The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-09

Tou are going out TO grapple with the
stubborn elements OF the material world;
her irreyersible laws; her stupendous
forces. You are 10 tame them, twist them.
mold them, master them, to alleviate the
hard condition Of human existence. You
are TO mix chemical substance. adjust me-
steam-and you look 10 me like Tubal
Gains and young Prometheis. My eyes
nave hlled at sight of young men ordained
10 the ministry; consecrated 10 music
marching behind the drum and the fife 10
war, but they overflow when 1 look into
your faces and think what a service you
are 10 perform. you men and women OF the
crafts that deal with things. And what
long 10 do is 10 be one of those instrument
talities that may make you feel the beauty
and the glory of your task-that makes
you see that toll itself is in itself sancti-
tude and psalm.
What sort of life are you going to live?
DO you know that your education has been
given you not that you may make a living,
but that you may make life. Noble hv-
ing In time and space. noble life I'm terms
OF existence within this visible world is,
said Aristotle, the end OF the law What
is noble life? IL is a pure ideal, con-
celved in the enthusiasm OF youth and at
tained In the strength OF manhood. Have
you found it? You will need it. In many
domains of endeavor the ideals OF this
age are law. AS a frog will leap from a
throne TO a puddle. men I'm search OF
wealth plunge from idealism into the nasty
cline of materialism. This age wOrships
success and is too often the ruin
of their spiritual natures which men dig
Nifty by that resounding name. II is that
temple where the god of per cent. Is en-
throned that you find the masses PROSTATE
in alteration. Whether rightly or wrong
ly / do not knew, but Rudyard Kipling
has been charged with this Internal out
burst of enthusiasm for the man who
wins: Morals Morals Cecil Rhodes needs
no morals, He Is building empirei
There lies the peril of the modern world,
1t is the delusion of the middle ages risen
from the dais and clothed in the three
button cutaway coat OF the nineteenth CEN
fury. If you house-buiders, engine-build-
ers, factory-builders, empire-builders are
going out with the faith that as long as
builds IL makes difference how he
builds, and that he needs no morals In the
cement with which he builds, We may as
we'll turn the clock OF the ages back 10
the hour when Jesus Christ was born and
begin again the painful struggle TO create
a noble civilization. for with all the terrific
engines at your command you viii plunge
the world into a darker night than that OF
the ages of the era before our Lord.
Oh il was not through the sightless
orbs Of materialism that such men
rola and Knox and Lincoln went TO
their tasks. II was NOT without morals
that they built their empires. To such men
as John Henry Barrows life was a beau-
tude. because God was in all their thoughts
and their toll was a sanctitude and psalm.
1t was because they cleft their wood and
lifted their stone looking for Him that
they found Him. IT is such men that l
hold UP for your Ideals to-day not the
niggardy souls of the idolators Of money
and success; but the men Of heroic mold"