Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-26

sibly do in any other position or SER
vice among men. For more than all
else that which fires our American
patriotism and energies our Ameri-
can citizenship is not the so-called
almighty dollar" but the high and
noble manly and womanly ideals which
we learn from the open bible and the
conscious fellowship Of Jesus Christ.
Submit your purposes and plans to
the great Architect and Masterbuilder
Of the universe and let Him direct your
choice in life.
You are going out into the world
carrying with you little science,
philosophy and knowledge Of litera-
ture. That is well. But the world is
not needing that 80 much. What it
wants is lives that steady 1t, lives that
have fixed principles and that are
dominated by a determination to tri-
umph for righteousness and to help
human need.
3. You can make the most out Of
your life by seeking and securing the
best.
The good is the worst enemy of the
best. 1t is good that the right train
ing Of your bodies and minds has &C.
cupied your attention. But he who
has not made provision for the spirit
uAl in him has not begun TO live in
the best sense. For out Of the heart
are the issues of life. The old book
still admonishes US to Fear God and
keep His commandments for this Is
the whole duty OF man" Jesus en-
phasized what ] am saying by His
declaration, 81 am come that they
might have life and that they might
have it more abundantly." Horace
Bushnelrs famous epigram is always
true, The soul of all improvement is
the improvement of the soul" The
farmer asserts that high cultivation
produces the best fruit Can there be
found a better formula for develop
ment of our highest and best ideals
than that of the Apostle: And beside
this. give all diligence, add to your
faith, virtue; and TO virtue knowl-
edge; and to knowledge tel france;
and to temperance, patience; and to
patience. goodness; and to godliness,
brotherly kindness; ard to brotherly
kindness, charity. For if these things
be In you and abound, they make you
| that ye shall neither be barren nor
unfruited in the knowledge of our
| Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lack
eth these things is blind and cannot
see afar of"
MAKING USE OF TINE.
4. Let me urge you to so use your
time that when the end of life shall
come you will be satisfied with the
use you have made of it and all the
privileges God has given you.
Some OF the blunders young people
before you have made are regretfully
discovered in middle age when there
is lacking the elements that make for
success. Rushing into the arena of
life without the best possible prepare
ton for the battle of giants, especially
such as a good education would give;
allowing ones choice of trade or pro-
fession or life work to be made with.
out consideration of fitness or adapta.
lion; foolish and insane matrimonial
alliances; extrava gances and living be-
yond ones means; being dazzled by
short cuts TO wealth; making money
the supreme thing for which TO live
and forgetting the kingdom Of heaven
and its blessing to US. If we could
know what the eternal knows of the
remorse and unspeakable sorrow
which these and similar mistakes
have caused men and women there
would be little need for the preaching
to urge the message home TO ouI
hearts for there are no limits of dis
tress which these things have not oc
casioned
Many years ago a little book was
published entitled THE Crumblins
Path" The writer represented a vi
siop Of a mountain whose summit wa:
above the clouds, and its sides were
crowded with people who were hoping
to reach the summit where a beautiful