| Show DR DIEL TALMAGE ON SUCCESS success and failure was the subject of an address delivered by dr talmage before a crowded congregation in the twentieth ward meeting house sunday evening for an hour the doctor held the great assemblage in profound attention and admiration As A the successful man needs no help or encouragement the subject of failure was given most moat consideration after showing that the generally accepted idea of success 0 ie o often a false one and that many a man goes to his grave deserving far more honor and praise than many man the doctor said in speaking of moral failures 1 I pity the man who has never failed he is in not a whole marx man he knows not the sweet faults of success by failures we learn through them we become strong we try to erase emse every mark of failure from froan our lives liven and feel so ashamed of it but it ought not to be so a he that never makes a mistake is fit at to be a master rather than a pupil we make mistakes in order to know how bow to avoid them ani and if we never make the same mistake twice all will be right with us not meaning in g moral mistakes As some jewels have haws in to which the very existence of the jewel is due so I 1 lare say may many of goda bri brightest jewels will be th thos one c containing contain ing flaws that helped to perfect the jewels better a thousand times to ta fall fail jn in the path of duty than 0 ta o succeed away from that path ditth by T failure we learn learn how likely we are tt to fail again and thus gather strength from it by which we may avoid mi mistakes HP he thinks that much of what the world calls success will some day be called failure and much of what is now called failure will be nathly called success speaking of being abaid af aid of dangers he said that it is only the mad man inan who is not afraid when there is failure it is no credit to tho thi insane man to rush fearlessly into janger 1 inger but the man who coolly calculates es his condition and acts in spite of af all danger because of duty is the brave man though a man die of fright in the th strict performance of his duty he is not a coward the man who is ashamed of fear is a man to be shamed it is said that it is only the fool who says he la in not afraid As we do not know what failure is so we do not know what success is we do not know the jewel of success even when we see it the rough diamond is often not recognized what is it that we admire is the man or his clothes is it the diamond or the pol 1 ish isha but whether we be polished or not let us be genuine the one who tries to do his best is a great man every good man is a great man it is only the perfect man who does his best it is sufficient to try to do de ones best the degree of success or failure of a m man an may be determined by his motive if a young man does good only 1 because of fear he is to be pitied when he goes out into the world likewise he whose motive for doing good is only because of a promise of reward some day may we show that we are sons and daughters of god not hirelings of earth may we do good not because of H reward not because of fear but because our father hath commanded it because he sanctions sanction silt I 1 it though he is to be admired ad mired who does right for butys sake yet duty after all is a hard task master duty is sometimes a N g cold cold motive the highest motive is to do good because we love to do good we then have no need of having duty pointed out to us we wont need to have reward or punishment pointed out to us AV it la Is often said that honesty is the best policy better had such never been written honesty is not policy it is degrading to make honesty the best policy A man should be honest for no other reason than that he is honest better by fkr far to tell the truth because we cannot do otherwise it Is not enough to do good unless the mo tive that prompts us is good the address was full of rich eions and comparisons it was closed 31 by a quotation from goldsmith and let us be 1 I As some tall cliff that lifts its awful 11 form J swells from the vale and midway J leaves the storm though round its breast the rolling 1 clouds are spread y eternal sunshine settles ort gift its head jl |
