Milford chronicle., 1905-11-10
For Love Of Science

years anu years, Win gun in ore han
and portfolio in the other hand, L
e. wandered through the western forest
80 seeking the haunts of the America
j. birds, To reproduce their likenesses i
4 his portfolios. After years Of work b
g went 10 Philadelphia with the result
I Of his labCr lie was compelled +
# leave the city for a few weeks. an,
n when he returned he found that th
2, rats had entirely destroyed the result
S of a decade of labor. The precious
= portfolios which contained the delinea
e tions of over a thousand rare birds
e were forever ruined. His portfolios
were forever destroyed, as the manu-,
, script OF The French Revolution" OF
/ Thomas Carlyle was burned by an ig-
norant servant who threw it into the
fire as worthless paper when she was
sent into the stVdy of the friend to
whom he had lent it to clean up. So
great wa1 the shock in Audubon's case
that at first he was flung upon bed of
sickness, where for weeks he hovered
between life and death. Then he arose
and went L q. to the forest He hunted
up his old ff-.7, the birds. He spent
three more long, weary years repro
ducing what the rats had made nests
/ Of. And he did al this for the love Of
science, for during Audubon's lifetime
his printed books hardly paid for the
cost of the printing.
What is true in reference to science
and professional lie is equally true in
business. The young man VINO makes
a success in bu uCss is the one who (
makes his employers interests his own. +
1t is not the young man who simply
does what he is told to who is promot-
ell in the store. 1t is not the young
man who works with his eyes upon the
clock, ready to drop his tools at the
first stroke of the bell, who becomes
the foreman Of the factory. It is the
young man who is a perfect glutton
for work who finally sits in the glass
office. 1t is the young man who is will
ing to do what he is not asked to do.
and what other clerks are unwilling to
do; who finally gets the promotion. In
other words the successful. man in the
world is the successful man
in the scientific or the professional .
world, the man who for others is ready
10 travel the twain mile. ,
Oh, the neglected opportunities of
to which some Of us shut our ,
yes! These neglected opportunities G
re lying about, despised, everywhere +
lround us. The story is told that one t
lay a couple Of humorists were wan h
-ering through the geological gardens II
f London. While there they saw the Il
arcass Of huge lion being dragged O
rom its cage. In 4 spirit of fun they "
ought it and sent the dead lion as a fl
)ke to their friend, Sir Edwin Land n
eer. 1t arrived at the great artists bl
ouse early one morning. The servant, Ii,
amazement, went and awoke his til
aster to ask him what he should do sa
ith it. Landseer at once dressed and bI
ent down TO see it. He stood mo- 4;
ent and looked at the huge body. fic
hen he said, Bring it into my study.' HI
ley carried it in. Then Landseer DIR
ok up his brush and commenced to sis
int. He painted that dead lion in m,
midst Of great expanse Of sand. fol
called the picture "The Desert" It orr
came his most famous masterpiece. Oh
The model which his friends tossed cal
ide as joke he took and made out yol
1t stepping stone to a throne. So yOl
professional as well as in mercan- as
life there are opportunities lying TIL
out us everywhere. If we grasp bra
IN in the love of work, if we sacri- die
2 for them, even though at the time soa
y may seem to amount to naught, are
dead lions" will become "living rect
rs" When a man works for love, of
n man, like Sir Edwin Landseer. T
i make everything he touches re- pie
md to his own success. IF in the atiy
rcantile world thy employer compel ply
to go with him one mile, go with to t
j twain" was
The Call of the Church. mile
ut there is another authority that the
a right to subpoena your time and can
r sacrifice, just as Caesars courier the
a right to compel the Hebrew to shot
tect him when he was carrying the ter
Il message over the Judaean hills. to bt
S authority is the church 1t has a mOu
It to come to you in the home. in mott
store-anywhere you may be-and the
God wants your money. God had
its your time. God wants your "Ho
onal sacrifices. Come with me for Gala
east one mile" Now Christ says: are
the name of the church you should ed: :
only be willing to go one mile for boys
S church; you should be willing to the j
he twain mile" Yet how few peo- ter ,
are willing to give up their money So n
time and personal sacrifices for work
church Of God as they ought! us.
u seem to have time for almost Nav
y other line Of work on earth but not
Of the church. go to you today the b
say: "Btrs. So-and-so, do wish the G
would come and work in our Sun be v
school. I have one Of the finest Oh
es Of girls you ever saw. There for d
ilmost twenty girls in it. They are rec