Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-01
HOW TO BE sucoEssFUL.

Interesting Sermon by Rev. pr. Chap
 man-All Issues Must Come From the
 Heart = Purpose and Christianity
 Necessary.
 At the First M. E. church last evening the
 pastor, Rev. MT. Chapman, after the regular
 preliminary service of song and prayer, founded his sermon on Pauls epistle to the Romans, i, 15: "So, as much as in me is, l am ready to preach the gospel to you that are in Rome also." "With these words, !" said the pastor, "Paul announced his willingness to preach to she Romans, to champion the cause of the oruci- fed Nazerene in the city of the C@sars, the capital and center of the civilized world. The
 secret of his great career, the purpose and
 passion of his life, is in these words. Whether he was breathing threats of slaughter against | the enemies of his pristine faith, or laying the axe at the root of Athens idolatry, or | fighting with the beasts of Ephesus, or clank- l ing his chains at Rome, his heroic soul was ever ready to die for his suffering age. 'As much as in me is, am ready was the watch 1 word of the unconquerable apostle and this ! is the watchword of every successful career. Success is difficult problem and the paths to failure are steep and sudden in descent. There is no easy royal road to any great suc- cess. Greatness, goodness, excellence always 1 lie upstream and if a man gets there he must do it in deadly conflict with the worlds wind and tide Success is something more than ! the realizing of our own aims and purposes. Esau achieved some of his fondest desires, but his joy was not long. Even intelligence and education sometimes do more harm than good. It is in commercial circles as so~ cial life that the young brilliant rocket will attract more attention than the lighthouse 1 that is more worthy of success.
 | Success is the composing of our best and ! utmost possibilities. It is widening of the | limits of nature and making most of our op- portunities and ourselves. One star differs from another in glory, but no more than man differs from man in nature and opportunity. Any man may measure his success by asking, 'What am 1 compared with what l might ' have been.'
 I would say to young people on the verge of life to make all they can of their power, \ influence, enjoyments for the sake of the ere | ator who has given them this orb of his han ! diwork.
 First-All issues of success, as all issues of life, are but of the heart. Nothing is we'll done unless heartily done, and he who goes out like the quarry slave can never strive with him who enters toll with full heart | To such men despair flashes into solution and the heart lifts labor out of it's degredation. Success is the sleeping angel in everyone's ' va S-~S heart
 Second1y-Purpose is an essential element 1 in all success. It is what the rail is to the locomotive. Purposeless people stand on the verge of destruction. The world don't want l a man who does many things we'll, but one who excells in one thing. The man that the world wants is the specialist, the expert. the time calls for trained men in every de- partment of human endeavor. Run your own course, but let it be the straight and ! narrow passage passage that leads out to the ! broad, far ocean of success. The great
 apostle, whom we now see as an enthusiast, l was religious expert. By doing one thing repeatedly we come to do it surpassingly. Purpose has trained us. It holds us to the main thing in life and draws us from the vortex of lower attractions.
 Finally, if you would permanently sue ceed, you must be a Christian. What is it to live in this universe and be in antago-
 nism with it's owner, it's master, it's maker, its God? To live, move and have our being
 in him and yet fight against God. Success
 must be grounded in loyalty of love to him whose power has created us and whose faith
 is written in the blood of the Rsdeemer