The times., 1899-07-24
elpful, genuine service there cannot be

helpful, genuine service there cannot be
excess.
Now. what man shall get out of life
on these various planes depends. as we
have already said, upon what he puts into
1t. What man sows that also shall he
| reap. If he sows only to the flesh he shall
of the flesh reap corruption. If he sows
to the spirit also he shall reap life ever
| lasting-life over which death has no
power.
What man soweth that shall he also
reap. 1t is his privilege to reap pleasures
of the flesh. enjoyments Of the mind OF
intellect. and the joys and satisfactions of
the higher nature, but this is possible only
| in the degree to which the lower is made
to minister TO and build up the higher
Specifically then We may say one can make
the most and best of life
'First-By the culture and development
of self, and
Secondly using this culture in the
| service of his fellows
Thirdly self culture. a wise self
| regard is quite as important as regard for
the neighbor. The highest ethical injunc-
tion that we have only asks US TO love our
neghtor as ourselves. Besides, / am
somebody's neighbor and if l am worthy
of his regard l am worthy also Of my own.
My obligation to love and care for you
neishbor but that you are human, having
nature worthy of a care and culture
possible only to the human. l. too, am hu-
man, and this care and culture are as much
my right as yours. and so | am as much
bound to regard my own real interests as
l am TO regard yours.
But. again, my ability to serve you de-
pends on the degree of culture l secure for
myself. | can help you only so far as l
ba,- ca6 baIp bt-
others. So that putting considerations OF
self wholly aside and looking at my
powers simply as instruments for serving
my fellows, l am bound to see that these
instruments are properly shaped and sharp
ened for the uses they are to perform.
Mistakes of Young Men.
cone of the mistakes common to young
men-mistakes which circumstances often
go far to excuse-is that of entering or
their life work with inadequate equipment.
That was a wise provision of the Jewish
code that required a man to wait for the
maturing of his powers before assuming
the office OF public teacher In this age
more than ever before there is an absolute
necessity for broad and deep culture il
one would WELD any great influence in
shaping the thought or issues OF his time.
The weakness OF much of our own reform
literature lies in the want of thorough
knowledge of the best that has been
thought and said and done, in the effort
to realize these reforms in other times and
other lands. and also in the lack of wide
acquaintance with the history OF social
changes in general. and with the laws that
condition mans progress.
Il repeat that we want culture or the
whole man, and not of any fraction of him.
We want not only sound mind in sound
body, but sound and warm heart as well.
The best part OF man is that which
is not distinctively human, that into which
he blossoms and fruits, when he is true
to his whole self. Culture that leaves a
man so cold and frigid in his bearing that
the only use his neighbors can think OF
making OF him is to start cold storage
plant. as one of our naughty newspapers
suggested might be done with certain
former President of this country, is not
the kind OF culture we need. 1t is not
good for the cultured and isn't good for
others. We want u culture that broadens
a mans sympathies as well as his
thoughts, that deepens his human affec-
tons as well as that OF his learning, and
so rounds him out on the side of his lars
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