The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-01


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I.H.a,. mIr. CHAIN tb.r uru.u. can
accomplish ltrau instinct tu aim at
m.Hor thing. than vp cam reach The
idea Ht conscientious work must There.
l1ru have reference tU things within our
power mot t1 those which we long to-
Io.
a young man thinks ho can become
tn intellectual giant but generally 90
| bo does anything worth doing. &c is after
ho gives zap that idea and begins to- plod
|along Boo the drudgcry Of study. The
/ first sacrifice, therefore, is one Of feel.
ing This unrest of mind with regard
/ To- "sphoro" -this agitation Of the soul
over the fond hope Of carving out
name this longing for a grand career
only leads t1 the distribution Of time
and toil in large field Of operations
vhish yields mo- finished work When
I bee goes out for food it alights ON some
one kind Of flower and gathers
| part of its load. Then il goes to
another flower of the same kind; then
TO a third, and SO on, keeping to that
kind till it gets all it can carry In like
manner, If your work is to glow with
divine purpose in it you must keep to
that thing. and to that only, which you
can do well, with the talent that God
has given you. DO not worry over
something else you wish you were
doing, or grumble because forced to
work lower down than you desire. BE
content with commonplace reality in
the station to which you are called.
working there in all fidelity. Then. if
afterward you become eminent, you
will be worthy of the higher place and
O. will keep humility, the best thing to
u possess after all.
Another sacrifice is the giving up of
w. 'iihb al tillNltl' nOllOW, IneIelIl-
o cious or injurious in your style of living.
The scale of living nowadays drives
men into a feverish anxiety to amass
fortunes quickly. Artificial wants null
tiply in this ambitious age The insa-
TABLE desire to equal or surpass one,
J. neighbors in things which do not con.
tribute to the solid comfort of ones
family or ones self leads to all sorts of
shams. Very little is first class. Men
care more for the appearance than for
the permanence of their acquisitions.
r. This encourages cheap workmanship.
which vitiates the working classes.
I Everybody is infected. Hence arise
5 ignoble shifts-vicious methods in
h manufacture, mercantile gambling
D aud all sorts of dishonora.
e bic eNpedients to make money.
The market is flooded with half-made
= goods, diluted fluids and adulterated
solids. The nominal price of stocks in
! many corporations, is far above their
real value, and the acquisitions striven
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stantial gives way before the gaudv and
the fashionable. a low standard of
mercantile honor is mutually adopted
by buyer aud seller. Nobody believes
advertisements or the labels on goods
All honor then to the man or woman
p who in all the elegancies of life Of they
d can properly be affordedD will have
I genuine articles of their kind or 90
without them altogether. Conscien-
tiCus workmen will not abound till the
church openly acknowledges the right
of its members to spend some money in
the purchase of conscientious work of a
useful or decorative sort not absolutely
needed To deliver the world from low
z art and its lower standard of CONNER
cial honor some of the best people in it
must encourage the artizans and the
artists, who put their conscience into
their business, whether it pays the best
S or not.
Continued tO-mOJTOr.)