CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-05-23

wrought all that Is noble, all that is
good, all that is useful. nearly all that
Is ornamental in the world"
The world is looking for people with
great minds trained to think, for great
hearts filled with love. for souls that
have seen; not an exalted vision of
self. but vision of the possibility of
exalting others; for people who can
do them. There are many speakers.
but the history of oratory includes few
great scenes. Demosthenes' plea for
Athenian liberty, which resulted in
death. Luther's single challenge to
the hosts OF pope and emperor. Wen
dell Phillips al Fanuel hall Lincoln
at Gettysburg. Had any of these men
sought pre-eminence? No. All had
risked their lives for a cause and were
baptized with eloquence; their words
tipped with fire; their minds hurting
| thunderbolts.
Diotrephes loveth pre-eminence. He
did not love learning. or music. or
science. or mechanics: did not love
freedom of country or fellow man. He
never heard the cry OF the needy or
sought to alleviate the sufferings Of
the distressed. He only loved pre-
eminence.
And now, my young friends, l use
the word friends advisedly. for We are
| friends. let me beg OF you to learn
| this lesson. You have achieved: go
on achieving and you will be honored.
Take up your cross and God will give
you your crown and you will not have
to wait till you are numbered with the
dead. We want you to be successful
and win fame; to win you have to for
get self and learn to do something
we'll" The better you learn to do
the more the world will honor you.
We want you to succeed in the world
and scale heights as yet undreamed.
but to do SO you must condescend to
do drudgery, to serve apprenticeship,
TO toll and struggle. l read once Of a
great musician who became interested
in the voice of a lad. He interested
the boy in his own voice and told him
IL he would subject himself to rigid
would make a great singer. Gladly
the boy assented He was given n
certain monotonous scale: was told to
practice II for a year. Again another
and another year the master assigned
to him the same task At length his
student came TO him with q cry OF dis
couragement: Master. and will l
never be u great singer? MY boy"
said the artist. you are now one Of
the greatest singers in the world" He
cultivated his voice, the world took
care of his pre-emnence. Edison toll
ing In his laboratory gave to the world
Electricity: the world gave to him
fame and homer. Learn to do things
and to do them we'll. is the message
of this century to men. The desire to
rise in the world is almost universal.
but the way adopted by the world is
too often the way of Diotrephes.
Remember this. please: Rising does
no consist in ascending from calico
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to broadcloth: rising does not consist
In casting aside a silve rwatch for a
gold one. or abandoning n steel tire for
a rubber one. or the carriage for the
automobile. Padded shoulders. 4
meerschaum pipe, n gold-headed cane.
may be well enough in themselves. but
unless the power to think and to exc
cute is associated with them they are
sham through which the world soon
sees.
Diotrephes loving pre-eminence died
ignobly. Paul loving his god, serving
his fellow-man. acquiring large power
for service. gained pre-eminence.
| Instead of seeking pre-eminence
seek to do we'll your work.
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