Show braim abraim araim i y i IS u 1 AI rd DELIVERED MORGANa AT commercial COLL collude college rdE ede B Y 1 ir W ira ITA ESQ this might be considered a barren end unattractive bub subject Buh jeet partaking m more 0 re of odthe ahe prose of every day life than of its poetry more of travel in the hard and rugged highway of mental and m orai orar discipline than of loitering where flowers bloom and where all the asperities asperi ties ae ade a e softened by the of fancy it means more the of forca forea and their uses tha bof nog the full fration fr of acquired competency and its ita beneficent repose it speaks more fervently of the girding dathe loins and of going forth as a sol diar bierin inthe the battle and storm daue of the dels delp when he shall return laden liw gith tile tiie tico tilo trophies phles of his hla victory and c rued ried with the days of triumphant bucce aai gai It tells of badden saddened eadd ened ed but hope for the future rather than the retrospective tracings of the past and the stirring consciousness that from a quarter or dr halt hait a century of toil there llave wave been those elements which herald to the world the facts acts that by business training men have accomplished complis hed and will continue to accomplish more for the good of our humanity than was claimed for mythological heroes in the misty regions of the past many have an AH idea that business training has special reference to those who purpose engaging in the pursuits of ef commerce and trade and none to the artisan who repairs our soles and frames our understanding but little to the man who from the plowshare and the tho barn brings forth the harvest home still lees lebs to the stirring wife or beneficent mother who in tho the traffic and barter of domestic line lire makes or mars the fortune of her lord but this la Is a serious error one that has been productive of evil results and which like the fabled 99 tree has beneath its spread spreading I 1 ng branches been to thousands as the very valley and shadow of death material and financial death what la Is there implied in this busl busi bustness business training that it should command a good share of our attention and what are the characteristics which shall guarantee its suc cesh cesk business training implies that a man every re man an that a woman every woman shall be able to do and perform that for themselves which must be done by themselves ot or by others othere sometimes by strangers sometimes by enemies and sometimes sometime though rarely V by friends it implies that the products of 0 a mans amans labor of a womans comans labor fabor shall be gi given v to them in its integrity and that the recipient shail shall be competent to so direct its division tt that it shall minister mini ster stet to lo the welfare bf all concerned the men or women who earn 20 dollars per week andyes and yet cannot tell whether they received it and the men or women who receive 5 10 or 20 1 1 1 0 dollars as the case may a be 9 and a know what has become of it ar are e equally ailcy culpable and equally deficient olen oien I 1 in business iraln urain training ing lug as one oue man or woman may ma y inherit the treasure of a millio nare and borlack for laek lack of this may fall into abject poverty and another may be take taken n from the very dunghill dunghi ll 11 of obscurity cu and penury then subjected boits to its healthful processes until he shall exchange his obscurity for fame and his penury for the glitter and substantial of accumulated wealth in this business training our schools and colleges are grand auxiliaries and none can show a prouder record for its age than that institution under whose auspices we are now ilow assembled to this commercial OHr interests our educational eat cat ional lonal and our social interests st bear a faith falth faithful faithfull fill te testimony sti mony many of its graduates have become experts dents ex through its educational discipline and if this has been thoroughly seconded or if as a primary their moral and social forces nave have been subjected to as enni effI efficient clent elent a training these graduates will be the berlof men of our future their history will be the history of our state it will be interwoven with the bodiali social political and religious fabric of our bur nation and will give to it that integrity and perpetuity which are the crown and climax of a nations lire life ilfe ilde but dut thia this is IB not to be achieved simply by writing by arithmetic by gra grammar nimar by composition by geography or by the khe advanced studies of the higher classes nil nii these give power to the nitch machine lne lue cogs they are and aids but main spring and balance wheel are just jum as important tanti and maY liap 1120 more mone do BO in that armid gran d p system which in all on all ali geas seas the hidden 1 rio nio us K rpm yet yeb 11 powerful fal fai Influence of hearts and head conjointly coD jointly OB AM so 04 aw fl jis lis 9 true ninan nw baij esil beba ida hav b h rat rbt bad had business iness training except tiney tuey a are bonti on in vert veri versant kant jant with altabe above h min minister lster ister in ff fe we will point out some features of character without which there can eau be no a assured aured success bucce 4 lement industry lsne