Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-21

IcCl1tuQC III dill 1Ou 066G me duties I'LL
posed upon you boldly, and without flnching
assume the responsibility of all your actions.
If you are In error, if you ate guilty of indis-
cretions, If you commit follies, do not, Im-
plore you, attempt to escape responsibility by
indirection or evasion. Every time you meet
an emergency like this, frankly and truth
fully, you achieve moral triumph and
strengthen the foundations of your character.
In this way even your follies and errors will
serve to make your virtues the more coaspic-
uous. A victory like this once gained, and
you will achieve other conquests more easily
In the future, until finally recutude, conscious
rechtude, Will preside over your brows, Hash
from your eyes, and incorporate itself in all
you do, In all you say. Then it is that
truthfuiness, directness, aud the perform
ance of open-hearted, generous and hon.
orable actions will become habitual with you.
Then it is that character is formed and you
can step into the arena OF life elf-poised and
conscious OF tie purity of all your motives.
Then it Is that you will receive the love and
admiration of all good men, and command
the respect of all bad men, and in the con-
seriousness of moral integrity triumphantly
meet all the duties and all the responsible
ties society may impose upon you. The next
condition of success to which | would call
your attention, is the selection early in life of
some avocation or profession with view to
preparation for its pursuit. A man without
an aim In life is a mere drone In society. The
young man who goes to school and COM
pletes his education without an object ahead
of him is committing great mistake. He
is like ship beginning voyage without
destination. A boy at fifteen should
be advising with his parents, his teachers
and his friends as to the calling he wall fol-
low, and before entering life he should make
his choice, and when made he should pursue
ii, without deviation or shadow of turning, to
the end. Life, young gentlemen, is too
short Tor more than one calling. A .jack-of-
all-trades is little better than vagabond.
The traveller who turns out of his
way Is lost in the darkness. The
traveller who pursues his journey with
out deviation reaches it's end. 1t is not the
first or last blow that sunders the solid rock,
but the succession of blows. On an occasion
| asked one OF your teachers why it was that
superior to those of modern artists The re-
ply was that the old masters devoted more
time to preparation before touching brush
to canvass than was now devoted 10
the completion of any work of art. Con-
slant and protracted labor is the pass
port to the higher walks of life. No
man ever became a successful farmer, a
prosperous merchant, an eminent lawyer Or
master mechanic without prolonged effort.
A man with many calllngs does all his work
imperfectly and never completely finishes
anything. While on the other hand, the
man of one pursuit corrects all his imperfec--
tons and at last rises superior to competition.
In looking to the future then, let your eyes rest
upon but one object, let your steps be steadily
directed to that object and let your hopes and
your labors attend it until you are crowned
with success. The next and last condition to
which | would call your attention Is init
mately connected with the preceding. 1t is
this; Pursue whatever calling you may select
In life with energy. By energy, | mean
something more than mere industry. A
man may be an industrious pIddler. but no
man ever piddled with energy. Industry
is busy-handed, it is mere physical
activity; energy has q moral quality and is
aroused into action. Industry is like the
bird, which twitters and hops from branch to
branch out OF the very exuberance of its ma
ture. Energy Is like the eagle, which starts
from the plain below and scars with sturdy
wing and sustained fight until it perches on
the mountain peak. Industry tires; energy
is never exhausted. Industry is often van
quished; energy, when driven to the last in
trenchment, throws away the scabbard and
with naked blade meets the foe face to face
and eye to eye, and never yields bat in death.
Energy is the result of will power. 1t is God
like, and sweeps onward over all impede
ments with unceaslng, resistless force until
opposition vanishes and the end in view is
attained. When Napoleon was at the
foot of the Alps he asked his guide
if the. route was practicable. "Sire,"
said the guide, ut is barely posi-
BILE" Forward, then," said the great
Napoleon, and his army, sharing his mighty
energies, and IN obedience TO his mighty will,
marched onward and upward, amid the ava
lanches, over the eternal SHOWS, and above
the clouds, until it was hurled with the mo-
mentum of fate upon the plains of Italy. So
it IL, young gentlemen, that energy, deter
mined. unhlnchlng energy, 10 always re-
warded; it knows no defeat, and wrings sue
cess from tAe hardest fate. Now, | have
attempted to point out TO you what consider
the conditions of honorable success IN life:
First-Integrity of character.
Second-An honest calling of your own
selection.
Third-A resolution to pursue that calling
without deviation and without finching to
the end.
My word for it, by these tests success may
be achieved by every young man In the laud.
Nothing bat the Providence of God, an affilc-
ton from heaven can prevent 1t. The young
man in possession of these qualities will
educate himself. He will triumph over poy-
erty aud want. He will rise superior to every
fortune, AID fnd himself at last crowned
with success in the very teeth of adversely
The young man who Is without an aim in
life, without energy, and without integrity of
character cannot be rescued permanently
from disgrace. He may have the advantages
Of wealth and the social rank and position of
worthy parents to sustain him for a time
But it Is only for time. He is like hot
house plant which is only preserved by arti-
fetal heat, and withers at the touch OF the
first nippiG2 frost. While on the other hand
the you0g man who ia in possession of the
qualities l have described Is like the
young oak. 1t springs from the acorn
wherever it falls, whether on a bar
rem hearth, or on richer soil.
1t hourlsheS amid the brambles
or where the roses grow. Defying all i'm
pediments to its growth II sends its roots
downtown into the barren earth, and Crap
ping with the sterile rocks it lifts its head
heavenward until it becomes the monarch of
the forest. 1t refuses to bend to the storm,
and defying alike the summers heat and the
winters cold, it still towers in its majestic
strength, ana its heart of oak only yields to
the lIehtnings of heaven. lily young friends,
| would have you like the young oaks. Then
l would not care whether you were the SONS
of the rich or the poor, whether you were
born in a palace or in hut, for l would know
that you would triumph over all difficulties in
your way and become at last the pillars of
society, blessing to your families and the
pride of your country.
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