St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20
a RARE GOOD FELLOW"

! should have been met at once. The
delay is gross dereliction of duty.
"A RARE GOOD FELLOW"
This was the heartfelt compliment
paid by one friend to another, the latter
having just paid the final debt to nature,
and passed from the busy scenes of a
long life, well spent, into the sheitering
silence of eternity. "a rare good fell
lowW What elements in the mental
and spiritual makeup OF man, COM
Dined. constitute the actual living,
breathing and moving good felIew-the
man who leaves a benediction behind
him at ali times where duty or labor or
recreation calls him?
| There are men believing themselves
called especially by Deity to the labor
of saving the souls of their sin-stricken
companions i'll life who are not good
fellows. The good man must be broad,
not narrow. Ii called to sit in judgment
on his fellows the good clergyman
| never for moment forgets that the
! corner stone of Christ's teaching is
mercy for the offender against the Di-
vine law. In painting the perfect type
OF the clergyman, probably Goldsmith
| came nearest to the perfect spiritual
type in the strong portrait sketched for
all after ages.in 1.-THE Deserted Village.r
The character of his priest WAS not, per-
! haps. fiawless: but such imperfections
as dio exist served only to bring out in
stronger colors the beauties of a charac-
| ter so simple, SO nearly divine. that it
| might claim close kinship with the Mas
ter himself. Unfortunately the poets
ideal priest has only an occasional ex-
emplar in actual social and religious
| life.
All denominations sometimes produce
clerical good felIow"-on exceptional
occasions "a rare good fellow" 1t Is
! painful that they are so rare.
The simple boon companion. the
]oyiai. devil-may care, cornwall comrade
and friend. who spends money iavishly
and enjoys life himself. while helping
others to the passing pleasure of an
hour of idleness. is everywhere known
as the good fellow" The name thus
applied is nearly always misplaced.
Life Is something better, graYer and
higher than perpetual picnic. There
are duties to be performed, misery to
assuage, disease to heal. broken hearts
to be cOmforted in this Sin.stricSen
| world. The worlds business must he
done, and those who are most willing to
bend their energies to that evil are hap
piest. Therefore the term good fellow
! is misnomer when applied to the man
who Systematically perverts his nature
by riotous living.
The real good fellow, however, is
rarely mere getter of money. He is
| always man of sympathy and senti-
meni, and, therefore, though he may
| possess the annual income of Cresus.
his perpetual charities are very apt to
| keep closely ON the heels of income.
And yet tine leading characteristic of
the real, 1.-THE rare good fellow" is not
found in his proneness to abnormal
charities. Ever so many citizens who
were not at all good fellows have built
cathedralS, churches and art palaces.
| founded schools and libraries, and given
other millions to the poor and voorhees,
and starving.
The term "a rare good fellow" was
never more justly applied than it was
OH the occasion alluded to in the OPEN
ing lines of this article. Thrty-eight
years IS long period in which to live
In one community especially in com.
mumty as heterogeneously constituted
as growing and ambitious Western
metropolis. The man who casts his
fortunes in one of these propressivp
communities is soon weighed and meas.
ured by thousand different standards.
HIS dimensions are taken by men and
women of varying degrees of education.
gathered together from the four corners
OF the earth. The man who submits to
be thus estimated. and comes through
| the test with unanimous verdict in his
favor, may we'll be designated as "a
rare good fellow"
| TITS thus the royal mandate ran
| Since first the human race began
| The soc al. friendly honest man
| Where e'er he be
lis ne 1ulhlis great natures plan,
| And none but he''
The Scotch poet was right, -Honestv
OF heart is shown by perfect simplicity
of lite. The social part of our nature is
cultivated. trained and pruned bv the
honest principle which perennialIv
springs i'll the heart. Warm frlendsbips
grow from the genial soil Of close asso-
ciatiun; and as each life gradually
passes onward toward its meridian
every member of the community learns
when. and where. and how to bow he
fore the royal purple of perfect man.
hood. 'The rare good fellow" needs no
guideboard but the succeeding events
of his daily life to point him out To his
associates. He strips no woman of her
crown of purity to turn her vile and do.
len Q ess, an Outt t upon the street
be uues not. with plausible Smiles wi,
his way to the confidence of his neigh
bur. that he may despoIl him Of his
goods. He is simple in habit. modest
in demeanor. cordial i'll his greetings
frank Ill his utterances, sincere in Iii
| sympathies. and faithful to his dn,,,
always. Hypocrisy has found no ai,idi,,,
| place i'll his nature, Being SINGER. .,,,,
honest himself. he is the last on. = Ill.
evil Of his nelghbors. The perfnrua,aa
of his full duty is perpetuaI i,.,.;."
ton to him. but in discharr,ng tive
| functions OF life he never fails ia bsnd
his ear luw to catch the whispered COM
mand of human charity, while merev