Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-01
Edwin Walter Merrill.

The essay on the Requisites Of
Complete Success" by Edwin Walter
Merril4,sof Newport, N. H., elected
especial comment and appreciation
from the audience. Mr. Merrill spoke
In part as follows:
"There are three essentials of Sue
GEES which are inclusive of all others.
They are capacity, high ideal and en-
durance. To capacity we give the first
place, not because it is more important,
for no one of these essentials is more
important than the other, but because
1t Is the first thing that one must con-
slider when choosing his life work. 1t
is today as in the savage days of old
when knghthood was in flower, the
great call of the world is for a man.
1t is Drawn and brain; it is proud,
clean, full blooded manhood that the
work of the world Graves. The body
Of an athlete and the soul of a sage
wrote Voltaire, these are what we re-
Z. qlire to be happy. Men who find joy
unspeakable in the very living of life,
who so to their toll or their play with
the determination to work hard, to
play fair, VINO enter the arena of COM
petition with tremendous searnestness
and when the turn comes take their
rest and pleasure with the enthusiastic
JOY of precious golden youth, these
are the men that make the world bet-
ter and wiser and happier
THE next step is that of the high
ideal. 1t is While we are nearing the
bounding line of youth. while the
ruddv. haloed days of childhood are
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very silently, while our college days
are drawing to their close and we
seem to ourselves to grow old all at
the last remnants of childhood and
taking up the strange, stern work of
I manhood that God gives us compensa-
tion in the creation of a new ideal, a
mans ideal. 1t forces it's way into all
our plans, into every airy creation of
the brain. The old ideal endeared by
countless boyish dreams falls away
like an outgrown shell and in it's place
unfolds the new. A renaissance, a
new birth, revived<SfsUm generations
that call out from old France, from
Germany, from Saxon England. This
is the call of the blood.' 1t demands
! that each man! shall be king of
+, his kind A fullArounded man is su-
perior to every other being on earth
If superior then Ne can afford to be
{ gracious to those Who are his interiors
Let him he gracious, then, let him be
magnanimous, meieiful, plying. Let
4 him he great of soul humane, of fan
reaching love of the human race. A
true man is never without heart: the
call sounds home. The inner man
cries out; 'whereversmy lot shall be
will remember that it is my first
duty to make mankind happier. purer
more fit to live and to die What
ones vocation be 1t matters not, fol
this high ideal is the quality thai
enobles and makes all work WORTH
while.
There is only one more step and thai
Is endurance. OF what avail is all oul
knowledge of ourselves our Difference
10 our tastes, our love of life. our hlgl
ambition, our pity for mankind. oul
strlvings after the ideal ii we ha n"'
sterness of purpose, steady p2rseEIi
ing endurance to urge us onward, evel
onward to the highest possibilities o
these combined powers: Life is no
a smooth garden path, clear of all blu
hoWers It is a wilderness road will
only the SCARED trunks of trees u
Z, guide the way. 1t is here that thu
blood Of our forefathers revives u
again and thrills us with. invincibl'
i courage.
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