The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-04

was a woman in that city who gave the
only food she had 10 a sick neighbor and
then went out 10 earn more, supposing
that only God and her neighboi knew OF
this heroism. Last week two Christian
women were found in this city, W hose
ministrations to the aged had kept them
many months from public worship.
Meantime two other avowedly Christian
women were complaining that they had
no OPPORTUNITY FOR HERoIsM.
venture the assertion that whoever
starts out In the morning determined on
living a blameless lite viii come upon
something before night 10 tax the power
OF his character The temptation 10 lie
is almost perpetual. Whether you are IN
the recitation room, or the reception
room. or the ing room, or tue com
mittes room. you will after declining
ali openings TO lie, find yourself on a
platform Itile short OF heroic. A poll
tician and lawyer who tells the plain
truth, woman n society who speaks her
mind or remains silent may easily break
lance before sunset. We will say
here is a small tradesman.
There are
ILLEGITINIATE WAYS OF ADVERTISING.
but he declines 10 use them. He could
shade little the wages Of his employees
but he is humane. lie sees ways OF max
ing money but the ways lead down.
Many such men have been buried In plain
collins, without an obituary notice be-
cause they chose 10 be heroes unto God
and nobodies among men.
There are rich men who suffer from
envy while they administer their wealth
according TO Jesus the spirit OF Jesus.
There are people who su1er llie-long
pain and never reveal II. Jesus Christ
enumerated the order of his heroes when
He told US how lie should decorate the
nerciiul, the persecuted, the misJudged,
the poor, the pure.
What are some of the heroic deeds that
need doing this day? Has not every
young man WHO opens his eyes upon the
world all the obligations upon him for
heroism that any knight ever had? The
knight swore TO be a true man, to relieve
the weak, and TO be pure. But take good
heed that he was under obligation TO dc
all this before he took the oath. The de-
nomination of Friends are we'll known fol
their noble lives yet not one OF them
ever took an oath TO do anything. Th'
first thing for a man to find oat when hi
comes into this world is that the very
being here has made him hear an ire
pressible voice:
YOU SHALL BE LIKE GOD.
Noble character is the same in all ages,
and the demands on II are the same. Be
fore the order of knighthood was eve
heard of, its oaths were virtually includ
ed in that majestic outline OF the ole
| prophet: "What doth the Lord requir
| of thee but to do justly and to low
mercy and TO walk humbly with tn.
Coo"
Oh! young man, do not imagine tha
! you can escape the obligation to be
hero. Do not suppose that you have
right TO chose profession, in any sucl
sense that you can choose a poor one
| The thing that God asks OF every man
the greatest that he can do. When peo
pie ask me,what they ought to do / tel
! them: Do the largest things that you
| nature Is capable of. That is the onl
proper measure of q mans obligation
Wait for no order, no mem bership in an.
society, no oaths, no admittance 10
| profession to gauge your duty for you
. Shall ask. what heroism Is when hav
out of literature for lifetime? Shall
inquire about my obligations OF som
body of men when the voice of the Ever
lasting God is ringing in my conscience
Can any human being living Ii
the white light of these years live oil
the outside Of the struggle O
more than another agouize for the SAX
OF a glorified world? am utterly wear,
of being told by young men and womel
| that they have never promised to Civ
| their lives 10 the best uses. Promised
Have we ever promised not 10 be forgers
or thieves, or tramps? The burning lif
OF Immortality in every man makes hi
destiny for him, and IL Is heroic. Not (,
rise TO 1t is to repudiate the wisdom o
the Creator Not TO be ready TO endors
every good thing that comes to you
notice is TO deny God for a Father.
i take 1t that right here, in the
CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
there is a little neroism. You are capa bic
quick, strong in thought. Well: II you
can gather in the logic and the imag ina
tion of the modern language; il You car
master the subtleties of the calculus, and
compute the paths of comets and suns; il
youscan marshal the wisdom OF the jurists
from the days OF Moses down through
Solon and just inian and the NapoleoniC
Code, to Blackstone and the last tangle OF
unpublished Rhode Island statutes; il
you know how TO quote the brilliant pas
snges of Thucydides, the periods OF De-
mosthenes, the glowing phrases of Rous-
seau, and the forensic triumphs OF Pitt,
Brougham, Clay and Webster-if you can
do all these things what purpose can they
serve so well as the dignity, the glory OF
Christianity, to be gathered for the illus
trstion of the logic OF love shown in Je-