The record-union., 1894-04-11

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best woman in the world and whose
freckled-faced youngsters are the sweet
est darlings God ever gave to parenthood.
He did not think. however, that money
is bar to salvation or curse III itself.
| But its misuse pardons crime and cor
rupts morals. In how few cases, alas.
does it anplify the mind and enlarge the
soul. Some of the accepted maxims OF
the world misleads the world and none
more so than those relating to money
getting.
Branching off here he illustrated by
| quoting perseverance cOnquers all
| things" Labor conquers all things"
Love conquers all things" and then
proceeded TO show that in each there is
error and danger of misdirection. In
domitable perseverance will exhaust
energy but never bring its revival or
soften the nature made sordid by money
chasing. Labor will not work the change
of lout into poet or boor into a
| philosopher, and even love Will not max g
/ q silk purse of a sow's ear. In all good
conscience he warned the young man if
ne could only get the girl he loves. or
thinks he loves, by such love persever-
ance as will at last win acceptance in
order to be rid of him-quit, throw up
! the task. such Winning by love is too
! often the victim of it's own excess and re-
wolves into bitterness and lifelong regret.
/ His relation of the disappointnents Of
| great men was very graphic and touch
! ing President of the United States
told him that for twenty years he had
! had been a candidate; all that time it had
! been the object aud struggle of his life to
reach the seat, but only defeat met him
time after time. At last, when he had
/ given over hope and seeking, in an un-
/ eX pected hour the nomination came and
| election followed, and what then? He
was on the declining side, ambition no
! longer fired him, hope revived not and
/ be took the Office disappointed and re-
gretfully. The friends he had hoped to
/ reward were dead, and the enemies he
wanted to punish had become his parti-
/ sans, aud it was all ashes and disappOint-
ment.
George d. Prentice told him almost as
! he lay dying that ii was u happy thing
/ for Harry Clay that he had never sue
ceeded in becoming President, because
had he at last won he would have been
the wretchedest of men and the greatest
| OF liars. All the years of his manhood
! had been devoted to that ambition and
disappointment had rooted too deeply to
| be uptoru, while his path had been filled
with the promises of twenty years that
| he must have violated.
|
ness is success. That was the philosophy
OF the money side of his lecture. Money
anassing is a slavery, against which be
| entered solemn protest when 1t deadenS
sensibility and puts the counting house
into the iuner life. It's corrupting in1u-
ence in politics, the all-aOsorblng charac-
! ter OF the race Tor it, he dwelt upon with
punctuations of warning, eXclalming that
IL would be a blessing if there were many
| an AGassiz in every community, who,
! Ike BE of that name. was too happy and
t busy with nature to have any time lett TO
think about money.
ii He took up the case of use of the funds
! OF others, and in few words preached a
powerful sermon upon the aWfulness OF
laying the hand for its own use upon the
money another has intrusted TO you. He
! teit that not all who do this are vicious,
| crininally wicked and lost to the sense
| OF moral obligation and manly honor,
| and III a rapid sketch showed how one
| may be drawn into such error and be free
! from intentional sin, but not from de-
! plorable weakness. Here several anec-
/ dotes were related in that brief and happy
way, in illustration, for which Mr.. Wat
! terson is noted.
! We are not attempting synopsis OF the
! lecture but rather indicating some OF the
heads upon which he dwelt and from
which he expanded a symmetrical dis
/ course in orderly arrangement. Chief
among these heads was that in which he
dwelt upon the practical application OF
the Golden Rule; that i'll which he took
for text the words, Happiness is crea-
ton of the mind''; that in which he de-
fined cold -blooded hypocrisy and the
hypocrisy that never finds itself out; that
in which he uncovered cheating and dis
honesty posing in the robes Of enter
prise; that in which he drew the picture
of American youth with the ambition
first to make money and then buy a seat
in Congress or the Senate, and that III
which in a fervidly brilliant prayer he
implored heaven that his country should
not see the day when these high places
should be, as the tendency now promises,
put up at auction to the highest bidder.
There was nothing perhaps, finer, more
thrilling, in all his lecture than the de-
ciaration, that despite all, the national
heart is right, and that there is no menace
to the morals of the nation or to national
integrity and unity, that patriotism and
true craftsmanship and the devotion of
the people may not will not avert.
He declared that the distinction be-
tween parties to-day is microscopic, that
party policies are so little differing that
they should cause no one unrest.
To one, who. like him, had seen the
nation pass through more than one crisis,
more than one season of peril, who had
seen it writhe in the agonies OF internal
dscord, and comfort beneath the heat Of
passionate partisanship: who had seen it
stagger in an awful insurrection and
arise triumphant from the blood and
smoke of the battle of brethren a proud
nation, born not with sufficient Federal
strength, but renewed in unity for an
other century of vigor and prosperity, the
contentious that go 10 make up parties
to-day seem TO have no terrors, and eX
cite no alarms. In fact, said Mr.. Waiter
son, such a man loses no sleep about
W hat is going on at Washington.
Let partisan greed and am mUition under
stand, he added. that whenever any po-
| litical party thinks it has got the world
iii sling, public opinion will rise UP in
its might, rear back upon its hind legs
and kick it out OF existence.
The high money standard and the low
moral standard oil the time then engaged
his attention. He believes there is more
of good than OF The bad in human nature;
that the American nation is on the
ascending scale despite all its ills, and
that still a century OF progress is before a
country with opportunities for poor and
| lowly, honest and industrious, high and
low equal and alike and such as no other