Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-09-30

From Anvil to Pulpit.

THE REV. ROBERT CoLLYEE TELLS THE
STORY or HIS TRANsIrIoN-USIoUE DIP
IxIrIoNs or BIRTH AND BREEDING.
The Rev Robert Collyer, Of New York,
delivered the anniversary address before the
Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie.
a, the Colling~ood Opers House, Sept, Il,
hi, theme being. From the Anvil to the
Pulpit" In beginning his address Mr..
Collyer said he had chosen this subject be-
cause il would give him q chance to say
anything he had q mind 10, but he added
that II he felt he VAS going TO blow his own
trumpet in this talk be would turn right
round aud 10 home. Yet, he continued.
must say il looks very much like this when
read the title Of my discourse. From the
Anvil TO the Pulpit" or, might say. from
the factory to the pulpit, for it Was in the fac
tory began TO earn my living before was
eight years old. Believe me when say
want above all things to avoid this ugly and
mos, damaging blunder. Ii is the very
worst use q man can make OF his life and II
would be proof that have no business on
this platform. There is one deep word in
the Bible no man can afford to forget who
has struck any such good fortune as this
which has fallen to my lot, and tha; is
Paul's word, who made thee to differ ?"
must tell you something Of my own en-
deayors or the lesson would be lost 1t
would be more fatally los, If left the i'm
precision On your minds tha, am what We
call self-made man. 1t is q vast distance
from that lost little place among the York
shire moors to Murray Hill in New York
and from the bitter bondage Of . white slave
in factory in which We had to toll from six
in the morning to eight at night to the pas
torate of 3 church any man might be proud
Of / can only say As the conclusion Of the
whole matter that the pivotal truth is this:
1t is not Of myself, it is the gift Of God !;
and then ask you who are where l Was 80
many years ago TO consider what may be
your gift and how YOU may make some fair
use OF it in that position you can fill to the
best advantage to the world you live in. If
YOUR whole intention is to take care OF num-
Der one, as the saying goes. my poor little
story can be Of no use, and shall have to
say TO YOU what . rosy little Frenchman
SAID to me once when We had wrangled for
half day, about another matter. "You will
20 to he'll, sure" and to add that If il is your
purpose to live for yourself only you need
not 20 to hell il viii come to you. Your
thoroughly selfish man is the most miserable
creature on this planet. DO you take my
meaning then? am not here to blow my
own trumpet. This great IL" must be used
or there can be no talk; but through i. all,
you mast remember. it is but the human
pointer to the great 81 Am"
DON'T MARRY A DOLL
II 10 . great thing for . man TO be well
born, for, as the proverb runs, you cannot
make whistle Of pig . tail, although when
Mr.. Lincoln said this once in . speech at
the West an ingenious Yankee sent him
such q whistle BY the next mail. Still this
is the truth to which the proverb points.
that what xe call good blood is one condi-
ton Of success in life, and this, think, the
Collyers can claim. But We cannot claim it
- the Adamses can, and the Ouincys and
the fine old families on this river, for We 60
back to the grandfathers and the grand
mothers and there We stop. Both the men
were sailors, and both were lost at sea. What
mean BY being well born is this-that my
own father was one Of the most healthful
men ! ever knew and my mother was one ol
the most healthfal women He vas bsavI
and she vas . blonde. Ny fathers eyea
we're dark and soft, and my mothers vers
blue blended With gray. and could snap frs
and make things boom. The family nos'
iuts out strong and matches TIE family chin
and, . l heard Mr.. Emerson cay once
there IL . great deal in noses. Ny fashsl
Vas a rood . smith - ever stood at q
anvil, and that vss Ill. He bad no othe
faculty except that Of striking tune in tn