The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-07

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IL is sad enough TO see an old pessimist !;
but IL is more pitiful to behoIda young
soul soured by seihshness and em mbittered
by moral doubts. i counsel you to cherish
q hopeful and sublime coafidence In the
wisdom and goodness OF the world, and
in the worth OF every noble endeavor
you can put forth. IL is better world
than you or / could make; at least, II is
the best we have ever had; and a whole
some disposition to make the very best Of
IL possible should characterize every
young person, while the evil days come
not when he shall say there is no pleas
ure in them. Existence is a privilege,
and IT is peculiarly your privilege to
count il such. Let the light OF this con-
ception shine through all your being,
and then go forth TO meet the untried
future with q brave bearing, standing
erect and fearless before the world.
Heart within, and God o'erhead.'
"2. You have also the privilege OF opper-
tuntity. Your best years are still ahead
of you, your strength is still increasing,
and even IL you make a few missteps
and failures, II is not too late to mend.
You can be man IL you will, and a
thousand hands are ready to be stretched
out TO help you II you will believe 1t and
seek them. The world is waiting for all
that you can do, and by as much ability
and devotion as you manifest shall IL give
you place and compensation. i do not
say that you will not have to struggle;
very well know how fierce a competition
exists between man and man; and L am
fully aware that the stern realities OF the
fight for mere bread and butter take a
good deal of the poetry out of the picture
| am painting. But, Notwithstanding all
difiiulty and sordidness, i am sure that
the world offers a chance to every man to
show TO some reasonable extent what stuff
he Is made Of III II exacts high degree
of power, skill or faithfulness, we must
reckon that such is the price of a great
achievement; and by its price in
the long run, shall we estimate
its worth. Especially may every young
person feel that there is set before him
an open door of opportunity. He has not
yet reached the time when his fellowmen
are ready to throw him aside; rather are
they looking for him, and will hail him.
iY he comes TO them with the insignia OF
genuine ability, downright earnestness
and worthy aim.
''To be sure there are those who have no
exceptional or pronounced abilities; in
deed, the vast majority of young people
are aware thst they possess only moder-
ate, ordinary endowments; while. slasl
there are some who have come into the
world loaded down with inherited weak
nesses OF disease or evil tendencies. To
all such let II be said that true success
In life always consists simply in trying to
do the best you can, according TO your
circumstances--not the best that some
could do IL you were differently situated;
but the best you can do, as you actually
find yourself conditioned in the world.
And, oh! i would have you consider
that such performance and such a sue
cess constitute the highest honor that 1t
is possible TO enjoy. IL 1, with my tai
ents, in my place, under my circum-
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much better or worse another might do
Il have succeeded in living noble life,
and there is no true success without this,
whatever may be the fortune which the
world yields. Is not the opportunity for
achieving this kind OF success afforded all
men everywhere? Seize, then, such op-
portunity as you have, and make the best
you can OF 1t, and you cannot live in
vain. Most OF US are born to be humble
and inconspicuous; but grains of sand
make the mountains, drops of water the
ocean, and countless millions OF planets
the starry armament; and surely He who
provides place and mission for all
these will make some wise use OF our lit
tie lives, IL we but try to live them truly.
"3. feel like saying that the young
people who live today have a specially
grand oportunity. For, aside from the
fact that they are the "Heirs of all the
ages in the foremost files of Time"
Ouf ONH 10 OHt Oh
large and vital interest to the lover OF
humanity. Through the revelations of
exploration, scientific discovery and me-
chanical inventions, the material world
has been filed with a new and marvellous
light, so that the heavens above and the
earth beneath, and the waters under the
earth, are fraught with a meaning un-
dreamed OF by our ancestors; and now,
as we stand on the threshold of the twen- |
tieth century, we seem to be facing some
new developments in the higher life of |
our race. Either old problems are being
studied in new and clever light, or we !
are coming into fuller development OF |
The spiritual side OF our civilization than |
Mas ever seen before. At any rate, some |
" hat as Columbus smelIed the breath of |
The distant continent ere he could see IL, |
and knew that he was approaching land, |
20 all thoughtful observers seem TO feel |
hat we are drawing near to a larger real
cation OF some OF the fondest hopes OF |
he human race as the breezes OF the new |
century are waited toward us, and we
ell like exclajming:
There's fount about to beam.
There's a light about 20 stream,
There's midnight blackness changing into |
grey"
III II was ever privilege to live, il is
'uch now To be young today, with the
prospect OF having ones life run on into
lie middle of the next century, is a boon
,or which every possessor thereof should
iaily lift TO heaven a hymn OF thanksgiv-
ng. My young friends, think of your
opportunity, try TO appreciate your priv
leges, and bend your footsteps toward
he future with the sunshine OF Gods
mile in your faces.
But now there is something more
or us all all to do than to appreciate our
privileges. Or, rather, such appreciation
will lead us to think of our responsible
les, and we shall understand that all
hese blessings mean something great and
ublime for us. This life of ours, so rich
y lowered with ability and opportunity.
5 not ours 10 fritter away; ii is rather a
rust, like the talents in the parable, TO
10 used for the increase of the worlds
wealth. In other words, we are not our
wn, we are bought with a price, and il
; our business TO acknowledge allegiance
o the Supreine Law that holds the key
Il our existence and destiny. We are here
o grow, here TO develop ourselves, here
o make the most and best of ourselves
,artly for our own sake, but not loss for
he sake OF all creation. How TO do this,
r to do our little part toward it, is the
ne great problem for each and all. IL is