The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-15


than the trade in the ordinary products /
of fo. eign land. Great cities like /
Bristol in England had been built up by I
the slave trade. The existence of colo
MES was supposed to depend upon it !
The right of ownership of man by man |
and of the sale of man to man without !
regard to family ties, was hardly ques-
toned. One would rarely find a task
| more hopeless than the arousing of pub
| lie sentiment, the breaking of the hold
| of greed upon English merchants, the
| obtaining of legislation against slavery.
| The story os what Wilberforce did
century ago to change the thought of
! the Christian world about slavery is the
record of one of the great moral victo-
ries of human history. 1t is the story
| of what great Saith and moral courage
can do to ennoble the man into whose
| life they come and of the way in which
| through him they confer inestimable
benefits upon the world. Wherefore
said to a mountain, Be thou removed
and cast into the sea, and it had been
done.
| But we are not called to such great
and holy tasks as these as we make up
our lives We are allied to help in
making an end of the Y rongs and abuses
in the world. and TO do what We can
to bring in the kingdom of God. But no
such conspicuous place and work come
to us as to Howard and Wilberforce
We shall not cause such mountains in
the path of civilization as have been
named to be removed and cast into the
sea. But there are Instructions in the
way by which We all must go to the
true end of life to be removed by faith
and courage Many young man has
borne in pain the desire for education
as a great good in life and the way to
it is closed by poverty. He is poor and
he must let the hope of a liberal edu-
cation die. But if his faith in the great
value of education and his faith in him.
self be strong and his courage equal
his faith that mountain of poverty will
be gotten out of the way and cast into
the sea. Many Of the most prominent
and most useful men in the country
have had to say unto this mountain of
poverty, by their faith, courage and will
be thou removed. And hundreds of
young men are saying it in this city to-
day and are showing the finest kind of
heroism as with great self-denial they
. are gaining an education. You think
; you must find heroes in books, but you
, pass them on your streets and know
, them not-young men who are doing
disagreeable tasks, denying themselves
? for the sake of an education-doing he
roc things unrecogniZed even by them
, selves. And it is but fair to say that
these many young men and young wo-
, men who know the worth of educa ton
, well, who have let the hope of obtaining
: it pass and have accepted narrowness,
that they might do their duty by those
t dependent upon them, that forgetting
4 themselves they might be faithful in
, ! their places. And they have put out OF
the way a mountain also, in forgetting
, self and in allowing the duty just at
a hand and the sense of responsibility to
dominate their lives.
e Indeed, what all of us need to get out
e of the way in order to make the most
t out of life Is self. In real sense we all
t stand in our own way, because we think
t of everything in relation to ourselves
a and make orr judgment of it as il
+ bears upon our own interest"
f There is a true self-regard, self re-
/, spect of supreme value as an element
s in character. which we were made t
e feel because we are made in the image
It of God. There is little to build upor
IS when a man has lost self-respect wher
$ there is no appeal to his sense of wha
n is becoming him as man made of Goo
II in His own likeness and redeemed BY
$ Jesus Christ as His brother. Nothing
d good is to be said for the religion which
s. makes man neglect the proper care o
e his person or speak of himself in mea1
IS and grovelling ways. st. Paul did no
d write of our vile body as the accepted
If version reads, but of the body of on
humiliation. We are represented
IT made little lower than the angels ant
k made to feel our close relation as spirit
l. ual beings to God who is a spirit. Blu
n self respect degenerates unless CAREFUL,
S, guarded into selfshness, self regard in
N to self assertion. The most common oh
T struction in the way of most Of us i
t. self. We think other people are in GU
le way, are holding us back, are putting
a barrier in the way of our progress
in are injuring us, and the trouble is en-
,e tirely with ourselves. The man VIII
l. has conquered himself, risen above sell
ct made self subordinate to high and hol
ct purposes in life, has cast a mountai
Sc into the sea and opened the way to tn
" richest and noblest life.
IN A mountain lies In the way Of man
Id of you, and bars your progress in tn
Id form of bad habits and prejudices. Yo
to have almost unconsciously fallen int
S. ways of acting and thinking and hav
r. become hardened in them and they al
,e, not the best and not worthy of you. Ac
oy cepted habits and customs may hol
OF YOU in their grasp so that you are the
W slave, not your own master They al
he like chains upon you, preventing yo
en- from marching on to the attainment {
We the true end of your life. And you ar
h. very likely unjust to others, probabl
ry to those nearest you in your home an
m work, expecting them to adapt then
on selves to your habits and fancies, to
til patient and considerate of you as if yC
I'd were a superior kind of being. An
n they can't tell you what they think I
We you because they are in your powe
I'D Your customs and opinions ought to
ty such as those about you can respect NJ
sh having to treat you tenderly as if yc
~. were a spoiled child not to be crosse
ed Why should you have special conside
SIS. alton in your home or in business b.
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