Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-05-30

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Jesus Christ had it or he never would
have given redemption sufficient for
the race. Our revolutionary fathers
had it or they never could have Gre
ated government of the people, by
the people, for the people. You, my
young friends, form it and, if your
purpose is worthy, your life also will
be worthy.
Thus far 1 have spoken of the
power and value of a Fixed" pur-
pose which, in degree, is efficient
for success, but alone is not sufficient
for the large and proper develop
ment Of life.
The ex-kaiser his predecessors,
and German Overlords, of a hundred
years have had fixed and indomin-
able purpose. Because of it, fifty
years ago Prince Bismark by means
OF lying Telegram brought about
| the Franco-Prussian war, and
brought France to her knees before
the "Super-German. This same
fixed purpose in August, 1914,
plunged the war into the most saw
age and brutal war of all human
history. For four cruel years, that
! purpose seemed to win and the heel
of autocracy was about to be placed
on the neck of humanity but the
god of justice and righteousness
still reigns. This Prussian fixed pur-
Allies and the United States, equal
ly fixed, but with the added quality
o. righteousness and they won out
demonstrating the truth of the pro-
phetic lines of James Russell Lowell:
Careless seems the great avenger,
history's pages but record
One death grapple in the darkness
twixt the old systems and the
word,
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong
forever on the throne
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God, within that shadow,
keeping watch above his own.
We see dimly in the present what is
small and what is great,
Slow of faith, how weak an arm may
turn the iron helm of tate,
But the soul is still oracular; amid
the markets din,
List the ominous stern whisper from
the Delphic cave within
They enslave their childrens child
rem who make compromise with
sim"
Five hundred years from now peo-
| pie of every race, including the Ger
man, will read the story of the world
struggle and thank God for the
righteous and fixed purpose that
thwarted autocracy and gave "Peo-
pie of this whole earth the place
Jesus Christ said was theirs by right |
of Gods creation and of the Son of
God S redemption.
SO young people, to your fiXedness
of purpose add righteousness, you
will need it in order to win. You
know the tombstone of the present
day commercialist. will it pay?'
What is there in it for me?" That
ness, controlled professional life, TO
some extent has even crept into our
religious life. and has so contaminat-
ed cOmmercialized pleasure that it
simply asks What is the profit in
dollars?' If it adds to my wealth
then to the damnation bow-wows
with your ideal morality or the spir-
itual uplift of the community If the
people want it I'll give it to them for
the pay. In other words, heretofore,
world commercialism has said the
right or wrong cuts no figure, so
| long as We keep inside statute law.
But young people, the time is coming,
the new age on which We are enter
ing, when such winnings will be dis
asterous losses, when such unjust
successes will be righteous failures.
Again I urge righteous purpose be-
cause it eXalts Jesus Christ, and de-
mands that all things be measured
/ by His standard. Also it means a
clean life, purgcd character, Il man
hood and womanhood having ex-
plunged from it all habits tAat are
inconsistent with the exalted Christ.
So live that to every conner across
the threshold Of your life you will
reveal Jesus Christ to be your ideal.
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION