The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-08
IN LIFE.

wealth, the longing for present applause
or perpetual fame, the hope of benefiting
our fellow beings, the yearning for intel
leetual riches, the thirst for purity and
nobleness in life. Whether the impulse is
strong or weak, according to ourmake-up,
the desire for success in that which is
dearest to our natures is the force which
moves the world.
Inheritance and circumstances combine
to decide the course the ambition shall
take, but in each one is a germ which
often shows itself in early life as a prefer
enee. One boy plays marbles and trades
them off for tops and kites as the seasons
change; but his brother hunts birds nests
to collect eggs, brings home stray pets,
and can tell wonderful stories of the habits
of animals. One little girl has her dolls
always sick, and doses and bandages and
doctors them till they would surely lose
their lives, if they had any to lose; while
another designs and cuts and makes the
most wonderful costumes for her miniature
children. Talents are usually shown in
preferences more or less strong, and upon
their wise and patient cultivation depends
the realization of onr ideal. $50 him that
hath shall be given" is an inexorable law.
The individual end to be accomplished
will always vary, but the common end of
success is fixed and universal.
And what is this success for which we
are all striving? What is this never silent
voice which urges US on to more and more
than we have yet accomplished? For,
always remains beyond. Every true mu-
sician has felt the throb of higher harmo-
MES than he has yet produced. Every fine
architect has visions of structures that
eous merchant sees better methods and
nobler results for thar rave vet
been attained. Every earnest and up
ward-striying worker in any direction has
felt the STRINGS of grander possibilities in
his sphere of action than be has yet
achieved. This ever growing desire for
something higher aud better is the human,
but ~heayen-born, instinct which urges the
development of all possibilities within us.
However great or however small they may
be, this is our real work in life, this
should be our main thought, this is the
real and only success-to develop to the
utmost those capabilities with which we
were endowed. A young man enters the
ministry, for example, filed with eBthnsi-
asm for his calling, responding sensitiyely
to the responsibilities of his position,
earnest in his desire to comfort, to teach,
to uplift, to bless struggling humanity.
His success must be the constant follow
ing of that ideal. the daily living such q
life Of rectitude and labor, and sympathy
and trae h~elpfulness, as shall inspire and
support all with whom he comes in con-
tact. 1t is not so much what he accom-
plishes in relation to people as what he
aecompllshes in relation to his own posi-
bilities that determines his real success.
And, though others may judge him by
what he has done, he will judge himself
by a truer, and, it may be, a severer stand
ard-by what he might have done. And
the same is true of every honest, earnest
worker, in whatever sphere his life work
is cast.
If, in the pursuit of that on which we
have set our hearts we take steps which
violate our sense of right and lower our
moral tone, to just that extent do We les
sen the success of our lives. The temper
airy gain which may seem to ensue is, in
reality, our worst failure, and will, in time,
does the success Of mans work depend up
on the success of his life that it is worse
than useless for him to attempt to secure
the former at the expense of the latter.
Each one has some talent, some preference.
Let him work in that line. if possible, but,
while he c~ultiyates himself in that, let him.
at the same time, keep such a hold on the
other phases Of life as shall round and make
pick that we are not making the most of
ourselves by working exclusively in one
line. Our natures arc rich and varied.
Many sides must be brought out before we
can attain our fullest development. a mar
row idea of success sut1ices for most of us.
The attainment of political power, of lit
erary fame, of wealth, of comforts, even of
excellence in one direction, is only q part
of a broader success, that success which
involves q continual exercise of those pow
ers in which we excel, and a continual
awakening OF those which have lain dor
mant Within us. This is the goal best
worth striving for, though toe often We
see only the close lying objects, and do not
realize the breadth OF the outlook from
higher ground. But if We still struggle.
however blindly, we shall, little by little,
attain more nearly the larger thoughts and
broader desires which, making our indiyid-
ual success in life, tend also to make the
grand success of the world.-Phi1adeiphta
Ledqer.
The managers Of the New Jersey Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. which is con-
nectcd with Rutgers College, have elected
DIR. w. @. Atwater as successor to DIR. Cook
as director Of the experiment station. DR..
Atwater is now the director of one Of the