The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25
DIR. nAMlL.rON'S LECTURE
Al the Monndsriiic Camp Ground Audit
torlum Inst NIGHT,

tured In the Moundsvlllc camp ground
auditorium last night for the benefit OF
the women's camp ground association.
He was greeted with a splendid nudl'
cnce. The title Of the lecture was Mis-
placed Men" In part the speaker said:
am a believer, but in nelther,the doc
trlnc OF chance nor decree. The figures
and colOrs In Il Kaleidoscope are not an
accident. between the lines OF motion
and light can be read clearly the laws OF
mechanics and optics. There have been
times In the worlds history when ,the,
lives or men were SUPPRESSED to be govern
ed by the Fates. Heaven and hell, no
more than fortune and misfortune In
this life, were matters OF generalization.
But we find no such condition OF thought
In our day.
In my preaching | mix n great deal of
this world and the next n together.
convinced that what will get n man Into
this world and through It. will get him
into the next one. Have you never i'm
agtned that II was not right to go to
heaven any time or at all times? II Ia
better TO stay here sometimes than 10 60
there. This world is good enough for
any one who will ever enter heaven.
How 10 live-to make the most OF the
warm blood to transmute the nerve
might and thought throbs Of seventy
~years-thatS the question. Let to-mor-
row take care OF itself. There are
tw%enty-four hours In this day, before to-
morrow comes. How are you and to
use them? There nre two kinds OF peo-
rI. IL, tHK, .,..-.ll ,,,I., -,a rst. .-I,l. 1.
one who are always at work on what
has often been done and the other who
are trying to do what has never been
done. Both fields are scattered with
failures, and both are marked with mon
uments OF memorable success. What
you n | want to know IL, how in 1ne
case the one class can so successfully
succeed, and in the other. the other
class can't. II | were able tonight to.
Instruct you all how 1t were possible al
ways to be a good mechanic. a clever
merchant, a successful gentleman, an
honorable lawyer, a skillful physician.
and n worthy minister, and equally
successful. lovely and useful wives for
all these trades and professions. It would
be argument for q week, laughter for a
month and a good Jest forever. There
are many persons surprised when they
tlllh tlICAliSIANC S 'SkIEIIltAl EltaIl. i here
are n great many more surprised when
they find themselves not great, and
worse. having no esteem.
Many more men might be eminent
than have been. EmInence Is n hill
along every highway. Wherever there
is a road you find somewhere along It
the hill. Farmer. mechanic, merchant,
minister, lawyer or doctor, soldier or
sailor will find 1t before him. But the
many go round It rather than 20 over
or through it. And yet emInence is Oft
en- little evidence OF worth. Men simply
go up by being able TO find the stairs
and there are not a few who are carried
up. never knowing how they came there,
There Is no law for accidents, and
when eminencc comes by accident, 1t
often goes as 1t came. It Is the cxcnp.
ton where opportunity alone brings en-
inence. and In such Instances | admit
with the boys on the streets. You can't
most always some times hardly ever
tell" gy..aE
There nrc two kinds OF GreatndssLpne
MAKES opportunity and the other
USES 1t. They are as different as the
composition of a sermon and the delivery
OF It.
Some men must have opportunities, IL
not sermons, made for them. Nature
has so contrived them. They work MA
tnrial up better than they manufacture
II for themselves. | suppose l am ad.
dressing those tonight who have found
under their Own observation that men
hire out better than they hire In. Ihavc
more charity for Mr.. Jones who uses
Dean Swifts sermon entire than had he
mutilated the discourse. npprOprIatinE
for his " what never belonged to him.
. Ar DiphItInnG uttItpr pF cnp,n1,. n,o,
sent his composition to his friend for
criticism, who returned with his crIti-
clsm In the form OF an cpigram:
Your comedy have read, my fi'end.
And like the half YOU p~Ilfcrcd best;
But sure the drama you might mend,
Take courage, man, and steal the rest.
The most unhappy man Is the man
who has missed his opportunity in miss
taking his calling. To know your bus
mess and feel Its Importance Is not only
TO know your adaptation to It. but to
know all about the business or the pro-
fcssion. Mar Is born to toll. M apollo
Ky will relieve him, and no neglect will
help him to evadc the burden. En-
ployInent Is more a prevention Of crime
than n Jail or gallows.
Nearly all failures In business come
from the fact that those at the head OF
the firms are not prepared to properly
conduct them.
Two suggestions may be- mentioned
which more especially trace the line OF
thought. | would have you remember:
First - An active, inward. passionate,
but intelligent impulse and pure motive,
and scCOndly-All human ability, zcnl
and motive must be systematically sup
%plcmentcd. envclopcd and endowed
thoroughly furnished to every good
work. The supernatural element can
never he eliminated from your work.
The entire lecture was full Of gOo!
thoughts ma charmed the audience
from first to last.
s. llGE nr Dr. Enmlnr,c M Of lN,Iil