.-..n\” MM” I .All 2.AAR§. APRIL [900. t‘ Den norske afdeling. Tre lyriskc digterc ................ .. Enkeltmand og samfund.. 264 TH skolehuset. , ........... .. 265 ’l‘ilbagchlik .... .. 266 Sprazng-arbeid .......... ......................... .. 267 Nyheder ........................................ Show more.-..n\” MM” I .All 2.AAR§. APRIL [900. t‘ Den norske afdeling. Tre lyriskc digterc ................ .. Enkeltmand og samfund.. 264 TH skolehuset. , ........... .. 265 ’l‘ilbagchlik .... .. 266 Sprazng-arbeid .......... ......................... .. 267 Nyheder ..................................... .._. ..... .. 268 ' Good Reading ........... .. “mr‘dnw alt; beholber bet gobr." The English Department. Page. My Triumph ........................................ .i 270 Character of the Amcriczms .................. .. 271 The Relation of The Strong to The \\'c11k 271 Christian Eudcuvor .............................. i 272 .. 273 Have a Purpose in Life. .‘ 273 Exchanges .......................................... .. 274 fab/tint”! by (In J'Iudanf: a/ fluyxbury Jvml'nary, Wl'nnoapollir, Winn. Show less
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270 AUGSBURG EKKO AUGSBURG ECHO 13 published the I5th of every month, By the Students of Augsburg Seminary, ' MINNEAPOLIS. MlNN. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Peryear- — - — — - - - - - 50Ceuts. Ginonths - - - - _ _ _ _ _ u TRYGVE GILBERTSON, Editor. ASMUND OFTEDAL,1 I ' _ 't . LUDV. E.]0HNs0N.l ASSlst Edl... Show more270 AUGSBURG EKKO AUGSBURG ECHO 13 published the I5th of every month, By the Students of Augsburg Seminary, ' MINNEAPOLIS. MlNN. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Peryear- — - — — - - - - - 50Ceuts. Ginonths - - - - _ _ _ _ _ u TRYGVE GILBERTSON, Editor. ASMUND OFTEDAL,1 I ' _ 't . LUDV. E.]0HNs0N.l ASSlst Edl ors ANDREW NELSEN, Business Manager. WM. MILLS, Assist. Business Manager. ANDRE“? OLSEN, Treasurer. E. A. ERICKSON, Advertising Manager. Address all correspondence to: “‘AUGSBURG ECHO”, Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn. My variant/vi}. Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained, How vast the unattained. Not by the page word—painted Let life be banned or sainted: Deeper than written scroll The colors of the soul. Sweeter than any sung My songs that found no tongue; Nobler than any fact My wish that failed of act. Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong,— Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win. What matter, I or they? Mine or another’s day, So the right word be said And life the sweeter made? Hail to the coming singers! Hail to the brave light—bringers! Forward I reach and share All that they sing and dare. The airs of heaven blow o’er me; A glory shines before me Of what mankind shall be,— Pure, generous, brave and free. A dream of man and woman Diviner, but still human, Solving the riddle old, Shaping the Age of Gold! The love of God and neighbor; An equal—handed labor; The richer life, where beauty Walks hand in hand with duty. Ring, bells in unreared steeples, The joy of unborn peoples! Sound, trumpets far off blown, Your triumph is' my own. Parcel and part of all, I keep the festival. F ore—reach the good to be, ‘ And share the victory. I feel the earth move sunward, I join the great march onward, And take, by faith, while living, My freehold of Thanksgiving. John G. Whittier. He is risen! Spring has come: “Let a little sunshine ?) in. “He is free whom truth makes free.” One of the great men of our century was John. Ruskin. Read his works. Show less
Plagiarism: Stealing or purloining from the writings of another.-—Webster’s Dictionary. Thou shalt not steal.—Seventh Com- mandment. Cltaracler of Me flmon‘cans. In the character and ways of the Americans, there is a certain charm, hard to convey by description, but felt almost as soon as one sets... Show morePlagiarism: Stealing or purloining from the writings of another.-—Webster’s Dictionary. Thou shalt not steal.—Seventh Com- mandment. Cltaracler of Me flmon‘cans. In the character and ways of the Americans, there is a certain charm, hard to convey by description, but felt almost as soon as one sets foot on. their shore, and felt constantly thereafter. They are a'kind- 1y people. Good—nature, heartiness, a read— iness to render small services to- one an— other, an assumption that neighbors in the country or persons thrown together in tra- vel, or even in a crowd, were meant to be friendly rather than hostile to one another, seems to be everywhere in the air and in those who breathe it. Sociability is the rule, moroseness the rare exception. It is not merely that peo- ple are more vivacious or talkative than an Englishman expects to find them, for the Western man is often taciturn, and seldom wreathes his long face into a smile. It is rather that you feel that the man next you, whether silent or talkative, does not mean to repel intercourse, or convey by his man- ner his low opinion of his fellow-creat- ures. Everybody seems disposed to think well of the world and its inhabitants, well enough at least to be on easy terms with them, and serve them in those little things whose trouble to the doer is small in proportion to the pleasure they give to the receiver. To help others is better recog— nized as a duty than in Europe. Nowhere, I suspect, are there so many acts of private kindness done, such, for instance, as pay- ing the college expenses of a promising boy, or aiding a widow to carry on her hus- AUGSBURG EKKO 271 band’s farm; and these are not done with ostentation. People seem to take their own troubles more lightly than they do in Eu— rope, and to be more indulgent to the faults by which troubles are caused. —— Bryce: “The American Commonwealth,” V01. IL, p. 680. 