Show tt I A CHRISTMAS wl 2 MESSAGE EI What Andrew Carnegie Writes in T he Scottish American is the time we all G C make good resolutions to be into operation on the he first day of the ye year r says Andrew Carnegie In ThE Scottish AmerIcan Tile Tie making of good resolutions is salutary even It if these bear little fruit for they thoy prove that our thoughts are upon serious things and that we see the need 1 fer As we grow older we should indeed grow better It is u a point If we realize alize that we should be better in inmany many things Throughout th thu whole people have hae stated state times for con their positions morally md and materIally and 2nd for laying down good rules for tor thE next term In the most p country of the world China this time is New ew day They are area a very Interesting people the Chinese ind not only do they in re review view their lives and alms but on that thatty ty ay they Jive give a practical turn to the study It Is an article or of their religion that eYer every debt should be discharged on New Years da day They must begin the new year owing no man an thing p People unable to do thIs often commit suicide b being ing no lo longer er of f living when they cannot hold their heads up among their fellows free tre c from nU all obligations I would not venture to recommend this to the renders readers of a Scottish but certainly this season s of the y year ar would he be well ivell spent after moral amendment had been resolved upon in taking a review Or f pecuniary and re resolving to live within Ine which many sag sages tell tellus tellus I us is indIspensable to happiness Thrift is a generally credited to the Scots In a much greater degree than to their SOUth southern neighbors the Eng lish ps s pretty tar far in hi aa advice ice 1 to secure a modest Jf poten de te without map happy scarcely w honest losert po ft Js Is cannot an 0 i far as that on the contrary honest poverty is more general than Junius could ever have hae imagined Still for forthe forthe the well doing respectable working workingman man there is In ill getting ahead in the world a source of satisfaction and of building which scarcely any anything anything thing else can SUpply always ex except excepting ing irreproachable conduct which is the chief jewel of oC life liCe The owner ownership hip of a home has far reaching ef effects upon human and happiness s Indeed I do not kno one material acquisition that flint corn com compares pares with It in this respect It goes deep down to the root A mans a aman aman man for a that but ho he Is more of a aman aman man when lie he is owner of his own home than j ii he rents the property or of an another another other Home sweet home theres no like home Is nn an American song I Iwonder Iwonder wonder how many of my readers know that No one wUI ivill ever Cor know how very er Very sweet that song Is until lie he sings It in th the home lie he lan can call lall his own It would not be a bad rC resolve olve for the wide circle of Scottish renders readers to make this morning that they will devote the savings they should so manage to to the par pur purchase chase of a home Through building eo 60 this can be easily accomplished hed and next Christmas when they as em emble ble in the home not rented but ow owned th they y m sing Home Sweet Home with more intense feeling than ever before It will have hae acquired a new meaning Every man his own landlord would make Scotland a happier land and Seats Scots prouder than ever if or of their native land There Is another source of happiness to those who save in insurIng the ets life so that those de n him will not suffer want Nothing can nn talc iti as a maU matter r oJ of prudence one might mo f E aY Q of dut for those So year ear tO lm li lff e 8 r rance fund brings infinite Uon tion It relieves a man front from many a I i es WhiCh U upon pop his bodily I health and the breadwinner SUre that wife and tre re provided for goES guc forth to hs work in the rooming as a 1 giant refreshed He is more likely to torise torise rise in the scale tItan his fellow harassed by anxIous thoughts upon that score On One cannot think upon the lives of the masses s ot of the Scottish people with without without out findIng an unwelcome spectre in My experience with en ha been e n not Incon Inconsiderable Inconsiderable in Am and from what 1 see here I cannot blind myself to the fact that In thIs respect my native nathe land Is saly behind my adopted land The native born American is a strictly temperate man I am aware that the climate te is different and much nueh more favorable rable to temperance than thIs Scotch climate This makes the temptation to drink much less Be Besides sides this the American us as a rule has a better home there is more room It and hp he is able from lila higher wages t tO purchase more moe comforts per perhaps haps we might say