Show WORK AND DETERMINATION Every Boy and Girl Should Read and ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES OF THE S. L. By Nephi June On the afternoon of August in the Congregational meeting house of the town of N. Daniel Webster received his diploma of which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of At the close of the commencement exercises with some of his class mates walked out onto the college unrolled his tore it to shreds and exclaimed as he scattered the pieces on the grass industry may make me a great but this miserable parchment Daniel Webster on that occasion expressed the true spirit of commencement a craving for dependence and and These constitute the great trinity of success They have made the statesmen and coupled with work and determination has built the the steam made electricity the bearer of human thought and wrote all the history of the and Now these and but the greatest of the three is Tell me what a man desires and I will tell you what he If he craves whiskey he will be a slave bound by chains stronger than can be made of either iron or he craves cigarettes he will be a serf who confesses every time he takes a smoke that a drop of nicotine is his If he loves a lie all his ways will be ways of deceit and and his heart will not know the joy of beating If he craves the his soul will be cankered and his heart a loathsome if he truth and his lips will utter words that are like of gold in pictures of his heart will beat time with the music of and the peace that all understanding will hover about him all the auya of his What the Great Teacher the greatest of all understood the power of desire and expressed it tersely in these words those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be Notice that word It is the name of the strongest physical Real intense makes you forget all other When we shall have developed a craving within us for the the true and the pure that amounts to a we follow the right course just as surely as the magnetic needle points to the north The Important Of all the important things in life the most important is to get your desires Cultivate a taste for the highest and for wisdom and This is an age of material advancement and pleasure Be not deceived by the illusive influences about Chasing dollars is not the highest object 01 There are more exquisite and lasting pleasures than dancing and riding in To the cultured an hour with a good book or a few minutes a great picture gives more real pleasure than the same length of time spent in But the best thing about these higher forms of enjoyment is that they do not leave a bad taste in your and you don't have a headache the next Must Work to But it is not enough that we crave and desire If wishes were automobiles the auto factories would have to work over We must not prophecy a future for but we must work to fulfill the Dreaming is alright at but it is not very profitable in the day Air castles are beautiful things to think but houses with cement foundations are best to live Everything we see teaches the great lesson of It is the lesson taught by the dew drop that glistens in the heart of the by the tender bud that expands and by the tiny bee that gathers sweetness for you and The life of every great man was made great by Whether you write a poem or dig a paint a picture or saw it is all the It takes work to do No greater truth was ever expressed than The heights by great men reached and Was not attained by sudden But while their companions Were toiling upward in the To Face the Commencement implies means pro- It means to face the future with high hope and a determination that knows no turning It means to and dare in the living Had Daniel Webster written on the day of instead of there would not have come down to us as a priceless the greatest American and American hearts would never have been thrilled by those matchless and union now and one and Onward and Upward Never say far and no but with heart ana soul exclaim and upward for Be not of the class who what I have but rather one of those who can and The first class are the latter are The first are so busy telling about what they have done that they don't have any time to do any the latter say little and saw Work while it is the past counts for Deeds done are done and cannot be Don't Don't wait for they never come to those who but only to those who work and toil while they If opportunities did come to you while you were waiting for them you would not be prepaid for When Abraham Lincoln was a boy some one asked what he was going to Lincoln don't but I will study and get and maybe the opportunity will Lincoln did study and he got ready and when the opportunities came he met them in such a way that it sent his name ringing down through the If he had just waited we would not have today his splendid Gettysburg nor those gentle words Words of Wisdom and malice towards with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the let us strive on to finish the work we are Adversity is the prosperity of the Genius will rise and achieve While other French writers were hunting for a suitable subjects to write Victor Hugo picked up a galley slave with chains on his limbs and the marks of the lash on his back and made t-m the of one of the very greatest novels ever So masterfully does Hugo treat his subject that before you get through reading the book you shed tears of veneration for that galley sir ye who spent nineteen years in chains for stealing a loaf of to feed his starving adversity that builds the ing ladder Whose golden rounds are our Even failure is and defeat All who have tried have gained in knowledge Often defeat is better far than The first speech delivered by Disraeli was made up of high- sounding words that had little or no Of his audience hooted him off the What if they had applauded and cheered instead of Disraeli would have become too suddenly satisfied with himself and have ceased to study and work and never would have been known to But as it was the hisses of his audience stirred his heroic soul and like lightning there sprang from his heart the time will come when you will hear with racial prejudice against with no one to boost without worked and struggled onward and upward until he became Minister of Great The Best Is to Don't write today because you think you have no If the least of you should do your very best through life you would surprise the No one has yet done his very The greatest drama has not vet been the eloquence has not yet been the beautiful picture is still the most perfect statue still slumbers in the crude and inventions will yet be made that will surpass all that Thomas A. Edison ever dreamed To do your very best you must couple with desire and work a determination that knows not the word Write across your banner in letters large and I There is no no no Can or or control The firm resolve of a determined Gift counts for little will alone is great All things give way before soon or What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea-seeking river in its Or cause the ascending orb of day to Each well-born soul must win what it Let the fool prate of The fortunate Is whose earnest purpose never Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great even death stands still And an for such a But intellectual achievement is not all there is to strive You have a soul as well as a and as one writer has said that soul was fashioned in paradise robed in graces plucked from 1 1 green fields of Eden and led do W to the earth along a pathway rf To preserve that soul J sullied and make it grow in W of all that is pure and noble is the highest re that rest upon to be able to think right and act right is greatest possible Man has been able to harness theM forces of made water fire lift and carry his made his melted a few grains of sand peace of glass looked through and defined the paths of the plan but has not yet wisdom and reason and them the undisputed rulers of j life and fl Right Living and Right Thinking it If you can make your mind un think high thoughts keep deceit and guile from lips and make your heart true to the highest then yom t will be doing greater things than if you governed a All th literature of the world contains no truer aphorism than the on y found in the proverbs of Solomon is he who ruleth than he who a BH Moral VA- It requires more courage stand and do right der all circumstances than to the cannon's The hero in this world of and temptation is he who can every time his sense of honor and i every enticing evil with a firm i positive Say your companions give you a and when the glass is offered say and you will display heroism than Napoleon Battle of i The future is full of promise While your youthful beat strike the hot iro of your destiny with heavy blow and mould it according to brN heart's best Be have be up and With a heart for any Still still M Learn to labor and to M sM The evenin life brings it its Bk |