| Show I PEARSONS A AMAN AMAN MAN T TIN IN LOVE SERMON BY REV CARVER ON SUNDAY EVENING LAST How Many H ve Been Given to lo Cauce or of Education and Por of the COunt Country Tho third or of the upon Th ThI The I Va antI Abuse of Money Ione wag Khen Sunday In the First Presby Preb church the tho theme being D l J Pearsons learton the mAn who kept hi hIs lIfe lICe and gave hIe lii Spooking SpeakIng from the Interview of oC the tho Christ And tIm the rIch young oun ruler r as n a text Rev Re Carver Canor after RIter commentIng upon the Euld In Part TIm Tho marble In the tho now government is 18 known as Pa marble of oC Its till blanco to Ito famous Italian marble marblo Because of oC its Ils coloring It ItIs itis Is very valuable and the architect told me costs four our and n a halt dollars dollar a square foot ono one Inch In thickness Its geological formation Is Interesting the cloud cloudy coloring b being caused b bp by p perfect rC ct stillness In the strata until the hardened It was form forn formed ed In oM old Vermont rIte rhe of the lie Vermont home has hns kept many manya n a youth In iii a receptive to 10 Ito tho liest of home life until the character has haM taken a fixed anti and abiding value alue Among mong Ito tho ninny many lives nurtured In the Ito h host environment of that re regIon lon is the tho life of Daniel K Pearsons lie was horn born at Bradford Vt In 1820 The Tho home was n a poor ono In world goods hut a on one In principles and After attending Bradford academy ho col loge teg but 1111 though h he cared for or his own room and his own food hI he was waR not able financially to 10 over oer a year After teaching a time LIme ho entered rIt a small medical at Hero here h bi doing old oIl work he earned his way vay until tho ho last year when again hI hi was to leave school for more mort funds whon one or of orthe the teachers loaned him and ho finished his course ho He seWed settled at Mass ilass married and was do 10 dong lag ng well weli when a relative a congress congressman man from the tue west wesl came to visit him With all of Ih the enthusiasm of the vest cst ho he described to the Pearsons the opportunities for fOl financial gain to he found In the vest His was as contagious and the Pearsons con to go west Mrs 1 rs Pearsons been a at Mt 1 t 1111 poor as her had t secure her education They Thoy had do de determined that any wealth the they should acquire would be given to the cn cause use of oC education of the poor and worthy youth of oC the lan land Here In the great greater reat reater er mone moneymaking opportunity of the west was au an enlarged field for their life aim The They went vent to Elgin EIght Ills then the tho end of oC the railroad In 1850 and staged on to Beloit and Jaynes yule Wis At Beloit thor they asked what was the purpose o of the brick building on lie tho hill hili and nd were told that fool Cool were trying to establish a collegeS Dr has since sinco gir 11 to that same struggling college Pearsons located In Chicago and become became the leading aria land lanel salesman of the west Ho He sold for eastern owners on commis commission commission sion an and later would buy large tracts and retail it to the tho set settlers ller The Tho 1111 noi Central Centra had fourteen flubs of land on each side or of Its track and Pearsons sold It till all ln hi all he sold over Oer a million acres and invested his commissions in Chicago real e and street car property Later he purchased large Iare tracts of Michigan timber In 18 5 Chicago was heavily In debt and was on the verge vergo of re tho th obligations when Pear Pearsons sons went east and pledged his entire fortune In payment The result was that confidence nce was restored and 1 became known ns as a man ot of honor In ho retired from rout bied I ness md and has since devoted his tino I to giving away his mone money Most lost nil all nilor or oC his mone money has gone to 12 western and southern schools the lions at Walla nUn Walla WalIn Wash Deer Lodge Mont Idaho Cob Colo rabo Springs Pomona Calif and th the University Oregon belD being the western 8 schools favored i lie He never gives money fiB as n a tree girt gift I It must hI be used as a fund for Cor bOnito purposes In recollection of his the theono theone ono one hundred dollars In hI his schoolIng ng he has In many the tho interest or of which Is to be loaned to worthy stu lents dents In sLims of one hundred dollars a year at 3 per pcr cent Interest In aU all allover over three thousand have hae secured an education In this manner lIe has lived almost miserly Thou Though h for over fifty year he has been heen In Chicago h lie saw a base bull ball game ganto an opera and hut but one heater and Aud that to see oe Uncle Toms CabIn But Bitt ho he was miserly for n a purpose Ho not nol for Cor his OWn end Ind or 01 that he loved mono money but because lie ho had consecrated his hili life liCe to ono one end coil to money to give away to what he the great grent call of oC his tion of poor but worthy worth youth Ills miserliness then wu was as lor bus as that of oC the lie rather lather aud mother who wear old clothes and rigorously don deity nIl all pleasure and nce that the Iho IDA may havo hao Ul the com coni forts and the blessings of oC home and n lag Vo 0 r read aul In Roman history of oC an Roman ROlDan who was very er wealthy and nil all that Is 18 ot of him hi Is 18 that he pO possessed Am d chan changes ce 0 of raiment W e rend read of JUan toda today that L LlOy o arc aro rich enough to own and jewels than they their can ca evoi vo use But WI we read of Pearsons that he was rich ollough to build up I and st strengthen ron th n 