The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-23

, domestic unhappiness. His wife had
slandered him all over England, until,
standing in his pulpit in City Road
chapel, he complained to the people,
saying, II have been charged with
every crime in the catalogue except
drunkenness;'' when his wife arose in
the back part of the church and said,
'JOhn, you know you were drunk last
night" Then Wesley exclaimed, Il
thank God the catalogue is complete"
When Il man marries he marrieS for
heaven or hell, and it is more so when
woman marries. You six young men
In Fayette, Ohio had better look out.
Word the next: Do not rate yourself
too high. Better rate yourself too low.
If you rate yourself too low, the world
will say, Come up" If you rate
yourself too high the world will say,
"Cowe down." 1t is bad thing when
a man gets so exaggerated an idea of
himself: as did the earl Of Buchan,
whose speech Ballantyne, the Edin-
burg printer, could not set up for pub
LEGATION because he had not enough
capital rs among his type. Remember
that the world got along without you
nearly 5000 years before you were
born, and unless some meteor collides
with us or some internal explosion &C.
ours the world will probably last sew
eral thousand years after you are
dead.
Word the next: Do not postpone too
long doing something decided for God,
humanity ana yourself. The greatest
things have been done before forty
years Of age. Pascal at sixteen years
Of age, Grotius at seventeen, Romulus
at twenty, Iltt at twenty-five, White
field at twenty-four, Bonaparte at
twenty seven, Ignatius Loyola at thir
ty, Raphael at thirty-seven had made
the world. feel their virtue or their
vice, ard the biggest strokes you will
probably make for the truth or against
the truth will be before you reach the
meridian of life. Do not wait for
something to turn UP. Go to work and
turn it up. There is no such thing as
good luck. No man that ever lived
has had better time than I have had;
yet l never had any good luck. But
instead thereof a kind Providence has
crowned my life with mercies. You
go at your work on the minute you are
expected, and stop at the first minute
it is lawful to quit. The greatly use
full and successful men of the next
century will be those who began half
an hour before they were required,
and worked at least half an hour after
they might have quit. Unless you are
willing sometimes TO work twelve
hours of the day, you will remain on
the low levels, and your life will be a
prolonged humdrum.
Word the next: Fill yourself with
biographies of men who did gloriously
in the business or occupation or pro-
fession you are about to choose or
have already chosen. Going to be a
merchant? Read up Peter Cooper, and
Abbot Lawrence, and James Lenox,
and William e. Dodge. and George
Peabody. See how most of the mer-
chants at the start munched at their
monday luncheon made up of dry
bread and Il hunk Of cheese, behind a
counter or in a Storeroom, as they
started in business which brought
them to the top of influences which
enabled them to bless the world with
millions of dollars consecrated to hos
pitfalls, schools, churches and private
benefactiOns, where neither right hand
nor left hand knew what the other
hand did. Going to be a physician
Read up Harvey, and Crosse. and Sir
Adam Clarke, and James Y. Simpson,
and the discoverer of chloroform as an
anaesthetic, and Leslie Kelley, who,
Notwithstanding all the damage done
by his incompetent imitators, stands
one Of the greatest benefactors of the
centuries; and all the other mighty
physicians who have mended broken
bones, and enthroned again deposed
intellects, and given their lives to heal
ing the long, deep cash of the worlds
agony. Going to be 4 mechanic? Read
up the inventors of sewing machines,
and cotton gins, and life-saving APP
paratus, and the men who as archi-
tects, and builders. and manufacture
ers, and the day laborers have made
a life Of thirty years in this century
worth more than the full one hundred
years of any other century. You six
! young men of Ohio. and all the other
young men-instead of wasting your
time on dry essays as to how to do
great things, go to the biographical
alcove Of your village or city library
and acquaint yourselves with men
who in the sight of earth and heaven
and hell did the great things. Remem-
Der, the greatest things are vet to be
done. If the Bible be true. or as
had better put it, since the Bible is be-
You'd all controversy true, the greatest
battle is yet to be fought, and COM
pared with it Saragossa, and Gettys-
burg, and Sedan were child's play
with toy pistols. We even know the
name Of the battle. Though we are
not certain as to where it will be
fought. I refer to Armageddon. The
greatest discoveries are yet to be
made. A scientist has recently dis
covered in the air something which
will yet rival electricity. The most Of
things have not yet been found out.
An explorer has recently found in the
Valley of the Nile a whole fleet of
ships buried ages ago where now
there is no water. Only six out of the
! 500 grasses have been turned into