The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-11

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Beecher, Collyer, Thomas, Miner,
Swing, Brooks, and others, as well as
with the few who reach the top by
other roads. But if he is going into
business simply to make money, the
ministry is no place for him and every
other profession would be better with
out him. Your fee-frst-man degrades
everything he touches-the law, medi-
cine, banking, mechanics, even the
Board of Trade. If he uses the law
only to make money, he is bringing down
that noble profession-o ordained to Sc
cure justice, establish equity, protect
innocence and right wrong-to the SER
vice of Mammon. The men like Rufus
Choate and Story, who won such high
distinction at the bar, have not put the
fee first. They loved the pursuit; they
mastered it; they brought every power
of their being to it's service, and in do
ing this they developed great charac-
tiers, gained wide regulations, and have
done proud work for the world.
While man is making money, he is
also making character. If he thinks
only of riches and how to get them, and
works only for this end, what kind of
man will he be? What material is
he building into character That
which betrays trusts to get money.
The Judases who betray their masters,
truth, honor, right, conscience, for the
silver, grow on this soil. What does
it profit a man if he gains the whole
world, and in doing it, loses his good
name, reputation, honor, character
aye, his own soul-the noble self he
would have been, had he worked for the
soul of thingsp
All, brethren, our work here is not
only with the young, but with parents
and with public opinion, this IRON
handed master who says the goal of
life is riches, and is driving us like
slaves to get them. While this craze
lasts, few will see the ministry in its
true place, and enter it's rich fields.
5. We can also say, the ministry has
other and higher rewards than money.
1t opens the best literary circles. If
the young man has taken time to equip
himself for his work, he has already
earned his way to these high places,
and they welcome him at once, because
he can help them. He becomes USE
full factor among the best thinkers, and
in turn enjoys all they can give.
6. The ministry also admits him at
once to the best fields of social life.
Three young men come from college and
take up their work in the same town:
The lawyer must find his clients through
years of work the doctor waits and
sometimes starves before the patients
call; the minister finds a good con-
stituency awaiting him. The gospel
gives him place. The homes are
open to him. And his work is all in
hand at once. He starts with every
advantage. And if he has the gifts and
the training, he may win the race. If
with such vantage, a man cannot do
all that he would for himself, or the
world, the difficulty must lie near his
own door.
Z. But this is not all. Tell the
young man who wants to work where
work will tell, that his work is with the
mind and heart of men. He is to plant
divine truth in the fields of thought,
direct the thinking of the world, and to
make right public opinion; to feed
the mind of the young and help them
grow to do the thinking of the world;
to teach wisdom and truth, and see
the learners grow wise and true to
show them the way of life, and find
them walking in that golden path; to
call the world away from the wrong to
that which is right, lessen the evil and
swell the good to tighten the burdens
and increase the joys of men; to en-
throne goodness and God in humanity
and make humanity divine; these are
some of the works the gospel lays upon
its workman and the fruits thereof
are beyond all measurement, for they
go into the destiny of the race.
s. The field is the world, and the
harvest is humanity. We can tell him
therefore, that there is no place in the
ministry for idlers. The busiest hands,
the largest brain, the bravest reform
ers, will find work enough. And if he
needs sacrifices, he will find them thick
in his path. And the hero may find
large scope for his heroism. And the
martyrs called to the ministry. Owen
Lovejoy could die for freedom, and Rev.
George G. Haddock, shot down by sa-
loon men, could die rather than keep
silence, when righteousness and tenn
perance, and the home were in peril.
These are among the things we can say
of the ministry to the young who are
looking for the right place in which to
work.
II. But they will ask us some ques-
lions, if they are thoughtful and worthy.
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