Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-03


that the famous labor attorney gave
him $1,000 TO be used for the purpose
OF bribing Balm. Darrow :'outly de-
nisa the charVa-
your school training Do you know
and if you know, will you let me ser
iously remind you that the last five
years of your school life, linked with
the next five years of your expert
ence. are TO definitely fix the character
of your life career and fix definitely
the kind OF a goal toward which your
life will tend. UnQuestioned authority
states that 80 per cent of the prob
lens Of the individual life are solved
between the ages of II and 20 years
Go out and help build better indus
tries, but never at the expense of
character and manhood, only institu-
lions that will make better men and
conditions better for women. There
should be less money, oratory and
legislation 70 preserve forest, fish
and and fowl, and more energy,
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serve manhood and womanhood Our
day is calling loud for all the heroism
of your soul A young student had
listened TO Wendell Phillips tell his
thrilling story of altruism, and he
said: Mr. Phillips. it was easy to be
a hero in those days when great ques-
| tons were TO be settled" The old
veteran sternly pointed to the street
! where was evil and wronged human
ity, and said: Young man. go out
there now and be heroic" The world
calls for you, too. What path to take
what call TO answer, you may not
know. Like Abraham, you will 90 out
soon not knowing whittier. He did not
know whittier, but the text tells how
he went out. by faith he went" il
reads, not knowing whittier" Never
mind the goal. Mind much how" you
go. II was faith in God. Dark will be
your path except you go by faith in the
one, personal God OF Abraham, yOul
personal God Filth, not in a has
been, but in God as present today as
in Abraham's day. II must be a de
pendent faith and a responding faith
You absolutely need God for actual ex
istence. and every life, however bril-
liant will ultimately fail utterly If 4
refuses 10 respond to or fails to heaI
the call of God.
BIBLE a GOOD INVESTMENT.
Friends, the evidence is coming II
for you, and you are to be your owl
Judge TO give reply What shall II be
A young student. commencement day
craved human counsel and advice H
had caught the vision of life and grea
impulses had filled his soul He wen
20 a brilliant lawyer Of some FEY
years experience, one whom he knew
and to whom he went because his If
work had been planned for that prC
fession. The brilliant lawyer advised
IF you wish 10 succeed in life, pa
little attention to the bible and do nc
tie yourself 10 any religious organizs
ton" The student turned away, sa
at heart, for his ideals had been higl
He .instinctiyely thrust his hand int
his pocket in thought A 50-cent pieC
the only money he had-was in hi
hand He felt impelled 10 take tha
and purchase a copy of the scripture
This he did. Some years afterward
there came into his Office a man, br,
. ken and wrecked. He said 10 the ST.
] dent, now an honorable and successfI
lawyer, will you please give n
81 so cents; j must get out OF town.
II was the once brilliant advisor. A
the so cents was now given him. h
remembered the former interview an
that only so rents he then had. an
said that he ever considered that pu
chase OF the bible as the greatest il
yestment he had ever made.
Go out into life. reach high, fea
not the way. GOdfearing men and We
men ultimately succeed. They do nc
) see the end. but they know that thu
end is peace and Joy.