The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-06-17
COLLEGE GRADUATES.
Exercises of the Week Well
Carried Out.

Se&A AS0 ~ 0s'
TWO MOST EXCELLENT SERMONS
Delivered by Rev. j. b. Harris and
DIR. Frank Loyeland The Musical
Recital Decided Success.
On Wednesday evening at the Presby
terian church Rev. j. b. Harris OF
Boone and formerly of Denison deliver
ed the annual lecture to the graduates
of Denison college. Prayer was offered
by Rev. Dr.. Miller of the Methods |
church after which Rev. Harris was in
tfoduced by Prof, Van Ness.
In opening his address Rev. Harris
said that he thought it a little presump-
tious for him to come back to Denison
where for six years heshad been telling
the people all he knew but he would
have found that his hearers would not
agree with him son this point. The
subject chosen was Some Elements
that make for Successful Life
The address throughout was enlivened
by apt illustrations and occasionally a
story to bring out some thought more
clearly, and again passages of great
eloquence.
Rev. Harris defined success as making
the most Of our abilities and opportunl-
ties. Our ordinary conception of man
s,o,,o ,,,l,o hos o,,oooa1 rroot wealth or
has attained to some high Office. But
these things are not necessary to success
for if they were, but very few OF our
people could be called. successful. To
night we she'll use the sense OF the
definition given.
Among the elements necessary to
snccess an important one is to find work
for which we are fitted. God has given
] MS diversity of gifts. Different men
have different ability in learning. A
man who had been through business
)ollege and wanted to get little prac.
tical experience applied for position
In telegraph Office. At the end OF
two years he was advised to go back to
the farm where he made success.
Other men could learn telegraphy IN
from three to six months. The same
thing holds in other lines of work as is
! shown in the life of Rosa Bouhem
General Grant and others. We mus'
| find our place. =
The second element that is necessary
} to success is patient persistent ploddint
and all who would be successful mus
come to realize this.
There is very little difference betweel
men in the ultimate measure OF ablllt.
in same time. The difference is in tn
amount of work they do. We rea
Dickens and admire the apparentl
natural and easy flow of his style We
I his best passages we're written agar
and again. Of our earlier writers Ber
y jamin Franklin probably approaches
sE near to perfection as any one, yet tn
story as given in his autobiograph
shows the patient persistent toll b
which he perfected his style.
Lincoln's address at Gettsburg, h
second inaugural address, poems
prose- or his debates with Douglas we
not the results of accident but of pc
sistent toll
The tendency of the present time
do as little as possible is to be deplore
We must give to our work the best
have. A letter of Lincoln to his ste
brother, a shiftless sort of fello'
who had written asking him for mon
will show his attitude. The step-brot
or had written saying that he want
to move from Illinois to Nilsson
Lincoln asked whether he expected
do any better in Missouri, whether
could raise more crops, or sell the
better when he had them. The OF
thing to better your condition is to
to work where you are in Illinois.
There are people who say that
4 Ayoung man has not now the char
he once had, but it is better to be
young man to day than it ever was
fore.
For centuries men did not use
forces that were about them.
lightning and thunder are calling
plan to use them, Niagara was watt
to be harnessed. Now is the time wi
men are arousing themselves, !
saN world is taking up things that CO
81 Rot have been thought of short ii
sI(N@.o. There are great enterprises, to
M@nducted. and with them come gr
!, \ HNkoblems to be solved. From
N%hools of the middle and west
Mites will come some young men
4 N.o solve these problems. The tt
ent in success is the quality