The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-03

6ooSAHS III i lAOlAills quito PICK OUT the
eyes OF cnrcasses. Extrf ord inary ca
pacity without work Is extraordinary
failure. There is no hope for that per-
son who begins life resolved to live by
his wits. for the proba bility is that he.
has not any. It was not safe for Adj
am. even in his unfallen state. to have
nothing to do. and, therefore, God COM
5manded him to be a farmer and horti-
culturist. He was to dress the garden
and keep it, and had he and his wife.
obeyed the divine Injunction and been
at work, they would not have been
sauntering under the trees and banker
ing after that fruit which destroyed
them and their posterity; a proof pos
tive for all ages to come that those
who do not attend to their business
are sure to get into mischief.
l do not know that the prodigal in
Scripture would ever have been re-
claimed had he no. given up his idle
habits and gone to feeding swine for
a living. The devil does not so often
attack the man who is busy with the
pen, and the book, and the troWel, and
the saw, and the hammer He is
AFRAID OF those weapons. But woe to
the man whom this roaring lion meets
with his hands in his pockets.
DO not demand that your toll always
be elegant and clearly and refined
There is a certain amount of drudgery
through which we must all pass. what
ever be our occupation. You how men
are sentenced to a number of years in
prison. and after they have suffered
and worked out the time, they are al
lowed to g Ofree. So it is with all of
us. God passed on US the sentence:
by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou
eat bread" We must endure our times
OF drudgery, and then after awhile.
we will be allowed to go into compar-
alive liberty. We must be willing to
endure the sentence. We all know
what drudgery is connected with the
beginning ofAany trade or profession;
but this shall not continue all our
lives, il It be the students, or the mer-
chant, s, or the mechanics life. I
know you have at the beginning many
q hard time. but after a while these
things will become easy You will be
your own master. Gods sentence will
be satisfied. You will be discharged
from prison. 8
Bless God that you have brain to
think. and hands to work. and feet to
walk with, for in your constant activ-
lty, y, young man, is one of your
strongest defenses. Put your trust in
God. and do your best. The child had
It right when the horses ran away
with the load of wood and he sat on
II. when asked if he was frightened,
ne said: NO; prayed to God and
hung OH like beaver f5.E
A noble ideal and confident expecta-
tlon OF approxilnating to it are an in
falllble defense. The artist completes
IN his mind the great thought that he
wishes to transfer to the canvas or
the marble before he takes up the
crayon or the chisel. The architect
plans out the entire structure before
he orders the Workmen to begin. and
though there may for a long while
seem to be nothing but laundering and
rudeness, he has in his mind every
Corlnthian wreath and Gothic arch
and Byzantine capital The poet ar
ranges the entire plot before he begins
to chime the first canto Of tingling
rhythms. And yet, strange to say,
there are men who attempt to
build their character without knowing
whether IN the end it shall be rude
sTartar's tent or a st. Marks Of Venice
men who begin to write the intricate
poem of their lives without knowing
whether it shall be a Homer's
odyssey" or a rhymester's botch
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out
OF a thousand are living without any
great life plot. Booted and spurred and
plumed, and urging their swift courser
In the hottest haste, I ask: Halo,
man. whittier aWay7' Rush into the
~ cyLn 90 I
taking the plane out of the mans hand
or laying down the yard stick, say:
WHAT, man, is all this about, so much
stir and sweat ?" The reply will STUN
bic and break down between teeth and
bps. Every days duty ought only to
be the filling UP of the main plan Of
existence. Let men be consistent If
they prefer deeds to correct courses Of
action, then let them draw out the de-
sign Of knavery and cruelty and plum
der. Let every days falsehood and
wrong doing be added as coloring to
the picture. Let bloody deeds red
stripe the picture, and the clouds Of
a wrathful God hang down heavily
over the canvas, ready to break out in
clamorous tempest. Let the waters be
chafed and froth-tangled and green
with unreasonable depths Then take
a torch of burning pitch and scorch
into the frame tie right name for. it.
the souls suicide. If one entering upon
sinful directions would only, in his
mind or ON paper. draw out in awful
reality this dreadful future, he would
recoil from it and say: cam a Dante,
that by my own life should write an
other Inferno?'"
But if you are resolved to live a life
such as God and good men will APP
prove, do not let it be a vague dream,
an indefinite determination, but, in
your mind OF upon paper, sketch it in
all its minutiae. You cannot know the
changes to which you may be subject,
but you may know what always will
be right and always will be wrong.
Let gentleness and charity and verac-
ity and faith stand in the heart of the
sketch. On some still brooks bank
make a lamb and lion lie down to-
gether. Draw two or three of the trees
of life, not frost stricken, nor ice
glazed, nor wind stripped but with
thick verdure waving like the palms
of heaven. On the darkest cloud place
the rainbow, that pillow of the dying
storm. You need not print the title of
the frame. The dullest will catch the
design at a glance and say, ..That is
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