The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1896-05-03

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/ mors will sometime overtake US.
viii it avail then to say in mock
/ innocent naivete, another has stol-
en- the opportunities of our youth?
"Ahi Waste not your hour nor IN the vain
pursuit
OF this or that endeavor and dispute
but work in Gods spirit Of love, in
joy and gladness; for His first COM
mand is "Work." I"
What then can be more vital to
any of us than to find, to know, to
do, this work which God commands
The spirit of a certain woman on
first entering heaven said to the
angels;
II am too tired ofearth to rest me in Para
disc,
Give me a spot to steal away and close my
weary eyes"
always think of this sad spirit
of having been the mother of per-
haps seven grown children-all
girls-a musician one, a painter, a
noted chemist, a mathematician
even, but not one daughter among
the seven. She had washed and
swept and cooked and sewed and
made beds for all of them through
a long life of endless toil-mate-
rializing toll. Little time had she
to think Of her soul. However self
sacrificing the spirit in which she
labored, could this have been Gods
ideal work for her?
The human brain is fed by inter-
nal carotids, so formed, so placed,
they retain their pristine elasticity
throughout life, and it is the one
organ of our bodies which needs
never weaken nor decay with age.
But though the scholar through
years of earnest, unremitting study
might hold within his mental grasp
the wisdom of ali time, and everY
brain cell be scored and furrowed
deep with a thousand wrinkles, and
ali the world stand agape at his
learning; would this alone be Gods
work for him2
Our national commissioner of
education writes: "a man can
make a much better living out of
truth, justice, energy, and perse-
verance than he can out of geome-
try, chemistry, and mental philoso-
ply"
Prof. Petrie, the Psychologist, at
a recent meeting Of the British
Royal association for the advance
ment of science, ridiculed our blind
worship of those "three Rs" we
deem the basis of all culture. He
said: "The exquisite art and no.
bic architecture Of Mycewal, the
undying song of Homer, the ex-
tensive trade of the bronze age,
all belonged to people who never
read or wrote"
would not for a moment have
you believe that I regard even the
tons Of force many of you are ex-
pending in piano playing as un-
wisely exerted, nor yet would I
eliminate from the grey matter Of
your brains one tiniest wrinkle of
all the many your study brings
about; but l would have you know
and heed that science, art and cul-
ture are not everything.
Will you listen to these lines from
Browning?
"Ohi we're sunk enough here, God knows
but nOtquite SO sunk that moments
sure, though seldom, are denied us, when the
spirits true endOwments
Stand out plainly from its false ones and
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Or the right way, or the wrong way To ita
triumph or undoing
There are flashes struck from midnight,
there are nreHames mondays kindies
Whereby piled-up heroes perish, whereby
swollen ambitions dwindle;
While Just this or that poor impulse, which
for once had play unstihed,
Sums the sole work of a lifetime that away
the rest have triied."
The sympathy felt for your class
mates failure, the having said to
your heart, 81 would rather have
missed that myself" is the "poor
impulse which for once had play
unstifled," and worth more to your
soul than mastery of the binomial
theorem. Far better a few zeros
where love is than all mathematics
and hatred Herewith.
Life is all a lesson; some few
pages we con in joy, many in deep
est sorrow; but before our book of
life is closed we must learn that in
tegrity is more than Latin, that it is
better to know justice and mercy
than all the sciences, to know mod
Grafton than rhetoric, sympathy
than mathematics.
What higher, nobler, more ideal
work can be than the formation of
character, that we may be known to
the angels in heaven for our integ-
rity, our moderation, our justice, our
sympathy. I repeat, known to the
angels of heaven.
"Give earth yourself, go up for gain above.i'
shirt Waist Factory to be Established.
MCCoMB CITY, Miss, April 2s.-
Sharp & Hackett. northern capital-