New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18
MR.. COLLYER'S TALK.

about tbs opening celebration. was not wiling
to come and make an address. because felt sure !
had nothing 10 say you would want to hear. But
when man goes all the way from Pouchk ecpsie to
Nantucket such errand, he is apt TO be in dead
earnest and this was the temper in which found
your friend. lie said as much as this, III fact that
must come and if / had no lecture could give you
talk which would do just as well or better. Then
when the rogue saw this what You would call
his best card, and said would take a night to
think about it, he said: " Please don't do that
want 10 leave by the morning boat. And so was
moi so we'll Oh as the Scotch woman who when the
minister went a counting, or rather wanted wife,
and SAID. Moo, Janet. want wife; and want ye,
aud want We TO say yes this minute, for l am a
vera busy man." said, Eyes, will take we, and be
glad o. ye but, my csrtic We have got 10 court me
all the same Your friend allowed no time for the
counting. l had 10 say yes right off and make up
my mind what my talk would be about. so | said,
suppose we call it From the Anvil to the Pulpitg
Because that will give a chance to slyabout any
thing have a mind to-" And have no doubt my
tyrant slept better after he had got that promise
thar did when had given it.
Siay not say further that if felt was going to
blow my trumpet in this talk 10 you would
turn right round and 90 home and should feel that
il stood right in the way of what / want TO do if
You thought sol Yet must say it looks very much
like this when | read the title of my discourse,
From the Anvil to the Pulpit" might say,
from the factory to the pulpit, for it there l
began to earn my living, before was eight years
old. Believe Ire when say | want above all
things 10 avoid this ugly aud most damaging blum
der. 1t is the worst use man can make of
his life. and would be proof have no business on
this platform.
There Is a deep word in the Bible no man eau
afford 20 forge VINO has struck any such good for
tune as this which has fallen TO of, I'D that is
PauPs word =" Who made thee TO differ r. could
not tell yOu young entlemen, how much | have
pondered Oyci that word or how sure am that IT
tells abonI all there TO tell of the story of my life
from the time when begin TO remember down to
tins day l must tell you something OF my , own
fatally lost If | left the impression on yo'r
minds that ] am what we call sci, set-ma Hie
little place among the Yorkshire moors to Murray
Hill IN Newlork, ana from the otter bondage OF
while save III factory N when we l., nad 10 toli
torate Ola church any man might be proud OIL
can only say, conc fusion of the whole matter,
that the pivotal truth is lhs Ii is not of myself
is the gift of God and then ask yOu.who are where
/ was SO many wears ago, TO consider what may be
your gilt and how you may make some Talr use OF
IL IN that position you fill TO the best advantage
to the world you live in For might as well say,
here and once for ALL that If your whole intention
is TO take care of number one the saying goes.
my poor little story can be OF no use. snail nave
to say to YOU what racy little Frenchman SAID to
once, when we had wrangle for half day about
another matter. You will 90 to hell, sare," and to
add that OF this is purpose, to live for yourself
~,
Hence my white hairs have brought lie this con-
vicuon beyond all dispute, that your thoroughly
selfish man Is the most miserable creature on this
planet. Do you take my meaning. Them | am not
here to blow my own trumpet. 1t is the last thing
N lwant to do This great must not be used. OF
II there can be no talk but through 1t all you must
II AM
BIRTH AND BREEDING.
l. 1t is a great thing for a man to be well-born,
for, as the proverb runs you cannot make whistle
out of pigs tail Only when Mr.. Lincoln said this
once in a speech at the West, ingenious Yankee
sent him such whistle by the next mall Still,
this is the truth to which the provcrb points. that
what we call gosd blood is condition of success
in life; and this, think, the Coliyer elan can clam
But we cannot claim ii the Adamses can, and the
Quincys and the bne old families on TINS river Tor
We 20 back to the erandfathers and the grandmoth-
ers, and there We stop; and both the men were
sailors, aud both were lost at sea. So what mean
by being well born is this, that my own father was
one of the most healhfu men ever knew, and my
mother one of I he most healtbful women, ana he
was brown and she was blonde. Ny fathers eyes
were dark and soft, ana my mother eyes were blue
blegded with gray. and could snap fire and make
things boom. And the family nose jdts out strong,
aud matches the family chin ana as heard Mr..
Emerson say once, there is great deal in noses.
My father was as good a smith as ever stood ar an
anvil, and that was all lie had 40 other faculty,
except mat OF striking tune III the httle meeting-
house ana you were not sure what the tthe was
gong be until ne got 10 the end OF the first line.
hut MY mother was woman OF such faculty,
s fbonch she could har .ly read or write that be-
Ieve ii she had been ordered To take charge of 20
rnn shin aud to carry il through battle, her
tune 10 learn ls ropes and she would do 1t. she
had in her also wells of pocsy and humor and
Laughter SO shaking that the tears would stream
down her face ana deep abiding tenderness, IKE
that OF the SAINTS. And this tacy had III common,
they were as free from injections as the stars. The
most woful fevcrs would break cut in the cottages
all about us and decimae the noighbors ana they
were always on hand to help, going and coming as
tine sunshine GOES aud comes never thinking OF
changing their garments Yet !hTy never , chrg 2h
slightest touch of fear. And tins is how come at
ire guess that we we're weli-oorn. lHey were ere 80
healthy, and o like III IKE as the poet says Dut I'D
difference and tue mother was beyond all question
the better hal III those finer powers on which the
children have To draw Tor tIeir success III lie.
Moral don't marry doll
make a man: Good BIRTH good breeding, your own
good endeavor, and the good fortune, winch IS but
another name tor the goodness oil God. And so
wani to say, secondly, that | think we were we'll
bred There was hat would come to 81 30 a week
10 live on while were stu about the mothers
knees. and We came along with the most surprising
regularity one year and eight months apart But
provisions were certainly not 80 cheap as they are 81
this paradise Of plenty, noi were there any. Tree
schools. You must pay 30 much week or 20 lgno-
raut. Yet that mother who rs now among Tie SAINTS
made this income stand good Tor enough To eat, TWO
SUITS of clio bes for weekday and Sunday mouse rent
and fire. bit OF tobacco and pint Of beer for the
good man of the house, and all the schooling we
could take until we big enough to work III the
factory. Oatmeal and milk and oat-cake plenty
VITA bit OF meat al ways for ths worker, and some
timgs for the smaller Try, and SIP OF tea on sun
days. " stick-jaw pudding that tires your chin, with
the lii irnaiaGe spread over so tbn, potatoes and SALT
aud then more oatmeal and the resdlt Is that to this
day not one OF Us know what you mean by sys-
fem or a digestion OF constitution" strong
and sure are tie foundations OF our life. Sunday
sclool and church twice every sunday; no rewards
. and no picnics aud do not know where to look
for any human agency 50 great and 90 3D. when ask
myself how it is pastor of the Church OF Mes
sah III New-Yoik, as that SuDday-scnOOl. sound
box on the ear aud be done vita tor sharp smack,
and then by-aud-by a kiss and Groom.
Let me mike little picture OF the house. A cot
tage of two rooms and an attic looking right into
.f .nHu AVA Inv ard nj
pie moOrs. A bit of green sward and clump Of
roses. A bright open fire, and the walls white as
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