The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-09-24
orr oBE1s4rIoys TO HOPEFUL MEN
ny urspY WARD nrrcnEn.


Hope is acharming trait in men. There Is
ness in its depths in its endurance; in the
acceptance Of welcome labor and duty which
it carries with it. There IS also in the strin-
gency Of fear much that is to be admired. -
1t carries with 1t great activity and intense
provocation. But, after all, commend me to
the sweetness and inspiration Of hope. Men
who have this faculty largely developed
though they have but little education, arc
children Of the daylight They arc pcrpet-
ually alive to that which Is sweetest and blest
in life. 3.
1t is truo that hope itself has its own Pc
cufiar dangers. The whole generation Of
what are called scAemers are children of hope.
They are not balanced with suitable caution,
reflection, and developement. Schemers are
pioneers of success. We always laugh at
them, and never recognize how much we arc
under obligation to them.
II you are starting in an unknown channel,
you are not glad of any mishap to him that
goes ahead of You but if he run upon q
sandbank lie is a buoy foryou, and you do not
SO there and If another strike some obstacle
on the other side, you take note of him, and
avoid that obstacle. You profit by the mis-
fortunes of the two men, and 60 between
them. You take the channel which they both
meant to take, but missed.
Two men who had to 60 ahead concoct new
schemes, seeking something better, laying the
foundation Of valuable results, though they
do not reap them. To be sure, the inventor
in his day, received nothing from his inven-
ton but then, that invention bore fruit in
another mans hand little later
/ Hero is a man who sought some public i'm
provement. For thirty years he has talked
about it, and laborcd for it and nothing can,o
of it during his lifetime but when he died,
somebody else got the proceeds Of his efforts.
. 1t is the function then Of schemers to 90
ahead; to DC pioneers to find new paths
to break up the wilderness to prepare the
way for those who como after them. We
speak of them slightingly we crown their
memories with contempt almost; we say OF
them, well, they had no ballast they new
or succeeded" If success means to freight
ones own pockets, they did not succeed !; but
If man has succeeded whose life has been a
benefit ohis fellow-men, whether it has bene
fitted him personally or not, then they did
succeed. sf y
A man made m invention. lie never got 4
dollar out Of it. Indeed, he lost all he hae
in developing it. But it was blessing I,
others.
Goodyear, of excellent memory and name
spent many weary years. and all his property
in the contamination Of the discoveries whic
have blessed economically, the whole world
Fortunately during the last year of his life, Ii
rcaped some advantage from them. But sur
pose he had died without making n dollar
would he have lived in vain He would Lay
left tho fruit of his Thought, and he would no
I have lived in vain.
a man invents that which economfzes f,rco
and multiplics comfort among tho mass OF
men. The fruit of it slips out of his hand
Well what then +? "Ah ~ people say, $50
it is with the world. The men who think.
and the men who create, AFRO always thrown
into the background, aud the unworthy come
forward and take the result of their living"
Woe to the man who feels that he has lived
right only when he has lived to please HIM
self. Blessed is that largcness of mind and
heart which enables q man to say, ~ have not
shaken the tree, bnt have planted the tree
which other men shall shake. have not
dwelt In their fair mansions but have laid
the foundations, and done the work under
ground, which other men shall build up and
complete. have never been able to reap n
harvest, but have sown seed where 10 man
had wrought before.
Let me therefore, speak an encouraging
word for the men who drift through society,
and are said to be rolling stones that gather
no moss" Stones that roll ought to have no
moss on them They are said to be full of
projects and plans, and it is said that these
projects and plans result, not in their pros
perity, but in other mems. They never sit
down IN their own houses and have quiet and
abundance (; but they are giving into the
hands of others those hints by which they
shall build thousand dwellings.