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Show V "SUCCESS IN LIFE;" X'Ji Win it! Success "material" prosperity, smartness, restless enterprise, arp the qualitips that most demand tho admiration ad-miration of tho present age ;at least in 'tho Anglo-American part of thb world. JTot.the.man of virtue, the man of elegant, tastes, the man of accom-plishcd accom-plishcd maiinera?thqraan of letters,or of learning," but the mere " "man of business?? busi-ness?? is our "highest styhf of man.,, Thtsiis iho. standard oE perfection set upbeforo tlip pyes of our children1 as tho, highest object of ambition. oVlt U undoubtedly true that, on-orgy,:induitry on-orgy,:induitry and business liabits are; excellent, things. Indeed, they are. necessary to the perfection of character charac-ter in any sphere of life. Some of' them are Christian virtues. But they are noj all that con?tituo tho raan'.j -They are not tho one thing needful.j Thpy have no right to absorb every ' bthermeriti Still less is mOre success a. criterion of merit The estimation in which, it is hed is a, f also, vulgar, infidel specie3 of idolatry. It is one of the meanest; and most ignoble characteristics of human nature.. It is. directly opposed to tho spirit of Christianity. And yet it unquestionably pervades our habits' of thought, speecli, and action. In view of this fact, ,it is refreshing to read such aparagraphaa the following, which we clip from an obscure corner of ono of our exchanges. It-is a gem worthy, of better setting than we can. give.it: t confessj" writcsrtho accomplished, Hillard,' "that increasing years bring With, theni. ah inefpasing respebt for th03Oywho, 'dp not succeod in tifc, ai thpso, -'..words re" .commonly' vuscdi HcaVpn is said to bo,:o 'place -fpr those wholiAvpnot'succccded upon cartlu and it: is surplj true that.thocolesUal graces do not best thrive-and bloom1 in thp hot blazp:fo? woHdlyprosvMsrity; : III uc-J cps3 onictihics; ises f rjtim suporabttrid-arico; suporabttrid-arico; of-qualities! in thcmsclyes good, from a conscience top scnsJtiVo, a tasto too faBtidiptis, a sblf -fbrgotf utneas too. romantic; a, modesty i'P6r retiring; v I willrnbtgQ-'soar aa'io ayVJwith a', living pPct,that tho world i'nowsnotl ing ofite greatest men , but thoro arb forms of grpatnoss,or .atUpast' oxccK lence,' that dio: and makp-nosignj there; a;martyrs".that!.miss;thpal'm:.bptrioi' thp.sialcp; ihVrp' are he'rMs, without flip : Jaurel''aud'I'cltt'nqPero ftho. ;UiumplilfjAbama -PhflM |