Ellsworth American., 1874-08-06

Board Of Trustees OF an institution {
learning in Massachusetts,, apd himse
most efficient worker in Whatever ei
cages bis attention." Teach YOU
young men that the world is waiting 10
men who can bring things to pass" q
students, then with reference to action
Be studious to know, in order that yo,
may do.
but here let me caution you not tc
take too narrow view of life and its
opportunities, aud SO be led to stud,
with reference to immediate duty only
some one, on one occasion, inquired o
Mr.. webster how long time he baC
given to the preparation of one OF hi.
most famous speeches. Eighteen years
he replied. 1t was the fruit Of life,
time OF investigation and reflection
Study, then, withreference to the larges
and widest culture possible to you in
the circumstances In which you may be
placed. Fit yourselves for any dut,
which God in his providence may i'm.
pose upon you. BE sure that for all th,
solid preparation for work which, in ST.
lent and hidden hours, no human ey,
watching, you may make, there will
come sometime In the fastening futnr,
= demand, and your success in life will
be determined by your ability TO ODE,
At once the calls OF which God will make
upon YOU unwarned. IL is said of Gen.
erAl Sherman, that, having been exiled
ss he regarded his assignment to a mill.
fary post In the Southern States during a
time Of peace preceding the civil war,
he devoted himself to the special auo
critical study Of the geography OF those
States. Aud this was sthe ability to
make his famous march from Atlanta TO
the sea, which secured for him his place
among tho greatest generals OF the
worlds history. Ii you study in this
spirit, you will have no occasion to COM
plain that your abilities are not appre-
ciatcd. uenors in no stinted measure
will follow upon work intelligently and
faithfully done.
Finally and supremely. Be students
not only for the sake Of action, but for
the sake Of right action. You have
been taught that intelligence is neces-
sary TO virtue. A lofty virtue is possi-
BILE only where there is high intelligence
a man can act worse, but never better
than he knows. BY the increased abili-
ty to discover the right which your cul-
lure gives or may give, you are placed
under corrcspondingly greater obliga-
tions to exercise that ability in the in
terest OF private and public virtue. No
man can estimate the power of cultured
intliect t. elt!te ur d3JI,e human
society. How great the need is, in our
age aud country, that you should right
ly use whatever of this power YOU may
have acquired, it is not possible to over
state. take no despairing view of our
times. Never, in my judgment, was
Gods cause in the Kingdom of His Son
advancing among men more rapidly OF
more surely than now to its final and
complete conquest. But this coma nest
is assured not by those who, blind 10
existing evils, abandon themselves I o
self.indnlgcnt ease; but by those who,
having inca sured these evils in ali their
appalling magnitude, oppose to them
resistance commensurate in iutelIi.
gence and moral earnestness. Corrupt.
ton bred 81 lawIossness, tsiuts the at.
mosphere of our marts of commerce.
how suddenly are regulations blasted
of our legislative halls, whom can we
trust! OF even our religious conyoca-
tons, how are the mighty fallen. A low
expendiency, o grovelling materialism
which exslts body over soul, tine over
eternity. man over God, which Is salts.
he'd with present ana material successes,
how widely prevalent are these Men
are needed, therefore, who by dilligent
and profound study OF the will OF God
Is made known TO us in his one accor.
dAnt revelation OF himself in nature, in
providence and in Holy Scriptures.
know by an intimate conviction that hl t,
laws in the moral world, though. as in
volving the human will, working by
methods peculiar to themselves. are
nevertheless, in some deep and real
sense. As invariable as his laws ia the
material world; that as il is true in the
realm oi matter, so it j. true in the
realm oil spirit. that "whatsoevera "A man
soweth that shall he also reap" that any
triumph, however brilliant, which i
not based on righteousness, il an eter-
nal failure; men, therefore, " no can e,ti-
msle at their true value all Temporary
aud material successes, and sacrifice
them Instantly for the spiritual and the
enduring. This Is the divine utiiitarian-
ism which we teach, which regarding
- sA'esN W ss't anu Iopdbit OI ttl-
joying him in the bond OF personal love
aud service forever subordinates very
other TO this sublime interest. III =.
are the men who are demanded Ly the
times, men who unite culture with
faith, men who can see the invisible,
men 10 whom it 10 more real thantbese
transitorv shadows which we call reali
ties, men upon whom rest in all their
sublimity the powers of the world to
come; men, therefore, who, living supe-
rior to all the seductions Of this present
time, by patient continuance in well do.
ing seek for glory, honor, immortality,
eternal life.
God grant that you may be such men.
Remember, that if YOU viii, the Living
Christ, God with us, will 90 with YOU
in the work Of life, the Inspirer of wis.,
dom. OF courage, Of hope, of strength,
ana A. last reward the struggle with his
award, Well done good and faithful
servants, enter into the JOY of your