The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-01
STIRRING ADVICE.
Blu siness College Graduates Told
How to Begin Life and Win.

Blu SIneSS COiIcSe OfatiudIcS IOIu
How TO Begin Life and Win.
The Pierce College of Business, of Phila
delphia, celebrated the completion of its
nineteenth year at the Academy of Mu-
sic last week by the graduation of class
of fifty-twO. The feature of the pro-
gramme was an address to the graduates
by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brook
Ign, who in his own peculiar way gave
much good advice to the young men just
starting out in life. He was glad to find
the graduating class composed Of young
women as well as men and wished there
were more women in business. Itwould
be better for the merchants of the coun-
try if they would introduce more women
into commercial life. No man had ever
yet committed dishonOrable act, had
absconded or forged notes who had first
consulted with his wife He advised the
graduates to concentrate their lives to
one directiOn-to choose an occupation
and stick to it. As a general rule the
best mason sticks to his trowel, the
brief, the minister to his pulpit, the fire
man to one locomotive, the navigator to
one ship at time, the professor to one
department. The mighty men Of all
ages have been men Of one occupation
Thorwaldsen as a sculptor. Irving as a
writer, ROthsChild as @ banker, Forrest
as an actor, Brunei as an engineer, Ross
as a navigator and Punch as a joker
Sometimes man is prepared by Provi-
dence for some great mission. Hugh
Miller climbed through the quarries Of
Crom&rty to his high work, bat gener-
ally by thirty years Of age a man or wo-
mans occupation is decided and there
will be success in that direction if thor
oughly followed.
1T does not matter, said Mr. Tai
mage, ''what you do, so far as success is
concerned, if you do it to the best of your
ability. Brandreth made a fortune out
of pills, Adams by eXpressage, Van Ness
by harness, Cooper out OF glue and Jen-
men out of hats. Contractors make for
tunes by manufacturing shOddy, mer-
chants by putting sand in sugar, beet
Juice in vinegar, chicOry in coffee and
lard in butter Are you a merchant,
you viii find a sweep for the energies
which absorbed Brunei and a LeonnOx.
If a lawyer. there is a scoop for the height
and depth of intellect Of Marshall q
McLain, Story and a Kent. Are you
physician, then you can waste but little
time outside of profession which was
the pride of Rush, a Harvey, a Cooper
and aSydenham."
The speaker counselled the graduates
not to let the persecution Of life discour-
age them, but rather be the means of
developing them and to make amuse-
ment an accompaniment of earnest work
rather than an object. He concluded by
urging them to cultivate enthusiasm and
go to work sure of success. There never
had been such time as this since the
world began to work. This was the
greatest century of all centuries; this
was the greatest decade in the country;
this the greatest year in the decade; this
the greatest month in the year and the
present the greatest night in the month.
We are at the supreme moment of ages,
1t took all the six thousand years and all
the geological ages to make this moment
possible and now is the moment for all
honest men and women to go to work
and be successful if they will trust in
God and do their level best.