The record-union., 1899-11-15
A heritage that seems to me
One scarce would wish to hold in zee.

One scarce would wish to hold in 1ee
The rich mans son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft white hands could hardly earn
| A living that would serve his turn;
A heritage that seems to me
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
What doth the poor mans son inherit?
| Stout muscles and sinewy heart;
A hardy frame and a harder spirit,
King of two hands he does his part III
/ In every useful toll and art
a heritage 1t seems to me
king might wish to hold in fee.
What doth the poor mans son inherit?
A patience learned by being poor;
Courage, If sorrow come, to beart 1t;
| A fellow feeling that is sure
To make the outcast bless his door.
heritage 1t seems to me
A king might wish to hold in fee.
In closing, let me emphasize the truth
that success is not to be measured or
determined by the money standard The
ability to accumulate wealth is not to
| be despised, but it does not represent
the highest type of success. Many Of
the wisest and noblest of earth have
lived in poverty and died in want.
Homer was a beggar. Tasso was poor.
kepler was often in need. Millet toiled
In poverty. Turner lived in obloquy.
+, Milton never had wealth Paul died
penniless. Jesus had not where to lay
his head. Many of earth's best bene-
factors could literally say: Silver and
| gold have none" The great inventors,
explorers, discoveries, the men who
have done so much to lead the world
up the nights of progress, were not pos
SCISSORS of great wealth. The genius to
accumulate is not the highest type Of
genius. Agassiz was so intent on ell
riching the world with higher truth
that, as he said, he had not time to
make money. Manhood is more than
money. Grace in the heart is a richer
possession than gold in the pocket. No
words that Jesus ever spoke have had
a greater influence over my thought
and life than these: "A mans life con-
sisteth not in the abundance of the
things which he possesseth The true
measure of mans life is his man
hood. It is not what a man has, but
what a man is that decides his real
worth, and settles his place in the scale
of rank. Lincoln's greatness was in
himself not in his possessions. The
gift of his own life to the nation was
worth more than all millionaire endow-
ments ten thousand times over.
| The real aristocracy of earth are the
men and women who have cultivated
purity of heart and nobleness of spirit,
and have enriched the world by the
luster of their characters and the be-
neficence of their deeds. Among men
fit to stand before kings I put the
tachers, who have breathed into young
souls the love of truth and goodness;
prophets. who have inspired men with
| truer conceptions of God and loftier
ideals of duty; reformers, who have
| flung themselves against monstrous
wrongs and helped humanity to higher
levels; poets, who have enriched the
worlds thought with golden visions of
a diviner age, and musicians, who have
gladdened life by bringing into this
loud stunning tide of human care and
woe" the very harmonies of heaven
! The great uncounted host of men and
women who are doing the daily work
of the shop and the home faithfully and
cheerfully, shall one day hear the wei
come of the King saying Come ye
! blessed children of My Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for YOU
1t is a great thing to live true, pure
and noble life in this world. 1t is
great thing to SO live that you win the
approval Of man and the honor of God.
Moses did that. To champion the cause
of the oppressed and lead the enslaved
| to freedom, he turned away from the
splendors of the throne, and after years
| of exile and toll, years of service to God
| and humanity, he died a penniless pill
| grim in a strange land, and no man
knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day.
/ But the world is richer and mankind
are nobler because of his great exam
pie. It was the same with Livingstone
With mighty passion to help heal the
open sore of the world, he pushed his
way through dense jungles of African
| ignorance, spent heart and brain in an
unwearied effort to enlighten the dark
souls Of that dark continent, and then
penniless and alone fell with all his
weight and cares upon the great worlds
altar stairs which slope through dark
ness up to God" The humblest here
tonight may emulate these princely
lives. The incense of generous purpose
and kindly deeds may rise to heaven
from cottage hearth as we'll as from
lordly palace There is not a single
soul before me but may live SO that
-
est commentator, We'll done, good
and faithful servant"
Oh, my brothers will you not from
this day on live so that the world will
be purer. better, brighter world for
your living in it. 1t is only by living
nobly yourself that you can help an
other live nobly. Every life has it's in
f1uence. Every man who walks in the
path of rectitude makes it easier for
others to find and walk in that path.
For your neighbours sake as we'll as for
your own sake, l beseech you to walk
in the Christian way.
1t is mans wisdom to take both
worlds into account To win this world
and miss the next is not success. For
what shall it profit man if he gain the
whole world, the whole world of wealth,
| the whole world of pleasure, the whole
world of fame, what shall it profit
man if he gain the whole world and lose
his own soul? Jesus was right in MAX