0 colleges for th the training ano help of the poor Money a I Blessing or Curse Speaking of gIvin h hi Jt 11 is II a serious to lo w lIh and a CAr Sr hung to dispose of Ii 11 You f make mak It a or a it Il I hard harrl rj t I I m monr away alvay beca I a Ut if P In k ri hi be Ill o j executor T J If t ti Just my ni m ne so o nj wl aF 1 ts d nL Ib It IL I 1 have ban worked hard for fOT It lout I II I a hard to gIe h It awa o n It I Jit 11 Tb mall I IIi Ii r L 1 ei t I k i cn i II ib p 11 71 i titi too Ii f j t I lit t r 11 T f do not Dot do Us the pm grade STade of oC work or orI I I reach th grade of oC people Th The northwest t I filling up with the tho b beet t people on earth and la Its boys boya and gIrls need a cb I His Ml on 0 of Ace success la Is worth remembering 1 Ii Sa Ii ha bu done mo more for fOT than mankind has baa done for Or hInt bini whosoever baa ha In Increased creased the worlds t Ck or of aDd Ruti comfort and do its mis misery misery ery and pain has made au enduring success even th thought b He went out as poor as when he bo CHIDe caine In Luck hn ha nothing to do with success Speak In log of education ho said td The rhe oat idea Iden I 1 am tryIng to put Into rich men mene 1 ii that Is an antidote for anarchy The flue big blK college tOo much mitch and not en work Rich ruined d is 18 tnie wIth most rIch mens son Bon We must look to the poor lios g Bud and for Cor Corthe forthe the future That ThaL Is 18 why I the tho wc t nl chool This I is the thought of oC the man nian who gitro 25 years tArs or of his hili life lite to making n a fortune and then thon spent 5 more In giving it Il awn away ho wise In git In hag ne as ho he did Lieten to 0 the greatest foreign authority on rec recent nt AmerIca I rend from American Corn Com speaking or of the entaIl amal western college ho In any set get hoM or of a of oC poor utica who might never resort to a distant place for or education Tho They ad et learnIng In invisible visible form orm plain Indeed and hum ohIo blo hut hait dl even in her It ity before hoor the eyes of A rustIc tl ie O plo iilo In whom love lon of knowledge c naturally strong might r break forth from t tIme h bud Into the lie flower for COI the care of some lome zealous gard gardener gardoner oner ener They lI light ht liP up In iii mun many a coon cOlin t try town what Is nt at first only n a farthIng farthing Ing but which the town tOWa swells into a city or endowments low flow In or when wIlen some teacher Is i placed In chargo becomes n a lamp of glowing flame which may throw Its rays ras over Our the state in III which It nut But was to wield a 11 still larger wider influence lie give only hl his Fon millions directly hut hill indirectly hut his Influence would in do larger things In hi 1835 a Scotch lath 1311 was kas horn In Scotland In his emigrated to Amen ea Ca settled III Allegheny Pa lie Ho novel nOI attended tim the schools At Al Atthe the age of 10 n lie hC was as earning a dollar and l w nty cents a 11 we week k as bobbin hoy hiO In a C mill At lh tilts ag age of 13 he was a dollar and eighty cents a week as engine boy In a fac factory tory Then h ho a m ho boy In a tt telegraph omco at a week Learn big t he became an operator nt at 25 ii dollars a month lI ito realized the service which the tele telegraph telegraph graph could he be to the railroad In Ills dis dispatching patching traIns and was made malle super of the telegraph raph servIce for forthe forthe the Pennsylvania railroad In the west from rota there ho he rose to bo be dent or of the division of the Sante road Then when it a of the looping car was shown him he h became part owner in the Or t two sleeping cars cars built on Ute the line Realizing t the h n of better bridges lie he organized 1 a CO for thin tho facture a and 1111 bull of Iron bridges When hen on a to England he noticed that tha luCy were usIng steel rails on o their lie He returned and organIzed the fi t compan for Cor the manufacture of rails In he controlled se sev n great Iron and steel mills empo ln men and paying over million i a month In wages ThIs WIt was An Andrew rew Car Carnegie Carnegie negie lie f Pearsons method of oC giving In a way as to make his gifts in their hl blessing In his youth hO hd harl haci on Saturday nl nights borrowed of a nina man In in Allegheny anel turned r thom them Monday morning These books had given him his education and youthful pleasure No Now he wished p help holp other youths who not to buy ed to read good books Pennons Pearsons plan of oC giving thoney for or perpetual endowment on c that would furnish Incidental expenses led Car I negle to siva give On condition lint the tue city care for fOl and main maintain tain th Item m Carnegie has on often en spoken en of oC Pearson Pearsons as s his senior part partner ncr ner In the work of oC giving money There are ara two ways wars of using mon investing an and spen spending ln These two have to Invest inest much In young America for better trained lives are two WI ways S of oC disposing of your our life and time tinte Investing it or spending It One thinks only of toda today and spends life lICo another sees a to tomorrow tomorrow morrow and Invests It The best In investment vestment contains the tho elements clements or of surety anti and dividends In trite proportion proportion tion Timo Tho christian life Is the only ony lifo which answers to each of oC these requIrements It gives surety even een unto and b beyond ond death and It telda dividends of oC jO joy pence peace strength and blessing You each ench have hac one life to invest or to 10 spend I pre present ent you OU I these thoughts Cor or your our consideration |
