The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

necessary to your everyday life is a cor
rect appreciation of what presents itself
for observation in the routine of your pro-
fession.
Men there are who not approaching
time of their own, will not hesitate to roo
you of yours. Business and social exac-
tons will present themselves and demand
attention. Your daily work will bring you
in contact with empty heads and emptier
hearts. The paucity of country thought
and the poverty of rustic knowledge will
on many dreary night and prolonged
afternoon fill you with the ennui of sols
tude. and the dreariness of thankless Ia
exhaustion Happy viii it then be for him
whom a habit of self-reliant introspection
enables to find food for thought in a men
tai storehouse of facts, or whose magma
tion cultivated by a close acquaintance
with the poets, endows him with power to
melodies that soothe, pictures that please
and instruction that adds both strength
and skill to requirements already hlied
''on the long and lonesome ride, when
houses by the wayside are dark and silent,
where the gloom and solitude of the forest
are deepened by the shadows, along roads
that run by fields Of biliowy grain from
dancing moonbeamS are reflected in broken
pencils, along dusty highways amid the
scorching heats of summer, when the dis
tant hum of the reaper and the note and
whirr of the quail remind you of happier
days, amid falling snoWfiakes when the
and the universal chill pierces the heart
with a sense of desolation, the power to
mind with thoughts from the masters in
literature will keep the soul fresh and the
work and worry are yours from the mo-
ment you begin the study of medicine till
with the snowfiakes of time and the dew
of thought on the wrinkled brow of care
has left the stamp of exhausted vitality
where once was only manhoods brow,
serenely high, and the fiery heart of youth,
yet the clouds that are seen as you hurry
through rich experience have many a
silver lining and the shield that may at
and a golden side LIES pleasures and
measure with its griefs. and the eagles of
victory will more often perch upon your
banners than the VultureS of defeat.
ITO many of you. no doubt, loves gentle
dalliance has already given power to see
and painted all sunrises with the golden
effulgence of hope and promise. Ihose OF
aptly termed the 'enchantment of human
life can, perhaps, draw without help
pictures of what is to be. when some fond
face fingers at the window and awaits
your coming, when, in home made by
your brain and builded by your hands you
happiness and with the extravaganza of a
spendthrift reck neither OF yesterday nor
tomorrow; when with the sweets Of do
nestle life you live again the home life of
youth, and memory, with its enchanted
scroll, gives form and color to a Thousand
future with contentment,, love and plenty
and all other rewards Of honest labor and
''Sunshine and shadow are but compile
ments of each other, and the tears OF JOY
and grief sleep placidly upon the bosom of
the same fountain While we stand by the
cradle of to-day. we may follow the hearse
of tomorrow. Learn. then, young gentle
men, to take the bitter with the sweet ana
nerve yourselves to meet the emergencies
of the hour with the courage, of honest and
hopeful hearts, for smiles will come oftener
than tears, JOY oftener than grief, and
many a rift of glad sunshine will burst
through the clouds of stormy sky and
hope itself will find the unknown quantities
of time in the equations of eternity