The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-13
HlGHTON ON LEGITIMATE
REWARDS OF A LIFE WORK

, ing his own view, but quoting the nee
essary deduction of Epicurean philoso
ply, if the great central fact of Chris
tianity happened to be a falsehood
When Christ told his followers to tax,
no thought of tomorrow, he did no
mean that a man should not work il
relation to the future, but that, having
done all that could be done for today
/ he should not burden himself with use
| less anticipations of the days to follow
| The most practical human life that
ever was lived was the life of Christ
! 1t presented ideals and standards OF
the highest type, but it was marked by
absolute clearness and precision. It's
simplicities were ineligible to the ig-
norant, and even to the vicious, and
also sounded the possible depths of in
tellect. It recognized the needs of the
body and the activities of the mind.
/ but it subordinated both to the spiritual
element In man. 1t made just dis
elimination between affairs that were
purely secular and matters that direct
ly concerned the final destiny of the
soul. When Jesus COMPOUNDED the
Pharisees by the injunction, Render.
therefore, unto Caesar the things that
that are Gods" that did not imply that
the conception of God and his laws
should be absent even when the affairs
of Caesar were involved. but that those
affairs should be treated as within the
earthly jurisdiction of Caesar and not
as if they were to be directly settled
by the Almighty. You remember that
on one occa sion a man requested Jesus
n fol n 10 iIyid inb ari-
lance with him. and the rebuke was in
Simultaneous and emphatic: Man, who
made me a judge or a divider over
you?"
Applied Christianity means not that
a man should be Christian on Sunday
and mere wording on secular days,
but that, while it's power and its in
fluence should be controlling and I'M
ceasing, it should not be regarded as an
abstract sentiment Withdrawing a man
into a misty region of isola ton, but a
force fmpelling and directing in the
daily occupations and buiness of the hui
man race.
1 am presumptively speaking to
young business men who are either en-
tering upon their careers or at least
whose net earnings in life are yet in
the distance. How shall they at SO
as to secure the greatest results? This
is the question, and, even in these days
of intense movements, it can not be
fully answered in fifteen minutes. At
the utmost, a mere outline is all that
can be presented Permit me to say,
however, in opposition, perhaps, to the
dc minating assumption of the day, that
the most up-to-date man in modern
times is not the youth who represents
the vast energies that are spreading
over the earth and bringing its ends
together, but the man of years and ex-
perience, who COmprehends the progress
of the age. who is painfully conscious
of his own imperfections, errors and
sins, but who aims to make the sue
ceeding generation higher in the scale
of being than the last, and thus to con-
firm the truth of Tennyson's rich Ines:
Men may rise on stepping-stoHes
OF their dead selves to higher things"
Whatever may be said of future
rewards and punishments. it is also
true that earthly life is full OF COM
pensations and retributions, and that,
Notwithstanding the superficial para
doxes arising from the temporary or
apparent success of evil and the tenn
porary or apparent failure of good. In
the broad averages of the word AMI
through the application of tests that
are real, each human career at its end