The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-13

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have q thousand dollars to invest find II
such a perplexity to know what to- do
with It and soon after End that we In.
vested It where principal and interest
have gone down through roguery or pan.
ic, what must be the worriment Of those
having millions to invest and whose losses
correspond in magnitude with their re-
sources! People who have their three
or four dollars day wages are Just as
happy as those who have an income Of
$500, 900 year. Sometimes happiness is
seated on footstool and sometimes mis-
cry on the throne. All the gold of earth
In one chunk cannot purchase FIVE min
utes OF complete satisfaction. Worldly
success is an atmosphere that breeds the
maggots Of envy and jealousy and hate.
There are those who will never forgive
you II you have more emoluments or hon.
or or ease than they nave. To take you
down Is the dominant wish of most of
those who are not as high as YOU are.
They will spend hours and days and years
to entrap you. They will hover around
newspaper Offices to get one mean line
printed depreciating you. Your heaven
Is their hell.
Warming Against Politics.
said many years ago in regard to his
lifetime of experience, 1T doesn't pay"
The leading statesmen Of America in
letters of advice warn young men to
keep out of politics. Many of the most
successful have tried In vain to drown
their trouble in strong drink. On the
other hand, there are millions of people
who on departing this life will have
nothiuo IN looyy w bu yood n mn a nd a
life insurance whose illumined faces are
induces of illumined souls They wish
everybody we'll When the fire bell rings,
they do not go to the window at midnight
to see IL 1t is their store that Is on fire,
for they never owned store, and when
the September equinox is abroad they do
not worry lest their ships founder in a
gale, for they never owned ship. and
when the nominations are made for high
political office they are not fearful that
their name will be overlooked, for they
never applied for office. There is so
much heartiness and freedom from care
in their laughter that when you hear it
you are compelled to laugh in sympathy,
although you know not what they are
laughing about.
! When the children of that family as.
oculUiG IA lAt pAtliAS iooih VI bAe cAo
homestead to hear the fathers will read,
they are not fearful Of being cut off with
million and half dollars, for the old
man never owned anything more than the
farm Of rs acres, which yielded only
enough plainly to support the household.
They have more happiness In one month
than many have in whole lifetime.
! Would to God 1 had the capacity to ex-
/ ,laiv IN hntv Hffla M ha
| happy and on how much he may be
wretched! Get your heart right and all
| is right. Keep your heart wrong, and all
! Is wrong. That Is a principle settled in
heaven.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that this world is schoolhouse
or college for splendid or disgraceful
graduation. We begin in the freshman
class of good or evil and then pass into
the sophomore and then into the junior
and then into the senior. and from that
we graduate angels or devils. In many
colleges there is an elective course"
where the student selects what he will
study-mathematic or the languages or
chemistry or .philosophy-and it is an
elective course we all take in the school,
house or university Of this world.
| we Sluuy Oil uiith W. otS SNsu
rated with it or righteousness until we are
exemplihcations of it. Graduate we all
must, but we decide for ourselves the style
of graduation. 1t is an elective course.
| We can study generosity until our every
| word and every act and every contribu-
| ton of money or time will make the
world better or we may study meanness
| until our soul shall shrink up to a small
| ness unimaginable. We may, under God,
| educate ourselves into self control that
| nothing can anger or into an Feasibility
that will ever and anon keep our face
flushed with wrath and every nerve
I a-quiver. Great old schoolhouse of a
world in which we are oil being educated
for glory or perdition!
beginning Active Life.
Some have wondered why graduation
day in college is called commencement
day" when it is the last day of college
exercises, but graduation days are prop
erly called commencement day. To all
the graduated it Is the commencement of
active life and our graduation day from
earth will be to us commencement OF our
chief life, our larger life, our more tre-
mendols life, our eternal life. But what
! day commencement day on earth is!
The student never sees any day like it.
At any rate, I never did. Old Niblo's
theater in New York comes back to me.
The gowned and tassel hated professors
behind us, and our kindred and friends
before us and above us, and the air redo
lent with garands to be thrown to us.
What a commencement day it was for all
of US about to graduate! But mighter
day will 1t be when we graduate from
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nation or handclapping of approval? Will
there be flung to us nettles or wreaths!
| Will 1t be resembling Come" or re-
verberatins "Depart?'
In the real college, before graduation
and common cement comes examination
day, and besore our graduation and COM
mencement will come examination. 1t
will be asked what we have been doing,
what we have learned under the tutelage
Of years of joy and sorrow, and under the
teaching of the Holy Ghost are we edu-
Gated for heaven. Have we done our best
with the curriculum of study put before
every mortal and immortal? Oh, this
world is not the terminus of journey!
1t is not theater on whose stage we are
enacting the tragic or comic. 1t is
schoolhouse for splendid or disgraceful
graduation, and death is commencement.
All that is settled in heaven.
Another thing decided in the high
places of the universe is that this world,
with or without lis, will be made over
into scent of arborescence and purity.
Do not think that such consummation
depends upon our personal fidelity. 1t
will be done anyhow. Gods cause does
not go a-begging. If all the soldiers of
Jesus Christ now living should become
deserters and go over to the enemy. that
would not defeat the cause. A large part
of the Bible is taken up with telling us
what the world will be. There is u large
army, human and angelic. now in the
field, but Gods reserve forces are more
numerous and more mighty than those
now at the front, and If he could in Gid
cons time rout the Midianites with
crash of crockery, and il he could in
Shamgars time overcome a host with an
OK goad, and If in Samson's time he could
defeat an army with bleached jawbone,
and IL the walls of Jericho went down
| under n blast of perforated rams horn,