The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-30
THEROAD To SUCCESS
PRESIDENT CYRUS NoRTHRoP AD-
DRESSES MENssrMEEFING AT
YM CA.
DEvEIopMElF OF THE MIND
Proper EApanss of Faculties sPiae-
ed Above Acquisition of Wealth
or Attainment of
Power.

Power.
at is one of the finest things in the
! world to be young man. said Presi-
| dent Cyrusl iNorehrop, of the state Hni-
| versity, in an address before the men
! meeting at{sthenY. III G. A. yesterday
| afternoon On 'sThe Road to Success.
| Most young men, however, are anx-
| ious to start out in active life and are
/ impatient to make a success. Youth IS
| the golden period of life, and one Should
| not be in a hurry to become old Be
! content to spend the days Of youth IN
preparing for the struggle of life.
Il am to talk to you today upon tho
read to success and I suppose the firs,
| thing to do is to determine JUST
| what is success. If one starts out on q
journey he first determines the place to
which he desires to go. When this is
done he can easily decide upon the road
he wants to use. If a man is going to
the coast from ST. Paul he will choose
the Great Northern or the Northern Pa
cific, but would not think of starting
out on. one of the roads that leads TO
Chicago That is the way it is with
starting out for success. When one de-
termines just what it is that he desires
to attain it will be easy for him to de-
I think the simplest definition of success
is to do that which one starts out to
do. 1t makes no difference whether it
is something good or bad. The man who
starts out to commit suicide and sends
a bullet through his heart makes a sue
cess, although it is a success that /
would not recommend. But success in
its truest sense is the accomplishine
that which one undertakes, no matter
what may be the object in view
The comomn idea of success is the ac-
cumulating of a large fortune. This Is
success, of course, but 1 would not clas-
sify it as the highest form of success
1t is not the accommodating of large sums
of money that constitutes the highest
form Of success so much as it is the
right and proper use Of the wealth Ii
one will earn his money honestly and use
it for the betterment of the world he
achieves success that is worthy of
praise.
Watch Trivial Expenses.
''All capitalistsscan give one advice re-
garding the way to become rich and all
the advice iSaof a like nature. The prince
of personal economists, Benjamin Frank
lin, wrote a great mnay mottos which
were published in Poor Richards AL
manac," and many of them are well
remembered today. Two of these I wish
to emphasize today are, Beware of lit
tie expenses and Little leaks will SINK
big ship, Theses are guideboards along
the road to success. The trouble is they
are not regarded sufficiently. Little
leaks will sink a large ship is a motto
that should appeal to ALL and especially
to those who are the little ships. The
little boat is easier sunk than the large
one, and we should watch more CAREFUL
no 10 calyc
can stand the daily drain of small ex-
penses that would throw the ordinary
man into bankruptcy Immediately Re-
member that you are one of the small
boats, and 1t behooveS you to watch dill
igently for the small financial leakages
that threaten the safety of your little
bark
My advice to you, young men, Is TO
earn all you can, spend as little as YOU
can and be honest mad upright in all
Your dealings. If you follow this advice
you will become rich, honored and re.
spected and will have sufficient reason
to conclude that you have made a sue
cess of life.
L do not consider the getting rich
as the highest form of success. The
earth Is the Lords and the fullness
thereof. The gold and the silver belong
to him as do the cattle that feed upon
the hills Whatever a man may ac-
quire in the way of worldly property is
only that which he holds as the steward
of the Almighty. His success therefore
VIII not depend so much upon the
amount that he holds in his possession
IS it will upon the way in which he az
counts for its disposition. Financial sue
cess then is in it's highest sense the right
and proper use of the money entrusted to
the care OF man as the steward of God.
Development of Mind.
My ideas of the highest success to
which man may attain is the proper
development of the mind that God has
gwen him. We never realize what n
great blessing the mind is until We see
someone who has no mind Then we
thank God for the mental faculties he
has given US. Now a man NAV deveIop
the mind or he may dwarf it. He NAV
wrap himself up in his business and each
evening content himself in counting up
how much more money he has than he
had IN the morning. He may go on for
nifty years in this way and acquire great
wealth, but | would not say that he has
made success of life He will at the
last become a dried up specimen of moth
ing. with money attachment.
Man is also given a heart 1 do not
mean the physical organ that means so
much to the body, but that finer organ
ISM that Is the seat of feeling and senti-
ment. A great deal may be done toward
developing the powers of this faculty in
man. The heart may be so nurtured and
developed as to answer with sympathic
pulse all the crying needs of humanity,
or it may be so stunted and dwarfed as
to allow its posseSsor to turn a deaf
ear to the suffering needs of those
around him. Upon this depends in no
small degree the success that one makes
In life. If one has so trained his heart
as to1make 1t respond readily to the calls
of those around him. even though he has
not made fortune in life, he has
achieved success that is worth more
than gold
In conclusion I would say that the
highest success is to develope all the
God-giyen faculties of the body so as to
make the most Chr:stlike being that is
possible to make 1t is the highest
development of the mind according to
the opportunities that God has
given and the perfecting Of the
character to the highest degree thai
Is possible. Then it is the application
of this perfected and rounded manhood
in doing all that is possible for the well
fare of mankind and upbuilding of
human character. 1t seems to me that
this is the highest ideal of success that
lies within the reach of man, and
should be the object toward which all
his higher aspirations are to be direct
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