The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-01
WORK IS NO CURSE
"The Gospel Of Work" Preached by
Rev. DR.. Salmon at the Uni
versity Yesterday.
Baccalaureate Services Held in the
A1mory-Th Closing Words
by DR.. Northrop.

The baccalaureate address in connection
with the exercises of commencement week
at the state university was delivered yes
terday in the university arrnory, by Ri.
Rev. William H. Salmon, the new presi-
dent Of Carleton college, Northfield. The
armory was crowded. Palms and foliage
plants adorned the stage.
Or: Salmon preached 'rhe Gospel of
work. His text was I. Corinthians. iii.
., we are laborers together with God.'
Inc b1Dle said DR.. Salmon "extols
labor as virtue and denounces idleness a 8
SIN. 1t has scorn for the sluggard and
praises Tor the worker. 1T is the hand
of the diligent that maketh rich "rhe
soul of the diligent shall be made fat. :,
Inc promises are everywhere and always
TO the worker, for "Whosoever hath tn
MN snail be given Idleness, not work.
Is a curse.
The story is told of a young man who
was sentenced to the state prison in Con-
nect1cut for forging pension papers. While
changing his own clothes for the prison
garb, he remarked to an officer, I never
ala a days work in my life The officer
replied, No wonder you have brought IN
mere Satan finds mischief still for idle
hands and idle brains to do
After relating the disadvantages of idle
ness, the advantages Of labor, DR.. Sail
mon described the motives of the laborer
| a-~NS AAAoSA'N
or of cold or hunger, produces slave labor;
the motive of acquisitiveness, whether OF
money or fame, or place merely is a GER
ta1nty, a higher sentiment; the motive
| of personal ambition comes next and
higher still, the labor that is done for joy,
the joy that the activity Affords The
| last variety of motive was illustrated by
! a quotation from Tennyson's Wages"
| But the highest form of labor is dons
under the impelling power of love, for il
| is the labor of God himself, who does all
things for loves sake.
MAY God make each Of us, in our owr
place and time, to work under the impel-
ling power of love. So shall we be labor
ers together. with Himself May He gra.
ciously grant to us the ability and the
will to work while it is day, for the nigh
cometh And as we come to the evening
| time, and close up our work, and, con
scious of it's imperfections, pass it on tt
Him, knowing that His eye will detect {
| thousand faults where we have seen bu
one, may it be with the poets prayer:
'If there be good in that wrought
Thine hand compelled it, Master, Thine;
Where have failed to meet Thy thought
/ know through Thee the fault was mine"
After the baccalaureat address, Presi
dent Cyrus Northrop Of the universit,
spoke to the graduating students. HI
said: "Give yourselves that the worlt
may be made better thru your influence
Not by canting and carrying your Bibl
under your arm, but by your work ant
life, you can lift UP your fellow-man TIL
sweetness will pas out of your life If yol
live but for yourselves. Be useful wher
ever you co.
The collection then taken was expecte'
to complete the fund for erecting monu
ment In memory of the student-soldier
who died during the late war; but onl
$113.75 in cash and pledges was secured
leaving $1,292.51 still to be contributed.
The invocation at the beginning of tn
exercises was by Rev. Henry A. Stimpso
of New York, formerly pastor Of III
Plymouth Congregational church, this city
The music, under the direction of Pro
lessor Emil Oberhoffer, was furnished b.
q double quartet, including the choir Q
1.-The Church of the Redeemer.