Telegram-herald., 1890-12-24
l PROFITABLE DAY

Ntt eei41 - I4tt3Ne1 - e. 3 rantE ca
the ohlelts - - gsned A.ga8agh
tae p4Psf Was hastily prepared cne
ss = s4'st tgte. toat Cd q Hsau aao lad
t4iiea 90 tnlhl 8s appointment, Is vas
> sell ulgestea essay. covering tns sab-
leci deeply and bfo4slF eome ~ she
best th.ngs 0f thls sesslon eeEe sad -
Af. >cEuF4x aa ndlVdas ~ IA teach
ng. lie - shat sith tae expels sacs3
teacher tbefe s0uld ~. n graded
courses. large oppoftunlllss IS ~ ind = Az.
aiity, N1le tas lofsce never Las aay
ggnt % he oE ginAh Unframed 0Fi gia-
sAtF has been tao curse of many
schools.
secretary e D. Bemas, of Iona. FOL
laNed sitn paper ca Objections aad
aIf7lcultles CONSIDERED tbs p4pef
revealed many of the reasons which
e1ist in tne popular rural ulad against
the grading many of the reasons very
fuunV, heEauSe founded 0a utter gn0g-
snee. lis estimate ot what the secFe-
tsfies Of county boards ought % be
eiicted hearty applause. lie th0ught
Ihe Office ought % pe filled wholly M
dependent 0t partisan political consid-
eratlons, but t0e sentiment elected no
applause.
WIN CARLETON LECTURE.
Counter attractions kept the audience
down o. small dimensions AZ VIII earle
.0n lecture last evening. The body
ot the church was comfortably filled,
With perhaps 10 people IA the sAl-
ler.es.
seldom. ID ever, has Grand Rapids
aGdleuce been hurried so rapidly into
such opposite states OF emotion. Ar.
Carleton transitions from the pathetic
% the ludlcrOus, from the ma)estic 10
the funny, were 80 rapid mat fire.
quentiy thc audience were 40 = loss %
Know whether % laugh or 10 weep, and
frequently they did both simultaneous
-. the audience we're kept, from be
ginning 10 end, on an intense STRAIN OF
passiOnal excitement. The anecdotes
told ia illustration OF the moral points
OF the lecture were told mostly IN
verse. They all were SO superlauvely
good that the one last Ieclted seemed
the best OF al. Each of these poems
was one of those mastery touches OF
human nature that have made the
Carleton poems famous. Tie lecture
was grand success IN all OF Its fea-
tures.
Andy Fife opened the exercises with
his rich voice, and elected great APP
plause.
Viii Carleton was greeted with every
possible token or favor al the outset,
and this reception made his lecture be-
tOrehand an assured Success" lie
began by saying that down IN his home
IN New York, ne ls the Michlgon poet,
a ~ Ia. = l..
poet from Michigan. He announced
ais subject as The Chain of Success"
Success IS thegreatest subject in this
world. Ii Is the greatest In al the uni
verse, when looked at in It's proper bear
lngs. There are different definitions
OF i, according to the bent OF mind of
the observer. One man will take a few
million dollars and walk away with it,
leaving behind Il all that is noble and
pure, and think that ne IS marching IN
the line OF success. Another mans
success is his fame, another's ms mental
culture. Get there Is the motto of
the day among men who give no
thought 70 what they are taking there
with them. There are two definitions
of II which | shall use this evening.
First, the accomplishment of that
which we ourselves undertake as con-
ira distinguished from what is done for
US; and, second, the accomplishment of
that which Cod undertook Tor us when
lie erected Us.
All success has forces standing in the
way 20 oppose il. There never was
flower without worm To gnaw It,.
There IS a fashion Of saying nowadays
that there is no trouble but what We
make ouTselyes-that there IS no
real trouble there. They tell us that
difficulties are removed by simply
Ignoring them. But real men know
that the way TO remove difficulty ls
10 recognize IL. power and remove it.
Just to reach forth aud oppose ID with
that which viii be - difficulty in The
way OF difficulty. The great rock IN
the harbor that opposes the
ship Will have 20 be removed
by power greater than itself
The very baby meets realities of d fiji
Guilty at the very threshold OF life.
Here Mr. Carleton gave his first exhhi-
ton OF humOr. whcn % would be a.
imposs. bIe % put into type as 10 would
be % raise the dead. lie took into his
arms au imaginary baby and told ot the
Sorrows of All sorts that must come 20
70, ln n style most iaughabie, and makes
theiaby say no last,
Since 20 sudden 7 was done for.
J wonder what } WAS Begun for
Another pathetic scere was a fathers
ta.k % tne tlri.tmas-boTn baby that
bad just come into the household It
WAS an o. illustrate the opposing forces
with winch ai. Ol Us have to- contend.
rf ..f f.s y.
ho forged of many links. 1hc first
INK tuat OF health. ou this be was
the p0et-hum0ust. but ho was also the
paHQsopH pHerwho knew wn1t hc was talk
lng aDout The next ink IS financial
resrons hliiy. end he showed how sad
many failures lu history had been
through Cine lack IT h.gn sense 0f honor
In property matters. The next was
sympathy for others. The poem called
"Ilck-nic ~lm' was rectfu iu Iilustra-
ton Oi tlss luk ~ the chain. For
raoy fun, vivid desCr ptou. quaint
humor sarcasm, patb0s and moral
q pth' hr. Carleton never wrote a
superior to tais poem.
The next Ink vas patriotism lie
spoke ot the peculiar American danger
81 overd0ing our patriotism. aud in
Illustration or tass gave q sde-spl ting
description of an o.d-fashi0ned FOURTH
of July. TIE next Ink = amiamnty.
lae uext "a progress. and Nr Carlton
Illustrated -hls WITH funny account 0f
BIS difficulties 20 lniusug tne sn.rt oi
progress IatJ tho breast ~ the director
of toe hrst school be ever taught The
next was the Ink 0f mode-tv. ilo te.d
how tf.hcplt 70 IS On have iust
m 4 stv enough. aud SO the sam
tire to push oaes way e. success
Here he toll tha story of Brother