The Mena weekly star., 1913-05-22

membering the oft-repeated in-
 slrucuons of his faithful old teach
 CT, he arose from his seat turned
 to Arele, and declared his readiness
 to loIloW her guidance. You have
 read oI the almost inconceiyablo
 tasks performed by this voune
 man, and the moral is thai thev
 were performed in the strength ot
 d noble principle. It is true that
 thls IS only an old legend, but couched Tn legendary form is a golden nugget of truth which. if you will carry with you through
 lie, will be to you a guiding star
 Ike unto the crimson light that led SIT Galahad along the way.
 AS you assume the responsibili- tles of life remember your greatest asset, your finest recommendation. VIII be a pure, clean, noble life. It IS an old adage, and 'tis true as
 us old, What you are thunders so loud above what you say I cannot near you" Nothing else in all the world IS so beautiful as goodness.
 The noble life shines out with a halo of light that cannot be hid. You may conceal some of your thoughts; you may conceal some of your deeds; but the sum of these. which Is character, cannot be con cealed. It has been said. What is inside sOaks out like filth or shines out like light" A bad heart mani Tests itself in downcast look, the deceltful deed and beastial face: While the features of the man or woman who has fought a brave hght for that which is right, who had rather be in poverty than rich es at the price of honor, who has at any cost stood by their ideal the features of such a one shine With a halo of glory such as is not seen on land or sea. When Moses came down from Mt. Sinai we are told that Israiel could not look on his face. You may wonder why. but l think it was in accord with a law of God. Moses had been on the mountain top enjoying the pure air o1 heaven and breathing the holy atmosphere of the redeemed, while Israel, wonder in the valley. had been lowing to golden calf, living m a corrupt atmosphere and prac- uclng all kinds of vice. Could we expect them, then, with a soul be- cIouded by sin. shame and degre- dation, to be able to look on the holy things of God?
 When James A. Garfield was q boy he was asked what he meant to Joe. He answered: II first must make of myself a man; if l do not succeed in that 1 can succeed in nothing To be a man or woman means a great deal more than to attain to the age of eighteen or tWenty-One. Emerson says, The test of civilization is not the cen- sus, nor the size of cities, nor the cities, but the kind of men the country turns out" Manhood over tops all titles lis only noble to be good.
 Anciently the Romans worship ped honor and virtue as gods. They built two temples, which were so situated that none could enter the temple of honor without first pass ing through the temple of virtue. Among the Greeks and Romans, in their best days, honor was more sought after than wealth. Times lah hnnua1 Wanlth hAoon,n tho est passport to honor, while re- spectability was endangered by poverty. When the imperial pur- pie became an article of traffic, when gold could purchase with ease the henor that patriotism and valor secured with difficulty, Rome was Rome no more. The proud mistress of the world was doomed to utter ruin.
 The world is calling today, as it has not done before, for men and women of noble principle; men and women who have the courage to stand for the right: who, though all the world go the other way, will stand for what they know to be just. A Pilate may proclaim the innocence of a Christ and then, at the demand of a bowling mob he may deliver him to be crucified, and then wash his hands and loud ly proclaim his innocence of the affair: but the world points the finger of scorn and cries guilty. A Joseph may be east behind prison bars physically, but there is a mo- Iblity of principle there that no prison bar can condne.
 Another condition of happiness We would mention is
 Nobility of Mind.
 Someone has paid the following beautiful tribute 10 the mind: Upon the cultivation of the intel lerl depends the glory of nations and the stability of empires. When Homer sang and Hesslod wrote Greece was ascending the pinnacle from whence her glory sushed and still gleams upon the mnd ol men. When Seneca laid down the grand principles of morality and Cicero shook the old forum with his elo- duence. then Rome, the city or the Caesars. hourished, and Virgil sang the glories of the globe. But when lhe Goths and Nandals beat like cataract at the gates of Italy she fell like the Colossus al Rhodes, and became the mole of nations. recog- ..,.,.,, ,f har pal