The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-11-05

week in the Savings Bank, and before
long you viii have nice little pile to
help you on some rainy day. Don't
spend all your earnings for foolish things.
Don't let some bright little trifie tempt
you to part with your hard-earned money,
for the day viii come when you will
need it for something you must have
And when people begin to find out that
you are sober, industrious and frugal.
that you save your money and don't
spend it in riotous living, they viii begin
to respect you and want you to work
for them. Do your honest work for
your honest dollar, put it in your breeches
pocket, and at night when you lay down
with it under your pillow the eagle on
it's face viii sing You to sleep, because
1t knows you have earned it and mean to
spend it only as it should be spent.
Now, the fundamental basis of every
thing is that you must have good char
acter Without that all your efforts win
! comc to4a9tssinE- Honesty, sohrietY. In
dustry, frugal'f go to the making up
of character. That it is which underlies
everything. You have upon your table
a loaf of bread; that wheat grew in the
field, upon the field streamed the sun
| light, and behind the sun was God. So,
behind all your life, to control, direct
and bring it to its fruitful perfection, your
character must sit like God
You must guard your character as
carefully as miser guards his gold. You
should not allow corrupt men to make
you corrupt. You all know of General
Grant, one of the greatest men who has
ever lived. Behind all the successes of
his life, his character sat as a reigning
king, pure and incorruptible; without
it he would have failed. 1t is said he
never swore an oath in his life, and that
| he was so pure minded that he could not
bear to stay in bad company and hear
their ribald jokes. Some people think it
manly to indulge in such things; manly
to swear, to lie, to cheat, to be drunk and
boisterous. But if such a man as General
Grant thought it more manly to let such
things alone, don't you think you might
profit by his example?
Make yourselves men of character be
sober, industrious, frugal, honest. Then
what must you do? Live like sober,
honest men of character. Support your
churches and your schools Give your
little mite to the support of the gospel,
not because you feel it your duty, (and
yet it is your duty not because some
body else does it, but because you know
it is right, because you will be blessed
for it, because it will return you ten fold.
People, as a rule, depend too much
on government. They think if certain
laws are made, then the causes of their
poverty and discomfort will be removed.
1t is an idle dream never to be realized.
What is government? 1t is plan adopt
ed by whole people for the guidance of
their national life. Every single person
in this country is part of the govern
ment. The governmental functions of
nation can be perfected only as its indi-
vidual members perfect themselves. You
are a part of the government, and don't
you see, unless you strive to do your
part, to live as an honest, upright citizen,
you cannot hope to be benefited. Rain
is necessity-the ground must be
watered before it will produce. But if
you should build shed over your field
it might rain forever and your crops
would perish from the drought. And
what good would perfect laws do you
unless you are prepared to live under
them? A dog cannot be governed by
the rule of man. Your only hope lies
within yourselves. Be men of honest,
upright lives? Support your churches
and your schools. Regard your minister
as your highest friend, your school
teacher as the next. Work honestly for
your money, give it to help support these
institutions. Cease to rely upon outside
help, for you must work out your own
salvation. Since / was ten years old !
have been trying to make the world bet
ter by my living in it. Let this be the
rule of your lives.
| have never failed to give freely to
the support of the gospel; have re,
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