The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-19
STRENUOUS QUALITIES, AND OTHERS.

careful observer and Judge of human nature, com
1nenng the marvellous ending of days for the pope
says that the world has rarely such combination
of patience secontrol and courage The conclusion IS
inst and the combination and arrangement of these par
ticuar qualities is attract attention by its novelty
and its justice.
The world has gone just little astray perhaps on
the subject of "strenuosty of late. The word IS IN
everybodys mouth, and is applied to wide range or
and qualities, reaching from those of the hero fallen
on the field of hopeless fight to those of the Bowery
tough Practically all that there is to it IS contained IN
one of the three terms above, courage That is the
first primitive virtue. 1t the strength and test
of manness in the rudest ages and the highest cv1lza
ton recognizes it less fundamental. The coward
is the hopeless figure in age when all else is
mending We have sucked from the idea of the siren
uous life its essence if remember that, whatever
happens does not happen, never to be afraid
But it is apparent that there other elements IN
the makeup of ideal character of that which Will beat
1ot only the searchght of critical analysis but the test
Ing strain of actual life. There things without winch
courage itself unadmirable; exactly as we ind no
model for man in the fercest of the wild beasts that
possess abundant1y. One of them is self-controL
wise man said long ago that he who ruleh his spirit
greater than he that taketh city; and perhaps the rel
alive rank thus established for the of naked bravery
and the master of himself will never be reversed
He who unites courage with selcontrol belongs with
natures aristocracy Upon the great quality that he de-
rives from oWier ancestry and shares with them he
has grated the higher and nober power OF selfrule:
There is a third attribute in the list which IT may
seem strange add the last elimination and crisis
But there is in the order. Patience,d child of
self-contro1 Iorder and oveier in its work human
character combines with courage and selfcontrol IN
creating the highest manhood No in this world
ever achieved ends worthy and notable, by the
mere luck that hangs the cast of die, unless he
knew how to possess his soul in patience
Learn to labor and to wait, the refrain of a
song that inspired the youth of past generation though
the present it has grown commonplace tod-fash
toned Yet within it there lies the truest philosophy.
Great the who nave hurted through the world
possessed by devourng and irresistible Great
er are they whose sef-conro enabled them to choose
their times and their methods and shape the rough
all has the long arbitration of time decreed those to be
whose quality of infinite patience outwearied mis-
fortune and the last word of fate against their
lives Manly the other qualities, but this is di5
vne and when the world has forgotten its heroes it still
remembers it's gods. Supremest is he who has learned
how "to suffer and be strong" g.
From the pulpits may hear in these times that
the cultivation and development of character is the high
est earthly aim. The world, when most nearly
taken in the of comercia1ism the spoer, admits it.
Men of faith and of regarding this life the
beginning of life endless the end of all unite in
seeking the noblest evolution of human character There
many false shrres and gods but the old affairs
stand. Where patience sef-conro and courage unite,
there is manhood in its fullest and finest flower