The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-11
TALKED TO THE BROTHERHOOD
BISHOP NELSON'S ADDRESS TO THE
ST. Andrews CHAPTERS.

Dehnateness of Purpose the subject
of His Acknowledgment OF
All the Congregations and Chap
ters at Christ Church to Hear Him
The Bishop to Address the WO-
mems Auxiliary Missionary sOci-
ETY. To-day.
Bishop Nelson delivered an address last
night at Christ church, under the aus
pices of st. Andrews Brotherhood.
The congregations of all the Episcopal
churches had been invited, and large
number of the members of the brother
hood were also present. Rev. J. L. Soul
ly, rector of st. Paurs church, assisted at
the services. Bishop Nelson read the les
sons for the day
At the conclusion of the services the
brotherhood held business meeting, pre-
sided over by Mr.. Edward S. Elliott Ac-
ton was taken on several matters of in
terest to the Brotherhood, and a vote of
thanks was rendered the bishop for his
address.
Bishop Nelson spoke from Paul 3:1S;
This one thing l do"
The three classes of people," said the
whether life is worth living, are the self
ish, the cowardly and the failures. The
selfish, because they are accustomed to
see no object which does not in some way
contribute to their own interest or happi-
ness; the cowardly, who shrink from eff
fort, pain and danger, to whom il is east
er to throw away their own cheap lives
IMAM to be valiant and who would rather
shlrk responsibility than accept IL; and
hn haaNr IL.
plotted and scattered and played with no
more definite object than to solve the
problem as early as possible. There never
occurs to these three the wisdom of the
saying, shall endeavor to make the most
and the best of the journey through life,
as ! shall not pass this way again
st. PaulS words" he said are an
echo, ringing down the ages of the words
of his master and are on the art of
living. One thing do is not this an ex-
preston of the consistency of that life
which was the development of a single
purpose held ever in view, despite all
effort and all temptations to turn him
aside? Does It not let us into the secret
OF the perpetuity through the centuries
OF that teaching which was supposed to
nave persisted when the teacher was made
a spectacle in the agoncs of physical
death? Can anything be better for you
or for me than to tune our lives TO that
thought of concentration, of purpose, of
energy, of will of feeling, that formed the
working theory of the greatest apostle
and of the ideal man? More we cannot;
less we dare not i'm the light of our own
possibilities, our known faculties and our
destiny. Distinguished; it is not the one
idea theory l would advocate, but many
ideas and mutifold lines of action, yet all
subject to one absorbing purpose para
mount to all things else and reassertine
itself continually as the legitimate. the
sole object of our being here at all. 1t
ought to be no matter of question with us
whether there is force enough or desire
for success.
"A successful man." said the bishop, lis
not this the prospect which each of us pic
lures to himself, TO be thoroughly, perma-
nently successful at the bar in the legis-
lative hall in the pulpit mart or study
with sword, pen or lancet? We cannot
disguise it,
The desire then is present, but the
force, is it wanting? Who can question its
presence? Let il but be concentrated and
nothing is impossible. The steam, which
Kisses unsteady from the kettle and is
lost to view, connects the markets of the
world and solves the most difficult prob
lens of the economist There is force
enough in the dimpled waVelets of the sea
10 hollow out the sands into harbors for
great ships. The stream glides softly at
the foot of the hills and gathering every
riverlet, becomes at last cataract. our
physics teach us that momentum, properly
directed, can drive talloW candle
through an inch board So, all through
nature, there is force enough. Gather 1t
into one shaft, and it becomes the bolt
which rivets the oak on the torrent which
devastates the land There is enough
force expended in our amusement TO move
a monster engine. And the energy eX-
pended in sport is abundantly sufficient to
draw the wheels of progress many miles
There is then no lack of force. All
that is needed is to concentrate Do one
thing; do that.
There is, then, enough force within us,
il properly directed, to alter the complex
ion of the society in which we move and,
combined with kindred forces, to reform
or reVolutionize the world. But 1t must
be, repeat, concentrated.
Behind a dfinite purpose in life there
must be a single aim or motion, and, sur
purity of intention. This is the very es-
sence of strength. No life Is perfect with
out 1t. You will recall the words of the
late poet laureate:
His strength was as the strength of ten,
Because his heart was pure
1--WE Americans are especially prone to
dissipation of faculties and powers. and
is the effort to outstrip all the prodgies
of the past, as men of such universally
as Dante, Salvador and Crichton, 30 per
cent. fall in the dust of the race and never
rise up again.
1.-THE magnificent career Of William Pitt.
whom his contemporaries called heaV-
en-born statesman, was due to the rare
gift of cOncentra ton of his energies upon
whatsoever he had in hand. The same
characteristic marked the life of Rufus
Choate and his mind, as he himself said
took up "A course like "A ship and bore it
on, night and dav TIL the verdict or judg-
ment was reached.
The bishop said that ID is the worst of
fatalisms to think that circumstances
work out a mans destiny. Such an idea
should find no harbor. Make your cir
cumstances, my friends" he said, land
make them such as you would have them,
and they VIII come as your servants 70
kneel at your feet and wait your bid
ding"
Bishop Nelson will be in the city until
tomorrow night, the guest of Mr. Henry
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