The record-union., 1897-05-09
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
Copyrighted by Memo.

Copyrighted by Memo.
To Young Men: Remember how small
a place money ought to have in your
calculations; at any rate that you should
never reckon your success by the
amount of money you make. Even
granting that you are toiling in order to
win wife, if money is your sole stand
ard you will lay at her feet the least
valuable gift if you bring not to her a
clean mind, an upright life, and sould
above robbery And he that maketh
haste to be rich runs danger of stoop-
ing to things so mean and so contempt
ible that he is not fit to be the husband
of any wife or the possible father of any
living children, though he be wealthy as
most golden dream can fancy.
Remember that courage-the quality
you so much admire and about which
you possibly use such false estimates
is not measured by the strength of the
arm nor a readiness to die. Bodily cour-
age is sometimes only the mark Of a
course grained nature-mere insenSlo1l-
ity to danger like the mad frenzy of a
bull. Real courage, is that of the mind
that will keep you working on in the
face of defeat, or that enables you to
dare great purposes, when the way to
their accomplishment is like the way to
an Alpine summit, only attained by
cheerful self-denial and the constant
crying to that inner purpose, Excel
sior! Excelsior!." 1t requires more than
broad chest to stand a sneer, more
than a fearless eye to turn from the
pleading glances of a pleasure-loVlng
woman, more than mere muscle to keep
on doing those thing that are of good
report, when all the companions of your
youth call you a fool.
Remember that disappointments build
the muscles of our character, much as
walking strengthens our bodies. 1t is
the things we have to struggle with that
make us men. Some few geniuses seem
able at a leap to accomplish whatever
their hearts are set upon, but the vast
majority of us attain our ambitions only
tide just drags us along we are as dead
things or sticks; if we can swim against
it, we grow moreand more in power.
w elCOule tuS WlIlu, lily OeloNCu,
it is cruel to be kind: it would seem to
wrest thy all from thee only to make
thee hold on the faster.
Here's to the men who losei
The touchStone of true worth is not sue
cess,
There is a higher test
Though fate may darkly frown, onward to
And bravely do ones best.
Here's to the men who lose!
If triumph's easy smile our struggles
greet,
Courage is easy then;
The king is he who, after fierce defeat,
Can up and fight again."
Remember that mistakes are not
necessarily fatal. Show me
man who has never made
a mistake, and 1 will show you a
lazy good-for- nothing who has escaped
errors of Judgment and conduct by being
too indolent to attempt anything. Mis-
takes are good schoolmasters; they show
us that we know not, in order that we
may be better able to know. A mistake
is danger signal that warns into new,
more careful and more thoughtful ways.
And 1 do not limit the utility of mis-
take merely to the range of studies and
business, / refer even to awful mistakes
in morals, to social sins that are sweet
to the taste and bitter in effects. These
may teach and purify, if we will but
drag ourselves away from them and
think them over at a distance.