The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-06-17

| that you reach forward ana grasp anu
hug to your hearts forever
He next proceeded to Specialize and to
point out the best advantages of making
the best life and in consequence the best
living. One Of the saddest things in the
history of literature was that the immor-
| tai works of Scott were written for gain!
| God only knows what that man might
have been had his purposes been differ
ent. As long as man simply works for
a living the product of his work at best is
machine-made. 1t is only when he loves
his work that it is handmade. There is
all the difference in the world between
| the two. In the handmade product there
is something of the life and the soul of
the worker. There are original pictures
in the world today painted by the great
masters that are worth thousands of dol
lars. You can get machine made re-
| production for TWEEN ty-hve cents. II we
are going to do our work as we'll as we
can, if we are going to furnish to the
world a handmade product, our living
must be means to an end that of max"
ing all ideal life
The next point the speaker wanted to
| impress was that the distinction between
the sacred and the secular ought never to
have been made. There are lives today
that are not what they would be because
those who are living them think they are
living a secular life, in contradistinction
| to a sacred life. There is no distinction
between the two. The only difference
| there is between wrong and right. God
has only one purpose in the world today,
the making of men and women. The
man that follows the plow in the furrow,
that sits at his desk in the office or in the
mercantile establishment or who is IN the
marts of trade-all of us are engaged IN
some department Of that great work and
| all of US are doing sacred work if we
are doing it with an eye single TO Gods
approbat on, and doing it the best we
can. Just so long as we are doing some
thing that is Gods will that should be
done we are doing something sacred Our
attitude to truth depends upon our view
of this question. There is only one thing
to pursue in this world, and that is truth.
Every falsehood is check drawn upon
| natures bank and after circulation 1t
| will come back and be presented tor
payment with the answer, mo deposit "
But I may skip this country before that
falsehood has been presented atthe bank
of truth for collection But if my purpose
in this world is to make life, to live an
| ideal life, then l know that it must be
| founded on the rock-bed of truth.
There is not any united states OF truth.
1t is a republic of truth. All truth IS one'
| and wherever you frd a fact it is part
of all truth. The materials of truth have
not been enlarged, for they have existed
from the beginning. The truth the mill
lister expounds, the truth the scientist
finds in his laboratory, the metaphysical
discoveries the truth about electricity,
the truth about all subjects, is not sepa-
rated, but it is all the same truth and to
live one intelligently is to live all.
Another distinction which the speaker
| wanted to call attention to is the differ
ence between achievement and success.
In the last analysis success consists IN
choosing that which is worthy of our God
given powers and pursuing it with all our
might, forever, until the very last. The
words of the master were not achieve
ment, not success in the sense of achieve
ment, but "Be thou faithful unto the
death and I will give you a crown OF lite. "
Set before you that which is worthy OF
YOU and be faithful unto death. That is
success in its widest and best and noblest
form.
Finally, a word personal. You have
probably read in your classical studies OF
the origin of the Sibylan books. How
| woman brought them to Tarquin and
offered them for price that was fabulous
and he laughed her to scorn. She de-
stroyed three and then offered him the
other six at the same price. He again
LAUGHED her to scorn. Again she burned
three and offered the last three for the
same price. His curiosity was aroused.
| It occurred to him that he ought to have
them, and in that late hour he bought
the remaining three. When he looked
through them he found the inspired
nrophecies of the future of Rome and the
Roman empire. Had he only bought the
nine he would have had a complete chart
bv which to sail the ship of state. So are
opportunities as they present themselves
to the young man or the young woman.
We can have all the opportunities OF lie
for the price. Later only two-thirds will
remain. and later only one-thlrd. There
is not anything that the young man may
not be, that he cannot be if he will just
realize in the beginning the necessity for
a thorough equipment for entering upon
his duties. am thankful to have had
the opportunity to speak about lite to
those who stand upon its threshold, to
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