Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-05-20

speaking under God, the result of
ones own fidelity to the divine
voice ever speaking in COINCIDENCE to
the divine light ever showing stead
ily the path of duty and honor. and
to the impulse of the divine spirit
urging the boy Of the beggar as we'll
as the boy of the prince to aim high,
and do nobly and be in all things
true to the light and the truth
within them.
II have neither riches nor power,
nor birth to recommend me; yet, if [
live, [ trust | shall not be of less
service to manhood and my frieuds,
that if [ had been born with these
advantages" Thus at the age of
twenty SPOKE a poor lad who had
been brought up in the shop of his
father, and who was when he wrote
these words in his diary, druggists
apprentice. the world knows TO
what height of pure fame he at
tanned by dint of heroic labor; while
the laborious life found its ittest
and sweetest reward in the peace and
blessing of the Church of his fathers
which look the weary traveller to her
embrace.
It is conduct, that manifests ''the
active doer, noble liver Do the
work you have to do bravely and
WE'LL The disposition to seek to be
perfect in every thing one sets ones
hand, to make the most of the task
allotted for the present day and
hour, is divine instinct, which if
followed faithfully, will lead to
certain eminence, to eminence in
learning, in wealth, or in stateman-
ship; to eminence in art, in eloquence,
or in sanctity, according to ones
chosen sphere of labor.
Look forth upon the various
walks of life. in Church or State:
you will find that the men most
eminent and most honored in every
profession and employment are the
men who have put there hearts in
their rk,-who have begun with
the determination 70 do as did the
great king of Juda, who wrought
that which was good and right, and
truth before the Lord his God,-
desiring to seek his God witch all his
heart; and he did it, and prospered.
Mckinley would not have become
president if he had not previously
been a jealous teache responsible
soldier, a conscientious statesman.
Neither Lincoln nor Grant started as
a baby with precocity for the
Whitehouse, or an irresistible genius
for ruling men. So no one should
be disappointed because he was not
endowed with tremendous gifts in
the cradle His business is to do
the best he can, wherever his lot
may be cast, and advance at every
honorable opportunity in the direc-
ton towards which The inward
monitor, his conscience, points. Let
duty be the guiding star and sue
cess will surely be the crown, to the
full measure of ones industry and
ability.
And let me say to the young men
in particular, do not wait for oppor-
tunities. You would only resemble
the stolid traveller in the fable who
having come to a river which lay in
his path, sat down on the bank till
all the water had flowed by. You
would seek for fairy, or make a
raft on which to cross; God gives
man invention to enable him to find
resources against the difficulties to-
wards his progress. The difficulty
itself is often the most golden oppor-
tunity, At any rate men of resolute
temper seek and find or make their
opportunities, just as the industrious
farmer often makes the very soil en-
which he grows his crops, Oppor-
tunities why, life is one grand con-
tinuous opportunity from infancy to
our latest day. The conscientious,
the resolute, and the thrifty turn
each hour into golden treasures; 3
the listless, the sto.id, the sensual,
like our Indians, allow teeming
mines to lie idle at their feet, with
countless treasures unknown, un-
appreciated. undeveloped,
Give us therefore, in the conduct
of life, men who have purpose,
who know what tbnu hove +o 40