The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-15

r. But time would fail me TO name tn,
. multiludes who safer q similar fate
! men who plant Vineyards for others L
gather; SOW fields Tor others to reap
4 gather fortunes for others 10 spend
create faculties for others To use. Til,
, world is full of men working for a day
they will never see; thinkers vino pu
their soul into book or poem for another
generation To read; artists who put Iheil
= life into painting or statue which shall
praise them when they are dead; geHiu:
and talent that spend themselves f0l
; others and receive no return themselves
: A state of things 50 common as to be
almost the rule, must have impressed
every thoughtful mind. 1t is evidently
the order of Providence to exact service
without assurance of what We call re-
! ward This is often so strikingly exem
plified that We are oppressed with a
sense of unfairness. We have q feeling
that the best men should have the best
things; that they who do most for the
world should get the most out of it; that
they who work for the grandest results,
should enjoy those results The finest
minds, the noblest spirits and the grand
est service seldom attain the largest re-
suits. We cannot help feeling some
times that this common fate is after all
Il hard fate; the fate OF Abraham, for ex
ample, who left his home for the land of
promise, and never possessed it; of
Moses, who led his people through the
desert but never entered Canaan; of
David, who made the temple possible,
but was not allowed to build it: of Paul
who gave his life to the gospel but new
er saw its triumph. OF
such men as WycklifFe who were
fOrerunners of the Reformation, but new
er saw its day; of such men as Boz
Zaris who fell in the battle which gave
| liberty to Greece; of Lincoln, who
was cruelty cut off just as peace was
coming Tor which he had tOiled so long !;
| of the countless multitude of gifted
men and women who have toiled, suffer
ed ami died, but never saw the day they
helped to usher In.
If we measure by the judgment of
| men, there is foundation for this CON-
plant. If men work for pay, there is a
strange, unjointing of things. If re-
| spOnsibility Is a hardship, TO be com.
pensated by rewards, then history is full
of hardship and Providence full of harsh
| ness. If it be q hardship for a man to
stand at a crisis and be enabled to meet
it; to forsee glorious day and help to
! bring it on; TO be filled with some grand
! conception, and be enabled to express
it; then there is hardship in the COM
mon lot of the nOblest men. For as the
world reckonS success the most eXcalted
men are not the most successful men;
| and as men reckon reward those who do
the most for the world do not receive
the most from it.
But there is another thought which
puts another face on the whole matter.
To every true man the work is more
than the reward. His heart is in the
work he is doing, and where the heart is
there the treasure is also.
A man who thinks more of his paw
than of his work, will never do good
work. A man who will do a poorer
work for larger profit, or lower the
standard for wider applause, is not true
man. | listened sometime since TO the
publisher of a great newspaper, as he
was describing the different methods of
giving value and excellence to his paper.
He was asked eff those Improvements
really paid for the expense :"He replied
1--WE never think of that; our first aim is
to make first-class paper and then let
the profits take care of themselves"
That is the spirit of all true work and
of all true men. 1t is the spirit of all
the best hings, of all the really good
things the world ever sees. A man
whose soul is in his work, is the man
whose work will manifest soul. The
man whose soul is in his work will find
his best reward in the work itself.
1t was enough for Moses to lead the
people through the desert and transform
a nation of disorderly slayes into well
ordered commonwealth of freemen. 1t
needed no season of rest in Canaan to
enrich life which had been spent in
such a work and had been crowned with
such success. He could we'll afford 10
leave the crossing OF Jordan to another.
Ii was enough for Milton to be the au-
thor of Paradise Lost. After he had
held that grand conception in his soul
and given il form, it would be a small
thing to receive installments of royalties
from the book makers of his day. We
rather pity the publisher who paid him
such piItance as five pounds, rather
than Milton who received 1t. HOnors
and offices and rewards look very pale
when written beside the name of Milton.
They say Garibaldi could have had the
crown nf Naples had he chose. But no
crown could have added any glory to
Garibaldi, whom united Italy has just
crowned as "THE IMMORTAL GARIBAI-
d."
Kepler reduced himself to poverty in
his devotion to his purpose. He could
have lived in aftluence, through the IA
vor of his prince, If he had given him.
self to lower grade of work; if he had
devoted himself TO work of immediate
application, instead of verifying laws
that were to transform the science of the
world. But with the true spirit of a
prophet he said, a can wait a hundred
years for Il reader, since God has waited
six thousand years for an observer"
As financier Pestalozzi was q fail
ure; as an institution his school was
future. But he transformed the teach
ing of the civilized world, and infiu
enced the destiny of every child in
ChristcndOm Had he sold his gifts in
the market place, he could have been
rich. He chose rather to give them to
the world. He received not the prom
Use, but he obtained good report, and
God, through him, hath provided some
better things for US.
Beethoven once stopped by chance at
a way-side cottage. a young peasant
and his sister were mourning over
Geranged harpschord. The stranger
took up the instrument and discoIds
vanished. He played till the afternoon
declined, till the sun went down, till the
moon arose and shOne in through the
trees. The peasants sat spell-bOund as
he glided from one emotion TO another,
| and filled the room with marvellous
melody As he sat in the shadows, there
| stole into his soul and flowed out from
the strings the soft, weird, soothing
measures of the moonlight Sonata."
| Entranced himself, and enhancing all
around him, he sat there and played, till
| far into the night When he left the
simple peasants almost felt they had re-
/ ceiVed q visit from the angel choir.
| Think you, as he sat there entranced
with the emotions of his music, that any
reward or honor could have added any
thing to the blissfulness of that supreme
moment?
The men who have given the world its
best things have never stopped TO ask
what the price might be. All really
good work is inspired by a love of the
work itself The joy OF achievements
SURPRISES the Joy of reward. When the
Lord Jesus Christcalled Paul, the only
reply was "What wilt thou have me 10
do :" which is the first question of every
true soul. 1t was the traitor Judas who
! asked; What will We giSo me, and
. will betray him unto youg' A man
, who answers to the cali of God, may
, fail of expected reward, but he cannot
fail in his life, for his life will be In his
] work He will thank God that he stood
} where he did and heard the call. Many
man who has given his life for fortune,
has at last given his fortune fol
| lis lie, anu SouRnt W Duiiu SOmo IhstI
tuition which should do something for
, the world, and fill the blank his life has
. left. The spirit of true manhood is the
spirit of the Psalmist when he cried
al delight TO do Thy will, Oh I! my God. ,
, Responsibility is not q burden, but &
privilege; grand service is not hard
/ ship, but favor. A man who is per
mitted to be co-woFker with God in
, behalf of men may thank God that He
i so endowed him, and 50 placed him, and
/ SO led him that he could have part in
: such a work.
La the experience of life We seldom
receive the promises. We seldom Ill
} the pattern of our lives. We inherit tht
5 promises which others received; we Sc.
the sun whose twilight they scarcely