Year: 1870

can't keep doson a man Give the noise time to


subside and the dust chance to settle, and your
first sight will be his determined form rising
out of the chaos, ready for it again, like the
trained champi0nt,of the ring, only that ne
.ne7ef 'throwsNn the sponge or loses his belt.


! know how men eoyet, crowd for the openings;


how the cry is lo here ia thee how men take
what what men ne oJs sids| bs desirable, rather the


respectable oecupatiSes, s, a glut. Virtually the
openings arS closed, yhoked, so many rush Tor
them. any paltry place men imagine easy
or relble has its aordes of applicants, ana tn.
paXaand paltriest lifeS Father than strike off by


h&2 YES into soms new way, and deserve
90 by achievingSt. Industries pine, voca-
tions wait to be Lii BED into honor, labor longs
for its redemptionRa whole teeming continent
invites, while tk young blood centres itself
Soq ahS n ss gu os ed and be bgod n
your veins, 10 dear five hundred friends at
your bssk aalio gold in your Golfers. The finest
openings are not in cities, have not the stamp
Of .society's patent. The place where man
stanas is his best opening, that which he stands
E4u, lsis best panoply; that which Gcd gives his
best weapon. Let him strike as Moses dld the
rock, as Paul did at Athens, as Luther did at
Worms, as Wesley did everywhere, as every
victor in life has, on the spot on which God
puts him, with what power God gives, strikein
humility and faith, and not as the hesitatlng
King, whom Eliza rebuked because he "struck
but thrice and stayed" but strike till the open
ing appear.


One thing besides Not energy, courage and
application alone does the young man need,
but that moral brace and toning which is
character-an element men too much overlook,
without which they may do certain things,
without which nothing is complete. Take this
away, and you take all. Take all, and yet leav-
ing this the sufficient capital remains for any
enterprise. The man who has character never
is bankrupt. He has always something with
which to begin again. The set Of circumstan-
ces may be never so strong against him, he
may be down as badly as man ever is, he
may have TO wait as men of the most earnest
purpose sometimes do. Yet he will not wait
idly, for that prime power which is his own
character is always at hand needing watch
and work. No young man can afford to over
look that, nor hatter himself that anything is
going to take the place of it, sometimes wish
young men in nice boots, and snug gloves, and
shining raiment, and fast horses, knew just
what, not ministers and women, but older bu-
siness men are saying about them, and how
little all this outside imposes upon anybody,
how smart soever they esteem themselves to
be. An older man who hasn't any character
OF his own, always demands it of others young
er, and he will not put his confidence where
it is wanting. The way into life is the way of
character. To him who has that, all things
at last yield and fall into place. He compels
victory, and those things become vassals which
aspired to be masters.


What | have to say to you, young men, is
that life itself is the fine opening for you-the
boon and dover of your God, not mans little
spot to which ne points you where you may
work by his idea, but the life God gives you to
work out by His idea. To carry out that idea
bY,f tba ipip of tho
powers he has given you, not other mems helps
but your own abilities. You are not to lay
yourselves out on the things which the grave
lets not pass it's barrier. You are not to deny
your birthright by becoming the mere creature
of tomorrow and to-day. You are not to heed
the suggestion of great things and high places,
with which the best friends tempt and deceive.
The great things and high places are what the
soul rises into as it plods along the rugged ways
of life, and makes its gropings here presage
and prepare for its soaring by and bye. 1t is
not the avenues to the worlds success alone
you need to discover Never forget your i'm
mortality, and the opening you are to make
from this life into it. Life is the opening into
all the power and joy of the spirit, into all the
bright and fadeless, noble and sublime. We
keep it down to the little cares and aspirings
of the day, we cramp existence into what our
hands find to do, our senses to enjoy, while
existence is a something immense and in finite,
into which to-day is the opening, of which the
character and success must be according to the
way we prepare for it, the door we go in at. We
must not have our all absorbed by what passes
now, but reserve the best of thought and power
and love for that which shall make glad ana
glorious the hereafter-the life about which too
much is said and too little done-the life OF
which our liveslong we stand in jeopardy be-
cause we are looking after openings into this
life, rather than using this as the opening into
that