in one sense sens luxuries than his fellow in Scotland The rhe fact remains that he is temperate and that the Scottish workingman not earning much more than half the AmerIcan dos does spends far more than in intoxIcating liquors The Scottish workman who re resolves resolves solves to and does devote the amount or of his former drInk pa payments ments into building society for n a ahome home 1 r for a life Ufe insurance policy which com cornea t next ID h importance wm will have haye cause each succeeding Christmas to celebrate wIth enjoyment and remember with gre ter satisfaction tion the ChrIstmas or of 1904 when he entered upon the true path which leads upward There is one subject which when mentioned d causes a cot to hang his rance This should not be Let us all resolve to free our be beloved beloved loved Scotland from this stain that causes her to blush We all have our trials and disappointments In this life Ufe Those who think that the king upon the throne escapes or the noble or 01 millIonaire in tho th palace make a a very great mis mistake mistake take Ind ed The disappointments trIals anxieties and sorrows ot of life tiCe touch all men One like m myself self who has known poverty and known wealth knows this not only from observation observation tion but from experience There is In the world only one com coin common mon source ot of true happiness worth having for tor all men of every degree that is the J acting ac according according cording to the light given them feeling that where much is given much is re required required There IS one never failing sat satisfaction satisfaction in the knowledge that amid much that we would change it is a cheering fact that man mall has bas steadily improved and that by a law of his be beIng beIng Ing he has developed ev from lower forms up to his comparatively high estate U if UWe We consider only the present much Is seen to cau cause e us pain much to dis discourage courage us If we look forward much is seen yet yetto et etto to be accomplished r the conditions are as W we should wish But there re remains remains mains one direction to which we should turn this Christmas mornIng and at atall t tall all seasons when our manifold bless blessIngs Ings come to mind and aro arouse se our gratitude and ana brIng us happiness s that is the look backward Consider what has been and what has no been reached in the path of Improve Improvement ment Read of the of the not even een very ery distant past and note th the deplorable conditions Contrast these the numerous chances for the better which the masses of the people I Inow now enjoy and the more than ma material material benefits which are now theirs Let not the things of the spirit now enjo enjoyed ed be overlooked of which our predecessors knew nothing Traces ot of the villana e remained lii In time Ule lir lifetime ot of men still BUll living Hying and their fathers saw the workers transferred with the mInes that were sold old Now the miners and the owners ar are at this moment 11 tie as r Ilow merchants fo Co the purchase and sale of l labor bor one wIsh wishing in ing to buy the other to sell upon terms ot of perfect equality The roal royalty y ot of man which Burns stood for Is no longer merel merely an aspiration is but stamp one of the greatest in our Jur generation is the gen general eral access of workers to knowledge knowledg through books and to higher especial especially I ly technical education But there are arc too many points of contrast between past and pr present sent conditions to be named Trul Truly th the world seems to move moc to improved conditions sloWlY emily to those who do not un I themselves out of turmoil anti and take a clear look backward This sob soberly soberly erly done we wc are amazed at the rapid ty with which we are pushing onward and upward and filled with wilh glorious visions of the days to come corne corneBy comeBy By a law of his beIng man must eVer turn his face toward the sun his course is upward nor can any limit be set to his march toward perfection This happy Christmas morning there therefore therefore fore let us dwell the entrancing tact that human life lite for thE humblest as for the highest grows better and better with tIme the progress of the suns rejoicing that life is well worth living and resolving to live it well There can be no true happiness in iii inthe the cottage palace or castle except as we obey the jud judge e within and mis misery cry ery comes to all who go contrary to te their conscience If we be true to the judge within we have hae no other judge to tear fear and if we be false nothing good to expect either itt in thIs world or om orthe the n next A merry Christmas therefore to Ic toone one and all my read readers rs and once more let us keep this In mind to encourage and make us joyously since all grows better all is well Scotland for ever eer |