The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-10-14

hsse every advantage and ihr squash
vine lespsd 90 tie work aad grew second.
inEiy, aud, Il we roea,leet ugutos rightly.
sith ali aoubans sua turning, sboui Eve
mlles oi raei, and 81 ibis aud al The
grgai gresa leaves west on night and day
pnmpng aad working % iorm ,ac squash
ga waica the eNperaeni was 20 iufn,
ras squash was enclosed ip a sort Of
an iron baskel, which wss 20 prevent is
bresklrg under Tbs pressure brought
apua p, aud tbeu was 50 arranged that Il
4 grew a. al Il must pecss upward aud
faise au oa6gu beam Eve inches square
Which passed across Il, and was fastened
by hinge at enc end
Well lhe squash thought probAbly,
tbat inis was a hnle matter, aud soon got
tae beam up. Then thay began hanging
weights 60 the eud OF the beam; one
pound, two pounds, ten pounds, til,eeu,
twenty pounds, and still the squash kept
on growing aud raising the weights.
Every day they were made heavier aud
heavier. The noble plant, with the gen.
trous quietnde, msde 40 remark aud no
complaint, bul just went on growing. Ii
did not even assume a scornlui ail there
was 10 brayado, that squash simply kept
about lie business, and iguorcd all OF the
weights,
Well, this matter went on aud on, aud
the weights increased. When we visited
it there was hanging on the wooden lever
. bIacksmnhs anvil aud ial irons, aud
iron balls, in short an the weights thar
could be gathered in the vicinity. We
we're told i was lifting at the time five
thousand pounds. A day or two afler
this sc heard that something gave way
Il was not the squash, however, bat tue
uaken beam over It. which snapped aud
broke under the weights which the squash
was carrying. Then larger and stronger
beam was substituted, and the expert
ment went on, aud more weights added,
aud one squash raised $500.
We confess TO feeling Of remorse, on
behalf Of that squash, as if science had
gone too far with generous nature Ia
piing weights to the breaking point with
50 gallant a creature. When il lad raised
1900 pounds We had rather that science
nad said, give II up; own beat; and
making the squash vine handsome bow,
proceeded to write its eulogium. There
IS something rather cool blooded in ascer.
tanning accurately how much enduring
nature will bear before it will be broken.
Even this squash was not infinite, and it,
ultimate limit Of endurance came but We
do not remember the extra fraction Of its
lifting.
Bat surely the squash, as we saw 1t
mere, with its cumber OF weights and
It's leaves all so CHEEKY and green,
said something % us we shall
not soon forget, II has its lesson to
everybody that is in what The word calls
"a tight place"
Are You, my friend, wei GIFTED and
hampered, kept in on every side, and do
you ask what you shall do. Keep on
groCiag that is all. DO all you know
how, daily; don't fret at the limits or the
weights; they arc not your concern; yor
did not put them on--you cannot take
them off; you have only TO groU under
them.
Are you slandered, misrepresented
misunderstood2 What shall you do 2
Keep on grCacing; hue it all down.
You are not what they say you are you
are not what some have been led to think
Won are 20 on living right and they will
iud il out.
Remember, too, the parable. The victim
Of science was couhed on every side; it
could only raise ts weights by growing
apwagd Try that. Try growing up-
~ard growing towards God and heav-
an; try patiently, silently, quietly, and
the weights will rise. He who puts them
on cares for you more than for science
Il is no cold experiment on Ills part; II
is TO make you stronger, not to break
/ YOU. lie will take them of when their
mission is accomplished.
Then there was purpose IN this ham
pering and restricting and weigbting lht
harmless Of this our story science may
vet use the knowledge Of the growing
force Of plants for good.
Il il not possible that TO sympathetic
angel eyes the experiments which show
the power Of moral endurance, the vie
tories Of patient continuance in well
doing, mas have a worth aud meaning
beyond what we know OF here2 The
cloud Of witnesses in the heavenly space
will treasure aud mark these silent vic
tories Of the growing power within u.s.