The Russellville Democrat., 1891-06-04
The,RUSSELLVILLE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY Democrat Printing Co. RUsSELLvILLE. ARK.
 SUCCESS" Extract From The Address of nr. F
 schreiber At the Peabody High School Commences mebt Exercises, Grand .opera
 House, Thursday Eve-
 ming, May 2s.
SUCCESS '

which we desire to succeed depends also the means employed by which we will conquer. And this is the second consideration. As men are to. day, success in money lies nearest 10 their desires. Mammon has been immoderately praised and as immod- erately condemned. Money in itself is neither good nor bad; it's use gives it character. Wealth abused and wealth not honestly got are a curse. All these operations which are in common parlance called sfshort cutsp to wealth, no matter how successfully carried on fall under this condemning verdict. What induces man to try the "short cut'' road to fortune? It is the excessive, slayish reverence we pay to the millionaire. It is our conversation which turns upon noth- ing except money and again money
 Let us emphasize little more the responsibilities of money. Let us show by our conduct that while the possession of wealth presupposes often more than usual ability, economy and sacrifice in the original career, yet there are things more valuable than money and the luxuries it buys, There is education, there is charity, tbere is honesty, thero is culture. There are "short cuts" to success in other careers. There is the qusck, who speculates upon the credulity Of his fellowmen. There is the sensational preacher, who panders to the lower taste of his hearers intellectually, more eager to please than to enlighten and to elevate, taking his cue from those whom he should give it. There is the literary dude and the socalled 'ssociety man" who poses with few half-understood catch words never digested, before few sentimental women, as the love of literature, spic- ing his conversation with quotations from the last French novel, ridiculing religion and God, criticis- ing everything and knowing nothing. All these worthies are treadiug the 'tshort cut" road to popularity and success. But is there merit in their work? For brief time, perhaps, they can deceive, but soon their emptiness will be found ont.
 The road to success is steep. Men of genius even climb the path only after long years of painful prepara- ton. Napoleon I. led life not of ease, but of toil. Goethe wrote and re- wrote the plays which reader his name immortal. Edison plans and tries. They all struggled and groped before they found. The mistake is most men, dszzled by the outcome, forget the silent work and worry of the years which led up to the con quest. Such success is always the child of true merit. Such success is within the reach of every honest la borer. It alone brings satisfaction. To some will come in course of time, also the outer fruit of their honest strivings. If it come, this harvest from the seed planted d amidst tears, will be accepted with true gratitude. If it fail to come, the true soldier will not grumble, he has done his share in the battlefield. In this climbing he has his success and compensation. Free from the pride which they have who mistake outward success for true merit, he will cxclaim with the humble patri- arch: 'I am too little for all the grace and love which hath come to me.'' As the world notes things, success Is not always conditioned upon true merit. The words of the Ecclesiastes; s'The race is not to the swift nor victory to the brave, the wise have no riches We often behold ignorant knsyes squandering their ill-gotten gains on opportunities, while honest people are famis ing for want of the necessaries. We see the interruptions politician out stripping the deserving statesman in the race for fame and station. We behold modts merit shrink in corner s and the native royalty of genius play 
 ing courier to the kings of Lucre.
 But what short sighted people hold to be success is often the greatest failure. The desire to succeed is not sinful. But to succeed by proper methods, and in the right field for which he is destined, and to seek vic- tory not in the outcome but in the work is the part of the wise and true man.
 1t is of the utmost importance that
 we should weigh V ell what we have right to expect. Perhaps our deep est disappointments are often due to the fact that we ask more than we have any legitimate title to receive. We are subject to the law Of nature, and to the law of morality. The
 two clash and collide and conflict
 eps"ss Theology labors to show that this coni Dict is not real. Thus Job is reproaclhed bv his friends for protecting his innocence, and his sui
 fering is represented as evidence oi
 his sinfulness. And the Psalmist as
 sures us that he has grown old and
 never seen the righteous man in
 want. The experience of the Psalm ist must have been limited indeed
 The conflict exists. Nature is ind f