The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-11-11

trying to cover up the distance with
his fore legs, he certainly would be
pretty apt to get a change. In the frs.
case he would get better stall and
lighter work, but in this case he would
get a worse stall and heavier work.
So, my dear friends, remember that
none of YOU can select the place in
which you may be put. The horse has
his place selected for him. If he is
not satisfied, the only way he can
show the mistake is by performing the
work assigned to him so we'll that he
will be given something better. An
other power than yourself selects the
place in which you are to work, what
ever 1t may be. The way to be adj
vanced out of it is not by giving your
selves over to discomfort, but by alb
sorbing every faculty you have: then
you will be fit for better things, and
you will be given better things to do
because you have shown your ability
to do your work better than anybody
else. That is a lesson which philoso-
ply and experience demonstrate; that
is lesson which our faith teaches.
There Is no experience in life that
does not demonstrate the value of this
lesson. And as this is expoundee to
you by your teachers, if you acquire
wealth you will use it we'll. Do not
hesitate to increase your income. Do
it by every effort in your power, not
that you may gain an opportunity for
indulgence with further addition to
your substance, but that you may
widen your field and enlarge your OPP
portunities to enrich the lives Of 9TH
ers. thus establishing the best posi-
BILE foundation for your happiness.
If you have industry and faithfulness,
you will always reach a large meas
ure of success.
Il ask you to remember again that
you cannot serve yourself in accord
ance with the instruction Of the Church
except as you serve the whole COM
munity. No man can work for himself
and dig anything from the bosom Of
the earth without creating larger OPP
portunities for the benefit of his fell
lows. The whole philosophy Of mans
duty was laid down in the answer
which our Lord gave to the lawyer
who tried to trap him with a question.
He told him that, next to the duty of
serving God, the highest duty of man
was to love his neighbor as himself,
and when he was asked who a mans
neighbor is he told the story of the
Good Samaritan. My friends, the
whole progress of civilization has been
to bring humanity to that standard
which our Lord set for us when all
the world was given over to selfishness
and the story of the Good Samaritan
sounded almost like fairy tale in
the ears of his listeners. The Good
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person; he is found in every civilized
country. We often hear great wagon
rushing down the street, and every
thing is withdrawn, all traffic is sus-
pended every man stands aside, that
it may go on its way to save some
man who has been stricken down ac-
cidentally. The Good Samaritan no
longer walks beside his horse; he no
longer pays his two pennies to some
wayside innkeeper. He has behind
him the whole power of the state, and
the young carpenter of Nazareth who
was found wandering in the temple
with no apparent authority has been
indicated.
The law which is binding upon you
is the law of labor. We must take
from the soil our share of substance,
because We are forbidden to borrow or
steal. Obey that law, and so you will
pass through life successfully. Observe
these things, and you will pass from
the bosom of the earth, where you
have thus labored, to the bosom of
your God, where your repose will be
eternal,