The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-22
ADDRESS OF REV. J. II. HOW
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hold OF your educational life. and
not at Its completion as sone imagine
when thoy have graduated. Your
education 10 not the number OF facts
you have learned ut school, or the
amount of information you have &C.
CURED, but the proper development
Of all your faculties, by which you
make the most OF the life that Is TO
follow your school days. The process
lie that of evolution rather than inyo-
luton. 1t is becoming to evolve from
the mind that which 1t contains. rather
than erowding the brain with bare
facts. Then your college life has
simply been the training and system
OF discipline to prepare you TO cease
opportunities and make the most oil
life.
1t Is but the beginning OF life rather
than Its glory and crown. Then DOM
make the fatal mistake of believing
that this 10 the compilation OF your eff
fert-the Btruggle has Just begun
You are to go of from this commence
ment to make your way In the world
You are not all to follow the same
avocatien in all probability, but in any
case, let me remind you that success
will not come to YOU. You must moi
only go to success. but you will be re-
CURED to pay the price and often Q
premiu N for the success you acquire,
Tho conditions of achievement are
more exacting now than ever before
In the history of the world. Whai
would bring greet results a few years
ago, and make a man EemineLt. will
hardly to-day attract public attention
So the effort that you ale expected
to make Is greater than that of youI
father. You must be q better mar
than he In every senee OF the word. oil
We shall expect that you will be left
behind in the race Of life. Circum
stances sometimes conspire to make
men great. The different crises In the
worlds history have furnished oppor.
tunity for the disply OF genius that
might otherwise have been unknown
The great meeting in Richmond
Virginia. In opposition to the tyrnn
ny CT George III. was held In the
nick of time to make Patrick Henry
famous. Who doubts that Henry
Ward Beecher did business during the
later years of his life on the capital
invested during the war?
There are men In tho service of theii
country to-day as great as Washing
ton. Lincoln or Grant; but 1t might
require revolution TO demonstrate
the fact; and who wants the revolu
ton?
Such conditions probably will never
occur to help You to prominence. Fol
the most pnrt you are to be plodders
The conditions of success are severe
mud the Will be gained slowly. but you
will appreciate tall the more, and
make the most of 1t.
There are many elements that com.
pose q successful life. 10 soivo the
problem of entire success numerous
factions must be considered, but the
one thing that demands your atten.
the department of life that you pro.
pose to enter. Are you to be phyei-
elan, lawyer, a teacher, or are you to
enter some other profes5ion2
In what way can you be the1 great
est success in your life timer Lstine-
advise you not to be content with
medlocrity in anything. | would
rather be a respectable scaYenger than
q quack in medicines; u successful
rag picker than swamp lawyer, and
most anything under the heavens than
thrd-rate pedagogne. How is the
top to be gained That is the question.
| would remind you In the outset that
mere goodness Ia not all that ID
HcCeSSHTy. mttfy u RUOu iHuu HHS
been dismal failure in every calling
In life. Goodness ia an importanG ele-
ment OF character to possess. but when
we are laboring on the problem of sue.
cess we need to call into requlsition
something more than goodness. Re-
member, you may DO u good man, and
inspire the confidence OF everybody in
the munity.l hut q failure as pro-
fessional or even a mechanic. AS ono
whose life.work is to persuade men to
life OF plety, | would say In the
struggle for the top In your calling,
whatsoever 1t may be. have skill and
make yourself Indispensable.
A skilled workman is always in de-
mand. This truth never had more
complete demonstration than during
this financial panic. The men who are
now EN- ployeu are those who possess
superior skill and who are IndIspensa-
bic In their line. Where few mon are
required, only the best are In demand.
Be among the best in your line and
success 10 assured.
A leading ship-bullder said to me a
few days since that he had men on
full pay with very little to do, but he
could not afford to dismiss them for
the reason that their places were diff
cult to I'LL In busy times. They pos
sessed superior skill and were lndis-
pensable in ordinary times, SO they
were always certain to be kept en-
ployed when The services OF the aver
age man could BIO dispensed with.
Don't be content with being an aver.
age man in anything.
/ can find you young man in the
employ OF a Wilmington firm who has
given from Sc to $50 per week, and
while they furnish employment for u
great many men, this young man Is
safe in q panic II only one is kept, The
head of the firm does not hesitate to
say that the service of this man is In.
to his business. Let me-
remind you that this young man does
not possess ability that la not within
the easy reach OF any employo of the
firm. il Ia not the genius possessed
only By the few that we are advising,
but the quality that any young man
possesses that can give him skill, and
furnish the foundation for great sue,
cess.
If you enter business life. let mo eau.
tlon you against the delusion, that be-,
cause you are college graduate that
you can always begin at the top. III your
father is wealthy. this may be done;
but II not you will make q grieyous
blunder to think you can enter this
busy world and begin where success.
full men have left oil. ] call to mind
an intelligent, highly cultured man,
who holds diploma from two SCHOOLS!
of high grade. one a reputable college.
the other University OF world. wide
reputation. There Ia no question as
to his education, but after twenty
years of idleness with the thought that
his ability ought to be recognized and
some honorable position offered him,
he is still waiting for something tol
turn up" and is likely to walt. This
day and opportunity ure gone.fo now
now he Is not more than Intelligent.
respectable man with a noble family
history back OF him.
A young man, who now is junior
member OF one Of the largest grocery
firms on the continent, began his
business cancer as shipping clerk I'M
the same establishment and small
pay. He of course wore clean shirt
and white neektie. but watched for an
opportunity to be OF service to his
The opportunity came
and he embraced it. There were goods
to DO delivered In u distant part of the
city, and the truck driver was
taken suddenly i'll. What was to be-
done was the all absorbing question:
with the heads OF the firm, how could
The goods be delivered and the trade,
3ayed2 The solution was with the
clerk. Said he, wait until /
get on oYeralls and jumper, / will
iriye that team and deliver those
yoods.n The proprletors were as
nntGhnt Mt tha hnt tliiu ypaa