Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-26

poor young man possessed OF courage
and ambition. have risen 10 the fore
most rank Of respect ana public IN
fuenCe
think Patterson had no more money
nj the start than Adams, and | Know
that Adams had not 80 much as dol
lar,
Both are now wealthy men and better
10 say their wealth Is the least part Of
them. There are many Wealthier men
I'm the state who have nothing at all
Int their Wealth-what a pitiful hoard,
Wealth is only honorable when II IL the
fruit Of ambition, not OF greed-9inol--
lion for a wider, fuller life, Greed
cramps and shrlvels the soul not less,
but even more than poverty.
The getting Of money has not shriy-
eled the generous ambitions OF either
OF these men. They are neither mis-
ers nor spendthrfts Adams has been
little more lndulgent to himself than
Patterson. He has Travelled a good
deal both on this continent and abroad
His nature rs softer and his Intellect
less self-reliant than Patterson's but
[ do not think he has been more in
dulgent and helpful to others Both
are kind and helpful. They can't help
everybody. no one can. The world is
crowded with dreary incompetents
whose Ceaseless need arises largely
from dnrestralned habits Of sef-ln-
diligence. Both OF these admirable
men missed the advantages OF good
primary education / do not mean that
they missed the common school edu-
nnHruffnm
Is primary enough God knows for the
requirements OF life on any plane
above the lowest, Both had the intel
ligence 10 recognize the disadvantage
early, and set diligently about correct
ing t. Patterson could now without
violence, be called a scholar-he mas
the habit OF systematic and continuous
mental application and his learning, II
not classical Is varied and sound. With
"A wider range OF mental sympathes--
the desire to know something Of every
thing-the mind Of Adams has more
superficial. less possessive grasp
What Adams would naturally desire is
culture-.that soft something Cor a lit
lie of eyervthing) which tertll2es the
mind by a pleasureable process Of abb
sorptlon. He has acquired IT, lie is
! a man of very nice appreciation or that
sort of thing-Qulte unusually 20 Tor
"a man who has dug up his own fortune.
Patterson, with q mind OF a rugged
or tyne and q more pOssessiye grasp,
| would naturally ind more 10 his taste
n regular corn-beef diet OF substantial
y and exact learning something to bc
"wrastled with" and digested aud put
! away I'm the bank Of the brain subject
I to sight draft at any emergency
] He also has captured what he began
| early I'm NE To pursue. Both Of them
have had continuous mental growth.
/ adams Is AZ and Patterson Is 81 and
! both are growing still Both OF them
have made n very noticeable growth
since | first knew them IA years ago,
Both of them win continue to grow
mentally for the next ! 900 years, u
they live and pursue the same mental
| regimen
That IL n point | wish to emphasize
In this political sermon FOR the special
benefit or those ambitious young mon
In every city and little village in the
state-young lawyers, young doctors
young clergymen, young journalists
and young teachers whose brains are
shriyeling from dry rot while they ARE
waiting for the recognition which they
are SO confident they deserve--iar more
confident land this means YOU than
they viii be when they deserve II bet
ter.
TO them I would say that mental
growth depends ON faithful mental ef-
fort and that mind growth IS conducive
to longevity as well as to force OF
character and pecuniary profit and po-
litical recognition on amy manner Of
distinction
More ambitious hut "unrccognized
young men die IN the United States OF
the dry rot in a year than are lost Ia
their country aud 10 fame I'M century
by overwork of The brain.
As soon as the brain stops growing
IL begins to decay
Patterson Is 81, and a big man. yet
expect 20 see him good deal bigger
man az 81 than he is today,
As Tor Adams, he would make no
shabby figure as president OF the Unit
ed States today and ] VIII guarantee
that he viii be as much better qualified
to be president az 81 as he is now to be