The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-10-28
THE MUST OF DUTY.
IL In the Voice OF God I'm the Soul ana
In the Only Sure Pathway
10 JOY and success.

the must of compulsion and the muse
of duty. The first addresses man as .
slave who is reduced TO the hard ne
cessity of doing the will of another,
the second addresses him as an exalted
being who was made to lack but little
of divinity. The must of compulsion IL
cramping and repressive, but the must
Of duty calls forth the highest powers
of the individual. Unhappy is the man
who feels constrained to yield his man
hood TO the "You must" of compulsion,
but happy and triumphant is the man
who, when the voice of moral obliga-
ton within him says: "You must"
freely and gladly replies: IL will"
The must of duty is the voice OF God
in the soul. 1t is the only true patent
of nobility, the noblesse oblige of
spirit who recognizes that the only
convincing evidence of exalted rank
is exalted service. Rubenstein, the
brilliant musician, "the Beyond-Mar
at the piano." once said: MAN mus,
have n duty to fulfill, must or he
will lose the standard for the founda-
ton of his existence" In this the great
piano-king, who was n very dingent
worker, was right. or all the inhabi-
tants OF the earth man alone can rec>
ognize the authority of those mighty
words. must and ought. He feels that
God is behind those words and that
manhood gives them weight. God gives
to him high powers, sets before him
exalted duties. and only by the per-
Torrance of those exalted duties does
he come up TO the original standard
of that existence.
The Son OF Cod whose life on earth
was In the highest degree voluntary,
fully submitted to the great sacrificial
must OF the Gospel. lie told Nicodemus
that the Son of man must be lifted up
specifically; He told His disciples that
He must work the works of Him that
sent Him, while il was day; and when
the shadow of the cross fell darkly on
His path as He drew near TO the supreme
hour of His life He clearly saw the
physical possibility of turning aside
from Calvary, but the moral possibility
Of turning aside was negatived by the
high purpose which had brought Him
into this world to live and die for the
when the cross was looming large in
the foreground OF His life He thus So
liloquizcd with His soul: Now is my
soul troubled; and what shall / say?
Father, save me from this hour. But for
this cause came TO this hour. l shall
say rather, Father glorify Thy name;"
and He knew that in clarifying that
name He must endure the cross.
The must Of duty leads men on to-
wards the highest excellence. Ruben
stein was very careful 10 preserve. and
II possible increase, his great technical
skill as a pianist by constant practice.
With regard TO this, he said; ut must
be done. For you see, If for time
omit practicing regularly, the first day
/ alone shall notice il, the second day
the critics will perceive 1t, the third day
the audience, and on the fourth l shall
be Kissed" The men who have sue
cceded in all departments OF effort are
the men who, like Rubenstein, have said
of every difficult or laborious thing
which seemed necessary TO fit them for
excellence in their profession at
must be DONE"
And the must of duty, though often
stern, is, when rightly seen, truly at
tractive. Wordsworth personates duty
as: "Stern daughter OF the voice of
Cod" but Gods daughter cannot be
unlovely, and so the poet says of Duty:
stern law giver! yet thou dost wear
The Godhead's most benignant grace;
Nor know we anything SO fair
AS is the smile upon thy face"
De Tocqueville said; 81 become more
and more alive TO the happiness which
consists in the fulfillment of duty. I
believe that there is no other so deep
and so real. There is only one great OBJ
ject in the world which deserves our
efforts, and that Is, the good OF man
kind" SO il one Is seeking for enjoy
ment OF the highest sort let him not
listen to the siren song OF pleasure,
but let him give heed TO the trumpet
call OF duty. Paul, who always sought
to obey the must Of duty at whatever
personal risk, found more Joy in one
hour of his custody at Rome as n Pre-
torinn prisoner than Nero enjoyed in all
the years of his bcsotted life.
The age in which we live needs the
bracing effect OF the must of duty. The
age temptation Is to listen to the voice
Of Mammon, which says: Get wealth,
and then enjoy il without the least re-
gard to puritanic scruples."
Mammon talks that way through the
daily papers, as everyone knows who
reads them. One OF the strong lusts OF
our day Is for liberalism in thought
and in conduct, which means a depar-
ture from the holy law Of God. The
puritans were over-strict in certain re-
spects, but they had a strong regard
for the must OF moral obligation, and
therein was the hiding OF their power.
But greater than the puritans, the
pure and holy Son of God, went beyond
all teachers in emphasizing the great
moral "musts" which underlie and sus-
tain every strong character The gate
TO His kingdom, as majestic and simple
as the pylon OF an Egyptian temple is,
"Ye must be born again." and from