The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-01-25
Career Built on Integrity Mans
Best Welfare.

The mouth of a righteous man
is a we'll of life.-Prov X. 2.
Without water life cannot be.
Take water from the earth and
the fevers of death burn their
fires.
Where deserts blight, a well of
water is possession beyond
price To the Hebrew of the
Psalms and Proverbs, therefore,
who knew the heat and the dis
tress of scorching sands, who
knew water as the synonym of
life, no more powerful language
could be used to set forth the val
ue of righteousness than the brief
sentence which says, The mouth
of righteous man is a we'll of
life"
He speaks the truth always and
his word is like water from cool
wells. 1t refreshes. 1t vitalizes.
Man builds nothing tha is not
builded on truth. The hands of
his daily toll move in truth. This
is the reality from ore to engine,
from quarry to house, from forest
to furniture. In dealing with
things he is dealing with truth.
If he deals truthfully, the uni
verse conspires to bless him with
achievement. If untruthfully,
gravitation, iron, wood, water,
fire, the truth of things, presses
the bitter cup of failure to his
lips. In mans relations with his
fellow man, great civilizations, as
great worlds, can be built only
upon righteousness, upon every
mans speaking truth with his
neighbor.
Every great state is builded in
truth and goes to ruin in false
hoods, through disloyalty to its
| moral ideas. Notwithstanding
appearances to the contrary, this
is the fact which the universe in
its every atom sanctihes.
Through the mists of the ap-
parent look with clear eyes into
the reality. Build your career on
| the integrity Of the universe,
mastered in friendly wise by the
integrity of yourself. Then you
are building SO wisely that every
atom of the universe works with
you, willing your success. "Beau-
! ty is its own excuse for being"
Righteousness is its own justi6-
cation. Truth is It's own bliss.
Whether the eyes of men see or
not, the JOY in which God loves
and lives enters into the heart OF
| the righteous. Within the soul
of the righteous is life. To that
life is the abundant good fortune
with which righteousness re-
wards its own. When he express
es that righteousness it is like
the hills expressing themselves
in streams which run among the
valleys, giving life to bird and
beast, to grass and tree, making
farms possible and the human life
free of the fevers of death.
! There is nothing so fine as a
righteous man. No beauty can
equal the beauty of holiness. 1t
has a lovliness more gracious
than flowers.
1t has charm beyond the en-
chantnent of birds. 1t has a
grandeur outdoing mountain and
lsea. No sunsets are so splendid,
not suns nor stars nor dawns, not
music nor Shakespeare; not can
vases, nor cathedrals; not any,
thing built by man.
The chief passion of the soul
should be for holiness; for in its
beauty all other beauty is hal
lowed; in its spirit all other
achievement has worth and in the
soul of the achiever the eternity
of God is awake.
Things pass. A brief while
and the places of earth we know
are no more forever. Even while
here things cannot satisfy. They
disappoint. They enslave. The
lgreatest good fortune anyone can
achieve is integrity of heart. The
divinest welfare is that conscious
rectitude, the peace of which nev-
er forsakes a man through all
years and all worlds. The imper-
ishable riches of God are his good
fortune whose youth is a WELL
spring of water-John Milton
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