Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-12
tl!i4 coilnsel and the, choOsing S0f el>cs
stit created III His ttaSSA aS havtfik
nN4dom Of the will. "a B s9 49,

thu coiinsel ana the cjsoOsing ~ eltc,
created ia IIis ifHaSs, as ksvaisj
ky4dom Of the will. S,ssss
Iafeia Puf1 Es,, n i,
We get life spurpdse in{Sfprstet
int Scrip pthfeSin its highest terms. The
| purpose Of lie Id the advancAment 81
the kingdom. This, likewise, 1S In TIT
Scriptures. hec&uJe It .. the hikkSt,
conception, of the purpose Of life. II
is not as often interpreted primarily
the advancement 0f Tbs I 6hhfch ii
such. It is the advancement. Of the
world, the advancement Of our civil:
tkatiOn, the advancement Of our TEL
lows, Of the race. ~,
!, The basic work In your plane. mstl
ana Women Of ~. is the develoPmsh sht
Ct sslf, as the chief factor for accom-
pHshtng life purposes. The keynote
ef. this get from the, ,Mort1s Sofs ,0nr
great phliosoph pher. what you afes
speaks SO loud can't hear what YOU
say" A million dollar h6te depends
for Ito value entirely upon the name
signed to it. Personality and char
acter, first Of all, must be genuine.
You could not, II you would, fool 9TH
$et people. very long, ~ to what you
really are, students, friends, Of even
children. Voting epes tar in life
A'uS SAAS : C1A sk&AAAA9s 4
What is even more important, II
you could fool other people, you can
not fool yourself. The greatest source
of strength in the world is ones own
CONSEQUENCES Of worthy motives and
impulses. -
The highest measure of a man, of
ones self. is real and severe seIf-re-
spect. and, with humility, se1f-ap-
prevail t
We must do our own thinking, set
all the good counsel we can, but the
responsibility are ours If we would
develop the strength Of character
that counts. We must determine
these electives on the basis Of their
bearing on our individual purposes in
life.
Let US. as test, to ourselves, OF
character, keep our conscience clear,
let us have an enlightened conscience
and educated judgment, but let US act
on our .convietions rather than
through consciousness of legislation
Is not a final. argument for the indi-
vidual who thinks for himself We
had an example recently of a stAte
official not being held responsible for
a statement made under oath, on the
ground that when the statement was
signed the oath was not in form ad-
ministered. by the notary. Such. a
man may escape the courts, but how
If he is a man, can he look himself
in the face or maintain his se1f-re-
spect?
Relation to Others.
What of our relation. to our fell
lows? Another vital truth that we
find in the Scriptures that is there
because it is trtie, rather than true
because it is there, is (Romans 14-D
"For none Of us liveth to himself. and
no man dieth to himself" The in
dividua1s best interests are served
when his interest goes beyond him
self. !,
In preparing ourselves to work with
othefs and for Others let us lay down
what we might call a double standard,
not the double standard ordinarily re-
ferred to, but the double standard
of judging ourselves severely and at
the same time using all reasonable
iberality toward others.
Man Imperfect.
One of the most com mon mistakes
and one that it is important to avoid
is that we must not allow a PERSONS
individual faults to blind us to his
great virtues and personal worth. ~
Again. we, may we'll make distinc-
tions between Weaknesses, oRthe one
hand. and malicious faults, on the
other. For example, I rem en1ber two
Of the great professors at Johns Hop
kins, when I was there as a student,
were rather heavy drinkers. they
were both great scholars and i, both
strong teachers, one of them a. Alperbs
teacher. r.i
What should our feeling be toward
such men with these great. faults? My
feeling toward these exceptional men
with those faults was much the same
as it. would have been if they had had
tuberculosis. They were rendering q
great service on account of what they
had accomplished despite their faults,
and they were both paying the awful
and huniliattng penalty for their
faults. Besides the fairness Of it, we