Evening journal., 1915-10-30
.HOLLAWOY' 'SPLEA
FOR THOROUCHNESS'
Key TO Success in Every
Walk Of Life He Tells
Beacon Students
IMPRESSES VALUE OF
ACCURACY, RELIGION

The first OF a series Of lectures be-
fore the students and faculty OF the
Beacon Business College was deliv-
cred yesterday by the Rev. Dr. Thomas
p. Holloway, the popular pastor OF
Second Baptist Church. The lecture
room of the school was filled with
students, who gave Mr.. Holloway their
closest attention His subject was
''ThOroughness.
"That thoroughness is the sine qua
non of success in every walk Of lille
has been emphatically and constantly
impressed upon your minds, as during
these months your. capable and be-
loved instructors have led you into
arduous and exact exercise In this
field Of mental athletics. have Sc
lected this subject as one easily to
enforce where it has been so inces-
sanity taught. Some one has said
that genius is a talen for work. we
go further and contend that genius
is talent for doing work well. The
thorough-going people are always
commanding the admiration OF hui
manity. Nose who do thoroughly
what they undertake make the whole
world keep step with them as they keep
time with the unerring laws OF mat
ter. mind and soul. The glory Of life
is not in the kind or work we do.
but in the thoroughness with which
our task is performed The street
sweeper. who sweeps the best he
knows, is immeasurably nobler than
statement or business man who is
/ satisfied to do less than his best.
"A painstaking grave digger is
more Of an ornament to a community
than a gifted physician whose care
less work that same grave digger
hides from the eye OF a suspicious
public. The habit of thoroughness
is most elevating element in the
life OF the worker because It charac-
terises the attitude of every true
artist The usual definition OF the
artist is too narrow. We confine our
thought Of artists 10 those who paint
pictures, compose music, sing beau
, tifully. crate grandly, and in other
ways add TO the expression OF the
poetic in thought and endeavor But
the essence Of poetry is the sense of
perfection; for poetry is beauty and
beauty is perfection. So the artist is
he. who has such an admiration for
beauty as to require him TO do what
ever he does thoroughly. In this
broadest definition Of an artist a boot
black may have the artistic sense as
well as Beethoven, Sargent. Michel
Angelo. Rosa Bonheur and Longfel
low and Swinburne.
"Then too, the habit OF thorough
ness Is a spiritual cosmetic. For thi
love Of perfection in the doing o
ones allotted task. being the souls in
stinct for the beautiful. has a blessed
reactionary effect on the soul itself
Every time you do a thing conscien
tiously, that is thoroughly. your inne
nature has its imperishable comeli
ness enhanced.
There can be no thoroughnes
without those marked powers of vii
which compel defniteness 0f aim an'
its consequent concentration o
thought and effort Thorough masterl
of any vocation in life is reached D'
constant concentration of ones powe
upon one pursuit and not the diss'
paticn OF those pow IN many rcr
suits. The universal genius Is undis
covered as yet simply because he ha
nu- been born. Human grasfhopper
who Jump from one line OF activity 4
another never become proficient il
anything. And even Ia adherence q
oae general line of nrmal endeavo
he who would be thorough must earl.
learn that intensity is far better thai
extensity if extensity becomes merel
: shallow breadth.
"ThorOughness means accuracy Il
all things. The tendency TO inaccul
acy murders every worthy ambition
and does irreparable harm. Accurac
is another name for success. Ina6
curacy frequently spells ruin in LEI
ters of fire and blood
"Thoroughness never become
L weary in well doing, never rails t
E exercise patience in the face of di
ficult problems and delayed results
e II will take time to be right. Patien
pursuit of the main object in min
e wins.
3 mo one can rightly claim the homo
0 of being thorough who is not at hear
religious. This is true because tn
= sense of accountability is essentit
to thoroughness in life, and the sens
:. of accountability is never strong an
sensitive unless one has the vita
faith in the Judge of all the earth.
L Young men, If you are faithful
the measure of your opportunity an
z ability through life, you can calml
await the verdict of eternity
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