The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-06

out Of man for his fellows good
The heaviest part of the work of trair
ing for service is a mans own re
sponsibtity. Every man of necessit
must work out his own salvation
Efficiency is the need of every age
Efficiency cannot flower save when l
draws its sap from the discipline O
training. Training for service mus
reach the man nature at every one o
the varied points of his life expression
Life to be fairly appreciated must b.
taken as whole, not in any one of it
parts alone. Every part in man mus
be alive. Man is too great to disregard
any part of his heritage.
Human action and thought are en-.
ergetic in many directions. Suppose
that we view man, for the sake of tht
argument, from four different angles
of his genius. Suppose, when you have
viewed him from these four sides you
see the whole man. AS 1t is impossi.
BILE for square to have any less than
four sides to be square, so you fail
to comprehend the whole man until
you know him in his four aspects. The
square of his Wilderness is in his pos.
session of fact knowledge, of aesthetic
culture, of ethical ideal, and of relig-
ious aspiration. This is his equipment
which makes possible living life in it's
completeness. All of this equipment
scientific, aesthetic, ethical, religious
| is comprehensive of the determining
factors that make for human efficiency
in high service. Since it is all these,
and all together, that determine eff
cheney, 1t is along all these lines that
training must be sought.
ut Is always fair to entertain an
objection. We imagine an might be
raised at this point. Is not this a
picture of colossal type of man that
has been drawn? Can man be a god :?
Must he not possess all the attributes
OF deity to measure up to the require
ments of this de1ineation? The reply
cuts through the skies of heaven like
summers flash of lightning and de-
molishes the objection. Man is made
In the divine image. He can strive to
be god-like. The possibilities of de-
velpoment are unlimited. There is a
voice forever calling: Friend, come
up higher Nothing is too great for
mans aspiration and effort
I'm all the lower aspects of life a
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If he would eat his daily bread. He
does so unconsciously. But in the
higher aspects of life the law of me-
cessity does not press so hard. AS We
reach up to finer and finer life the
world is less apt to insist on training,
yet training in these higher and finer
aspects is even more necessary for
the good of mankind because It Is in
these higher reaches that he begins to
live. Before he is only existing. All
the aspects of human capacity are to
be wisely and insistently trained If the
largest dividends in service are going
to be declared
The focus of our theme would be
utterly lost did we not insist on one
other point. 1t is the point that makes
the discussion ineligible. If we limit
the thought of training for SER
vice to the ideal of being trained,
then the whole lesson is lost. It Is not
so much what others do for us as what
we do for ourselves that makes the
training effective. All that others
can do for us Is to put us in the right
atmosphere; after that, then the task
OF breathing the health giving ozone
into our lungs is ours alone. Every
man must traia himselg for service.
man must train himself for service.
to serve you are not going to train
very deeply; you will train only to
that extent as is required by the ne