The sun., 1897-10-04
DUTY Is TRUE HAPPINESS.
Wealth. AND PoWER SHOULD RE
PURSUED As MEANS no IN END.

Wealth. AND POWER SHOCLD RE
PURSUED As MEANS 10 IN END.
Dr. savage on "Whnt SHALL we Do Win tho |
Comiug Year "a Great Purpose Need Not |
Interfere with the incidental Pleasures OF
Life. but TheS should ne subordinate to II. |
The Rev. Minot ]. Savage preached al tho
Church Of the Messiah, Thirty fourth street and
Park avenue, yesterday morning ON what
Shall We DO with the Coming Ycarf' His text
was: $50 teach us TO number our days. that We
may get us an heart of wisdom" He said in part:
"Onc thing, as a general principle, let me sug
gcst TO you If you arc TO do anything worthy,
you must have some grand ideal, some purpose,
some dominating aim, some end for your life;
something afnr oil, something fixed, steady. like
a star; something that does not shift with the
changes Of your surroundings; something on
which you can fix your gaze and toward which
you can steadily advance and labor. This hav
ing fine and grand purpose docs not interfere
with the incidental pleasures and joys Of tho
voyage. DO you wish peace ! Well Riches 7
Well Happiness We'll. Fame Wei. Having
this high and grand aim may not at all interfere
with your attainment of these. When you sail
from New York o southampton or Liverpool YOU
know the ship is headed on the straightcst pos.
sble practicable path for that one end. But
you feel perfectly certain that your enjoyment
of the clouds by day, watching the stars and tho
moon by night, leaning over the rail and seeing
the phOsphorcsccnce on tho water, watching
ship or school OF fish at play, lounging or read.
ing in the smoking room or in your cabin OF on
deck none of these things hinders the voyage.
But il you do not have this voyage, this end.
the one grand thing toward which you are reach
ing day by day, then these incidents of the voy-
age lose all their meaning, sweetness. and pur-
pose; and If you were told that the ship had
lost hnd bppn
thrown overheard, and that you were drifting
at the mercy of the winds and the waves. there
would be then no pleasure for you, even in tho
most enjoyable things. that you might have
taken by the way.
Happiness is not found by direct seeking.
Pursue her, she eludcs you. Follow duty, truth.
right, the service Of man and the honor Of God,
and though the way seems steep and hard you
will not go far before this stern figure Of Duty
viii turn and smile on you and you will find
that she Is Iiappiness-the only happiness that
man can be really sure Of gaining.
Il would not, then, IL ] were in Your place,
trv to make over the days and months of the
coming year into mere selfish possession. selfish
There are thousands Of men in New York
and in all our great cities who will Try to make
| the coming year over into money. Money will
, he the one great thing they will aim at. have
more, of Il | wish you all h, had more Of
money. in the world as there is, and
that it were more equally divided. I
| wealth: Wealth is neither good nor bad in it
self. Wealth is simply tremendous power. a
power that can bo used for humanity or against
1t: can be used to create or to start into activity
forces of evil. 1t is not thing to be sought for
Ema9 h9 that IS IS
not any one end on the face of the cart more
utterly narrowing and hardening than the pur-
suit OF money merely for the sake of possessing
money. Seek money. only keep IL in its place.
Seek it as means. use it as means for high
become as cold and hard a dollar Itself.
powcrf Who is grcati The people in ordinary
life nmong tho gcntiles, kings, princes, tried TO
S t6e people, SSt0 He sU sad
that will be great in tho real Kingdom OF God is
rne s Rr
his fellow m The man Tho nd is really
recognized as respectable, asserting bis
he has no social position. You cannot be great
by striving for il Ityon wish to be great for,
the noblcst way possible; try to I'LL the place
where YOU a, are BE true be man be faithful, .d
you know how. and let the matter of greatness
take care of itself.
~ have said there is nothing against money.
rSoGns aEHnst Srss5nsss only Hn. tse in
them come in as incidents.
:" But your What shall you do with the COM
ing yeari Turn It into health so far as your
body is concerned. Turn ii into truth so far as
your mind is concerned. Turn it into love
far as your heart is concerned Turn it into
God. by recognizing that you are His child. BY
coming into personal conscious relation with
Him. by living His life. The true aim for you
to have before You the coming year, then. is by
means OF money. by means of power by
means Of study, by means OF social re-
lations. by every means within your reach.
TO unfold and develop yourself until you have
lecome the grandest man. the grandest woman,
possible. Making OF yourself. az far as you can,
mn intellectual and noble being, Is making your
self radiating source of help and truth for
everybody else. Make the most of yourself for
| the sake OF your fellow men and for the sake Of
God. and all other things shall BIO added unto