Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29

not to confuse our notions of self abb
negation with mere laziness. Among |
the worst sinners alive are those who |
cover up their sloth under the cloak of |
religion. The truly religious man is |
| always humble but It's an awful mis-
take for one to think he's religious
simply because he's humble. The
most worthless people in the world
are those who are just sitting around
trying to he humble. The man who
boasts of his humility is as bad as the
man who brags about hrs achievement.
A I'riah Heep Is more despicable than
n Mr. Micawber No one will ever get
to Heaven on the tone of his voice.
More than that, he will leave no in
heritancc on earth that is of any value
whatsoever.
| An undying name is not necessary
! to immortality, but If an immortal
name is possible to any one of us and
we do not win it. we are culpable. We
lmaN go further, believe, and say
that desire to leave a name which
shall be remembered is an entirely
laudable ambition, providing only that
in seeking to realize the ambition, alb
solute honesty ard the rights OF others
sorry to know that any of you who
are about to graduate had no
hopes which reach beyond the bonds
OF obscurity. I trust that none of you
are nursing the expectation that your
achievements In the outside world are
to he only ordinary. TOO many people
have been stunted in their careers by
the false preaching of those who have
rn, Iaf,.
undue emphasis on the commonplace.
! Those of you who of scientific bent
do we'll to admire John b. Eads, whose
tame will be handed down from genera
ton to generation as the great engineer
who flung his bridge across the mississippi
al St Louis, and it is not reprehcnsible
| to hope that you may do something that
will make your name worthy of place
with his. Young women, l trust that
some of you are so in love with the nobil-
ity of Harriet Beecher stowe and Flor
e~ce Nightingale and Frances z. Willard,
and the mother of the Gracchi that you
have whispered to yourselves Il shall find
such company" There is little likelihood
| Of anything worth while from the coming
lawyer who does not hope to find a place
in the Hail of Fame by the side of Rufus
: Choate and Daniel Webster. We shall
hear little of the teacher who does not
} lind his ideals and hopes of similar
vorthiness in Socrates and Arnold of
J Rugby, and Master Jowett and Mark
= Hopkins and Horace Mann. The young
preacher who would be like Henry Ward
Peecher. or Charles Sturgeon, or Dwight
l.. Moody, may be heard from. The young
. missionary who goes out to foreign fields
, atiame with zeal for Christ and love for
, t1an does we'll to hope to be able to
, stand with Judson and Butler and Tho
burn and Taylor and Brent and Williams
, and Damien and Watson The prospec-
tive physician will be sought after II he
, strives to be as great as Koch or Lorenz
The young man who sees in the field OF
politics the possibilities OF service to the
state which will bring him into the same
group with Demosthenes. and Disrae
ard Bismarck and Blaine may become a
public servant whom the world will be
pleased to honor for what he does.
Yes let everyone strive to be great but
above all, let the consuming ambition be
d to be worthy OF greatness. To deserve
= ar immor tai name Is far better than &c
e win an immortal name by questionable
u methods. You may never be known be
4 yond the boundaries OF your own neigh
i borhood. Some people are pursued by
t seeming fatalsm which defeats then
II again and again just as success seem
d within grasp and when honor appears OF
v the horizon. They find themselves out
= stripped in the race by those whose abil
"a titles are not equal to their own ant
a whose ambitions are more ignoble 1t /
t. sad that many allow themselves to be
At come soured by their own misfort une
# and in contemplating the honors bestoWe
q on the less worthy. If we could only kee
;. sweet by the acceptance OF the Christia
~. philosophy which teaches us that "a
~, things work together for good to ther
-, that love God, to them who are called ac
- cording to His purpose" We should cate
climpses of a silver lining on the edge G
- every cloud, and we should be foreve
=, happy in knowing that our labors are nc
=. IN vain even though our names be fol
- gotten.
r. The immortality Of things which ar
,e worth while and the knowledge that W
,c live eternaly in every noble thought an
~, good word and worthy act after OF
,r names are lost beneath the dust of IN
IN centuries. should make us happy In OF
work through every moment OF our live
-, There are three possibilities of In
so mortality open to us on the earth. Fir'
OF all there Is the immortality Of industr.
" Solomon put the stigma of everlastin
'' infamy on Incidence when he pronounce
~ his anathenna Go to the ant, thou slus
+" gard; consider her ways and be wise
eP Jesus of Galilee, by His own exampl
n placed labor on pedestal Of permane,
r. dignity, for was He not constant In &c
e. from His boyhood days at the carpenter
he bench in Nazareth to the moment
he parting blessing on the Mount of Asce
,le sion and did He not say 81 must woi
ch the works of Him that sent me viii
he II is day; the night conieth when no M
ne oan work" What deluded ere
he lures those men and women are WI
es run away from work! They do not kno
DIS where Joy abides Labor Is norma
,r, leisure Is abnormal How many peop
,er there are who look forward to the comil
IA OF the day, when as they put 1t tn
e. won't have to work. They think they n
"a looking toward n day of pleasure. If tn
.a,, but knew It, that day, when 1t come
- II It ever does come will be a day
800 wretchedness. The most miserable m
49, in all the world are not found with u
lifted picks in the trenches or behind I
plow in the fields or bending over boo
'St in store or school room or office.
yes engaged in the monotonous round
no domestic service. The really unhap
en- Incidence. 1t IS the idle scions OF t