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Making a living ought to receive the serious attention and effort 

 of all; but the making of a life that will bear the crucial test of the 

 All Father and build in us the image of the God man, is the most 

 important work of all and the crowning glorj of man. If to obtain 

 the best results on the. farm, you must preserve a harmonious ad- 

 mixture of the constituent elements of the soil that you may grow 

 products in greatest perfection with maximum yield, much more is it 

 imperative upon you to cultivate, culture and develop harmoniously 

 your many-sided nature as an individual and in relation, also to 

 those about you. Wrong methods in making a living will mar the 

 life and defeat the former when the goal is reached. Let us con- 

 sider briefly true and false phases of making a living, helpful or 

 detrimental to making a life. 



If in conducting one's enterprises as a means to gaining a liveli- 

 hood, securing a competency for the declining years of life, there 

 be no violations of the rights of self, children, laborers and beasts of 

 burden, then conditions are conducive to making a life. If, however, 

 there be suppression of the altruistic emotions and cultivation of the 

 ego^ or self, along base and ignoble lines, to the eradication of the 

 liner sensibilities, and the disregard of the just and equal rights 

 of others in the conduct of affairs in the home and abroad, then there 

 will result perhaps a luxurious living with attendant pomps and suc- 

 cess of a worldly character, but wholly abortive of an ideal and trnly 

 happy life. It is a law of the universe that which we sow, we shall 

 also reap in kind, but not in quantity; for they who sow to the wind 

 will reap the whirl-wind. 



Through the root of a successful life must run the cord of ''the 

 golden mean." Harmony of design, symmetrical proportion, the 

 useful, the ornamental, the utilitarian and the humanitarian — all 

 must appear if a life is to be made. A knavish man said to one 

 distinguished for his honesty, ''I would give a thousand pounds for 

 your good name." "Why?" ''Because I could make ten thousand 

 by it," was* the reply. The illustration is a commentary upon the 

 methods of some making a living and destroying a life. Hear the 

 reply to the knave: ''Then indeed would you be a fool as well as a 

 knave," said the honest man, "for a good name is rather to be chosen 

 than great riches." 



The following anecdote teaches a truth and mirrors a principle 

 worthy the emulation of every man, woman and child: A well-trained 

 boy when asked why he did not pocket some pears, because no one 

 was there to see, replied: "I was there to see myself. I don't in- 

 tend ever to see myself do a dishonest or unworthy act." 



I sum the whole matt(M' of making a living and making a life 

 by repeating a portion of Pollonius advice to his friend: 



"This above all— 



To thine own self be true; 

 And it must follow as the night the day, 

 Thou canst not then be false to any man." 



