The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-13

wait for him to catch up. Then. later on.
he must lie down, off and on. and finally
he began to complain; I've such a head
ache, such a headachel' Matters went
from bad to worse. till at last father and
brother had TO half drag. half carry the
exhausted creature to the top. He had
spoiled his own day and he had spoiled the
day for the others. And why? All be-
cause he had been so self-reliant- And re-
liant on what? Why, on a boy without any
breakfast I'm him-that is. on a boy not nj
for such n strain. 'Oh. I'm good for fifty
Mt. WaShingtOns! he had boosted, and,
alasi he was not good for one. His brother,
only =" a boy With a solid meal OF bread
and bn, n. beefsteak and dOughnutS I'm
him. ON Wa: = steadily to draw all the way
kinds OF self-relance.
II RIGHT KIND OF SELF.
Now, you children are here in school TO
lay in a solid breakfast against the day
when you will have TO face and climb the
hill of life. It's a steep, hard hill, l can
tell you, and you will never get to the top
of 1t unless you have two helps on the way;
first. strong self-reliance, and. second. a
a self tit to be relied on. IL is hardly nee
cessary for me TO detail to you all the
items on the bill of fare of the breakfast
you will have to lay in here. Reading
writing, ciphering, geography, physics. his
.tory-these are a few of them that will help
10 Dulid up IN you a clear and accurate
mind with some range of outlook 20 II.
Above all. you are here 10 build up a char
acter that can be trusted for truthfulness,
Industry and honesty. If you fail of es-
tablishing this foundation. the more self
reliance you, have the worse for you and
everybody else. The curse OF our country
Is the hordes Of people thinking themselves
nothing. We have plenty of doctors plum
ing themselves on their ability To treat
grip. consumption and cancer, while they
do not know enough TO treat "A corn or a
bunion. SO with shippers, ready TO take
command OF any wormeaten old hulk and
sink smack 10 Davy. Jones's locker with
crew, passengers and cargo. encounter
,bem' f and ,b instead Of admiring
jail as liars. cheats and criminals. quilting
and hurting the world. They are uttering
false checks, redeemable nowhere. and
through them no end OF people are suffer
ing With painful diseases and brought to
wreck in fortune. Do you want TO know
when you have become a self fit TO be re-
column or ngurcS so that the answer will
come out right every time, when YOU can
speak the truth and shame the devil, when
you can sail a boat and not capsize IL.
Then. and never till them
IL IL needless To say that this style Of
pithy, commonseDse address riveted the
attention of the boys and girls. all the
more that IL came from a man of widely
recognized practical ability. 1t cleared up
me atmosphere and exploded a wretched
sham. For of all the shams that are work.
ing mischief in the minds OF young people
IN America none is worse than the indis-
eliminating lrizzle OF laudation they per
petually have bestowed on the supposed
glorious quality OF self-reliance, as though
1t made no sort OF difference whether or
no IL was reliance on q rotten bridge. OF a
leaky ship. or or a bridge an express train
might safely dash over at lightning speed.
or a ship no gale could founder. The
speaker ended OF on this occasion with
respondent Illustrations drawn from the
career of that highly self-reliant healer OF
all the diseases flesh is heir 10, DR.. Dowie.
OF Chicago. an illustration tending 10 show
how, by unwarranted excess of this virtue
III the man, vast numbers of people have
been badly left" by him.