Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-09-30

young people, and understand that your
lives will be wanting in symmetry, and
your careers incomplete unless you make
tho specialization which provides the ne"
cessltIes and luxuries for yourselves and
those dependent upon you contrioutory
to the general welfare In certain properly
correlating side lines. Indeed 1t Is a fair
presumption that the movements on the
main line OF activity In each of your lives
will be accelerated by the interest yo',
show IN making the connecting branch
lines effective to the maximum limit.
The other day. In New York city, heard
prominent society matron say she had
never known the fulness of JOY until last
winter when she began TO make, with her
o1n hands, shirts and socks for soldiers
on the battlefield. That splendid woman
had found the secret to a happy life In the
only way II is possible for any one to find
It. namely IN the sclf-sacrifice which
promotes the comfort or happiness of
others
The physician who MAKES the fec he
is to obtain for curing disease the chief
incentive to successful practice cannot
DO in love with his profession as Is the
doctor spurred onto the perfection of skill
DIV his desire 10 dlNNIaNt IluIItll Suii'i
Ing or to prevent disease by improved
methods of public sanitation. The lawyer
who prefers to compose differences among
inen and to improve the administration
of justice IL worth more to himself. to his
family, ana to society than tn sharp
practitioner who seeks his personal ad-
vantage through stirring mp strife or ny
attempts to obs.ruct thc orderly procedure
that viii speedily lead to the right con
clus!oa. 'rhe merchant Is happicst when
he knows ne is giving his customers value
received 50 that when his store-doo- Is
c!osel the popular confidence in his bnSl-
ness ability ard Integrity Will enable MN
to 20 out as n respected counsellor IN
tho larger affairs &C the municipality.
Tho farmer s'ho secs something more IN
l.fe .nan .he turning o. burrows ana
tho gathering OF crops, will turn better
burrows ara gather larger harvests be-
cause he hopes to make his success as n
farmer minister to neighborhood improve
,ncnt and the br.terrncGt Of social ard
politica! conditions.
have been trying TO drive home The
thought. young people. that life canno,
bring you the fullest measure OF salts
faction unless yon have as the supreme
incentive FOR excellence in private bust
ness or work the inspiration Of a loft,
ideal OF public service which eventuates
only rom tho highest type of persona
success. To lie spurTed on to the bcs
possible accomplishment IN the home
the schooroom, the pulpit. the shop, th'
store or the office for the sake of max
ing the world a better place in which L
live. is to be animated by the spirit of :
finer patriotism than over shows itself ol
the field of battle.
PURPOSE OF HEART TO HEART
TALK.
The purpose then, of this heart to hear
talk. students. new and old. is to urge 20,
resolve that you will be led on by thu
splendid vision of what each one of yol
may do in pushing civilization forwar'
toward the goal of perfection. To tina
end, in this critical -Four, 7 want to i'm
press you with the belief that, in college
you must be inspired by the ambition t.
make your individual lives all that the,
| each may be as a preliminary condition
! to the inspiration of the ideal for tn
larger patriotism which finds it's mobiles
expression in living for the good of al
humanity.
There are several specific ideals tina
I might set before you and which If ap
propriated as your incentives to persona
success, should bring you out into tina
large place where you could catch tn
inspiration Of the bigger, the pa
triotic ideal. 1t is essential tina
| you have some conception of the pos
| sibiities of the larger life in order to fin
the keenest incentive to personal accom-
! plishment. The two ideals are necessary
| There is the ideal Of public service as a.
| Indispensable stimusu toprvate endeavol
! and there is the ideal of private success
as a prerequisite to efficient public serv
| Ice.
| In order to realize the larger IDEAL
dustrious. honest, pure of thought an
clean Of speech. but all these things 20
have been taught from childhood up. TIL
catalogue OF things you should he person
ally, in order to the making of what 20
should be generally. is inexhaustbl'
The difficulty with most people is tina
they are trying to live by a set of rule:
They have a list Of things they must d
and another list of things they must nc
do. The sooner such lists are discarded tn
better 1t will he for the individual bot
as to his present and future welfare. n
itemized schedule can possibly includ
the details of all the things importar
to do and to avoid
1t Is life Of affirmation and not on
Of negation that must be set AS the star
dard for every one who would realize q
human potentialities in the personal CT
deavor necessary to preparation for III
larger and better service to humanity
Taking. then, the broadcast possible vie
of individual and general responsibilities
looking at the problem Of existence in tn
large, the two primo ideals toward while
every man and woman should strive a,
these: first, to he able to think ar'
second, to feel right. Some people pat n
tho emphasis on the thinking and the
arr the coidly intellectual wooden or iro
felix's who find no JOY for themselves an
whose very coldness and stiffness lira
their usefulness to others. Again thci
are those who put in ali their time nursin
or cultvatlnG the feelings and these al
those whose effarvescinG emotions crea
the impression of superficial. fro:hine'
which makes them unreliable.
] sometimes think the "old-fashiort
rcligicn," NO called was defective 'ecau'
II was pnssivcly emotional rather tina
actively intellectual. Time WAS whe
Christian people thought they had SAT-
fled the demands of religious life !
attending preaching service ON Sunda
and an emotional prayer-mceting durir
the week. or merely by the obserVan'
OF Some special form They would fe
their spiritual pulses and then rise wit