esne V byj t eie element lament t of business busl busI ness nebs tr aidin alDin ro no matter malter with wilh rules or boods goods or how bow clever clevor at as a worl rma sma in any do de apartment 0 Jabor the idler is anun anam successful tuso ruso solomon wasi wasl right when be indicted that thit sentence whole plea piea pleasant sant gant musio music bas hab ril ili isdo stid melody through the ages thou a man diligent in business bua ideis ho he shall dio iio noi not t stand before mean nish nash be shall stand baft before VT kings kingg 3 11 this dignified dign ined labor and placeit placed it on an ah equality with kings lay more courtiers might 66 crook the pregnant knee and bow before the rulers of the earth but the industrious man inan he knows no I 1 peer beer he owns no kinga he is a kina king by virtue of divine law he at STANDS BEFORE kingg kings A good deml deul of that which men call cali genius when divested of the glitter which ir radiates success will be found no doubt to be but the golden halo of an industrious man persistency is a ery important item in successful business training it is not being industrious one hour in a day one day in a week one week in a year it must become a settled habit of life no matter how thorny the path or how rugged and undesirable to an idle man no difre difference rence how many obstacles in the way or how many may have failed ther therein eln ein persistency will remove mountains I 1 will control the lightning and direct the storm this is the stuff of which heroes are made men who fight it out on this line if it takes all summer men who possess thi thib 8 quality laugh at danger ubey they know no defeat they ask no quarter they go as the comic writer said onward I 1 with the intrepid tread of a jackass towards a sack bacu of oats integrity throws a splendid lustre over its associate characteristics per bib sia tenoy tency and industry it is the belting setting the unadulterated gold of character it is not tarnished by cloud nor enhanced by sunshine nor changed by defeat or suc sue success cees if it suffers the first all good men say it deserved the latter if it enjoys the latter none envy but those whose good word would be reproach the inan man of integrity is the man who can be trusted his word is as good as his bond lie he takes no undue advantage of his neighbor he be does not misrepresent when he sells nor depreciate when he buys is not considered smart but Is honest not clever but a child places confidence in him hb be takes no advantage ige age cf his neighbors ignorance or of his necessity does not drive ff good abo d bargain yet feels io in the very phere phefe the respect of his fellow sueh hueh a am man i a i n i steals info the affections of the world even mean men feel small when in his nid presence n ce he be dau gau be 66 tied aled fb as men hay may h hl 1 a praise ia la in all the gates conscientiousness ss is a prime dequis requisite aw bf good business train training ing ji m man ap will not accumulate in other ihan than a righteous cau cause seLand and honorable busin bubin business ellb eias he is not engaged in that which saps the morals of a any dy people or in that chich perverts even thet thel appetites of ministers to drunkenness the social docial evil the perpetuation of injustice or withholding of rights it cannot be ba said of him that he has his price he is religious without sectarianism he be Js is nota slave to ta party or to fila nationality tlona tiola lity he sees bees god in man or it if un uti been seen beni j he would bring bling from the rubbish of f jaise education and circumstances the he germ of the possible absing losing sight bight in n a measure of the actual seeing dinall the brotherhood of a common humanity and the defects of an uncertain bustness nebs ness tr aldIng raiding economy is another of the gems which belong to chaplet of the bustness business man jt it is not what a man earns earps that marks a perfect man but in a measure what he accumulates over and beyond his needs it to is not an evidence of success that thai a man should be under obligations obliga tlona tiona to fabor labon till he is three years and zend ten ton conscientious integrity coupled with persistent industry should for gray hairs give competency and with genuine economy jt it generally will nor does this imply stinginess wo no it more often aften implies liberality the atinay parsimonious man may accumulate bub but ut ho he is not the ideal business man it is the liberal man de viseth liberal than things gsg gaj hud bud by his liberality shall he stand jt it is this his which glorifies the name and sheds a more nor id regal lustre on 4 d t y v 0 ii i F 1 ti ifa leg ii ity its mr F amdy audy id public days u n badill badly X misrepresented be 16 wis was anything any thing bat b at me employees I 1 chuo he be aw AWAS eul esl a dithering gathering his wealthea weal wealth thEL tes ies the name of miss mibs burdett coutts coutta their wealth i in 16 itri beneficence beneficent 6 runs rans to all generations by them thela thep po rare naro made bybell by being subjected to ther processes of faithful busl basl bul bui uness fless 9 training that thag ls go far as schools ui abid id their appliances appliance a df culture can workout this problem I for for fon all who come