Connecticut western news., 1903-09-17

indicator which lifts the danger signal
 of sinful explosions, as the engineer, by watching the water in his glass
 tube, knows when the boilers by his side are doing their proper work. You should have this moral compass be- cause the first great essential for every true success is that young man shall be honest, that he can and will distin- guish right from wrong and do the right, no matter what the temporary cost may be. It should be to you spir- itually what in a temporal sense the
 compass is to the explorer, plunging 1 into the darkness of a South American 1 jungle.
 If this fact be true-and it Is true 1 where can better moral code be found | than that written between the covers of the Holy Bible? Where is there a i book which can better inspire one to l tell the truth and be honest in his finan- | cial dealingsf Where is there one that | will better build up such character as | will make the banker trust the mans
 note and employers feel that his hand ] is honest and not that of a thief?
 
 prevail against man whose left hand bears a light to illuminate his sight | when he searches the Scriptures in the | hours of the night" Is not this true in | reference to all honorable lines of bHsi- ness? Alexander Pope's most famous 1 poetical line Is, An honest mans the noblest work of God" How can a man | be made truly honest sooner than through the constant absorption of the Scriptures?
 The Young Mans Safeguard. The Bible is the greatest safeguard l young man can have. Some time ago | an old soldier showed me a mutilated
 Bible. He had carried that book next to his heart all through the civil war | In one battle, however, bullet from an enemy's rife tore its way three l fourths through the leaves of that book | before 1t was halted in its deadly mis- sion. That Bible saved that soldiers I life in physical sense. But in spir- itual sense the word of God can stop 1 the onrush of every Satanic arrow. | That book can be a breastplate as well as moral compass. 1t will teach us, no matter what the crisis of life may | be, to do as Jesus would have us do. It | will teach us the great lesson which | Charles Sheldon's book tried to teach, | to follow "in his steps"
 Granting, then, that each nearer sit
 ting before me has accepted the Bible | as his guide against temptation, the
 next great step forward in the right ota yk in Hfo ic for ovarv uouuU man fo take the first honorable position which
 he can get and not wait for what he wants and cannot get. Likes and dis likes may be very important factors in young mans decision when he has two or three different positions offered to him. But in most cases with young man he does not have choice. | When he leaves school or college a sin gle opportunity arises generally in | very humble sphere. Then he must take that and go ahead with full steam on and not hang around waiting for something else to arise.
 Welcome Opportunity God never calls a man to what he cannot get. Bishop Potter, I think 1t was. once made this very wise saying:
 "Our best thoughts are those which seek us and not those which we seek"
 Gods opportunities in the same way are those which seek us when we are at work. Christ called to Peter and Andrew when they were laboring at their nets. Our best opportunities are | not those after which we are running around, neglecting the pressing duties ] at hand. They are the horny hands of | toll which if necessary are just as
 willing to firmly grip the handle of blow as to wield pen or unsheath a ! glittering sword. Gods messengers of | temporal and spiritual success some
 times appear attired in the rough gar ments of laborer instead of being GOV | cred with the white robes of a corona ton. When Abraham sat at the door of his tent and welcomed the three dust ! stained travellers he thought they were | common men. When the guests left
 they revealed themselves as angelic
 ambassadors. God sometimes sends his greatest opportunities clothed in home l spun. We had better grasp as a friend zach opportunity that comes. We must
 welcome it with full welcome, no mat
 ter how humbly 1t may knock at our | doors.
 Russell Conwelps greatest lecture is l founded upon this idea. His Acres of Diamonds" draws it's inspiration from an eastern legend. An oriental farmer | was one day shown a beautiful dia-
 mond by a passing traveller. In order 1 to find such a diamond this farmer sold
 his farm and went forth on an endless
 search. He sought 1t through youth
 and middle age and far into old age.
 Like the Wandering Jew, he had no
 home. He was constantly on the move. 1, Finally, after many years of fruitless
 search, he returned to the home of his
 childhood. There he found that the
 Golconda mines were upon his former
 property. There were literally "acres
 of diamonds" under his feet So young
 men turn their backs upon their best
 opportunities in the hope of finding | greater opportunities far off. Young
 men about to start in life, take what you can get Grasp the position which
 Is nearest at hand and fill It. Cease
 to dream about air castles and get
 down in the mud and dirt and build
 foundations of solid stone and mortar.
 Do not do as Ahimaaz did. Run no
 foolish race when you have no message
 to carry and your business Is to stay at
 home and clean camp.
 Reward of True Service.
 Advice the next: After you have
 accepted the honest position make
 your employers interest your interest.
 What shall do that shall benefit my
 self r Is the maxim' of failure. What
 shall I do that shall benefit my en-
 ployer" Is the maxim of success. Sue
 cess does not always, as a bee, fly in a
 straight line for its hive. Success, like
 an Australians boomerang, nearly all
 ways goes in circle. That circle may
 widen out and out and out, larger and
 larger but after awhile the boomerang