The Penn's Grove record., 1904-09-30
DOES 1T PAY TO GO TO COLLEGE2
Said a Self-Made Merchant to His Son!

oaiu oeil-haOe eFch to His Sol
not long ago, in answer to this question
anything that trains a boy to thlnl
and think quickly and accurately, paws
anything that teaches a boy to get thu
answer before the other follow get
through biting his pencil, pays" Tha
seems to be arelatlvelylow consideration
but suppose we begin with the Lowest
and advance to the highest in seeking al
answer to the question.
A striking book entitled, "Who's who
In Americana contains biographical
sketches OF the 9,643 of the more prom
lnent OF people of the the United States
VI this number, GIL have a college edu.
or It's equivalent; 965 more attended
college Tor some time; $50 graduated from
academies or normal schools; 239 stopped
with a high school-l2.grades-training
o0o attended only the commons grade
school, while only 81 were self-educated.
These figure show at a glance the import
ance OF higher education for a successful
career.
But the figures do not reveal the whole
truth. The college population number
ed only one in 800 when the men now in
active life secured their training.
Their numbers entitled them to furnish
only one-third of one per cent of the
successful men of the nation, whereas,
they actually furnished SO, per cents.
Thus the college furnished 207 times as
many successful men of to-day as their
numbers merited.
On the other hand, those below the
college rank were entitled by their num-
bers to furnish 299 out OF every 300 of
the successful people, whereas they furnish
less than one-third that numbers.
Young people stand at the parting of
two way. Each must take his place with
one of these two classes within the next
lew years. My young friends-boys
and girls-in which class will YOU choose
to stand? In the class which furnish 207
times as many successful people as the
numbers warrant or in the class which
furnished less than one-third as MANY
successful people as its numbers demand?
Your possibilities for success in the first
class are 62l times as great as the second
class.
WEALTH
10 young people contemplating a bus
mess career, a college course involves an
apparent less of four years of valuable
time IN addition to its cost; hence they
think that such an education stands in
the way OF financial success. But the
educational record, so far as can be
found, OF the men of wealth whose names
appear in The financial Red Book of the
United States, shows that the possibilities
OF winning wealth are 800 times as great
among college-bred men as among those
OF less mental training. These figures
SHOW that the advantages of a college
education for getting wealth are MOI quite
hall as great as its advantage for win
ming lame. But if one is aiming at wealth.
the ratio OF 800 to l in favor of college,
bred men is not to be despised.
WISDOM.
There is another and far more import
ant consideration than external wealth;
viz, internal riches. A mans life con-
sists not in tie abundance of the things
he possesses.
Wealth, at its worst, gives the body
dominion over the mind; at it's best, it
only gives its possessor an opportunity for
higher services and for finer living. But
OF what value are external opportunities
either higher services or finer living, un-
less we possess the power to utilize them.
Men and women in every town in the
United States are living in mental and
spiritual worlds as distinct from each
other as is the world OF man from that OF
the animals below him. The great object
OF an education is not to enable you to
make money or to win fame, but to live.
knowledge is It's OWL exceeding great re-
ward.
"Thou art infinitely greater in that
thou act a man than is any man in that
he is a king"
THE ECR OF PRoGREs
Evolution shows the chief cause of
mans advance in civilization and of his
ascend beyond the animals is the prolong-
alton of the period of childhood, or of
the period OF receptivity and learning in
the human species.
In the animal kingdom, the period of
infancy and youth is seldom more than
or five years. Among the savage
tribes the period OF receptivity and OF
freedom from the responsibility of a fami-
ly extends to twelve or fifteen years. The
superiority of modern civilization over
ancient barbarism is due to the extension
learning. Benz. Kidd in a remarkable
book on Weston Civilization shows that
the human race advances only as man
fall under thedominion of the future as
ONNA dSoAllcU ClulCI UllG duUIlOTlUV Oh IlG
past or the qualification of the present.
Faith in the sense of foresight is essential
to Il progress. Why, therefore, should
we hesitate to follow the trend of eyolu-
ton, to fall under the dominion of the
future, to secure the longest period of
growth, and thus to help yourself and
the race to reach a higher civilization?
CHARACTER
TIo4 =, ,,,A 4,--
larges our mind, but fails to strengthen
your character. Jonathan Edwards edu-
cation made him a prince among thinkers,
and a saint among Christians. His
grandson, Aaron Burr, received better
scholastic training than did his grand
father; but he was without moral culture.
While, therefore, you deny yourselves
present ease II enjoyment for the sake
OF future blessings, do not fix your eyes
simply upon the short, fleet future of I'M
certain life, but upon the long future of
the infinite ages.
While you seek in every legitimate way
to strengthen your powers for the contest
OF life, use these strengthened powers not
for personal gain, but for the service of
your fellows.
H PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
The old ~theologians showed rare in
sight in treating the life of Christ under
the three titles of prophet, priest and
king. The prophet is the one who knows.
incidentally he ~foresees the future, can
predict the outcome of movements be-
cause he sees clearly the forces now at
work producing that outcome. Knowl-
edge is the first essential of kingship or
mastery. You or | would be terrified
to be left alone on an engine, running at
the rate of sixty miles an hour. But the
engineer is without fear because his
knowledge of the engine makes him
master of the engine. So the drug store,
and the chemical la~bratory, and the cleo
trio generators destroy the uninitiated
who presume to trife with tn lem. but
serve the masters who understand their
contents.
Education first means knowledge, and
knowledge is mastery. 1t starts one on
the road to kingship. But while know
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