within the Tn influence fluence they have bave evoked tha erchant mr chant who on looking out gui of ilis lits office window say sar YF an aa applicant for a situation pick up a pini pia found aqua a quality I 1 ity him bioda favored and ashful fe ae ber eer beryant berkant ryant Kant soine socio men ivaora this thia quality end nd lavish all ali their earnings on style stylo dress jewelry and 0 ther other extravagance while the inner man is without adornment unclothed unfurnished thought culture readi reading rig riF discipline find no lio place with outside wealth there is internal poverty outside extravagance bt an I 1 internal economy which I 1 is fals tais and delusive possessing none of the elo ele ments menta of bu business ainess training which the thoughtful mali maii maita the business man th the e professional man delights to see bee ju iu the youth auth of the community in which be h e lis dwells ils promptitude prompt tuda tude marks all the transactions of a genuine bubl bubi business nees need man he promises he performs per pei forms it if ho he makes an engagement you may py it will be fulfilled the maz maj hand all ail upon the hour or moment is the signal for his presence hib his notes know no protest oher mens time is held by him of equal value with his own so BO he never compels any to wait he is tho the very incarnation of honor and when he errs you can hardly indict either heart or hand other men may use excuses or form apologies 1 1 but these are not in his venna verna vernacular cula r it is true to all the accidents of our common life he acts as if to him they were unknown his will and opportunity close and jump together he is none of your creature of circumstances the e he be controls or circumvents never allowing 1 I dare not wait upon I 1 would 10 like liko the avalanche he becomes irresistible and all obstructions vanish at the instance of his Impe imperial rigl ripi will this promptitude is under the supe vision of a berene serene intelligence ho he understands his business or delves into every manifestation thereof that he may become proficient if a teacher be Is a devotee at the shrine of human he can almost mould it as if he were its creator temperament traits and tendency are all so many keys by which he enters into the corridors and avenues of the human sou bou soul 1 lat latching chine one ne door and opening adoth another e r that the oreath breath of knowledge may penetrate the innermost recesses of tho the baine call cali hirn plin him bim an euth enthusiast h he a is mid wid d edis edib ith he be most subtle element known to the entire universe Is hp he a farmer crealon clea fon ion I 1 ja an ali alf open book kolls oils gases ma bures ure and chemical al processes are his dalloz dally daily lifo lifa from germ to harvest harvea he is a willing through nature up to natures god and no mit matter the er what the avocation 1 or how humble the calling intelligence e reveals a fragrance to common bense sense it becomes spiritualized bpi spi ritualized and add sanctified labors labor ork industry when intelligent smacks s m lc 4 of creative skill no matter how crude or how common the element in which such men inen deal it th becomes becomes e plastic in the hand and by the e cunning arthie arthic ei glows in forms forab of beauty b auty or of use and through all the ages and in all ail landsi lands wondrous have been its Imin immortal ortal triumphs blossom 1 ing ng in stone pealing ju a all hsi hiL halmony mony lowing glowing oll oil on all canvass storing up monuments of social grandeur and through each ideal pointing t to a millennium millen lum when all shall be filled alth with the love iove of beauty and blest biest with the beauty of love iove but what hovosall this to do llo ath bubl bubi ness training much every way because it is the consummation oran ideal and an every point poin t made in academy or col coi college lege every act of sustained progress in the flight of centuries tells in tones of music that all the educational forces of bf the universe no matter how commenced aaen ced continued or consummated are me but BO eio many steps or acts in tife the great gleat human drama or tragedy tra geAy if you will of human progress by business training system is also a fundamental trait of df business training all the other qualities mentioned ment ionea toned logo loda a good deal of their maluo unless system governs and controls the whole A business min man with out this thip would d be an anomaly he might have what la called auck juck and anel apparently patently ly succeed and ana because orthis th at some wouida decry noh not i system nione alone e batall the element bof 4 x 0 facter s 0 eter eten and in magl masi longings ngay agal forfare ron for orNain fame ej fortune and tle tie they tuey j nils pass a restless life dyste in m it implies timely at tent ion lon is every njuty duty many are amazed nt iut the amount of labor which la performed by a person of system every moment so BO long as a duty la Is unfilled is precious xer is this a con of slavery it is ra fathera oe zil ili condl condi s tion of freedom whereas the man who is 19 driven by hla hia hus bus business iniss ia 19 a fearful slave tha the mall mali loss he be has a place for 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