57w War/alien 0/6719 Jlrany to 37m Weak. Is it not wonderful. that while we should be utterly ashamed to use a superi— ority of body in order to thrust our weaker companions aside from some place of ad- vantage, we unhesitatingly use our super— iorities of mind to thrust them back from whatever good that strength of mind can attain? You would be indignant. if you saw a strong man walk into a theater or lecture room, and, calmly choosing the best place. take his feeble neighbor by the shoulder. and turn him out of it into the back seats or the street. You would be equally indig— nant if you saw a stout fellow thrust him— self up to a table where some hungry chil- dren are being fed, and reach his arm over their heads and take their bread from them. But you are not the least indignant if when a man has stoutness of thought and swiftness of capacity, and, instead of being long-armed only, has the much greater gift of being long-headed—you think it perfectly just that he should use his intel— lect to take the bread out of the mouths of all other men in the town who are in the same trade with him; or use his breadth and sweep of sight to gather some branch of the commerce of the country into one great cobweb: of which he is himself the central spider, making every thread vibrate with the points of his claws, and command— ing every avenue with the facets of his Show less
272 AUGSBURG EKKO eyes. You see no injustice in this. But there is injustice; and, let us trust, one of which honorable men will, at no very distant period, disdain to be guilty. In some degree, however, it is indeed not un— just; in some degree it is necessary and in- tended. It is assuredly... Show more272 AUGSBURG EKKO eyes. You see no injustice in this. But there is injustice; and, let us trust, one of which honorable men will, at no very distant period, disdain to be guilty. In some degree, however, it is indeed not un— just; in some degree it is necessary and in- tended. It is assuredly just that idleness should be surpassed by energy; that the widest influence should be possessed by those who are best able to wield it; and that a wise man, at the end of his career should be better off than a fool. But for that reason, is the fool to be wretched, ut— terly crushed down, and left in all the suf- fering which his conduct and incapacity naturally inflict? Not so. What do you suppose fools were made for? That you might tread upon them, and starve them, and get the better of them in every possible way? By no means. They were made that wise people might take care of them. That is the true and plain fact concerning the relations of every strong and every wise man to the world about him. He hashis strength given him, not that he may crush the weak, but that he may support and guide them. In his own household he is to be the guide and support of his children; out of his house— hold he is still to be the father, that is, the guide and support, of the weak and the poor; not merely of the meritoriously poor, but of the guiltin and punishany poor; of the men who ought to have known better ——of the poor who ought to be ashamed of themselves. It is nothing to give pension and cot- tage‘ to the widow who has lost her son'; it is nothing to give food and medicine to the workman who has broken his arm, or the decrepit woman wasting in sickness. But it is something to use your time and strength in war with the waywardness anrl thoughtlessness of mankind: to keep the erring workman in your service till you / have made him an unerring one; and to di- rect your fellow merchant to the opportuni- ty which his dullness would have lost.— Ruskin. Cllrllstian 6ndeauor. Wednesday evening’ March 14th, the young people of the Trinity church met and organized a Christian Endeavor Society. Prof. H. A. Urseth of Augsburg Sem. was elected president of the society. It is but eighteen years since the first Christian Endeavor Society was started in the state of Maine. A few lines on the character and purpose of such a society may, perhaps, not be without interest to those uninitiated. Up to date it is not much known among our church people. The organization being very pliable, is suited to every denomination and every 10- cal condition. As to its general features, such an or— ganization is ruled by its own officers and has in addition its committees, consisting of a Lookout committee, a Prayer Meet— ing committee and a Social committee. It has been found convenient to have the meetings before service Sunday even— ings. There is a topic for each meeting that the Prayer Meeting committee either has adopted or prepared. No membership fee is exacted, expenses are covered by free subscription of a few cents. Members pledge themselves to live as Christians, attend services of the church and ‘meetings of the society regularly, to read the Bible and pray every day. This pledge, then, indicates the purpose of the society: To edify and build up the spirit— ual life; to establish its members in Christ- ian faith and by study of the Word of God to enlighten and strengthen the young, ' i V i 0 .5 i. 3! C Show less
AUGSBURG EKKO 273 thereby making them useful members of the church. We, the young, greet it as a new plant about to set its roots, to blossom and bear fruit in due time. 300:! Wedding. There is one accomplishment, in partic— ular, which I would earnestly recommend to you. Cultivate assiduously... Show moreAUGSBURG EKKO 273 thereby making them useful members of the church. We, the young, greet it as a new plant about to set its roots, to blossom and bear fruit in due time. 300:! Wedding. There is one accomplishment, in partic— ular, which I would earnestly recommend to you. Cultivate assiduously the ability to read well. I stop to particularize this. because it is a thing so very much neglect— ed, and because it is such an elegant and charming accomplishment. Where one person is really interested by music, twenty are pleased by good reading. Where one person is capable of becoming a skilful musician, twenty may become good read- ers. Where there is one occasion suitable for the exercise