Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-29

spend his hours lounging in the sun
could. by any act of will OF wish. be an
other belong. Who shall become
great musician at will? BY what meas
ure OF perseverance may he who has no
gift of the divine affiatus make himself
. poet? And with what effort Of native
resolution aud perseverance may the
poet of to-day place himself side by side
with Shakespeare? Where one man has
the genius to succeed as belong sue
ceeded. thousand, tempted to desert a
useful sphere in humble life. become TIE
derision OF court.rooms, the by-word Of
political conventions and an object of
the pity and contempt of the observant
and critical. Indeed, We know of no
more hazardous thing to do than for
young man not bred to life of letters,
to desert his trade, his farm or his
clerks desk to enter political life and
perform what is catalogued as "a career
of honorable ambition" II 1.-THE doc
trine of the survival OF the fittest'
applies anywhere, it applies to those
few favored ones who survive the battle
and scramble Of the life of politician.
The temperament which achieves SUCCESS
in political life is as rare as that which
finds happiness, contentment and
adequate rewards therein. The law is
tho very noblest. because the widest
reaching and most comprehensive of the
sciences; but where one man achieves
honor and distinction and the welcome
prizes of success in its pursuit and
practice, there are hundreds whose con-
spicuous failure is regarded and re-
varded with commissera,ion. pity and
contempt. We are not what we will.
We develop, 10 whatever place in life We
are called to occupy, the germs of char.
acter which nature planted in ~. Ten
nyson grandly tells rs that
''Self- knowledge, self-reverence, self-cOntfel.
These three alone lead life to sovereign power"
The Laureate tells rs the truth; but
each of those great qualities is of itself
rarity; and he who possesses them al.
and . Ids thereto the gifts Of language.
of comprehension. of analysis, Of pen
etration. and supplements them al with
the genius Of application. he may
become great; but it will not
be BY his selfish reaching for
but because the greatness
and integrity, the goodness and capaci-
ties Of his nature have found scope and
field and adaptation, and forced them
selves upon the recognition Of the world.
What belong did by the force of his
character and capacities points the way
in which those who have the strength |
and the talents may follow; but it is not !
Tor the strong striding walker to lead the |
way for the weak. the hating, the self
the slow and the indolent-
these, and each. indeed, must take and |
keep his own course if he would achieve
success to be full and per-
feet and self satisfying need not to be
always set upon q hilltop or made to
occupy the highest rooms at feasts. The
lesson Of self-reliance is in belongs
life: but that very quality needs to be
with 'self-knowledge" and
self control" to lead the life of its pos
SCISSOR to power, even in the hum
olest and least conspicuous condition.
Take the words of the poet for confir.
nation Of what we have endeavcred 10
assert:
Are you no, what you would be?
Then be what you can,
For the measure OF use
Is the measure OF man;
Ind God at last will reward every one
Who the best with his talents his duty kas done.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Last Sunday the subject of our dis
course was the right and propriety of
politics in the pulpit. We are glad to
AVE our views strengthened by so able
IN advocate and profound thinker us the
Rev. O. b. rockingham. In a sermon
delivered in New York on the 18th OF
his month he said:
Religion in politics. What is religion:
By religion l do not moan any peculiar
o.m of religion. any creed or system OF
,aliefs, by whatever name II is called. |
10 not mean the Jewish religion or the |
christian religion. l mean simply reli- ,
ion. That comprises all forms and
James and peculiari.ios. That is q
reater thing, g more profound thing,
nd is signitied by the name of any
hing. BY religion l mean a sense of
be Divine presence; feeling Of re.
possibility toward everlasting will; a +
ense Of the great necessity Of justice |
nd rec:itude; . wish that overpowers g
II things. that overrules all individual
clifton. / mean the relations between !
be perfect and the imperfect, between
nat which is changeable and that which
j Interchangeable forevermore. And by j
olitics l mean the honest and earnes, ,
forts of men end wcmen IN pl,oo ~ | :,