The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-04-18
Star and Catholic Messenger.
JUVENILE COLUMN.
NOBLE RIVALS.
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NOBLE RIVALS.
|ivalry!r said Walter Dem ming,
stirs up envy and Jealousy"
depends upon the rivals them
|uistly remarked Brother James.
!. eMuiatiop is good. The apostle
ssAll strive, but one winueth
mid rather never win prize,
<A have half a-dozen euvious
he the rest Of the year."
/ kaking it for granted, Walter,
iii win the prize. Instead of
lw many envious eyes will follow
ii DO win it, bad you not better
Hts1er yon can see another hearing
|<5zn you without touch of envy
8n heart or touch of envy in
eyes Z"
/ HI rearlly what am afraid of,
ranpot bear defeat Deither can
fripmph which 10 envied to me.
r4aeOns, decline to try tor the
Ire ns5w perfectly frank, Walter.
4 a<. IA there IS not another side to
Ia it not it, little cowardly,
q Either of these reasons A
Should find something nobler
n. than q desire to surpass
boy in the school. God has
& liable of loving excellence for its
|E4si,d for the sake of Him who Great
IS love of excellence increases with
Sge of it. Let each one try to
out of a pure love of excel
Him who created it, and then,
>me one who can do more excel
49, still, this discovery will give
ne. The history of Catholic ma
"a Catholic times gives us many
f noble rivalry. The Games mo-
Z rood today as then, and the same
held out, by the Master of mas
|55n who strives in q true Christian
1ll, Brother, perhaps some of the
you have in your mind may
[ember one which is really to the
b the year 140l, the guild of mer-
Florence invited all the artists in
beet in that city. Crowds of artistic,
|FOung, the unknown and the ia
ne eagerly together at this invita-
b merchants proposed that each one
ing a design for one of the com
b of the new bronze door which
ended to present to the Cathedral.
days there were no such pests in
b secret orders. Instead of these,
Etradeemen formed themselves into
ms, called guilds. The wOOl-stap
|khe wool-dy ers, the carpenters aud
tiers, had their gnilds. as we'll as
Eobants. Many of the choicest
EArt in Europe were presented, by
s&nt guilds, to the churches in the
les. The merchants, this time,
bad decided to give bronze door
hedral, and they said it should
sven the bronze door already
Ehould surpass anything of the sort
ng the young artists who hasten
aEence at this invitation, was Lor'
frti. He was born in Florence
her and mother still lived there
Fned the art of the goldsmith
sher and although only 20 years
He'd in making designs. He
f come orders in another place
Is 4&ther sent him word about the
"a Perhaps he would not have
e tie try for the prize but for his
7B urged him to put forth his best
he terms were these: Each artist
ing at the end of a year, a de
Ia bronze and of q certain size
Inject must be, the sacrifice
bis father, Abraham.
NE year came around, five artists
heir designs. From these five
Immediately selected ss superi
of these three designs was the
young artist Lorenzo. The two
from artists much older thar
already famous.
ht suppose that the artists who
md already famous, would have
Fed at the idea of having thit
Ia known youth, as q rival. But
hey did. No sooner had they
IS She design of Lorenzo, than they
superior to their own. Instead
oeet'zo, they admired him, anc
keeping their admiration tt
they determined to act upon it
the hall where the designs
ibition, they consulted honor
When they returned to the
say to judges: We, Brun
nonatello, withdraw in favor
~ nfberti for IL ia evident tC
Elnsf be to yourselves. that his
b superior to our own. In this, We
b further the cause of art, and t.
Ss pf sisnplc justice toward one who
Ru hohor to his country and to The
Brother, that is grand I"
Eact Walter, you hardly know
ron would rather have been
..z.lllr, won the nriza and made two