The record-union., 1896-06-21
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY MEMO.
(Copyrighted \

OF q busy layrnan. The aim is to lead
in an optimistic way to a better under
standing of life, its grandeur and re-
sponsibilities)
Can the way to success on the part of
young man be written down in one
hundred words? Let US attempt it.
If your home be good, acquire moral
strength there; if bad. seek it elsewhere.
When master over bodily impulses.
leave home; standing alone will
strengthen your moral fiber and broaden
your mind. Use spare moments acquir-
ing general information Before 80 have
definite plan in life; then thew to the
line" Stop whining if disappointed
and start again. Entertain good will
toward mankind. If you gain knowl-
edge or power that would benefit the
world, pass it along. Honor your
mothers sex. Avoid fTlvolity with girls:
it perverts your purpose and endangers
them. Love the woman truly who stlm-
ulates your best impulses.
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Not single word about money? Ger
tainly not: Morals and mind are more
important than money; wholesomeness
and wisdom are better than wealth
We young men need to set up in our,
minds huge pair of philosophers
scales. We shall not weigh thereon
either coffee or tea, but actions and
thoughts and deeds. We shall then con-
cede that patient day-laborer earning
his living by the sweat of his brow.
providing things honestly in the sight
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less toll till his back is bowed and his
heart is almost calloused, is more of
good indeed more of a real success from
lofty point of view than the various
"barons' who aim to control the neces-
sites 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
or british savagery; and also by con-
certed raising of the prices of the com
modoties they control, the poor again
being the chief sufferers. They are
true friends to the country they fatten
on much as a lion is a friend to a
lamb. We need to get it scorched into
our souls that success bought at such
a price is no success at ALL
We will weigh the motive that sends
some oyer-worked country doctor or
minister scurrying through the night
to the house of sickness and we shall
find it thousand times more ponder
Gus than that which actuates a whole
shipload of stock gamblers. Truly they
make money, and they lose it; and it
is deep tarnished in their hands in the
passing.
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il this manner. The thoughtful young
man can improve on the above sug-
gested 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 sue
cessful life except as a means for en-
abling us to "do" our fellows, we would
better throw books and careers to the
winds, for all the real good they will
do either to us or to others. / like the
principle that pervades the German COL
leges and universities. There the in
structors advance step by step only on
condition that they make some new
contribution to the sum of human
knowledge. To that one circumstance
more than any other do we owe the con-
slant outflow of wonderful discoveries
and great ideas from German scholar
ship.
The monetary aspect of life is entirely
subordinated with them; for many of
the most coveted educational positions
in the empire carry with them no more
of a stipend than 81, 800 Surely such
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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 them down if We
can but stretch our eager hands one
particle nearer to the elusive fortune
dancing along just ahead of us.
A father is said to have advised his
boy, MY son, make money: if you can
not make it honestly, make it any
how" That boys worst enemy was the
father who gave him life. We even
hear it fiippantly said that the golden
rule of the nineteenth century is do
others, or they will do you If we
give a laughing approval to that SEN
timent we are blind to the signs of the
times. You young men whose blood is
tingling, like mine, for the moment
when you shall be 'up and DOING you
who are preparing your minds and
your bodies for the strain to which
modern high life will subject
them you whose heads will scarce be
touched with gray before the year
1928, have you felt the pulse of this
present day world? 1t will tell you
that the heart is beating steadier and
truer each day, outer indications to the
contrary. Its message is: Success is
no longer reckoned by the accumula-
tion of wealth, but by the scattering of
deeds The life lived for self is not
lived at ALL Thinking for others. suf-
fering for others, working fer others.
are and must be forevermore the SUI
preme forces within the man who is
in touch with the spirit of the age
The dawn of the twentieth century is
almost upon us. The eastern skv is
already rosy with its coming. By what
moral standard will the world welcome
1t? BY the standard set up in the first.
All the accomplishments of all the
master minds that have blessed our
planet; all the conquest of earth and air
anu sea- all the accumulated progress
OF nineteen centuries; all the tremen-
dous advancement of the last of them
nave not led us away from nor back TO
but up to the teachings of the first
do unto others as you would thev
should do unto YOU That is success.
that IS life. If you pile up your mill
ions they will drop from your nerve
less hand; if you take pride in your
houses built out of wronged laborers
your soul will pass out of them n.l,a5.