The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-12-11
COURTESY FOR FEAR


and power, or the voice VI one who
shQuteth beneath bridge. When he
blurted out in his peculiar way some
emphatic thought his whole body
seemed to rise up and distend in the
pulpit. Yet, thought l, mannerism,
voice, fame, these three, would not
have drawn such an audience had
there not been in his sermon a perfect
and harmonious touch with the
thought, the questions, the difficult
les Of this actual present day. =
All cannot be as pleasant as Holmes
nor as learned as Gladstone, nor as in
fluential as Hale, but none are as
limited in their possibilities and their
enjoymcnts as those OF an earlier age.
Your only hope for the complete
confidence OF the young around you is
to make them feel your interest in
the present day and your kindly entry
into their problems and perplexities.
Any different course will estrange
them an1 you will be bereft of the
sweetest solace of age, that comes
from the looking upward of the young
for advice and guidance. Almost
with a hush in his voice, one OF the
college boys said TO me to-day when ]
was walking through Princeton on
my way to Trenton for my Thanks.
giving dinner: "Mrs. McCosh looks
after US boys yet. What do you think:
The other day she called on a sick boy
though she did not know him. We
boys reverence her." That is a model
old age.
70 THE YOUNG: Remember, young
folks, as you grow with me into a
fuller understanding Of your actual
existence as living responsible thing.
separate as to identity from every
other, that the world is and must be
run by the people that are in it. How
absurdly simple that sounds! But
the sound is the only simple part of
it. Give the fact deep thought and it
will encourage you as it has me to put
forth the best effort possible. TO
realize that the multitudinous activi-
ties of the world are based upon liv-
ing beings. not dead, ones, is to get the
belief burned into your soul that you
obscure, insignificant, weak perhaps
are part OF the machinery.
Then too the active participants in
| the great affairs OF the world are just
ordinary-usuaIy very Ordinary-hu-
man beings. They have the same
kind Of flesh as you, the same ten
dency to idleness, the same pleasure
in case, the same series to run through
of birth, growth, death. True, all
people cannot be great, but that does
not take them out OF the machine or
away from the need OF doing their lit
tie part well. 1t would be fine en-
gine indeed made only of piston-rods.
Where then the steam, the boiler to
contain it. the governor to control it,
the heat to generate IL? The things
we have around us, creature comforts,
ETC., arc the result of an endless series
Of causes and effects, so that our
breakfast table even is loaded down
with the products of widely separated
places. So long, too, as you and l
live, We are in living chain OF human
beings, each one bearing some share OF
the pull or responsibility that it bears
upon all.
When you have reached this point
of deduction from my simple asser-
tion, "the world is run by the people
that are in it," you will find growing
up in your heart sense OF cOnsecra.
tion. II you feel at all as | do you
Will say, $50 help me God, as ] am
part OF this human machine, as my
faithfulncsS even in the most obscure
spot will help to make it better, l will
watch not to fall short of my duty"
and, dear eager souls scattered over
this country in the busy city, the ST.
lent farmhouse, the dreary hillside,
the fertile valley, let me tell you that
conservation to an ideal hath satisfac-
zion in it.