The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-06-18
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
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the life OF busy layman. The aim
is to lead in an optimistic way to a
better understanding of life, it's
grandeur, and responsibilities
Can the way TO success on the
part of young man be written
down in one hundred words? Let
us attempt it.
Ii your home be good, acquire
moral strength there if bad. seek it
elsewhere. When master over bod
lily impulses, leave home standing
alone will strengthen your moral
iibre and broaden your mind. Use
spare moments acquiring general
information. Before thirty have n
definite plan in life; then
"hew to the line Stop whin.
ing if disappointed and start again.
Entertain goodwill towards man.
kind. If you gain knowledge or
power that would benefit the world.
pass it along. Honor your mothers
sex. Avoid frivolity with girls: it
perverts your purpose and en-
dangers them. Love the woman
truly who stimulates your best i'm
pulses.
Not single word about money 4!
Certainly not: morals and mind are
more important than money whole.
someness and wisdom are better
than wealth. We young men need
to set up in minds a huge pair of
philosophers scales. We shall not
weigh thereon either coffee or ten,
but actions and thoughts and deeds.
We shall then concede thet a patient
day -laborer earning his living by the
sweat Of h'"N w.froyiding things
nonei yia tns sIxh. al!
ing each day to his hopeless toll till
back is bowed and his heart is al
most calloused is more Of good, in.
deed more of real success from
lofty point Of view than the various
"barons" who aim to control the
necessities of life. But they make
money Most decidedly they do;
but how! BY grinding the faces of
their toilers and reducing them to
a condition verging on british
savagery; and also by concerted
raising of the prices of the commo-
dities they control, the poor again
being the chief sufferers. They are
true friends to the country they
fatten on much as lion is friend
to lamb. We need to get it scorch-
ed into our souls that success
bought at such price is no success
ut all.
We will weigh the motive that
sends some over-worked country
doctor or minister scurrying through
the night to the house of sickness
and we shall find it thousand times
more ponderous than that which
actuates whole ship-load of stock
gamblers. Truly they make money
and they lose 10 and it is deep tar
nished in their hands in the passing.
But we must not use our whole
space in this manner. The thought
full young man can improve on the
above suggested line of thought and
think of many standards of success
that are absolutely false.
If we young men find no pleasure |
in reading and mental training and |
successful life except as n means for
enabling us to "do" our fellows, we
would better throw books and ca
reers to the winds, for all the real
good they will do either to us or to
others. l like the principle that
pervades the German colleges and
universities. There the instructors
advance step by step only on con-
dition that they make new contri-
button to the sum of human know
ledge. To that one circumstance
more than any other do we owe CON
slant outflow of wonderful discov-
cries and great ideas from German
scholarship. The monetary aspect
of life is entirely subordinated with
them for many of the most coveted
positions in the Empire
carry with them no more of a stipend
than $l,5OO Surely such a view
of life is the right one; since the
moment We get the money-fever in
our veins selfish considerations
blind our eyes to the needs OF those
in our paths we will even trample