Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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6 Of course, the education of which this professor spoke was that of the mind, and emphasizes strongly the need of heart culture; which is a work quite apart from mind training. Fill the hearts’ treasure-home with the truth of the ages; hang upon its walls the beauties of precepts and examples; consecrate its altars with purity and righteous- ness and you will have laid the foundations for a mag- nanimous life. The third member of this individual compact is the will. The mind and the heart may be treasure houses filled with facts and sentiments to supply the needs of life; but the will is the administrator of the treasures. If you cannot say “yes” and “no” to the facts and senti- ments that move within, you are a house divided against itself that cannot stand. To such a one, these most prec- ious treasure houses may become the most dangerous assets of life. ’Twere better to be without than having to be unable to direct in paths of righteousness. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate. (’an circumvent or hinder or control The lirm resolve of a determined soul.” “Gifts count for nothing, Will alone is great, All thinks give way before it Soon or late.” 'fluis I have stated the fact that INCARNATION is the supreme method of greatness. That is, if one would win success in any walk of life, he must first win it with- in the realm of his own person. The Social Compact. The majority of my hearers have already noticed that the mind and heart of the individual are absolutely dependant upon that and those outside of the personal- ity, for its highest perfection. There is a mutual inter- dependanee of man upon men that makes for the success of man. Over the noble gateway leading to the campus of Cor- nell University are these words, “So enter, that thou mav- est become more thoughtful and learned; so depart, that thou mavest become more useful to thy country and man- kind.” This makes service, the great object of life. This is the fact that Henry Ward Beecher enunciated when he said, “The supreme art of life above all other arts, is the art of living together, justly and chartibly.” There is no other thing that is so taxing, requiring so much education, so much wisdom or practice as to know how to live with our fellowmen. In importance the art

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0 business of life. Why fill this library of the soul with all the newspaper jingo, with sentimental love stories, with fantastic and farfetched novels, when there is such an abundance of mind and heart building material to be found? We all know people who have spent time enough reading waste-basket fiction, to have given them a liberal education without the assistance of colleges and universities. Indolence, impatience and intemper- ance are great enemies of the mind. Cherish this great power of the soul, my hearer. Make it the great ally of your life; for it will fill your soul with the light of the ages. Another member of this individual compact is the heart. It is the center of sentiment; from it proceeds the affections of life. There is an education of the heart which is largely dependant upon the resources of the mind; and there is an education of the mind that is largely dependant upon the resources of the heart. “In tlie day when the clear thinker stands alone the world perishes through coldness and lack of love. And, in the day when there is no clear thinker, love does its blundering best but falls pitifully short.” Christian Student, Aug. 1903. One of the very largest contributions to life is the noble sentiments that spring from the heart. Chief among these sentiments is that of Love. It is this senti- ment that makes the Great-hearts of the ages. Love of truth, beauty and righteousness, are salient springs from which to draw the water of life. They are the laughter of heaven in the soul of man. Love of truth made the world’s philosophers, our painters and our sculptors; love of righteousness gave us our reformers, philanthropists, and our saints. How could the world prosper without sentiment? It is sentiment that rules the multitude, and sentiment is the product of the cul- tured heart. “An eminent psychologist from New England, lectur- ing last summer at the University of Chicago, asserted that, “We no longer look to education to bring the mil- lenium. We used to imagine that if we could only pro- vide good schools and get boys and girls under the influ- ence of education we could finally do away with every kind of disorder, sin or crime. In fact, however, we have found that education has failed on this side. No matter how much we may educate the intellect, the in- tellect still remains the slave of passions. Men will do, not what they know, but what they love to do. Reason appears to have been given man chiefly to enable him to discover reasons, for doing what he likes. Consequently while the training of the intellect may save us from the grosser sins and crimes, it reveals to us the meaner ones.”

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excels all productive industries which we teach our chil- dren. All skill and knowledge, aside from that is as noth- ing. The business of life is to know how to get along with our fellowmen. Newell Dwight Hillis lias put the same fact into another form when he said. “In import- ance this knowledge exceeds every other knowledge whatsoever. To know what armor to put on against tomorrow’s conflict, how to attain the ends of commerce and ambition by using men, and how to use men, not by injuring, not by cheating them, not by marring them, not by neglecting them; but how thro’ men to advance both one’s self and one’s fellow — this is life’s task. For skill in getting on with men is the test of perfect manhood.’’ From the standpoint of reason, experience has taught men that their interests are conserved in their fellowmen. Every brother man has something to contribute to your success, and in the contribution blesses his own life. Man is man’s greatest benefactor; and the law of success- ful relation is co-operation. Every man loses power when be reason of any strain- ed relation, lie breaks the community of interest with his fellowman. But more than this is true; every man has an obligation to pay to all others, in the payment of which, he adds to the increment of life. The old Heb- rews wisely analyzed the kingly office under the heads of Prophet, Priest and King. And the world’s real po- tentates have been men who were first prophets or wise men, foreseeing the future and who before they became kingly, became priests and willingly bore the sins of their generation upon their hearts. And thus it is ever, that mastery springs from knowledge but kingship springs from service. History gives us many tributes verifying this fact. The statesman who best serves his fellowmen; altlio his contemporaries may be more popular than he, has with- out fail, received the honors of a grateful people. The physician who best serves his patient; the teacher who best serves his scholars; the merchant, who, with wis- dom and brotherly interest transfers commodities are the men who do business upon a firm basis. If you would ally yourself with the second greatest compact known to the ages; ally yourselves with men; lend yourself to the destinies of your day and age. Leave the “low vaulted past” of self interest, for “the dome more vast” of human brotherhood. Write the words of love and service, in fair, large characters across the pages of your biographies. Then men will honor you as they do the Great Liberator and your children’s children will weep over your dead body as the children of the street wept over William of Orange.