The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-15
is GOOD ADVICE.
Rev. Charles NJ. SheldOn's
Address to Graduates.
Tells Young Men and Women
to Do Their Best.
ROOM EVERYWHERE.
Good Influence Can Be EXerted
In Amy Position.
Possibilities as a SerVantGirl or
Lawyer Or Journalist.

In introducing Rev. Charles M. Shell
don to the thirty-fourth graduating
class at Washburn college Wednesday
morning, President George R. Herr1ck
said that in order to secure man OF
national reputation to deliver the an
nual address it was not necessary to go
beyond the bounds of the college COM
munity for Rev. Mr.. Sheldon lives on
College hill.
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon took for his subject
New Opportunities in Old Professions"
After giving a list of professions best
suited to college graduates Rev. Mr..
Sheldon said:
First you can do your best as a law
yer to keep men out of law suits. There
are a few men in this state who make
a good living in the law as peacemakerS.
1 asked one of the best lawyers IN TINS
city few weeks ago what was one OF
the highest Christian motives that
could influence a young man to enter
the profession of the law with the dis
tinct purpose of serving his fellowmen
as a brother to them. And his answer
was just this: let him arbitrate cases
out of court when the cases are plainly
produced by anger and i'll will between
man and man. OF course such cases
do not by any means exhaust all of a
lawyers legitimate business, but 1t is
astonishing to see how vast a quantity
of the lawyers business comes to him
as the result of quarrels and anger be-
tween men.
In the second place the young lawyer
can identify himself positively with po
litical and especially civic righteousness.
The lawyers profession is peculiarly
and specially favorable to a study of
history and political movements. a man
who wants to serve his brother can not
do so more nobly than the young lawyer
who sees his opportunity in the needs
of a city.
MY grandfather on my mothers side
in Ia cra
1 never saw him. 1t is nearly half
century since he died in the beginning
of his middle manhood. But he left his
stamp on the spiritual life and thought
of that whole township.
Il have asked myself a good many
times, why? He was a good doctor so
far as skill is concerned. He was sue
cessful in his treatment of serious cases.
But other doctors in the township had
equal skill and success. 1t was not his
technical ability as a physician that
made him worth while to the life of that
village. 1t was something that every
doctor ought to have in as full degree
every minister, and that is, Chris
tan character. 1 should think a young
man would no more dare to practice
medicine unless he were a tremendous
believer in God and his redemption than
he would dare attempt to preach or
pray unless he believed in preaching
and praying.
The formation of the trust is only
one sign of the times. There is no
question that out OF the trust Will IN
evitably come its own destruction or at
any rate the formation of new opPor-
tunity for an unselfish corporation of
forces. A Christian trust would be one
of the highest forms of commercial CO.
operation based on the brotherhood of
man and built up on love to one an
other.
TT is a monstrous teaching that we
have taught and believed that men
could be loving. gentle, tender hearted
in their family circles, in their churches.
in their friendships, but that the minute
they emerged from the sacred shrineS
of these private devotions and affec-
lions they must begin a heartless war
on their fellowmen in order to succeed,