The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-02-03
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DIR. Hall talked to the high school
on the subject of Hygiene and
Personal Cleanliness Monday.
Prof. L. bliss spoke to the faculty,
high school,and eighth grade pupils
Monday afternoon on "Other w orlds
than Ours" the same being a dis
cussion of the leading facts of AS
tronomy. On some pleasant even
ing in the near future an outdoor
study of the leading consultations
will be made.
Hon. Richard S. Tuthill of the
Chicago municipal bench will lec-
ture in the Roosevelt Auditorium
on thursday evening February %.
Judge Tuthill has made reputa-
ton for himself on account of his
great success in dealing with juve.
nile criminals. He will speak on the
subject: prevention is better than
Punishment"
Remember the debate in the
High School Auditorium Friday,
Feb. 10, at 7:3O p. m. The subject
is the Russo-Japan question. The
speakers for Japan are: Adolph
Holmer, Lianda Beach, Sigvert
Dahl, Michael Bonner, Herbert
King. The speakers for Russia are:
Milton Butler, Lillis King, Albert
Shipley and Henry Sincock. A hot
contest is looked for. The winner
will receive an appropriate prize.
All are cordially invited to attend.
To be honest, to be kind-to earn
little and to spend little less, to
make upon the whole family hap
pier for his presence, to renounce
when that shall be necessary and
not be embittered, to keep few
friends but these without capitula-
tion-above all, on the same grim
condition, to keep friends with him.
self--here is task for all that a
man has of fortitude and .delicacy.
We require higher tasks, because
| we do not recognize the height of
those we have. Trying to be kind
and honest seems an affair and
too simple and too inconsequential
for gentlemen of our heroic mould;
we had rather set ourselves to
something bold, arduous, and con-
elusive; we had rather found a
schism or suppress a heresy, cut
off a hand or mortify an appetite.
In his own lite, then, a man is
not to expect happiness, only to
profit by it gladly when it shall
arise; he is on duty here; he knows
not how or why, and does not need
to know; he knows not for what
hire, and must not ask. Somehow
or other, though he does not know
! what goodness is, he must try to be
good; somehow or other, though he
cannot tell what will do it, he must
try to give happiness to others.
To scramble through this ran
dom business with hands reason
ably clean, to have played the part
of man or woman with some rea-
sonable fullness, to have often re-
sisted the diabolic, and at the end
to be still resisting it, is tor the
poor human soldier to have done
right we'll. To ask to see some
fruit of our endeavor is but trans.
cendental way of serving for re-
ward; and what we take to be con
tempt of self is only greed of hire
Stevenson.
But the important thing is that
at the center of shifting circum-
stance man should remain, live his
life, make toward his goal. And
whatever be his road, to make to-
ward his goal, the traveller must
not lose himself in crossways, nor
hamper his movements with use
less burdens. Let him head we'll
his direction and forces, and keep
good faith; and that he may the
better devote himself of the essen
tial-which is TO progress-at what
ever sacrifice, let him simplify his
baggage.
Your religion is good if it is vital
and active, if it nourishes in you
confidence, hope, love, and a senti-
ment of the infinite value of exis-
tence; if it is allied with what is
best in you against what is worst,
and holds forever before you the
necessity of becoming new man;
if it makes you understand that
plain is deliverer; if it increases
your respect for the conscience of
others; if it renders forgiveness