The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-25
GOin0 Pnrfners.

Going Partners.
There are some business men that are
constitutionally and MORALLY opposed 20
partnerships. They prefer to paddle their
own canoes, take all the responsibility Of
their own judgments and have nobody
20 blame or thank for failures or sue
cess but themselves and Heaven. There
IS reason I'm their positions. When all
the responsibility is on one. that one is
going TO use all the power and wisdom
that is In him. and utilize and turn to
account all hin resources. And no time
viii be thrown away I'm arguing; no force
lost I'm leaning upon anybody else. Mr..
Macaulay says that q fool may have been
known 10 win q battle. but a debating
society never. And that Is just the trou-
bic about partnerships. III there is 10 bee
q successful partnership every partner
must have his own individual and fun
responsibility, and be absolute where he
i5 90 act. and there must be q head.
The misery OF copartnership shows IT'S
EXTREMIST absurdty I'm a crowd where
no one feels responsibility. but every man
follows his neghbor. and the result is
madness. And some rasc1lly leader uses
the crazy rabble as he pleascs.
IL is very much so i'm fashionable life.
How else are the monstrosities OF cos
tune or fancy life 10 be accounted for.
10 Is the style; it IS the fashion Men
and women will wear things that they
know burlesque them, eat things that
they abhOr. and pretend 20 admire things
that they sea no sense I'm, merely be-
cause they belong 10 the crowd, are
partners with IT, and keep time with IFS
music. Why, what an amount or TINS
concealed disgust. making faces at choA-
ing down and forcing upon ourselves Us
daily done. only tc our unhappiness and
dishonor! And this In matters Of dress
OF living. Of eating, OF reading and think
ing. There are people. and prominent
uecule. who are so I'm partners with the
general world that they have nothing
they can call their own; no simple SELL
They tell us, conhdlngly. that somehow
tho people can't have anything without
them. q funeral or a fandang0, pro-
cession or q big prayer meeting. They'
q little, forget that nothing OF that sort
can happen without their having a Hnser
I'm II. They are known 20 be inclining
and looking that way, and presently the
people fall into a habit Of making a
standing dish Of them. They are only the
fashion They have gone partners with
the people. and have 20 go along with
them. be they Monsieur Tonsons or not.
They forget that old saw about being
daily swallowed by mems eyes md caus-
Ing q surfeit Tho public needs change
Of personal diet.
Partnerships are not In themselves
necessarily an evil; but they easily be-
come an abuse and a bore.
Every man owes it to himself, 10 man
kind and TO his Creator 10 run his own
machine" 10 find out what he seems TO
be best adapted TO, to be made for, and
10 set his soul 10 the accomplishing or IT,
ia work out his own gifts. Every man
was made 10 be distinguished; not 10
head professions. make speeches or SIT
I'm reserved seats. but TO be his own SELF.
II he will be- that he VIII ENJOY the
choicest rewards Of distinction, ana never
become commonplace or play out. IL IS
n great honor 10 be true and Teat man.
1t Is a miserably poor business 10 be an
mixed and nothing particular anything
by turns and nothing long.
Vague notions OF this sort. looking
this way. fit about tho minds OF people.
We get tired OF being stale ana cheap
and i'm partners with the common world.
And many a one thinks he IS publishing
a declaration OF independence In being
eccentric. dressing oddly. doing and say
ing in-mannered things and propoundins
heresies: or. I'm q common way, making
fool OF himself. When one little over
does nature ne IS classed as "a natural
that means an idiot. And tho enort
TO be odd Classics man at once as an
Oddity. no more.
Cicero tells US that I'm the formation
OF hig character he diligently sought out
the highest possible models, commended
them TO himself and cherished them, Ted
on them. So he became classic nrst-
class man I'm his day. II IS the privilege
OF our day 10 have set before us infinite
perfection for individual worship and
contemplation. And our high Fellowship
and partnership IS with the Father OF the
human race and the Son, who is perfect
manhood-the typical Son Of Man.
The result OF this high fellowship Is
that, beholdlng as in a glass the glory
OF our companion. we are changed into
tho same image from glory 10 glory
or 'like the stained web that whitens
in the sun. grow pure BY being purely
shons uDon."