St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25

can be helped into a good place in life
is beginning to go astray. The man
who depends on his neighbor for sue
cess is getting ready for failure. The
man who forgets that his resources for
his own success are all in his own life
and are sufficient-for God equipped
every man for SUCCESSES making a
great mistake. So, then, your chief,
work is in your own life. Now, you = :
OWE TO THIS CITY
in which you live the right develbp-i
ment, first, of your own life Your
voting, your success in business, your
influence upon the public-all these
are secondary to your own self-knowI-,,
edge, your own self-reverence, your
own self-respect. When you can stand
up after the most minute examination,
of yourself and respect yourself, the
city will respect you, and will receive
value from you. If you cannot do,
that, then you are hindrance to the
good there is in the city. I'd
Self-mastery always comes before
mastery of others. Who are the
leaders of men? The men who know
how to lead themselves, the men who
do not care for the leadership of
others, the men who do not seek eX-
cept in the most secondary fashion,
but the men who want to serve their
fellow men and keep a close mastery
over themselves.
What are some of the difficulties
that lie before US? 1 do not believe
that. any man has ever yet made a
complete and accurate diagnosis of
a city's diseases. We have grown ia
miliar with the diseases of our city
in a general way, and of all cities.
We say they are all corrupt. We say
there is wrong-doing in every one of
them, political, social, in business,
everywhere. l do not know of any
close, careful analysis of the situati ton
that would make anything clearer to
us than it probably is in some phase
of it to every one here. But when
there is an evil before us in these days,
there is very simple, plain duty.
Turn the light upon it. Turn the re-
sources of truth upon it. Especially,
turn right personal lives upon it. God
is on the side of right, and all the
resources of God and truth and
righteousness in the universe are like
a great pressure Of atmosphere to aid
every man who is trying to do the
truth
Some men in a cave are over
whelmed. They are in darkness, in dan
ger of death. The first impulse is
probably to lie down and die. What is
the use? They cannot dig their way
out; they are helpless. Just as thou
sands of men and women in this city
tonight are overwhelmed with their
failure in life, with their sins, with
their poverty, or what they call the
hardahips of life; 1t matters not
what they are, they are penned in
Now, suppose those men, while they
are there ready to give up, hear out
side the voices of others seeking Them
the prayers of those who pity them,
how they will work, how they will
strive, until digging from without anG
from within the way is opened for
their escape.
Now, L would have all the forces of
the young men in this entire city ready
with truth in their own lives, with
mastery of themselves, to go against
all this imprisonment of the souls OF
men by all the forces of evil about US
until these men within have heard
their prayers to God and heard their
digging outside and themselves went
to work for their own deliverancc
That is the way it should be. And 4
believe that the young men of thia
city have the resources to transform
the whole character of the CITY,