Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This Christlike conception can most fifly be applied to the life of today. All those professions are religious which are spent in the service of man, and those are secular which are spent in the service of self. Nothing is more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most...
...food on the prairie, the wood in the forest, all have to be made serviceable through commerce. The function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
...newspaper of today is unsparingly condemned for revealing to us so many of the horrors and unpleasant things of life. We forget that the press is a mirror which should reflect the community just as it is. But the American press is not today actuated by the purpose to tell men the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The mirror is warped and shows us wrong in an utterly distorted form. The journalist's life is one of splendid opportunity, for the press today is sorely in need of men who will deny their pocketbook to maintain...
...things the function of man is to serve his fellows. The function of the poet and the writer is to give humanity ideals worth the having. The realism which simply tells us what life is not a worthy, because not a serving form of literature. The true preacher is he who has the right spirit and the power to impart it to others...
...Abbott closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to enter the broad life of action with the burning desire to be rich only in the meaning given by Christ to the word, and to stir the souls of men to nobler, higher service...