The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25
Lecture by Hon. VIM. Parsons.
I' BOUND TO WIN.

applause, by the intellectual treat offered
them. The subject was of lofty charac-
ter, and inspired a like emotion in the
heart of every listener. 1t was couched In
language that was easily understood and
yet thrilled the listener with the beauty or
intensity of its meaning, while ever and
anon beam of wit would sparkle from
without its sobercst passages and remind
all that Parsons, the Irish barrlster and
celebrated wit, was speaking. We have
but little sympathy for those who did not
hear the lecture, and can only give them
the meagre consolation that they lost a
treat which is heard but once or twice in
lifetime from the public ros,rum.
The speaker was introduced by Mr.. Pet
tingll and spoke IN rapid, yet distinct,
tones for an hour and a quarter, without
notes, and with marked. and characteristic
animation. We would that we could tran
scribe bis precise language but must be
content to follow the line of argument with
but brief comment.
He commenced by saying that never in
the history of the world was competition
in all things SO fierce as now and never did
success demand such universal application
of intellectual and physical qualities. The
race is intense and the runners in their
haste are ever treadiug on each Others heels
while, as another had said "Woe be to him
who stops to ice his shoe In these times
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when even the very storms are measured
and recorded, the speaker designed TO look
into that blaze of knowledge termed the
"science of success"-that success which
was considered as a means to an end, al
though that end to some might be termed
| unsuccessful success. A moderate amount
| of tact could often beat genius out of sight.
Dsraei preferred it to genius when oppos-
ed by that Lord who sneercd at his lowly
birth and asked what were his cxpeca-
tons Disraei replied, 81 stand upon my
head.' Two kinds of educators were re-
| quired for success-that which we receive
from schools and teachers and that which
| we derive from ourselves, and from our
fellow-man. The speaker proposed to take
a peep into the human volumes and note
some of the keys by which success had
been found
| First, faith must be the grand key that
faith which gives "a right employment to
our own faculties. Many years ago when
Johu Gutenberg, the founder of the print
ing-press, was engaged in his great work,
he fell asleep and q vision of female form
appeared unto him who cried, go,
wretched Gutenberg With this invention
thou hast cursed thy kind better it would
it have been had you never been born 4"
The spirit had no sooner departed than an
other appeared and said, "Happy Gutten-
berg! With this thou hast blessed thy kind;
from it knowledge will flow unto every
household and generations yet unborn shall
bless thy happy thought" Thenceforth
Gutenberg had faith in his mission and
came off conqueror.
Tenacity and endurance are sister keys
to faith. Some years ago in garrett in
Cambridge, Mass, sat woman with three
! children, sunk in poverty, while the head
| of the household was lame from his birth.
| He sits thinking, and of what! Could he
thought haunted him for years. Then he
| thought, why a 1cooden hand? Perhaps a
needle could be made to do the stitching
which his wife is so busily doing-perhaps
L tNup fa OH la ino 1,u NIL,
At last he has it. Slow rises the work, for
he has mot the money to buy the material
even ; but a schoolmate turns up who helps
him, and so hoping on until the 9th OF
April, 1915, Elias Howe has sewn seam
by machinery for the first time in the world.
A "Doly Warden" however, might have
puzzled Elias Howe and his sewing-ma-
chine in those days; but patience and per-
sevrance, amounting almost to an obsti-
macy, conquers everything.
Here the speaker interpolated the witty
remark of Lawrence Sterne to the obstinate
mule, "I'll never argue with you or any of
your family" He then followed Howe and
his invention through those years of ridi-
cule and ill-fortune that beset the inventor
and his machine down to the time of its
acknowledged success-when even an In
dian squaw used it to make robe for her
chief-until it became an emblem of indus
try and monument to patient endurance
and unhagging perseverance.
| Moral courage was next considered,
which, when wrapped up in single indl-
vidual, might even save a nation. An in
stance was cited of this stern sense of duty
in the explorations of DR.. Kane in the Arc
tic seas. There band of heroic sons of
science went to discover the secrets of the
frozen world. Dr. Kane reaches the point
where Sir John Franklin was lost, and then
makes a grand push further north that
America may have the honor of the dis
covery. A passage from DIR. Kanes adj
ventures was here read by the speaker as
illustrating the endurance and foriitude
displayed by the party.
The old country had kept sacred the
names and works of its great men, but
America, young as she is, may well speak
of the deeds of her sons. To illustrate the
fact that there might be an unsuccessful
success, Mr.. Parsons referred to the fact
that all the best and greatest of works, with
one exception, were written by men either
in prison or under sentence of death, and
instanced the Bible translated by Martin
Luther, Dantes greatest work written I'M
der sentence of death, Millions Paradise
Lost Pilgrims Progress, Robinson Crusot
and Don Quixote, The exception was
, Shakespeare, while he was known to have
been once brought to prison for deer-stea
| ;rr lint still he was bound to win, Marco