The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-29
PENR0SE ON SUCCESS.
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE Is OPEN
HEARTED SINCERITY.
Man should be True to His Better Sell
to Succeed and Make the
Most of Life.

At Central Union Church Sunday
evening Rev. S. B. l.. Penrose said:
There is nothing so much admired as
success. The world bows down before
the successful man and asks no ques-
tions. He who is successful walks on
higher level than his fellows; his feet
are shod with winged shoes; the air he
breathes is finer air. he is happy with
the happiness of attainment, and peo-
pie take off their hats to him on the
street. Success is power. We all want
to be successful, and ought to be, for
success is within the reach of everyone.
What is SUGGEST that is the question.
Definitions are all-important. suppose
the worlds definition of success is-to
get what you're after. If you're after
wealth, to get it; if you're after office,
to get it; if you're cunning for squir-
rels, to get squirrels. When Benjamin
Disraeli was young man just out Of
college he was asked by the Earl of
Aberdeen what he was going to be, and
his reply came promptly, 81 am going
to be Prime Minister of England"
The world calls Lord Beaconsfeld a
successful man. 1 have read that once,
when visiting the London Stock Ex-
change, he said to his companion, "My
idea of greatness would be to have all
these men stop their business and cheer
me when appeared in the gallery un-
announced" Years after, his test de-
clared him to be great man, for enter
ing the gallery one day without an
nouncement, he was spied by the crowd
OF brokers on the floor, who stopped
their dealings in trice and raised a
mighty cheer for the Prime Minister of
England. Success, according to such a
view, is the quality which gets there.
Whether it be plough or ploughman,
grocer or governor, laborer, lawyer,
legislator or liver pill, success is deter
mined by the ultimate arrival at the
desired goal.
Men call Jay Gould successful man
because he aimed to be rich and became
rich; the world calls Napoleon sue
cessful man because he aimed at power
and got it. Get what you want and the
world asks no questions as to how or
why, but crowns you with the laurel OF
success.
wish to express the sharpest dis
sent from the definition of success.
The world may call that man successful
who gets what he is after. Napoleon
was a success in so far as he gained the
power he coveted; nevertheless Ma
poleon was failure judged by the only
true standard of success.
Franklin Pierce and Abraham Lin
coin were each successful in becom-
ing the President of the United States,
yet surely no one of you would say
that Pierce was equally successful with
Lincoln. History calls the latter real
great man because his. life was broader
and deeper and higher. This brings us
to the true definition of success. He is
the successful man who makes the
most of his life. 1t is not the number
of dollars you save, nor the amount of
goods you sell, nor the number of cases
you win, nor the rank which is con-
ferred upon you, that measures your
success in life.
hope the boys of this town will not
get the idea that to be successful they
need only become rich men. The poor
est standard of success is riches.
Robert E. Lee, defeated, was a more
successful man. than Jay Gould with
his hundred millions, for the one
stands in history as man, a noble type
of manhood, while the other only.gilded
a:mean and grasping soul. should be
glad if l could accomplish nothing
more for you all than this; that you
should accept the true definition of.suc.
cess; he is the successful man who
makes the most of life. The young
man who accepts that as true is on the
road to greatness. The young woman
who believes that she is the successful
woman and makes the most of her life
is on the path 10 glory.
We are threatened with no greater
danger in this commercial age than by
the danger of adopting false standard
of success. For we all want to be sue.
cessiul, and ought so to want, but let us
remember that true success is qualita.
tive, not cumulative, to be measured
not by the answers to our advertise
ments, nor by the number of our pa
tients or our clients or our congregation
nor by things at all, but to be measured
by the expansion of our lives. Success
is proportional" to the degree of man
hood or womanhood. The mobiles
thing on earth is d fully developed man
there is only one thing finer-a full
souled woman.
do not wish to argue the proposition
that success consists in making thu
most of life, because l believe that yo,
will all accept the proposition if yol
consider it honestly. The world Away
comes back to this primary truth. l
tries to make money, clothes, rank
power, the measure of successful
always is forced back to character. HOY
may make the most OF life?
First, by sincerity, This Is Carlyle
primary definition of great man. IN
man." he says, adequate to do any
thing but is first of all in right earnes
about it; what call a sincere man.
should say sincerity, deep, great, ger
uine sincerity, is the first characteristic
of all men in any way heroic" B
yourself-that is the SIM and substanc
of it all. Emerson calls it sell lelianc,
"To believe your own thought, l. b'
lieve that what is true for you in you