Milford chronicle., 1904-11-18
Calmaqe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmase, D. D.

hearers, but not doers, and VINO PIN
their faith upon their religious anees-
try or their favorable environment in
stead of getting right with God per-
sonally. this sermon will come as an
arousing call. The text is Matthew
XIV, s, Give US of your oil, for our
lamps are gone out"
All men may be broadly divided into
two classes. There are some on the
border line, belonging not altogether
TO the one class or the other, having
characteristics of each, but the great
mass may be separated into two groups
the workers and the idlers. The one
class includes the toilers, the pullers'
the diggers, the grinders, the climbers.
They are striving to succeed in no
BILE. honest way. They DO not mean
20 be social parasites. They want
share of the good things of life Dut
thev do not expect to receive them as
gift. but to pay for them by honest
work. They hope for promotion ana
tbev strive to merit it by seeking TO
make themselves worthy of it. They
s+,dv and toll to develop themselves
40 that when the opportunity comes
they will be ready to take advantage
Of it. Though they may be IN obscure
positions they do their work We'll anu
when the call comes to so higher they
are prepared by long years Of hard
work to perform the duties Of the high-
er position.
''Why do you study so hard?' Yale
cIassmate asked one day of John u
calhoun. the South Carolina student
vbo was his roommate. You are now
the leading student in the college, NO
man can successfully compete WIN
YOU in any study" oh answered
fba voune man. Il am not working for
leadership in a college town. l am
working to be leader in the nation.
"What, CalhOun-do you expect TO De
great statesman in Washington
eTf l did not expect to go to congress
within six years." answered Calhoun
81 would pack up my books at once
and leave Yale tomorrow. reel 81
sure of going to congress that l De
Orudge every wasted minute. l mus
nrepare myself by unceasing labor tC
meet the nations leaders in the Arena
of debate" John c. Calhoun wanted
TO win success. He did more than that
He wanted to prepare himself by marc
work for the time when that success
should come, as come it did, and as /
nearly always will come to those wh
are conscientious in preparatory work
No short Road to Success.
The second class is comprised OF me-
who want to win success by a mini
mum of labor. They hate drudgery
tbev hone to succeed by some luck
scheme. These are the men who' &c
ing on a foreign tour, expect to lear
French or German in FIVE weeks; the
hone to marry rich wife and have
assv time living on the savings of thei
wife's father; they prepare to condu'
the business of their fathers, not b
beginning, as he did, at the lowest run
of the ladder but by taking 81
months course in a business college
by becoming their fathers nomln
private secretaries. During their eas
apprenticeship they would spend thr'
dnys out of every. week playing go
and at least FIVE nights out Of eYei
seven i'm ballroom, at theater party
in clubhouse dissipatiOns. The lit
time they play at business is wh'
they are not working at play. Inc
people represent failure For as an
writer once said, People who nev
do any more work than they are pa
for never get paid for any more TN
they do" These people always wa
to succeed with a minimum Of work
Yes. the two kinds of people on earth
mean -
Are the people who lift and the peoI
wherever you go you will find the wori
Are ''sl always divided in just these t
classes. a., 80
And. oddly enough. you VIII hnd' TOO
There is only one litter to twenty
lean.
Dropes there are in the busy b
hives of temporal life. Drones tn
are in the busy beehives of spirit
Ufe We know them well. They hi
existed in every age-men VINO IL
to enter heaven, but are not wiling
denv themselves. nor to resist tenn
non. nor u SlIlNG " NAANN-
straight gate 1t was to warn pee
of the fulility of such lives that On
spoke the parable of the ten ylrg
Five of them, he said, were fooi
self indulgent and needless or tne
legations Of the spiritual life. III
not here denouncing criminals or
cious people. These virgins were II
inally Christians, not the murde
and robbers who infested the loi
roads Of Palestine. ready TO wa.
the traveller; not the openly lmm'
like the Magdalene or the woman
samaria. but the people who as an
commentator has said, make a y
fession of the gospel and act in
a manner as to give real Christian
favorable impression Of them an'
gain admittance into their midst"
"a alluding to Christians in name
who outwardly appear all right
vet have not the true inward cons'
zion OF heart and who expect there