The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-06-19
YOIiR LIFE WORK.

The days Of graduation draw hiBh
for many Of the young men AMI girls
school days are about to close. soon
they will enter into the responsibilities
entailed by life. Some have chosen
their vacations while others are AZ YET
undecided. To the latter the Thought
should impress itself upon them thar
life is a mission; it should have to each
entity definite purpose, hence the
quicker the youths and maidens realize
what their aim is the more certain Will
success await them, providing that each
Loyalty, energetically rs well as pracu-
cally applies himself or herself to the
task in hand Experience teaches the
necessity Of young men assuming coh-
genial work, which they are fitted Tor
at which by diligence, they can DO well
and succeed One young man may
be mentally and sentimentallY con
structed for the Office and duty OF
clergyman, if this is Sc he should never
attempt to attain distinction in the shoe
making trade, while another young man
may be successful rs maChinest, and
if he would be prosperous he should
follow that trade and make no attempt
% be doctor. There il an intangible
law of inclination, a law which applies
TO each person and must be interpreted
by each person. This II very safe one
TO submit TO- conditionally that the
person il competent to make n just IN
depreciation.
One warning now appropriate TO
the youths who stand at the gateway OF
life. soon TO enter therin, IL that they
may labor 10 the sustaining develop
ment Of the body and the brain which
God and Nature has given them. Choose
the work you will do yourself. Don't
let some one else choose for you. Fail
ure after failure has occurred simply
because young man went into II pro-
fession or "A business ut his parents BE-.
hest Because Il man Ia u father to II
boy is no argument that that father can
interpret the boys inclination for life
work. He may be n vain and foolish
father one Of those men whose over
weening pride ia his son would lead him
to direct the boy 10 associate himself
with bank, hoping that in the course
OF time his son may become president of
"A financial institution. He may never
take into account the boy 4 adaptability
or nor. adaptability for finance In his
generalizing imagery he sees the master
Of millions, and believing his lad will
some day be j T. Morgan urges him
10 secure a position in bank. Boys
have oheyed their "daddics' and n
little way ont in life these "daddies'
have died and the boy has grown into
manhood, but instead Of developing in
to master Of finance he becomes "a
hack at arithmetic aud this because he
Willingly or unwittingly was forced in
to wrong vocation.
for mother 10 dedicate baby boy
present him AT the altar for spiritual
service in other words have her mind
made mp that he shall become preach
or or a priest Such dedication il
foolish the baby boy when the years
Iass and ne has grown to maturity
may be totally unfit for such calling
but the mother had had her heart set
upon an ecclesiastical vocation and "A
clergyman he becomes That is one
reason why the pulpit has contained so
many undesirable occupants
Inasmuch AZ the gravity Of the choice
Of life work II great let us hope that All
the Manitowoc graduates will be wise
in this particular