Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-06-16

that God would by the short and
overwhelming process Of war cause
the growth OF new humanity and Of
a new spirit in the world was perhaps
.as simple as for the child to expect
that the grain would come immedi-
atcly as a result Of the ploughing. To
feel that Gods designs for humanity
have utterly failed because Of the
failure OF the war, is to manifest af-
ter all an unbelief.
There have been many times in
the worlds history many dark ages
when thinking men might well have
lost faith and yet humanity has
emerged from the dark ages and by
the slow processes common i'm peace
has found and trodden the upward
way. And revolutions ana wars are
of peace have to 90 with eternity. No
matter to what extent man may lose
control of time, God is still the Mas
Fter Of time and eternity. As the hus-
lbandman's view of his processes is
from early spring until late fall, God
! sees from eternity TO eternity and
time is but season in His plans. SO
he that appreciates the ways of God
does not Judge the success of the pur-
poses of God by the accomplishment
Of a season. lie is not in haste to
estimate the worlds progress. The
world that believeth shall not make
haste to appraise the ways of God
with men.
THE text may we'll be applied to
individual lives. In business the
world moves with rapidity. One of
the wealthiest men Of our day has
made his fortune out of a machine
common everywhere today but not
known on the streets of a busy city
twenty-five years ago. If so colossal
fortune can be built in two decades,
why should an ambitions young man
wait for successes until gray hairs
have come? In political life, in social
life, in the world of thought, fame
may come in a day. When Gallileo
declared that the earth does the NOV
ing it was decades before his thought
was known even 20 hundreds of thou
sands of people, but within recent
days Einstein's theory Of relatively
has become known wherever the
printed page and the moving picture
film circulate. The name of Einstein
has become better known in two or
| three years than the name of Gallileo
could possibly have become known in
his life time. Chose Of you who ex-
pect here 4 dissertation on Einstein
are to be disappointed. Mr. Enistein
himself has recently been telling this
country of the meaning OF his theory
Of relatively despite the fact that Mr..
Einstoin says that there are only
twelve men in the world capable of
understanding it. For fear that the
other ten are not present this even
ing, | shall refrain from any discus
sion Of relativity.)
"Infamy travels as rapidly as fame.
Il must have been months and years
before even all America knew of the
traitQrism Of Benedict Arnold, and
yet the Stacker Bergdoll is an infam-
Gus character well known to at least
two continents. The thing called
fame, few centuries ago, was equiv
alent to village gossip Of today. News
travelled slowly. But with the wire
less and the metropolitan newspaper
circulating everywhere we know at
breakfast-timc the words and the
acts Of the famous man on the even
ing before. Weeks after a peace was
declared in wars Of other centuries,
battles We're still being fought. The
Armistice Of 1913 was known within
a few hours throughout the civilized
world.
"And so there is a great temptation
to one ambitious to he famous today,
for no generation ever before had
such great fame within its grasp. 1t
is given to few men to do the thing
great enough to merit the attention
Of millions Of his fellow-men.
despite the temptation to sudden
riches and to sudden fame, the like Of
which temptations were never faced
before, ] make bold to suggest TO YOU
as graduates Of an American college
in 1921, that haste is fatal in the in
dividual life. Even if it were possible
for man of thirty to have arrived at
the pinnacle Of fame, to have reached
the acme Of financial success, or even
to be crowned by public opinion a
benefactor of the world, it may well
be questioned whether such a result
would make for life of happiness.
Dumas, in his wonderful novel, "The
Count of Monte Cristo," imagines
man so powerful in intellect and so
stupendously rich that he assumed to
take from Providence His task of
setting the world right. 1t is only
when the Count Of Monte Cristo adj
mits his failure that he sets out upon
simple life Of happiness. The man
who has everything and has done
everything at thirty can have no hap
piness in the long years of middle life
and old age. The pleasure of the
journey is not to have arrived, but to
be arriving. The enjoyment of
achievements is seldom so satisfying
as the processes Of achieving. Life