The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-16
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIs.l

| (BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
| To see his name on the billboards
| is many an actors idea of success.
A still more general gauge of success
quently in the newspapers: and many
| persons cannot distinguish between
notoriety and fame. Another notion
of success, perhaps the commonest of
all, is the possession of a big bank
account. Now, in truth. man may
have all of these three signs of sue
cess and yet be a colossal failure. He
may be personally immoral, popular
ly detested, physically miserable and
thoroughly unhappy. So some other
measure of success must be sought
That measure is :" a conscience void of
. offense toward God and man. The
| rather than for mans applause, has
earned what the Bible calls good
| success
so long as he held his throne; he be-
| came a beast when turned out into
! the wilderness. The true man is a
king wherever he may be.
No success is worth having which
is gained over the applause of ones
| fellows. Caesar might climb high on
the bodies of the defeated and the
| dead, but a Christian may not.
They rise highest who lift as they
go.
Gold that represents guilt also
spells failure.
The person who has made little
| children happy has won a fair mea-
sure of success.
Why is not that a really success
full life which has done honest work,
been a good neighbor, shared in Gre
the good gifts of good by the way?
If I have faltered more or less,
In my great task of happiness;
If have moved among my race,
1Snd shown no glorious morning face,
If beams from happy human eyes,
Books. food, my friends and summer
rain,
Have knocked on my sullen heart in
vain,
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure
And stab my spirit broad awake!
Stevenson.
"a mans life,'' says one wise
writer, Consists in the number of
things to which he is alive" 1t is
one form of success to be open-lived
TO a great variety of noble interests;
and to bear mans share of the
burdens of the world.
The self made man, proud of the
job" is easily pleased. Cheap achieve
ments pass for success because
we have no high standards. At least
it is clear that no man is success
who has not lived up to the level of
his possibilities. In every case this
should include an increase in refine
cial usefulness.
The cry of the crusaders is still
the best measure of human success
THE Will of God!' To seek to
that will is the highest aim of life,
is the greatest ambition possible to
man. Any success won outside of
the will of God-that is. any low,
selfish, sinful SUCCESS really fail
ure. The lowliest life that accords
with Gods plan may be more sue
cessful than the one which wears the
adornments of fame and of wealth.
True success is success for two
worlds.
Success, like character and pleasure,
is often by-product. being won while
in pursuit of something better The
servant of duty Outlines finds himself
the master of success. He who gives
himself to the pursuit of art, Of human
service, of patriotism, sometimes finds
fame following after him.
The most successful of all lives SEEM
ed to end in utter failure on cross
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
After more than sixty years of public
life, 1 hold more strongly than ever TO
the conviction, deepened and strength