The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-02-13
BUSINESS ASDC CHARACTER.

delivered in the Y. NJ. c. A. series in Phil
adelphia Lately.
Robert c. Ogden, of the firm of John
Wanamaker, spoke upon Business
and Character in Some of Their Rela
tons" After dwelling upon the materia
and moral necessity of work, and the vita
connection between hard work and success
he took up the question of character
Every man. he said, ''needs to look
deeply into and study his own character in
its relation to his occupation. If business
controls character all is wrong" The nee
essity of higa principles and right charac'
ter was insisted upon, and Mr.. Ogden gave
these suggestions as to the cultivation OF
character:
You have heard in The course of these
plain talks something about health and sx
%ercise, and in view of wat Professor
Blaikie has said | would say, cultivate good
health, a sound body for a sound mind.
There can hardly be a well-balanced, sound
mind without a healthy body.
Cultivate good manners; be courteous.
Don't have IN exalted notion of your per
s%onality and your rights. The longer you
live the less you will think Of Yourself, and
| put it down as a factor in your beliefthat a
gentleman never will insult you, and a
blackguard cannot. And thus neither aetna
insult nor fancied grievance will trouble you
Understand moral laws, and know that
they are narrow and infiexible. The char
ity that we are hidden to display is broad
as Gods Sunshine, but His laws are as fine
10 studying moral laws PONDER them an
principles. d. not mistake a prejadice
for a principle; do not seek to create a sys-
tenn of casuistry that will constantly
say: This comes just outside the Law and
this just inside; therefore | may do that
and not do this" What ritiable specta-
cles men make of themselves when. pro-
Tossing to believe principles and falling to
understand them in the pure white light
of truth, they are constantly stumbling
about because they fail to see the truth
which they profess and possibly preach.
Abhor shams. "Thoa shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbor' may,
in a sense, be violated by a paste diamond.
Keep faith in God. If some falsely So
called science and some scientific tyro try
to persuade You to become a fashionable
AguoStic, say to such science aud such a
| wiseacre as Abraham did TO Isaac, Stay
We here with the ass, while | 60 and pray
youder."
Keep faith ia humanity. Study true
men carefully, bat be slow to judge prin-
ciples by men. Honor w~omanhood if you
would keep faith in humanity. Study
Mrs. Browning's Lady Gcraldiue's Court
| ship for a noble woman's ideal of woman
hood. Nothing will so keep a young man
from a mean and pessimistic tendency as
association with those above him in char
| acter and culture. Seek high friendship,
| and when good fortune brings you into
| acquaintance with men and women that
are above you in their station in life, wise
ly make The most of your opportunity.
Many a man whose position you may pop
erly envy will tell yoa. that well chosen
friendships have been the power that has
fitted him to honorable success.
A distinguished humori;t and philoso-
pher once wrote me this letter: Young
man, if you want TO get there quick, 90
slow" There is a world of wisdom in the
| short epistle. One of the best elements
in the maintenance OF right character is
patient waiting. Be energetic, wide
awake, pushing, but be patient.
Keep your intellectual life bright. Read
good ltsratule, and get into trained hab-
its of thought. This matter of intellectual
life is vital. Even in the common chan
nels of business affairs men are need
ed who can dream dreams and see visions.
Only by the Imagination can a completed
poem be viewed, and to succeed you want
to see the end from the beginning.
BY these and other closely related means
it is quite possible to cultivate that right
character, some phases of which We have
indicated, which may aud can control the
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life force upon us as p necessity. And the
sum of our discussion is that the true nan
treats his business as an incident in his
life, not an end-an incident of vast i'm
portance, and yet first, last aud all the
time to be kept in strict subordintion to an
ideal which is to v~italize The whole life.
The true man viii always look at his bus
mess through his character, not at his
character through his business. In short,
the true man. the man that is tFuest 10 the
! best and highest sense, must be a Christ
ian, and must pattern his life accordingly,
even though the world may call him fan
ciful, romantic, queer.
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