The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-24

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I shudder at what would have been had I |
Been heard. He led me in a better way. I
And I have learned to fear to walk a1on@
To take His hand, and plead: Mead ThoI
me on"
Ny soul goes out again in one great cry, !
But it i one OF praise-"How good !
The Rev. Edwin b. Burgess, in the Ne
York Observer.
Goodness and Ten Thousand Q Year.
The Atchison Ran.) Globe has al
appeal to mel to be good, first, I'D
cause it pays to be good, and second
because 1T is easier to be q good mai
than it is to be a bad one.n .Yo5
must i've" it adds; then why not lfv
in the easiest way.
The Globe defines q good man as on
who is industrious, loyal, intelligen
and well behaved" And it tells q stort
Of such q man who formerly worked
Atchison for 500 a month, and is NOV
receiving a salary Of $4,000 a year q
illustrate its argument that go0dnes7
pays, land those who are patient an
work away the best they can are al
ways recognized and substantiallv n
warded."
There has been. a great deal Of the
sort of talk in some Of the magazine
and in the interviews with s~uccessf
men published in the newspapers.
Is talk that gives a very erroneous 81
preston in regard to the fact. T.
vast majority Of our citizens are u
dustrious, loyal, intelligent and wei
behaved, and yet a very large propdy
ton Of that majority have not maj
and are not likely to make any grel
Roadway in the direction of q $10,00V
a-year income.
The Globe makes the point that ~
typical good man who now gets $1,000
a year with less work than he ID
when he was only getting 500
month, is mo great genius" That
very likely. The successful mar
very often a man Of very moderaj
mental capacity. But, unless his SD
cess has come through special inf
ence or through what Is, common
called good luck, he must have S6m
quality that fits him for special effec!
iveness in the line in which he ha
achieved success.
The money making or success-pr
ducing faculty is a thing by itself an
often manifests itself in q very marke
degree in q man whom no n won
have picked as a winner beforedf
achieved his first well-defned success
It is a m%ischievous delusion to tead
young men that they have q right
look for great success in life as the I
ward of simple goodness = indusr
loyalty, intelligence and good beh3
,vior. These things r good in ther
selves, and they will give q man
very much better chance to get on
the world than he could have withoj
them, but even with them the gre
majority Of men can only hope to mai
a moderate living, and perhaps lay
a little every year against a rainy da
or for old age, or for those who shd
come after them.
Goodness does pay; it pays treme1
dous profits, but these profits are n
measured by dollars and cents. II
most valuable possession every mi
has is himself, and good conduct he'll
him to make the most and best Of hiI
self.
That is true even Of the kind
goodness described by the Globe; it
infinitely more true of the kind
goodness which the Bible requires
us. The former is goodness in some
our relations with other men; the ID
ter is goodness in our relations wi
God. This includes the other,
course. We cannot be right with q
unless we are trying to do our duty
ward mar. But there is all the din
ence in the world between the loyal
in our conduct toward other men It'd
springs only from a desire to win thu
approval and that Of our own cd
sciences and that which springs frd
love to God and love to a for GOD
sake. This latter kind Of goodnd
seldom brings any great reward in d
lars and cents. 1t is its own rewal
1t has 1.-The promise Of the life viii
now is and of that which is to come
it fulfls that promise by enriching
and identifying it.-New York w
ness,