathing
| and feeding and gaining and laying up. &c
above the mere mercantile idea, and in your vo
cation see the chance for developing your owl
manhood Reject whatever thwarts and cramp!
| that the chance for helping man and the age
and while making your living make yourself
make yourself self use of the very things which
your daily work brings to you.
Into making living certain moral element!
enter. Making a living is no material, mechan
al thing 1t is moral. Life cannot in any of il
branches be made merely material All the way
through everything has its moral side; all tb'
way through everything requires moral help.
| do not care who the man is, or what he does
how high in earthly position, how low in human
| es,eem--he cannot get along, even with men, IL
his daily career, except he have in exercise all th
| time, everywhere, and growing, essential, mora
qualities. For in making living he is not tt
cultivate one part of his being and overlook tb'
rest not to be plough handle or pen handle o.
tool handle, but man every way to throw BIZ
manly self, bis moral self in. Good life is mora
| life, good work is moral work. 10 working vi
| life there is room, and play and demand for al
| the moralities The easy going creed OF TOT