of musical talent, there are twenty for that of good reading. The culture of the voice necessary for reading well, gives a delightful charm to the same voice in conversation. Good read- ing is the natural exponent and vehicle of all good things. It is the most effective of all commentaries upon the works of gen— ius. It seem to bring dead authors to life again, and makes us sit down familiarly with the great and good of all ages. Did you ever notice what life and power the Holy Scriptures have when well read? Have you ever heard of the wonderful ef— fects produced by Elisabeth Fry on the criminals of Newgate, by simply reading to them the parable of the Prodigal Son? Princes and peers of the realm, it is said, counted it a privilege to stand in the dismal corridors among felons and murderers. merely to share with them the privilege of witnessing the marvelous pathos which genius, taste, and culture could infuse into that simple story. What a fascination there is in really good reading! What a power it gives one! In the hospital, in the chamber of the invalid, in the nursery, in the domestic and social circle, among chosen friends and compant ions, how it'enables you to minister to the amusement, the comfort, the pleasure of dear ones, as no other art or accomplish— ment. No instrument of man’s devising can reach the heart as does that most won- derful instrument, the human voice. It is God’s special gift and endowment to His chosen creatures. Fold it not away in a napkin. If you would double the value of your other acquisitions, if you would add im- measurably to your own enjoyment and to your power of promoting the enjoyment of others, cultivate, with incessant care, this divine gift. No music below the skies is equal to that of pure, silvery speech from the lips of a man or woman of high culture. —]ohn S. Hart. Wave a y’arpose in £179. (E. A. E.) We all have a goal to strive for. but there is only one way to reach it. \\'hen we look at the individuals who occupy the various positions in life, we see that they do not perform their duties with the same degree of care. Our mode of living is gov- erned either by a true desire to succeed or by idleness, and in order that one shall be successful in life, it is necessary that he begins and continues in the right way. Since every effort has a cause, and we all have hopes for a good future. we must exert our energies in laying a good foundation. Let us consider the difference between the following types of men: One who has seen the necessity of a true purpose and wishes to succeed, and therefore tries to perform his duties. In his daily pursuits he is al~ Show less
274 AUGSBURG EKKO ways punctual, and performs his duties con— scientiously, keeping his purpose steadily in View. Another may also have his place to fill; but owing to the influence of idle- ness, under whose control he is, he does not see the necessity of making any special ef- forts. He never, by... Show more274 AUGSBURG EKKO ways punctual, and performs his duties con— scientiously, keeping his purpose steadily in View. Another may also have his place to fill; but owing to the influence of idle- ness, under whose control he is, he does not see the necessity of making any special ef- forts. He never, by the exertion of his will, reaches out for a larger field of action, nor does he make any attempt to rouse himself from his idleness; but having no thoughts beyond the present, he drifts along, well contented, not because there does not re— side in him all the necessary forces, both intellectual and physical, nor because the surroundings are not favorable, but because there is no purpose behind the power he possesses. Which of the two is most liker to be a successful man and a useful citizen? \Ve often ask or are asked about some in— dividual, “How does he succeed in his un— dertakings P” The reply will be according as he has undertaken them, whether he has a good object in view, strives to gain it, and sees the possibilities of failure as well as of success, or whether he is under the control of idleness. (Continued. ) axe/zanyes. We welcome the Concordia Banner again on our exchange list. Follow the pathway of Jesus — the one to the right. In the beginning it is narrow and steep. Trials and temptations will come in the way and hinder your pro— gress. The heavy burden of the cross will be laid upon you; troubles and cares will weigh you down, but the good Lord does not leave His children comfortless.—Cres— et. The Normal School Echo for -March shows great improvement both as to con- tents and appearance. The egotist wil not heed the advice of others, he regards himself as a paragon of wisdom—Normal School Echo. In the March number of the Manitou Messenger is an excellent and well written article on “Our Democracy.” The writer gives a good sketch of the American char- acter. He says: “The American is shrewd and sharp, his passion seldom obscures his reason, and he keeps his head in moments when a Frenchman or an Italian, or even a German, would lose it.” And “in other countries statesmen or philosophers are ex- pected to do, and do, the solid thinking for the people. In our country the people are expected to do it for themselves.” Prof, W. P. Rognlie, writing in the Concordia Banner asks: “What is a Lu- theran ?” and answers: “A Lutheran is nothing else than an orthodox Christian, who believes, confesses and teaches the Word of God as it was brought to light by Luther and his associates in the sixteenth century. “A Lutheran is not a partisan of Lu- ther. “A Lutheran is an adherent of Christ and knows no other head and master but Him. “A faithful Lutheran is especially re- cognized in this, that when doctrine, faith and profession are discussed, he does not ask what men say or teach, ‘but his first and only question is, how is it written? What saith the Lord? His watchword is: ‘Speak. Lord, for Thy servant hearetli.’ Think well of this.” v Show less