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

that one which we read in the book of
Ecclesastes; of king possessed OF ex-
traordinary talents and we'll nigh bound
less power and wealth; who gave himself
in youth and the prime of his manhood
to the erection Of magnificent building
and the accumulation of untold treasure
and the pursuit of worldly wisdom and
the indulgence of every lust, and who IN
his old age contemplates his palaces and
his riches and his studies and his pleas
ures, and pronources as his verdict upon
each of them, VANITY of vanities, all is
vanity"
Believe me, young friends, and lay it
to heart, that to do heartily with all your
might whatsoever you do is not enough.
If tuat is to be the extent of your ambl-
ton and effort, can promise you only
disillusionment, infinite WEAKNESS and
ultimate despair. Augustine was right
| when he said that God made us for him
self and we can never be at rest till we
| find our rest in him. Ones highest life
| consist in the possession of Gods holy
spirit, of faith and hope, of JOY and peace
of love and trust and every spiritual sup
| ply; and for this food of the soul, for this
meat that endureth unto everlasting life,
the meat that pe1isheth not; all the world
and all the things that are in the world
can not form even the beginnings OF
satisfying substitute Whatsoever ye do,
do it heartily, with all your might; but
| with all see to it that it is as a Christian
man that ye do it; that you do it not unto
men, not unto mammon, not unto your
| selves but "as to the Lord" and at all
times make your own the words OF that
strange, but reverent prayer; Lord,
steady me to do my full stint of work as
/ we'll as l can; and when that is done,
stop me, pay what wages thou wilt, and
help me to say, from a quiet heart,
! grateful Amen"
| THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE STUDENTS
which was to have been delivered Sum
day, but was postponed on account of the
very inclement weather, was delivered
Monday morning by the Rev. D. N.
Mclaughlin, of Chester, S. c.. The ad-
dress throughout was full of thought,
power and eloquence, and was forclbly
and impressively delivered. In fact, it is
not often that such an address is heard
here. His subject was, making life and
making living. He sought to impress
upor the minds of the students that the
only purpose in life is not to make llv-
ing, hut to make noble life. In fact,
making a life is the whole circle, and
making a living is only very small
segment.
In starting he said that probably the
most fundamental practical fact in life is
! that there is curse upon the soil and
men must toll for living, and it is the
choice of all of us to get the best possible
living with the least amount of toll, and
when you touch the subject of mans
living you touch the most sensitive nerve
that he has. But were the necessity OF
making living removed from us all this
entire world would need readJustment.
| The necessity of toiling has created COM
merce with all of its temptations to greed
| and selfishness and the cultivation OF all
the baser appetites. The war that we are
afraid of most is not the one that is being
waged in South Africa or in the Philip
pines, but the one that is threatened be-
| tween the various peoples of earth be-
cause the remuneration for work in diff
ferent parts of the earth is unequal, and
what we are most afraid of in this cour-
try is the rising of labor because OF op-
preston, or imaginary oppression.
In thinking of making living we Of
ten get our minds centered on this sub
| iect alone and forget the higher things
He gave illustrations to show that the
only success a majority of American par
| ents wish for their children is material
success Making living is the foremost
thought in the minds of the American
people today rather than the thought OF
making life. Itwere pity for any one
to look upon his life as simply means
of making living. The noblest powers
of man, our Godgiven capabilities are not
touched until our purposes and ambitions
in life soar high above such sordid and
| earth bound motives as that. If any one
imagines that he can find happiness in it,
he will be disappointed when it is too
late to reform. Who does not remember
the story of Sargent S. Prentiss. Accord
ing to the memoir written by his sister,.
in the heyday of his glory he told her one
day that he wished he could 60 IN the
bright sunshine and lie down upon the
green sward and go to sleep and never
wake up. And yet, measured by this
sordid standard of success he had reached
the highest point that any man could de-
sire.
But there has been another type of man
and woman There have been those who
when the crisis came were willing to give
up a living in order to make something
higher, life And they have furnished