The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-05-26
SENIORS TOLD
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l.. ROUTE TO SUCCESS
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and over this pathway the words are
written indelibly, "Ye have not
passed this way heretofore" The
Apostle Paul calls it life'srace and be
who would run must lay aside the
weights; but along the course you
see the words, Eye have not passed
this way heretofore" and when we
think of the life which awaits the
soul beyond this earthly pilgrimage
we again seem to read those words,
'Ye have not passed this way here.
tofore.'
1.-THE words suggest the pioneer,
and ! think truly so because every
ward to the responsibilities of this
day Is bound to meet new problems,
and new conditions that will tax the
sturdier and enduring qualities. The
pioneer moves forward into the new
field, and holds his ground until the
spirit Of his endeavor has impressed
itself upon the world blazing the way
for other endeavors. There are GER
marked. H.
Determining Factor.
!. BY the quality of his spirit.
Not the particular thing that he
does; but the attitude of life that
is back OF the doing,ris the essence
of tic pioneer. 4 mun's lame. the
, place where he does his work, the
age In which he lives. none of these
things make the real pioneer. What
Is within him rather than what Is
without or about him makes Of him
a pioneer. The quality Of his spirit
is the determining factor. And this
quality Of spirit is best expressed by
the word faith For the pioneer life
is the substance Of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen. No
pioneer ever appeared who was not
a man OF faith. But faith being a
quality and not thing. it is capable
of varied application. There can be
as lmany kinds of pioneers as there
are kinds of people. He may be a
merchant who buys and sells, or an
inventor who builds new device for
the good of mankind or an educator
or reformer. While perhaps we
cannot do the things mentioned yet
all of us understand the spirit Man
at his best responds to this spirit as
the lungs respond to air. Christ
knew this and appealed to this spirit
when he said Follow me-. and they
dared to follow until the world is
moving Christward. In a sense
Christ said, 'Ye have not passed this
way heretofore and 10 men began
to cross the threshold into new ex-
perience.
2. The pioneer is marked by. the
quality of action. A pioneer cannot
just be a dreamer. Abraham did not
merely dream Of going out: but he
went out. The spirit was stirred and
the will responded. We may have
all the ethics Of Christ in mind; but
If We do not act upon tnem or live
by them, they will do us little good
and certainly will do no lasting GOOD
Tor others. A passive Christian is 3
weak Christian. A passive person /.
a slothful person is action. The mar
who signed the Declaration OF indie
pendence and founded a state based
on the doctrine that just government,
depends on the consent of the cover.
ned IT. Is said borrowed the thought
from an old theorist Marsiglio OF Pa
Qua who lived four hundred years
earlier. 1t has been recently said,
do not know on how good authority
that the inventor of the aeroplanl
in this century simply worked out
ideas found in the note book of Da
Vinci who lived in the sixteenth cen.
fury. Columbus sailed westward
and discovered America; but he had
at his disposal the calculations Oh
Toscanelli. So we see that the great
pioneers were not necessarily the
, originators; but they were the msr
Of action. They were the men who
did things. They were men who hat
not passed that way heretofore; bu'
who followed the light into strang,
fields.
Wonderful Opportunity.
80. The pioneer is marked by TIL,
quality Of change. The action Of
the pioneer registered a change. This
we can gather physically from thu
explorers. When Vasco da Game
rounded the Cape of Good Hope hi
revolutionized trade. When Magel
Ian circumnavigated the globe, hi
proved that the earth was not fiat
but round. This revolution went or
mentally. James Watts watches thu
steam in the kettle lifting the cover
and says How simple, there is power
in the steam,' and then he registered
a change by utilizing the power In
the steam engine Copernicul
watches a ray of light shining or
the wall in his house, and by calcu
lating proves thatt:the earth move.
round the sun. This 5revolutionize.
the opinion Of his day. Thes,
changes come socially. l think O
Florence Nightingale with her pas
sion to serve. Serving first the gov
ernesses Of England. and establish
ing a home for them when they be
came old. enfeebled, and sick. Their
the Crimean war broke out and sh,
went with her band OF nurses to the
hospital at Scutare. That action wa!
one Of the great services of the worlt
for 1t registered change along thu
lines of humanity which we canno-
estimate. Henri Dunant known a.
the Man in white on the field O
Solferino carried his idea Of servic,
until he had organized the Ret
Cross, and we see this expression o.
humanity known as the Red Cros,
extending round the world. Nov
when you go ont into life'e field 20,
will go in a sense as pioneer for ~,
have not passed that way heretofore.
You will be the ones who will regis
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