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CHAPTER IV
Be Choice of Language
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER IV
By General O. O. Howard
“Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise,
To swear is neither brave, polite nor wise;
You would not swear upon a bed of death;
Reflect—your Maker now may stop your breath.”
Anonymous.
Few things are more important and far-reaching than the use of
words. If good, they
—“have power to ’suage
The tumults of a troubled mind
And are as balm to fester’d wounds.”
AVOID PROFANITY.
AVOID BLASPHEMY.
“AMEN!”
Many years ago when the Duke of Gordon was spending the day in
a Scotch village a company of soldiers was drawn up under the
window of the room in which the duke and a party of friends were
enjoying themselves. The officer in command was inspecting his
men’s arms and clothes, and if anything displeased him he berated
the soldier with blasphemous oaths. The duke, who abhorred such
language, expressed a wish that the inspection might soon be over.
“If your Grace desires it,” said one of the company, “I will clear the
coast of this man of oaths without noise or bloodshed.” “Do so, and
I’ll be obliged to you,” said the duke. The gentleman stepped into the
street, took his station behind the officer and pulled off his hat. As
the officer swore, the gentleman, with the grave solemnity of a parish
clerk, said in a loud voice “Amen.” “What do you mean?” asked the
officer, hastily turning around. “I am joining with you in prayer,”
answered the gentleman with a grave face. “I thank you, sir,”
rejoined the officer, “but I have no further need for a clerk. Soldiers!
to the right-about, march!” And he and his soldiers departed, much
to the amusement and happiness of the duke, after teaching an
important lesson to the officer that it is wrong to call upon God to do
this or that, or to belittle others by vile epithets which never fail to
bring in due time just retribution.
My boy, the only language to use is the pure and refined. By-
words, slang phrases, profanity and blasphemy are only uttered by
lips whose heart is bad, for “out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh.” Let your tongue utter sound sentences, choice
words and pleasant expressions, then will they be musical to the ears
of the good, sweet to the soul of the pious, educational to those who
associate with you, and beneficial to all. From this day put into
practice the last words of the eloquent John B. Gough. He was
lecturing in the Presbyterian Church, Frankford, Pa., on the night of
February 19, 1886. In the course of that lecture he said: “I have seven
years in the record of my own life when I was held in the iron grasp
of intemperance. I would give the world to blot it out, but alas! I
cannot.” Then, stepping forward, with an impressive gesture, he
added, “Young man, keep your record—” but he was unable to finish
the sentence, for he sank insensible into a chair from which he was
never able to rise. Evidently he meant to say, “Young man, keep your
record clean.”
Do not forget that improper words have a reflex influence. A fable
is told how a bee took an offering of honey to Jupiter, which so
pleased him that he promised to grant the bee whatever it should
ask. The bee said, “O glorious Jove, give thy servant a sting, that
when anyone approaches my hive to take the honey, I may kill him
on the spot.” Jupiter answered, “Your prayer shall not be granted in
the way you wish, but the sting you ask for, you shall have; and when
anyone comes to take away your honey, and you sting him, the
wound shall be fatal, not to him, but to you, for your life shall go with
the sting.” So is it to this day. He that curseth others, curseth himself.
Therefore my boy, control your tongue, and keep the door of your
lips, remembering:
“’Tis reason’s part
To govern and to guard the heart,
To lull the wayward soul to rest,
When hopes and fears distract the breast;
Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
And steer thy bark through various life.”
CHAPTER V
Be Ambitious
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER V
By Booker T. Washington
Our natures are like oil; compound us with anything,
Yet will we strive to swim to the top.
—Beaumont.
I would say to every young man, no matter what his color, to choose
as early as possible a good, clean-cut business, something that will
help make the world better, and then strive in every worthy way to
make that business the most successful of its kind in the world. The
boy who lets obstacles overcome him will not succeed. The great
thing is to succeed in spite of discouragements.
CHAPTER V
Be Ambitious
Many a pen has been used against this inward passion, declaring it a
“secret poison, a gallant madness and the mother of hypocrisy.” The
great Wolsey cried, “I charge thee, fling away ambition.” Bowes said,
“The most aspiring are frequently the most contemptible,” but there
are exceptions to the rule. Where there is no aspiration, there is no
endeavor. It is not wrong to strain mental and physical energies to
succeed, provided it is to be good and to do good. The ambition of
Napoleon to lay waste the town of Acre was wrong, that of
Wellington to intercept the “scourge of Europe,” right. “To be
ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfections of our
natures, is,” as Sir Philip Sidney said, “the very principle and
incentive of virtue.”
One of the customs of the Norsemen was that of wearing a pickaxe
crest with the motto, “Either I will find a way or make one.” An adage
of the day reads, “Where there’s a will there’s a way.” What one wills
to do can usually be done. George Stephenson determined to make
an engine to run between Liverpool and Manchester at the rate of
twelve miles an hour. The Quarterly Review ridiculed the idea,
saying, “As well trust one’s self to be fired off on a Congreve rocket.”
He did it, nevertheless. Prince Bismarck’s greatest ambition was to
snatch Germany from Austrian oppression and to gather round
Prussia, in a North German confederation, all the States whose tone
of thought, religion and interest, were in harmony with those of
Prussia. “To attain this end,” he once said, “I would brave all dangers
—exile, even the scaffold. What matters if they hang me, provided the
rope with which I am hung binds this new Germany firmly to the
Prussian throne?” And, he did it.
ASPIRE HIGH.
INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER VI
By John T. Rich
Industry—
To meditate, to plan, resolve, perform,
Which in itself is good—as surely brings
Reward of good, no matter what be done.
—Pollock.
Industry stimulates honesty,—honesty for its own sake, not because it is the best
policy.
Such sweetened by courtesy, seasons our attainments with a delightful relish and
portends a rich reward.
—H. D. Wilson.
INDOLENT BOYS.
Indolence is a characteristic of some boys. Some one wrote:
“A boy will hunt and a boy will fish,
Or play baseball all day;
But a boy won’t think and a boy won’t work,
Because he’s not built that way.”
Doubtless this is a gross exaggeration. All boys are not “made that
way,” though there are some, who, at the thought—
“—of an errand are as ‘tired as a hound’,
Very weary of life and of ‘tramping around’;
But if there’s a band or a circus in sight,
They’ll follow it gladly from morning till night.
If there’s work in the garden, their heads ache to split!
And their backs are so lame that they ‘can’t dig a bit’;
But mention baseball, and they’re cured very soon,
And they’ll dig for a woodchuck the whole afternoon.”
The father of Daniel and Ezekiel Webster on leaving the home for a
short time gave these boys some special work on the farm. On his
return he found the labor unperformed, and frowning, demanded,
“What have you been doing Ezekiel?” “Nothing, sir,” was the reply.
“Well, Daniel, what have you been doing?” “Helping Zeke, sir,” he
answered. How many boys are likewise disposed. They care not, and,
if they can help it, will not work. They are like
—“a watch that wants both hands,
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”