Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-19

cation.
Rev. w. r. Marshall, pastor of the Jackson
Street M. E. Church, is delivering a course of
Sunday evening lectures which are both prac-
tical and entertaining. His lecture last eve
ming was upon "How to Make Life Success"
large and attentive audience were greatly
impressed by his utterances. He took for his
text, Cor, tx, 24-"So run that We may at
| TAIN
In opening he said, there is a beautiful
story among the Orients of an enchanted hill
on the summit of which was concealed an in
comparable treasure, which was offered as a
prize to any one who should ascend the hill
| without looking to either side or behind him.
But all aspirants for this treasure were told
| that they should be instantly turned into
stones if they should look backwards. Many
| noble youth was tempted to venture up this
fatal hill, and such had been changed into
stones. For on either side of the way of as
cent were beautiful groves, fragrant with the
| aroma of flowers, filled with melodious voices
and sweetest songs of birds. whose bewitch-
| ing strains enticed ethe infatuated youth to
turn his head, and instantly he became stone.
And, so the story says, the hillside was COW
cred with stones.
Such is the path of life. This concealed
| treasure may represent to us Success" and
these charming songsters in the adjacent
groves, the many enticements that allure
young men from the way, and these stones
| the wrecks that are strewn all over the hill of
life
If should ask the young men in this aud
fence what is the supreme aim and end of your
| life? the answer would be, Success It will
be the object of this lecture to assist you in
| the attainment of this aim.
First, let us inquire, what is success? It is
not to attain to the highest place in your
chosen calling, however desirable that may be.
| You can't all be Websters, or Lincolns, or
JacksoDs, or Everetts, or Burkes, or Hum
boldts, or Hamiltons. But of fifteen million
men in this country, only one can be president
| at time. To become millionaire is not
| necessarily a successful attainment. True
success should be measured, not by the magni-
| tude of results, but by comparison, and in the
| light of circumstances and capacity. Many
speakers and writers hold up fos models none
| but those who have risen from the lower
| walks of life to the foremost places in science,
| scholarship, law, poetry, theology and states
manship, thus producing dissatisfaction in the
subordinate spheres of life.
Not every butcher boy will be Shaks-
peare; not every bricklayer will become a Ben.
johnson; not every blacksmith will become
an Elihu Burret; not every barber's son
will become a Jeremy Taylor. The true
philosophy of happy, as well as the secret
of successful life, is to fill the place where
Providence has put you SO well that you shall
be recognized as competent for higher posi-
| ton.
He urged them to have a well defined pur-
pose and follow it.
Benjamin West drew his first picture at the
age of years. He was left in charge of his
SISTERS child, and while it lay asleep in the
cradle he executed drawing in red and black
ink of the infant. When his mother entered
| the room she exclaimed, 81 declare he has
made likeness of little Sallie," and kissed him.
West afterwards said that kiss made him an
artist.
1t is all important that you select the call
ing for which you are adapted, and that you
get into the right place in life. A modern
law writer, contesting the fallacy that law,
physic and divinity must be wor-
SHIPPED by all candidates for honor and re-
spectability, observes that "it has spoiled
many good carpenter, done injustice to the
sledge and the anvil, cheated the goose and
fraud on the corn and the potato field.'
1t is undoubtedly true that many men 60
through this world in an awkward, ill adjust
ed and dissatisfied way, because they have got
in the wrong place. eff you desire," says
Sidney Smith, ito represent the various parts
in life by holes in table of different shapes
some circular, some oblong-and the persons
| lar shapes, we shall generally find that the
| triangular person has got into the square
hole, the oblong into the triangular, while
the square person has squeezed himself
into the round hole" This is most force
full illustration of lamentable fact. Thus
we find society maladjusted, confused,
dissatisfied. Horace Bushnell devotes one of
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proposition: "GOd has definite life plan for
every human person, girdlng him, vlsibly or
invisibly, for some exact thing which it will
be the true significance and glory of his life to
have accomplished" The truth of this pro-
position I assume, for it will be disputed only
| by the faintest and the ignorant. 1t is the SUI
preme interest, therefore, of every young man
to find and accept his place in the plan of God,
as soon as possible, and thus work together
with his creator in solving the problem of
human probation. That life is indeed failnre
that goes through this world out Of its place,
| out of harmony with God, out of sympathy
with all that is pure, and just, and good, and
noble; and dies e'unhonored, unwept, and I'M
sung" to be used only as an example and
| warning in carrying on the government of
| God in this world and the next.
| Many young man stands around on the
| street corners waiting for something to ''turn
up in his favor Take your hands out of
your pocket and 60 to work and "turn up"
something for yourself. Some are waiting for
| q rich aunt or uncle to die and will them a
fortune to 60 into business on. DR.. Talmsge
says every young man who has a good healthy
| body and brain starts out with clear capital
of $100, 900, and proves it in this way. sYour
right arm-will you take 81, 5000 and have it
cut off? emo" you say. Then here are S.
| 600 and your left arm is worth as much, and
your right foot is worth as much, and your
left foot is worth as much. Twenty thousand
| dollars to start with. Your mind-how much
will you take and go to an insane asylum
You would refuse twenty thousand dol
lars. Now we have forty thousand
dollars. Then you have an immortal soul;
for how much would you sell it? Sixty thou
sand. "No," you answer with indignation
! Here then we have the one hundred thousand
dollars-the magnificent ontfit with which the
Lord God Almighty started every one of you,
And yet young men are waiting for some per-
son to start them in life-for circumstances to
give them lift Start yourself! Give your
self lift At least show willingness to
work and to help yourself.
fists of the last half of the eighteenth century,
who rose from obscurity and poverty to emf
hence, says: eff have succeeded better than
many Others, it has been chiefly, nav, I NAV
say solely, from unwearied assiduity. 1t is not
SO much from any superior genius that one
man progresses over another, but more from
attention to study and perseverance in the OBJ
| ectS before them, that some men rise tn preater