The record-union., 1899-11-15
tbreshhold of his career than the prayer

Threshold of his career than the prayer
me to do?" l believe that God will an
swer that prayer to every young man
VINO honestly and earnestly offers it.
When you have decided on a bust
ness or trade resolve to achieve emil
hence in it. Climb to the top. Make
your mark in your chosen business. Do
your work thoroughly and we'll. what
ever it is. Put heart and brain and
conscience in your work. 1t is not
what you do, but how you do it that
determines your rank in the scale OF
manhood. The men who have risen
to eminence have begun low down in
tn ladder. George Stephenson climbed
from the coal pit to be the first engin-
eer of the world. Hugh Miller studied
the rocks that he quarried and rose to
sit with the Kings of geology. Peter
Cooper turned old bones into glue, and
glue into gold, and gold into a great
school that places him among the kings
of philanthropists. Fred Douglas did
not even own his own life at the start,
but from the black CULTS Of slavery he
climbed up to sit with kings in the
council of nations. Garfield rose from
driver on a canal boat to take charge
of the Ship of State. Tinworth has
worked his way up from poverty to the
highest throne of artistic excellence in
terra Gotta. These men and others
who might be cited rose to honor and
fame because they toiled under the in
SEPARATION of noble motives. They be-
lieved in themselves and in God and
in their high mission. They achieved
greatly because they aimed nobly and
strove faithfully. They realized the
truth that
So night is grandure to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low thou must,
The soul replies, l can.
Do not for one moment think that
the avenues of honor are closed against
you. There are as good chances in the
world for young men of ability and in
tegrity as there ever was. The men
now on the thrones of the worlds act
ivities will soon pass away. The
hand of death will remove them and
their places will be taken by those who
are fit to take them. There are more
vacancies to-day than there are fit men
to fill them. To the young men be-
fore me I am constrained to say
Dare to aspire to lofty nights,
Look up with eagle eye;
For high as thou doSt dare to gaze,
| So high it's thine to rise.
| The men who have achieved success,
| did so because they aimed at excel
lence. They were interchangeable work
ers. They were not content with med
! iocrity. They were ambitious, but
| they matched ambition with industry.
Whatever their hands found to do they
did with all their might. They thought
out their work, then worked out the.r
thought.
The Bible commands and success de-
mands that a man be diligent in his
business. Listen to the Bible as it
says, BE diligent to know the state
of thy f1ocks" He becometh poor that
dealeth with slack hand, but the
hand of the diligent maketh rich "
Again it says, 1.-The hand of the dill
CERT shall bear rule" No man has 4
right to expect eminence without toll.
Labor is the price that the gods have
set upon all things excellent. The men
WHO have risen, without exception have
been hard workers. Genius may be
defined to be talent for hard work.
An eminent surgeon attributes his sue
cess to his capacity for hard study.
Stenley said he owed his success to
| the fact that he had always been a
hard taskmaster to himself.
Go over the list of men who have
achieved eminence in your city, State
| or nation and you will find that the
successful lawyer, the successful bank
err, the successful merchant the sue
cessful mechanic, the successful ply.
slcian, the successful preacher is a
hard worker You will find it so the
world over. The men who win are men
who toll They scorned delights and
lived laborious days.
The nights by great men reached and
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
| Were toiling upwards in the night.
Multitudes of people would like to get
on and up. but are not willing to pay
the price. They are not willing to work
hard. Hosts Of young men are look
ing for a s'soft snap They want the
maximum of wages for the minimum
of work The reason so many are on
the ragged edge of poverty is they
are lazy. The Bible abounds with
scathing rebukes against laziness. "As
vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to
the eyes, 50 is a sluggard to them that
send him. go to the ant thou slug
gard" If every one to wham this
command applies would begin to obey
1t tomorrow morning, what a long pro-
cession would leave the city. The
Bible says THE slothful man hideth
his hand in his bosom, and will not sc
much as bring 1t to his mouth again.
Which means that he is too lazy to feed
himself He Is like the tramp to whom
a woman gave a sandwich and piece OF
apple pie. He asked her if she couldn't
put it in capsules, for he was too tired
to chew it. There are hosts of mer
in this town as lazy as Solomon ever
met If it is true that "drowsiness
shall clothe man with rags" Their
these young men who are loafine
around cigar stores and throwing dice
for drinks are going into the rag bus
mess as fast as time and laziness car
carry them. They will soon fall into
line as recruits to the great army OF
tramps, and will besiege our kitchen
doors for bread. Shall we feed them
BY no means Shall we let them starvei
Certainly. That seems hard treatment
but it is according to scripture, which
says This we command you, that il
any man would not work, neither
should he eat That is PaulS pre-
scription for the man who will not
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