Milford chronicle., 1904-07-15
DON'T Live For Yourself Alone.

! NAIl5lldu nome training.
Don't Live For Yourself Alone.
Almost saved! Yes, you are. know
1t by the unhappy looks that are CHS
eled IL the wrinkles of your face
When you started out in life YOU
thought the height Of a mans baDpi.
ness could be estimated by the length
OF his bank account. You thought the
worldwide area of his joy could be al.
ways circumscribed only by the hem.
! lspheric spread of his fame. But now
1 Dy bitter experience you know that
wealth and fame only bring added
cares. You know that if a man lives
Tor himself alone, if he does not seek
the higher joys of the soul, if he does
not live for Christ, seeking also the
welfare of his brother man, he can find
no happiness on earth ut all
l can imagine a scene in your life
which brought its emptiness yividly
before you. Such scenes, varying in
their details. come to many a man. bid
ding him pause and consider what is
the true purpose of life. Let me see!
Where did this scene happen? In Chi
cago. You are wealthy merchant.
You have come ont on n visit to Los
Angeles. 1t was in Chicago. as near
as can make ont, on a Saturday night. I.
the second week of January. The fire
was burning brightly on your office
hearth. The table by your side was
niled with papers The employees.
working ten hours a day. sometimes
think the employer entering his Office
az or 10 o'clock in the morning has
very easy time. But long after the
busy beehive of the modern dry goods
emporium has stopped its hum, and
the tired little cash girls have crowded
the streets, laughing, shouting, perhaps
smiling mt the passersby. in juvenile
lelight at being set free from toll. and
The bookkeepers have balanced the ac-
counts. and the iron shutters have been
pulled down, and the clerks have clos
I'll their counters, and the cashiers have
ocked their safes, ana the delivery
wagons have ceased their rumbiing, ,,
ma the wornout horses have been fed !
md blanketed in their stalls and the
treet lamps have become as multitude
ous as the visible stars Of the heavens
he tired merchant works on. The =
'ood in the fire place cracked and l
lughed. The flames leaped higher and T.
igher and sputtered more loudly as d
he reports of the different departments !.
ecorded the business triumph Of u
hole year. Stock had been taken. for u
le holiday goods We're all sold Every u
romissory note had been met. There u
as plenty of money in the bank to u
ear away the remaining debit sides of u
le ledger. p'
What Shall It Profit a NIanF =,
Was not that the history, o rich Chi HI
,go merchant. of the first results of m
'ur mathematical calculations on the tb
Iturday night of the second week in h,
st January? But what about the Sec in
Id calculation you made that impor-
Mt night? As you sat there in your IN
sy armchair you began to dream ~
out the past You began to wonder aI
all this endless struggle for world ~,
success really paid. As you dreamed dt
u thought of the many nights when. W.
able to sleep, you had tossed about ,h
ur hot pillow and thought how the ~
siness world was trying to drive YOU 10 10,
the financial wall, even as some man ~
tn the death marks upon his cheek in -. ~
Old age may be feeced Of his all. ~,
u thought how your very best mo- 81,
es had always been impugned. And -
II, strange to say, instead of glOating -,
r your past financial success as the ..T
tlickered lower and lower an un-
n power made you write upon a De
ad sheet of white paper this prob ,,.o D.e'
I, What shall it profit a man if he ~.
II gain the whole world and lose his -
soulF And as you studied that
blem you were compelled to write yOU
II 1t word of seven letters. You
tie that one word in letters Of fire IOu
'thing.' Nothing" Nothing" Am .1y
rong, o financial magnate. in stat IIs
today thou art not far from the Si..'
sdOm of GOd?" b
v hearers NAV tbin,, have o,.or sud
Yn the picture in asserting that NOS
Idly success from a mere selfish rem
Idpoint never pays, and that only Mni
Christ life is the happy life. Well, .urI
b to illustrate whether mere earth no"
uccess is a satisfying success or Iune
reverse let me read to you a SINK
gy delivered lately in reference to you
Warwick Of American statesman lou
that president maker, Marcus A. unu
ma. In the memorial meeting held go
le senate chamber a short time ago @ ness
tor Scott, Senator Hanna's inti- "he
friend, arose and spoke these text
Is: Mr. President, l shall never tieln
It one early morning when Senator soui
la handed me a New York paper not
lining cartoon of himself, pictured not
huge monster, clad in a suit Gov rang
over with dollar marks, smoking you
lmense cigar and trampling under Sou
women and children, with their m