Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

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termined BY the way in which you young
men are spending the time present.
1t is matter of congratulation that IN
this school you have been learning some
thing better than mathematics and geogra-
| ply; you have been learning character.
By precept and by example you have been
learning character. The man for the times
must first of all be man of character 1t
is true, after all, that the great thing that a
man can do for his generation is to be q
good man. What we want is not more
men, but more man.
| But the value of time depends not only
| on the place and the age in which it is
| spent, but upon the person who spends it
Some OF you have seen that queer old
clock at Berne, where, when the clock
strikes, there comes out . procession Of lit
tie bears and they march around the dial.
But these little wooden bears are not an es-
sential part of the clock. They might be
takea away and the clock would go on Just
as well. There are people who have little
more vital connection with the times in
which they live than the bears OF Berne
A Good Many People Don't Count.
In this busy day, with its great thoughts
and its great problems and its great needs,
there are people who live frivolous lives,
and foolish lives, and useless lives; people
Wuo ulSuL ~ Welk ne living III Luc aye VI
old Methusaleh. Human life is like the
water of the river-it must be kept in the
current, it must stay in the great stream Of
the life of humanity. IF it is taken out Of
touch with that rushing river, as one might
dip up cupful of water, speedily it loses
its value, as the water loses its sparkle and
becomes stagnant
Keep in contact with the great world if
you want to make the most OF life. Read
men more than books. Make it your busi-
ness to know what is going on. Keep your
self in sympathy with all the great move
ments OF the day.
And then see that you get something that
is worth while into every hour. No man
wasted time. Look at the men who stand
about the streets with their Hands in their
pockets, or who sit in tilted chairs staring
out of the windows of hotels. They are
like the little children in South Africa who
were playing with the pretty pebbles, which
some wise man who came that way discoy-
cred to be diamonds. They have the preci-
Gus possession of time and do not know
what it is.
Sidney DiIIon's Start In Life.
read the other day about a man who
died week or two ago who knew as much
about railroads AS any man in this country.
He owned the largest part of half dozen
OF them. That man began his. railroad
enterprises when he was 10 years of age, by
carrying water for the men who were dig
ging the bed for the road between Schenec-
tady and Albany. He did that faithfully
and was paid 81 week for it. But it did
not occupy quite all his time, SO he wheeled
dirt also. BY and by he saved enough to
buy horse and cart. And now he carried
mot oD1v opd dirt hur ofbar n odod
things Thus grew up a great supply busi-
ness And to that he added now one inter-
est apd then another. And at last when the
time came to drive the silver nail which
marked the completion of one of the most
notable railroads in the world--the Union
Pacific, Sidney Dillon was one of the men
chosen to strike it with the hammer, as one
of the great builders and owners of the
road.
Prof Langley says that the man who
knows most about double stars, who has
contributed most to the worlds stock of
about them, is not a professional
who has studied the SKY after banking
hours. Think of all the things he might |
have done with his time! He might have |
spent his evenings at theaters, or in billiard |
rooms; might have wasted money as we'll as J
time. Instead of that he filled up every I
hour with that which was worth doing.
Dollar Time in Cent Jobs
Never spend any S. time in 50-cent jobs.
Always be doing something, and let that
something be worth doing.
Time is trust. 1t all belongs to God.
He makes us His stewards in the use of it.
1t is to be used for His honor and glory and
for the good of man. One of the questions
in that last great day of examination, which
we call the Day, Of Judgment, will be,
What have you done with your time? To use
with good thoughts and good deeds, is to
accomplish greater task than ever the old
.lchemists attempted, who tried to turn
cad into gold; it is to translate feeting
lime into life eternal
GEORGE HODGES