The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-06-09
SCHOOLGIRLS
HEARSTR0NG.
SERMON


II Isl ~ = ~"
AZ Nia.raeihc Institute yesterday
afternoon, Dr. W. p. ferguson mango,
rated now custom for this growing
school. II was hitting climax 70 Z
year o. marked prosperity that 4 sef.
mon to graduating class Of forty,
mine should be preached BY the prihei.
pal himself an experienced preacher ~
Well a. teacher, and The occasion at-
trnctcd a large number OF trustees and
friends KaWniahoo Seminary Students
rendered al especially One anthem
g Jusb for Today. n aud Mills o|oo
Cluh sang tlIymh of Praise. X Prayer
was offcfe1 ~ Rev. A. A. Eberso|e.
Doctor fefgnson was suppoFted o.
the platform bY bis able cQ'wqrter,
Niag Boeher, pfipoipaf q KawaiohPo
Seminary. The sermon did net aim 70
be academic hut practical ~. fer-
gnaon took a his subject IA Highway
to Snccess,f and said In phrti
ttFor success every heart II hungry;
and toward Il All hands are stretohing,
and an feet are pressing. Men, err
rest N IT, pnreuit, have crossed 81
seas. travorfod All forests sailed all
lakes and rivers scaled all mountains,
Analysed al substances, faced All fisls
and sacrificed al comforts. And yet
men cannot agree upon what constitutes
success. The fixing Of standards 10
ever most dificult. Until recently
there have been forty standards for
diamonds in the world 5 markets. It
was only in July, 1913, that the United
States, the largest purchaser Of dia-
monds, and Belgium, the largest ex-
porter, agreed upon the new standard
of 200 milligrams to karat. Thus in
success standards have varied. Tho
only satisfying theory amid life's seem
ing inequalities, its discouragements
and its perplexities, is the theory that
life is measured, not by achievements,
but by purposes, not by riches, honors
and emonments, but BY motive and
spirit.
High Purpose Spells Success.
"Brieily stated, a high and holy pur-
pose Loyalty obeyed spells success in
any life under any condition. When n
noble purpose Is deeply seated in mind
and heart K gives tone and quality to
the whole life, and il the trhest stand.
ard Of success What, then, Is. the true
purpose Of lif6f ~
AZ tiFrom ihodefn fiction and many
theaters one would be lad to think that
to be "naturalp Ito be ones self
will give power and pleasure to life
To be ones self Is quite the thing II
this merely means that individuality Il
not to be lost in the great mass move
ments Of the present; but the theory
is debasing IL il means one Is TO fol-
low, unguided and unchecked, his own
impulses and passions, his own whimg
and preiudiees. The best natural Is
peEyaded and inspired and uplifted by
the supernatural
(, Pleasure Is Cherished.
u "Another purpose cherished BY vast
multitudes Is pleasure. Life needs Joy,
especially young life. Sport, genuine
play, is as essential to normal develop
ment as work. joy exhilarates men TO
uncomfortable strength, and melancholy
brings paralysis. But real Joy lies in
good conscience or results from doing
good, and is not at all akin to epicurean
sepsualism. This is peculiarly an age
Of dangerous pleasures that debaneh
rather than refresh. Ariosto tells Of
LTCD IMAL oCCiutu ulI0u WIN AbuNAVu1
clusters, which when men shook they
found stones rather than fruit falling
upon their heads Such is the disAp,
pointment Of vast multitudes in their
mad rush after pleasure as hfe's aim.
The old truth abides; such pleasures
become ashes in the mouth
Another deceptive purpose y duty
for dnty's sake. 1t ASSERTS that life
must be regulated; that law and order
nlnat enter every detail IN home, bust.
mass aud character. II goes beyond
the Ten COMMANDMENTS and puts
adults in leading strings, II brings
BONDAGE, so that life lacks all spontas
peousness. Kant, the old bachelor
philosopher, was the EXTREMIST type,
and would practically make man into
"a reeluse or bondsman. Opposed to
him was Hegel, who taught more wisely
that man must own something, must
marry 40 as to enrich life and then
become a citizen, meeting all civic OBJ
hgations.g And yet duty, stern duty
must have a place in any noble life,
. Culture Greatest Purpose.
1.-THE teaching of Goethe in Ger.
many and of Emerson In America, and
of their satellites and followers, that
culture Is the great purpose Of life,
comes nearer the true STANDARD than
pleasure, or evan duty. Indeed the
first business in life Is developing all
one 3 possibilities. In this age Of al.
truism, socialism and nationalism the
truth Is too often overlooked, that tho
first and supreme duty OF young people
is to themselves gain power, skill
and resources Phey cannot do any
thing for tho world until they acquire
strength. agree with Margaret
Fuller: The great business Of life i
to grow When Widener Of Philadel-
phia recently paid $e50,000 for the
Marinosi helmet, valuable Venetian
antique, who was the greater the man
who could afford such q purpose OF the
man who could work out such pieee
Of art for the dogesf 6
t'Wheh John ID. Rockefeller Jr. re-
fused to talk over Colorado's disgrace
full labor war with Judge Lindsay Of
Denver, which man stands the higher
in type, aud whose fame viii be tbs
more enduringa What vast nosaibi'f-
ties loom up to young people who work