The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-24

IMAM nVlng. The accidents ana lllcl-
dents of life, the changes of fortune, the
toll, the disappointments, the small sue
cesses, the eating and the drinking, look
like life, but are they not rather the mere
shifting of the pieces of an invisible and
an immortal game?
Il say, therefore, to every man who
has to work. to every man who has con-
cluded that the programme of life is
heavily burdened with hardship and
care and WEAKNESS, God never made life
such an empty, thin, vain thing as
you have taken it to be, or perhaps
have even made it yourself.
IF thtre is a man who has conceived
the idea that all that is signitied by the
showing of plane is the getting Of
board smooth and the two dollars at
night for doing it, if there is d man who
has hitherto swung a hammer thinking
that the shaping Of the iron is all it means
and that it ends there; If one has WELD
ed shovel with the thought that the
taking of earth from one place and the
transfer of it to another is the sum OF 1t
all; If one has run up columns of figures
thinking that finding the footings is all
1t amounts to- then 1 would that I
might help him to see that he has been
only moving the pieces and not playing
| the game; that he has been turning the
leaves and not reading the book. Don't
! tear away one more screaming, curling
shaving from its place on the rough
edge of board; don't change the shape
| of piece of iron by one blow from
your hammer, don't shift a shovelful of
soil from one spot of Gods earth to
another, thus changing the form of this
| round world nor add two and two to-
gether, until you make up your mind
that you are doing or will do a God-ap-
pointed task Don't life a hand to dis
turb another particle lying on the face
of the earth, until you are convinced
that you are moving in the line that
God has set for you to go in, that you
have His sanction and His help.
Says Thomas Carlyle, whatsoever in
one way or another recognizes not that
divine idea of the world which lies at
the bottom of appearances can rightly
interpret no appearance, and whotso
ever spiritual thing he does, must do it
partially, must do it falsely. Even so.
And whatsoever catches this divine idea
that there is given TO every man his
work will do nobly, faithfully, well,
w hotoVCNVi tlillS ne uoGS L uS NbtitlCl
to me is that so many men do as we'll
as they do and as faithfully who have
never learned TO look to God for inepira-
ton, sanction and sympathy. Does any
man say he is tired OF working for
wages and his family? Then let him
begin tomorrow and work for God
God stands ready to enter into a life
partnership with everyman who is try
ing to do an honest work, No matter
what it is, God is ready to join you and
go with you into any business or life
work that is honest
1T makes scarcely more difference |
what our work is than whether the boys |
in the reform school are set at making |
shoes or making brooms. They are
there for the life of discipline And that
is what we are here for.
But why do works and walks in life |
differ so widely? Why do some other
men have so much lighter work and
larger pay than T? Why is it given to
others to do work so much more genteel !
than mine asks some young man.
We'll, my dear young friend, of course
we do not and cannot know, but here is
thought for you. The notion that they
must do genteel work and are fitted for
no other, has probably spoiled more men
in this world, Intellectually, morally and
financially, than any other one thing.
unless it be rum. l know there is a
notion that one work is of higher or
der than another-that any work that
does not oblige a man to put on his
overalls and soil his hands is genteel and
to be ought after | see, too, that when
those who appoint our officials are in
search of men to fill vacancies, they do
not hunt round among those who are
doing what is called gentee work. But
mark you this, that in Gods civil SER
vice, when a man is wanted to do some
ertat deed, to deliver a nation to eman-
cipate a down-trodden race, when a
man is wanted to take the hero's part in
a revolution. God looks among the car
penters, the tent makers, the printers {
the rail-splitters for His man.
God selected the carpenters bosom
as the spot where the spirit of His be-
loved Son should rest God wrought the
deliverance of this country by the hand s
Of civil engineer. No matter, then,
who it is that receives the silly obeis- .
ance of the world. Christ said that the !
Parisees who succeeded in making men 9
lot1ce their piety and flatter their van f
ty, had their reward-that is they G
ave it out, says tht original, they ex- \
1aust their reward. If there Is any one Il
hing which He said which history has 6
'xampled more than another, it is the h
1rst shall be last and the last first TO @
very man his work Let us all look to
'ur work, not for our honors" +
In conclusion the speaker exhorted his
hearers to stop looking Stewards a,d
quoted the well known words of Horace
Greeley: Fame is vapor, popularity is n
lccldent, riches take wings, the only h
earthly certainty is oblivion" There a
ore, he added, let us permit God to ar n
ange our life plan for u.s. mixing in n
whatever ingredients he knows to be ii
ecessary to the founding Of a spiritual a
ondition in us which is to outlive the W
tars.
1AUSMAN BEATEN BY AN INCH "