Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE 
WCopyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment league.) 
XXVI1.—Fidelity. 
ee IDELITY is 
F faithfulness 
in all things 
—when tasks are 
intrusted to us, 
to perform them 
without shirking; 
when work must 
be done, to ac- 
complish it with- 
out delay; when 
responsibility is 
laid upon us, to 
shoulder the load 
and fulfill the de- 
mand at any cost. 
Faithfulness carries out the small de- 
tails of a duty, even when no one is 
looking. There is a story told of Prax- 
iteles, who, when asked why he gave 
so much pains to the portions of his 
work which could not be seen, replied, 
“God sees.” 
Our study is life, and life is one. 
The virtues merge. They are but va- 
rious aspects of the whole character. 
Truthfulness, courage, perseverance 
and obedience enter into the composi- 
tion of fidelity, but fidelity has an ad- 
ditiona! distinct meaning. ‘There is 
faith at the root of it. There is be- 
liet in the thing or the person winning 
such allegiance. 
Fidelity is more than pluck. Itisa 
devotion produced by conviction. It 
is more than truthfulness; it is hon- 
esty with loyalty added. It is more 
than perseverance; it is persistence for 
the sake of duty. It is more than blind 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
obedience; it is intelligent obedience. 
into which is mixed pride of trust and 
self respect. 
An English farmer sent his hired boy 
to prevent a party of gentlemen from 
riding over his fields. The leader of 
the huntsmen, a man of noble and dig- 
nified bearing, peremptorily ordered 
him to open the gate and said shortly, 
“Boy, do you know who lam? | am 
the Duke of Wellington, and | am not 
accustomed to disobedience. 1 com- 
mand you to open this gate.” 
The boy lifted his cap and stood un- 
awed before the “man of iron will” 
and said in a firm voice, “I am sure 
the Duke of Wellington would not 
wish me to disobey the orders of my 
employer, who tells me not to suffer 
any one to pass.” 
The duke sat his horse for a mo- 
ment and then, looking steadfastly at 
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plied, “I honor the man or boy who is 
faithful to his duty and who can 
neither be bribed nor frightened into 
doing wrong.” He handed a bright 
new sovereign to the boy, who had 
done what Napoleon could not do—he 
had kept back the Duke of Welling- 
ton. 
Unfaithfulness to duty demoralizes 
oneself. You cheat yourself more than 
your employer. A large part of the 
best work that has been done in the 
world has only been half paid for. 
Make your employer ashamed of the 
disproportion between your salary and 
your work. 
Akin to fidelity is accuracy both in 
statement and in action. A lack of 
accuracy is a lack of vigilance to one 
self. One who is never quite sure 
imagines, without being quite certain, 
of the amount or the distance; who 
comes somewhere near rarely gets 
very far in the world. The boy who 
is not punctual, half learns his les- 
sons, skims carelessly through a sub- 
ject. is almost sure to be a failure. 
The slipshod habits of youth will 
characterize the man and will reap 
pear in business affairs. 
John B. Gough said the trouble with 
most people is they have a superfluity 
of hands—a right hand and a left 
hand aud a little behind hand. 
The stability of the state rests upon 
the fidelity with which each performs 
his allotted work. Every individual 
has a duty to the state, and eacb is 
under obligation to perform his indi- 
vidual duty with absolute fidelity. 
Even the child owes the fidelity of 
faithful study, for the state provides 
the opportunity for an education with- 
out cost. 
There is a practical flavor in fidelity. 
It is essential in friendship. In a life 
in God’s world fidelity is a necessary 
virtue. Its best expressions are faith- 
fulness to a high ideal of life and 
work, and faithfulness is the noble 
way of friendship. 
Practice.—Let every child make up 
his mind to stand by his duty until 
death. 
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faithfulness in the humblest part 
Is better at last than proud success, 
And patience and love in a chastened 
heart 
Are pearls more precious than happiness. 
—J. T. Trowbridge 
That scroll is stained by time and dust; 
They were not faithless to their trust. 
—E. E. Hale. 
It is the song the world remembers. 
What if the singer be forgot? 
—J. T. White. 
There is only one real failure possi 
ble, and that is not to be true to the 
best one knows.—F. W. Farrar 
To be trusted is a greater compli- 
ment than to be loved.—George Mac- 
donald. 
The mariner of old prayed, “O Nep- 
tune, thou mayst Save me if thou wilt, 
as thou mayst destroy me; but, whether 
or no, I will steer my rudder true.’”’— 
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