The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-14
salvation down on the street as here in

salvation down on the street as here in
the sanctuary.
God has purchased salvation for you
and given it TO you freely-freely. Ii is
like garden. You are to make it bloom
and blossom with roses and fruits or
weeds and thistles.
Some things surround to help or
hinder, but you have the control-you
are boss. Circumstances may be cap
tured and made to serve, like enemies
guns. our destiny you make as you
will. Your will and your destiny are
yours and you submit them TO no one
but the will of God.
Never think you cannot help doing
wrong. neglecting duty; you can, God
always do the right.
And this is not Boosting or vanity.
Vanity fixes q mans thoughts on HIM
sell, not on his work. The true work
man forgets himself in his work. And
this Is not ordinary am bition, but aspira-
ton. See the difference between the two:
ambition wishes to have what aspiration
desires to deserve. Ambition wishes to
seem what aspiration desires to be. In
politics ambition makes demagogues |;
aspiration makes patriots. In religion
ambition makes hypocrites: aspiration
makes saints. Ambition seeks wealth
and fame as final ends Of life: aspiration
seeks them as means to promote the well
fare of man ana glory of God 1t is the
belief that God has Joined together our
destiny and our will. That makes aspira-
ton and lifts young man far above the
animal and crowns him with glory.
What aspiration shall lead you 70 do is
not for me TO say. Look to God for that
light. Only this: true aspiration will
make any work sweet and glorious. 1t
made the work of the carpenter of Naza-
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the tents made by Paul, and it will give
grace and beauty 10 any work you do.
lake hold, then. of any honest work.
Don't wait. Don't wait for something to
turn up. Turn something up. Don't
walt for some one TO die and leave you a
| destiny. Don't hang around trying to
| marry a destiny. Go out with the
strength God gives and make your own.
Yours IS the most glorious time in
which it has been permitted mortals to
live. These are the fair. shining days
brought along by the coming of Jesus of
Nazareth. America, in which you live,
is another name for opportunity. Look
|. about you. see America and the coming
in of the twentieth century! Thank God
that you live in such day. And may
the very thought arouse your hottest in
SEPARATIONS and noblest energies. Now,
every true effort will get its reward,
every aspiration that is worthy will have
a thousand doors opening to it. Glorious
is the privilege to be living in our day.
Rejoice. . young man in thy youth, in
the last five years of the nineteenth,
which already begin to show the dawn
ing OF the coming twentieth century.
Everything is yours.
No soil produces like yours. The spring
time of invention is yours. Marvels of
art and literature and science and inven-
ton are springing up right at your feet
and fairly covering your heads with
leaves and flowers and fruitage.
"Ah, it is a shame TO have lived and
died in such an age and taken no part; TO
! have had no place; 80 have done no
work"
Don't. my brother, let this be true of
you. Go out tonight, trusting in God,
looking TO Jesus Christ as your example,
to work out your destiny in the fear of
God. Thank God for heart and brain
and hand and free will, and a glorious
destiny in the fairest land under the sky.