The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-09
LITTLE LAY SERMON.


of the highest form of success.
From one end of the country to the
other there are men and women who
will all their lives retain the impress
which DR.. Garfield made upon their
characters, and who will remember
him as one of the great formative
and controlling influences OF their
beings, the ay mpathetic mentor who
always pointed them to the highest
and best that life contained, who
showed them the branches whence
hung the worlds truest and best
prizes. His own career was a les
son and an inspiration. He never
gave utterance to precept which
he had not proved by example.
Forty years ago he was driving
team and handling lumber. Lots
of other young men are driving
teams aud handling lumber today.
Young men have been doing this
since there were teams to drive and
lumber to handle. But not all OF
those young men have been fitted
for better things and yet willing to
do the thing that lay nearest at
hand, even though it was hard and
unpleasant. Few of the young men
with college education today would
not feel themselves demeaned by
doing such kinds of manual labor.
But this young man, though willing
to labor with his hands, was not
satisfied with doing it indefinitely,
and the young farm hand Of Ohio
became the president of the Buck
eye state university. He passed
through an arduous apprenticeship
before he reached this measure oi
success, however, and this monu-
ment he buitt to his memory is thai
"more lasting than bronze" memor-
ial raised or human hearts and in
human character. To touch hope
fully and helpfully and insPitingly
thousands of young lives is te
achieve success in the neblest form
DR.. Garfield is duplicated ano
multiplied, in measurable degrees
H. the careers of thousands of othel
mea. After all, the personal equa
ton is of paramount potency
What is in a man will come out, aRC
nothing can keep it from doing Sc
nor can anything bring out what il
mot there. An acorn becomes ;
cree because 1t is a tree in embryo
and nobody expects it to become
Anything else. Men do not gsthe
grapes of thorns nor figs Of thistles
But there is the modifying difference
! in the case of men that they create
I opportunities and mold environ
ments to suit the ideal that form
their characters. The young mai
of today who is content to driv'
teams and handle lumber will neve
become a Canfisldo and the yount
man of today who has 1t in him will
rise above his environment. Their,
lis a great deal of cant about Ching
being different in these days" anC
about all the opportunities being
gone. The trusts and lots of othe
innocent octupi are blamed for
vast amount of laziRess and medic
crity--especially lszisess-that Reve
] gets anywhere worth while. Their
is not only room at the top, bat tn,
room is filled with men eager tC
give the man who gets there
chance.
A few days ago a young Kansas
man signed contract for three
years at So, zoe a year, with guar
antee of an annual increase in salary
Walter Mcmillan of Olathe was no
born with a silver spoon in hi'
mouth. He did net have big pul
with somebody who was "in on the
ground fool" He was just
bright, Industrious, opportunity i'm
proving aad opportunity making