The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-01-18
REV. MR.. NICHOLSON
ADDRESSED The ELKS
Popular Pastor OF st. Paul's NJ. l..
Church Speaker At The Exercise
Sunday Afternoon. Mrs. J. Ben
Brown, Jr., SoloiSt.


| the Elks Club was held Sunday at
ternoon and was largely attended
The Rev. R. Y. Nicholson, pastor o
st. Paul's Methodist Protestan
:. Church, this city, was the speake,
and delivered very interesting ane
able address. Mrs. J. Benz. Brown
was the soloist and delighted the
audience with two very fine selec
tons. She was accompanied by Mis-.
Mary Blanche Seward. The speaker
next Sunday afternoon will be the
Rev. F. 9. McSorley, of Federals
burg.
| Rev. Mr.. Nicholson took as the
subject OF his address THE Worth
of Man" and said in part as fol
lows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle.
men:-
| l come to you today with a very
commonplace and yet | trust a very
practical question: viz, How much
are you worth?
A young man enters the business
life, and the first question asked b!
the business world is, how much is
he worth? A man enters the bank
to negotiate loan and the bank
asks, how much are you worth?
man enters a place of business to
make a purchase on cerdit, and the
| merchant asks how much are you
worth? a man goes down to death
and passes out of life and the COM
| munity asks, how much was ne
worth? And SO one of the first
| questions asked upon a mans en-
trance into active life and the last
| question asked after his death is,
| how much is ne worth?
| There are many standards by
| which a mans worth is estimated
The chemist has a standard. He says
! that a man who weighs $50 pounds
i is worth $500. There is in him SUI
| ficient by-products to make one nail;
| enough salt to fill one common salt
cellar; enough sugar to fill small
sugar bowl; sufficient lime to white
| wash an ordinary chicken-coup, phos-
phorous, sufficient to make one dozen
matches; enough magnesia for one
dose; albumen, equivalent to that of
100 eggs; enough fat to fill 10
pound can. This is the chemists
standard, but a false one, for it is
the one by which we value hogs and
sheep.
Business has a standard by which
it values man. Business estimates
that it cost to raise child to the age
of 20 years $4150.0O. The average
commercial value at the age of 20 is
100000. At the age Of 80 the
average man has earned 100000.
The cost of support to that age Is
$10,150.00. Worth Of the man,
$5850.00. A railroad company In
law suit over the death of the aver
age man is made to pay $5000.00.
This too. is false standard, for By
this standard corn an dtomatoes are
valued.
Education has a standard by
which it values a man. 1t is the
standard of brains. Education says
that Millet bought piece of canvas
and paints for $50 and upon the
canvas painted the Angelus which
later sold for $105.000.00. Results,
raw material, $50, brains, $104,-
999.40. A few years ago ton Of
pig iron could have been purchased
for $40. If made into horse shoes,
is worth 500. If made into knife
blades $500. If made into watch
springs $1,000. Raw material, $780,
brains $3.50 This seems more rea-
sonable to value a man by what he,
knows or what he can do. Vat tins
too is a false standard, for occasion
ally the village loafer is high school
graduate; the town bum, college
graduate, and the penitentiary BIRD,
the graduate of the university.
There must be a true standard
which is unavailable and universal
by which all men may be valued.
That standard is the standard of
personal worth, the standard of good
character. The only just standard
by which man can be valued is the
standard of what he is. Take away
from him what he has, rob him of
what he knows, strip him of his
power to do, and the man who is
left is the only basis of valuation.
The man of value is the man who
is too big to be small; too honest
to be dishonest; too truthful to be
false; too dependable to be untrust-
worthy; too kind to be cruel; too
bretherly to be selfish; a man with
faith in the future, faith in his fell
bowman and faith in God.
This standard of character is a
true standard because it determines
the value of the merchant. For it
compels him to minister to the needs
and desires of his customers giving
to them 16 ounces to the pound. IL
inches to the foot and 100 cents to
the dollar.
1t makes the employer feel a re-
sponsibility to his employee. 1t
makes the employee give go minutes
| to the hour and or 10 hours per
day according to the demands of his
employer. 1t makes the lawyer to
| seek the interest and advantage of
| his clients. 1t makes the physician
minister to the rich and poor alike
1t makes the teacher to so teach that
he shall give to the world not money
! getters, but service givers.
| 1t makes the minister labor not
| for earthly rewards, but for the up
| lift of his people and salvation OF
their souls. 1t makes the president
of the nation, the governor Of the
state, the mayor of the town tC
think and act for the highest inter.
est and greater welfare of their peo
pie.
This standard of charaster is true
because it makes the politician pu
principle above party and party sue
cess. 1t makes him too great t.
worship at the feet of any class. L
i puts him above selling his soul fol
position or honors and compels hin
to stand for good, efficient and hon
est government.
This standard of character is tn