The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-10-09

very difficult Nevertheless youth, |
money, and perseverance, can accom- |
plish much in time. And if they sue i
coed, what Is the result? \ more reput- |
able mode of squandering than that OF
others, but q life of greater useiessness.
And the mistakes of both classes arise
through the fault of the parents.
For all true education begins at home.
Correct habits aud thoughts must not
only originate there, but must there be
quickened INTO activity and trained to
steady discipline. AS lie tree is, so are
its fruits; and as the home is, so are its
children. In an atmosphere of honor
they will be norable-surrounded by
deceit they will be deceitiul. Where
wealth is worshipped they will bow
also. Where idleness is tolerated they
will despise work. 1t is worse than vain
it is criminal-to send youths with
uniformed or badly formed characters
into great schools and colleges, and eX
pect them to profit by the experience.
Nothing less than deeply rooted scnti-
ments of purity, and habits strong from
daily use and correct from conviction,
can enable them to escape the contain
ination inseparable from these estab-
Hsments.
The devout Anselm said that "Idle-
ness is the sepulchre of a living man"
He who does nothing Is nothing; he IS
| ,,,r,,lF,l cynllnral Nd ,t,iitnratpI
by the tenure of hls existence. lie is
worse off than if lie had never been, for
he negiects the opportunities which
God and his age have given him. The
old proverbs say: "Idleness and lust
are sworn friends;' idle men are the
devils playfellows;" "Idleness is the
greatest prodigality in the world" The
moralists, from Solomon to DR.. Watts,
| have not only vented their structures on
| ideness, but on siuggishness as we'll
To be dilatory or perfunctory is to be
! practically idle. To be improyident is
the same. We are invited to consult
| Nature and initiate her foresight. And
''Whatsoeyer thy hand findeth to do.
said the Preacher, ''do it with thy
might"
| Idle and addle have the same mean
ing, and, with all, are derived from the
same word, which signifiel to be sick,
corrupt, void. An idle person is an all
| ing person, sick in body and mind, cor
rupt in morals, void of understanding.
| an idle lie is an added life, noXious,
unproIuctive, and dead to all goodness.
| Yet tins is the life which SO many covet
and others are proud to possess, and that
is the individual who is allowed precc
! deHce over the industrious.
Mature fits all her children with
something to do" said tie poet, and
truly there is so much to be done in this
world-physicaliy, mentally, morally
that it BELTS none to be idle. There are
| Augean stables to be cleansed, ancient
| and mighty wrongs to be rectified grave
! abuses to be redressed and dense clouds
| of ignorance to be dispelled. The world
mourns from want, and misery, and
crime, and "the dark places of the earth
| are full of cruelty.' Power and in us
tice trample upon the weak and the
| innocent Nation is arming against ma
! ton, and "a mans foes are they of bis
own household" Poverty prays III
vain for its daily bread. We see the in
dustrious idle from compulsion, and the
wicked criminal from want of know
| ledge. Our boosted brotherhood is
poetic dream. Each fights for his own
hand, regardless Of others, and the end
no man can foresee.
so many worlds, so much to do
So little done. such things to be
Surely humanity requires the best eff
forts Of all its members. This is no
place for oilers or lovers Of false gentll-
itv. There Is work to be done, serious,
patient, and persistent work, not the
service of the slave, but the cheerful, Ia
Dor of the free man, full of loving kind
ness. The world is still young, and no.
bic duties lie before it. rs it grows
wiser it will grow happier, until love
supplants selfishness and becomes the
universal law of its being. As Iennyson
| sweetlv sang TO the Great Worker
Our little systems have their day;
They have thei: day and cease to he:
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.
| We have but faith. we cannot know;
! For knowledge is of things we see;
| And yet we trust il comes from Thee.
/ y beam in darkness: let it grow.
| Let knowledge grow from more to more,
/ But more of reverence in us dwell;
| That mind and soul, according wei.
May make one music as before.