The Red Cloud chief., 1881-11-24

9~Ssve - 9END
Success in any undertaking depends
quite ~ much upon correct method -
upon right motive. And yet there are
many very worthy people who confuse
the two. and think il their motives are
right they ouyht 10 succeed without re-
gard 70 methods But unless wise
method supplement good motive results
are Of slight value. As between man
and man. correctness Of method is the
vital thing. People with very bad mo-
tives may have very excellent methods.
and people with the best o. motives NAV
have the most execrable methods and
continually defeat their " plans and
hopes.
For example: A woman with the best
intent ons ma maze very bad bread
and do wretched cooking generally.
No matter how pure her motive may
be, IL she will depend on soda 20 raise
her bread. her biscuit, her pancakes
her sweet-cakes, IL she VII make her
pie paste Of soda and spoil green peas
with il, and green string beans with
Il, and wash meals with = solution of IL
in hot weather" as 3 correspondent
NEfbSs - TIC t1rNoIl ia az soC~fAy
where she is staying. no possible purity
OF motive viii make her cooking any
thing but intensely revolving and utterly
ruinDus TO all healthy stomachs-
Meddlesome people. mischief-makers.
stirrers uD of .ed!tion and strife. are
often persons Of spotless purity OF mo-
tive. and when trouble results from
their methods Of trying TO set things
right, take refuge in the integrity OF
their motives. and are utterly oblivious
OF and insensibie to all arguments re-
fiecting upon their methods. There is
not a political assassin that does p6t
Justify his method. however disastrous
it MAJ prose. BY his motive. and when
he finds public opinion does not sustain
him. he becomes stra ghtway a martyr
to his principle. Away with all such
martyrs,
Correct method will often DO much
to make up for deficiencies in motive
power. For instance. the teacher who
teaches not so much from pure love OF
the work as that he may maze a living
by il. # his methods be good. NAV en-
10Y larger success in his teach nc than
he who loves the work but y not trained
to ii. So with physicia ans and clergy.
men. with h~ousekeepers and artisans.
We are often placed in 70 'itions with
little regard TO our fitness or liking
for them, and the total success we win
in filling them creditably mus. depend
upon the methods we adopt. II these
are unwise, wrong, Inadequate, failure
will surely be our portion. no matter
how pure and high our motives NAV be.
rhe application of plain common
sense TO the ordinary affairs of life is
much needed. There are ten thousand
things with which conscience and pure
motive have nothing whatever To do.
They come simply under the rule of
common sense, prOpriety, the fitness OF
things, what is ~expedient, what is adj
visablc. OF course we take il for
granted that the underlying motive
snail be just and right and true, that
the intention shall be honest AMI pure,
but that is not enough. We are endowed
with re ,son no less than with con-
science. and faith, and hope. A great
MANY excellent people have an idea that
TO apply the ordinary. carnal, everyday
principles of good business manage
ment TO matters of duty and fdgh'prin-
ciple j. something If n PROCLAMATION.
But the most efficient church in apv
community is the one that is conducted
on the sOundesf business principles. one
whose pastor AMI whose officers possess
first. sound common sense, and second,
ardent piety.
Those who have left a lasting and be-
nelicent record of good DEEDS have been
men and women of pure motives and
of wise methods. They have made their
Investments Of time. of labor. Of enthu-
siasm. of money, with skill and fCre-
thought an deliberation. They have
tested their methods at the bar of COM
mon sense as well as at the bar of con-
science. and have adopted such IS the
experience of the world has proven wise
and efficient.
As the academic year now opens this
is a good time for students TO decide
upon and adopt the best methods in
conducting their studies so as 10 divide
their time, their labor, their rest, that
they may realize the largest possible
results therefrom. to settle upon such
adjustments OF their tasks to their abil-
ity to perform them as shall not over
task their physical resources. and rem
der them liable to future bankruptcy. |
And for the rest of us. the time is al
was ripe for improvement i'm u meth
obs while we keep the motive power n
its highest and best.-N. Y. tribune.