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made some men very wealthy and others greatly famous. Nevertheless, war is robbery; war is infamy; or, as General Sherman tersely, truthfully, put it, "War is hell." Mankind will yet come to see that slaughtering one's fellow man is the most unremunerative industry ever devised on God's green earth; and, like all forms of injustice, it is sure to bring either sooner or later, its own dire, evil effects. When righteous laws shall prevail, then cannon shall remain silent.

Man never would have emerged from barbarism if he had not sought out and made use of the hidden wealth of the land. And to do it successfully, men require and must have freedom, intelligence, and morality. Wherever tyranny prevails, the people are poor. Few under absolute monarchies are rich, and their riches, like that of the governments themselves, were due to plunder taken from others less powerful. Education is necessary to obtain wealth. Coal, electricity, sunlight, water, and air have been in the earth since man was created, but ignorance got no wealth out of them, nor ever would. Men educated to desire only the bare necessaries of existence never make a market for anything but those necessaries. Educate them to appreciate and to desire other things, and you increase both their wealth and the wealth of the world. Not only is education thus necessary to increase wealth, but the best educated man has the most chances for success in life. The editors of the Dictionary of American Biography, who diligently searched the records of living and dead Americans, found, as elsewhere stated, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty-two names worthy of a place in their six volumes of annals of successful men, and five thousand three hundred and twenty-six, or more than one-third of them, were college educated men. One in forty of the college educated attained a success worthy of mention, and but one in ten thousand of those not so educated, so that the college-bred man had two hundred and fifty times the chances for success that others had. To particularize: Medical records show that but five per cent. of the practicing physicians of the United States are

college graduates; and yet forty-six per cent. of the physicians who became locally famous enough to be mentioned by those editors came from that small five per cent. of college educated persons. Less than four per cent. of the lawyers are collegebred, yet they furnished more than one-half of all who became successful. Not one per cent. of the business men of the country were college educated, yet that small fraction of college-bred men had seventeen times the chances of success that their fellow men of business had. In brief, the college educated lawyer has fifty per cent. more chances for success than those not so favored; the college educated physician forty-six per cent. more; the author, thirty-seven per cent. more; the statesman, thirty-three per cent.; the clergyman, fifty-eight per cent.; the educator, sixty-one per cent.; the scientist, sixty-three per cent. You should therefore get the best and most complete education that it is possible for you to obtain.

Morality, integrity, and education constitute a triangle of power for turning possibilities into realities. A man may succeed without much of an education, but his chances of success are immensely enhanced if he possesses a good education. We do not mean by this that a man must spend years within the walls of a college. A person may become well educated and never see the inside of a college or even a high school.

The present day affords opportunities for gathering knowledge which lies within reach of everybody, and he who would gain knowledge need not remain ignorant.

Knowledge, then, is one of the secret keys which unlock the hidden mysteries of a successful life.

Get knowledge, be strictly honest, be diligent, and persevere, and you have the secret of turning things up and making your life a success.

Luck and Labor.

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REV. GEORGE T. WINSTON, D.D., LL.D.
President University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

IFE is full of golden chances, but only wisdom sees them and only labor reaps their harvest.

"Luck comes to

those who look after it," says a Spanish proverb. "Luck meets the fool, but he seizes it not," says the German.

The great Napoleon declared himself a "Child of Destiny and professed to believe in luck. After Waterloo he confessed his real belief. "Providence," said he, "fights on the side of the strongest battalions." God helps those who help themselves.

Among the Greeks and Romans luck was worshiped as a goddess. But even in that age of childish superstition and scientific darkness, wise men saw the folly of worshiping what we ourselves create.

"Nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia; nos te,

Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus."

"O Luck, thou hast no existence, if we were only wise; it is we, it is we that make thee a goddess and place thee in the skies."

Genuine sons of fortune are always self-begotten. From the obscurity of doubtful birth and life in a cabin, Abraham Lincoln rose to the height of human power and fame. Fortune was ever at his side to make him or to mar. He took her gently by the hand and made her his servant. What Clay and Webster, what Chase and Seward, what Everett and Douglas, could not accomplish was done by the humble rail-splitter. The same opportunities came to them all. Lincoln seized them and held them with such wisdom and power that he seemed almost to create them. Fortune knocked at his door and he

did not keep her waiting. His career was guided by unerring wisdom. He was no accident. The political wisdom of the century was embodied in his life. His oratory is the voice of humanity.

Wisdom and labor are the parents of luck; for only wisdom can see opportunities and only labor can use them. "Labor conquers all things," said the poet Vergil. "Diligence is the mother of good fortune," said Cervantes. "The gods sell everything for labor," says an ancient proverb. ""Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce; set hyssop, and weed up thyme; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."

Bernard Palissy, the celebrated potter, spent the labor of years and much substance in seeking to produce enamel. In the final experiment he spent six days and nights without sleep at the furnace. His supply of fuel being exhausted, he pitched into the furnace his garden palings, his household furniture, shelves, and doors. "Poor crazy fool," said wife and neighbors. But the great heat produced the enamel, and now Palissy was a "child of fortune." Wisdom and labor had made him great.

"Nil sine magno

Vita labore dedit mortalibus."

"Life gives nothing to mortals without great labor."

For more than fifty years John Wesley preached fifteen sermons a week. Great men are all great laborers. Even genius is only infinite capacity for intelligent labor. No great product is spontaneous. Webster's finest outbursts of eloquence were carefully elaborated in his study. His energy and his capacity for labor were truly Herculean. Sidney Smith aptly called him "a steam engine in trousers."

Patrick Henry's immortal speech in the Virginia House of Delegates was not only carefully composed but the very ges

tures were studied and practiced with the patient skill of an actor. Professor Moses Coit Tyler, in his life of Henry, shows beyond question that the orator's career was wrought out by toil and labor-as well as by talent.

There is a task for every man in life. No lucky throw of the dice will ever win the golden apples in the garden of Hesperides. Only the toil of Hercules can gain them. "Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion."

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