The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-11-04
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TALK TO STUDENTS

Tuesday by appointment with Dr..
C E. Allen the Reverend J. S. Wilds,
of the M. E. church, addressed stu
dents and faculty, during the chapel
period Of my Intellectual and Spir-
itual Guides" BY request he kindly
supplied the Budget with a copy Of
the talk which is printed in full.
was reared in a costly, three-story
brick house, but the library consisted
Of five books, all Of which were as dry
as dust except the Bible and Bunyan's
Progress" My hungry mind was
reaching out after the great facts OF
human knowledge. ~
A veritable tramp directed my at
tention to Drummond's Natural Law
in the Spiritual World"-from the pen
of the great scientific preacher Of the
age So illuminating was this, that l
determined would own the best Of
all he wrote. His least known work
inthis country is. 1.-The Ideal Life" It
gave me the reason for my being here.
Some will tell us that the end of life
is to be good, to do good. It is more
than these, and includes all other rea-
sons for our existence. The end Of
life is not to deny self, nor to be true,
nor to keep the commandments is
simply to do Gods will, whether work
ing, waiting, winning, losing, suffer-
ing, ecovering, living, or dying
Gods will. II come to do thy will "
my, Meat is to do Gods will" who
soever doeth the will of my Father in
Heaven, the same is my brother, and
sister and mother" Then read his
Greatest Thing in the World" which
was LOVE, as set forth in Paul's ex-
quisite 18th Chapter of First Cor
inthians. I shall always be thankful
to a drunken tramp for introducing
to me Drummond, the scientist, and
the saint. 80. 49,
I used to doze over Romans, 9TH
Chapter where Paul says: when I
would do good, evil is present with
me-" 'The spirit lusteth against the
flesh" and vice versa This was puz-
cling, but what commentary is Robt.
Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde on this strange experience
of the warfare between good and evil
elements in the human soul.
Mark you, it is not theologians alone
who say that there is in man an ele-
alien force that dims the
and confuses the con-
science, and makes life sensual and
If that were the case,
we might suspect them. But find it
in Shapespeare, Burns, Chesterfield
and Stevenson saying so Today am
Mr. Hyde, tomorrow, Mr.. Hyde be-
comes DR.. Jekyll.
i became interested when a boy in
Tennysoh's "Charge of the Light
Brigade" l thought it was great trib-
ute to Heroism, which it certainly u.s.,
but my professor Of literature threw
new light on this poem when he told
the class that it's theme was Some
body Elundered." "And," says he,
sit was with pathos and tears that
Tennyson !. wrote Into the jaws Of
death, into; the mouth of hell, rode the
noble Geo. because somebody blum
dered." And I said to myself that the
occasion for the display of a great
deal of the worlds courage is due to
the fact that Somebody has blum
dered" My love for Tennyson was
greatly intensified by his great poem
on "Immorality," written just before
he pushed out to sea-"
"Sunset and evening star,
70" And one clear call for me.
May there be no moaning of the bar,
When put out to sea-" ,
I heard people quoting Browning:
but the little from his pen that l had
read yielded me no pleasure or profit.
| read and slept over "Andrea Del Sar-
to- and then some Illuminating article,
some quotation by speaker, gave me
the key that unlocked its mystery. /
thought it was a poem on cart or
Painting" but not SO. it was a poem