Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-09-19

17,718 stockholders. All the blame
for everything that goes wrong in the
Central Pacific Railroad is put upon
one or two men, while there are 10,-
600 stockholders. 1 mention this to
prove that people extraordinary for
success must take assault, while the
ordinary escape. The weather of
life is not so severe on the plains as
on the high peaks. The world never
forgives a man for knowing more or
gaining more or doing more than it
can know or gain or do. As parents
sometimes gives confectionery to a
child to take before medicine, so the
worlds sugar plum precedes the
worlds aqua fortis. The mob who
cried after Christ, ''Crucify Him!
cruelty Him!'' were so hoarse they
had to say 1t twice so as to be under
stood, and they had got their hoarse-
ness by crying at the top of their
voice, "Hosanna!" The River
Rhone enters LBke Leman foul and
comes out crystalline, but many a
man has entered the bright lake of
worldly success crystalline and come
out fearfully riley Thank God, day
by day, il. you are only ordinary be-
cause of the placidity and defenses
Of your position.
Remember, also, that from your
style of home the mightIest of the
worlds deliverers have come, and
the reading by your evening stand
there may be child potent amid the
ages. Call the long roll of the
church's great and the worlds great,
and you will find that they come from
log cabins and unpretentious homes.
Really extraordinary people almost
never have extraordinary parentage.
By the second or third generation
the genius is sure to run out. 1t is
the ordinary that gives birth to the
extraordinary. There never has
been case where the third genera
.tion of extraordinary people amount
ed to anything. In our land we had
two great men, father and son, Pres
idents of the United States, but
judging from present appearances
that genealogical line will not pro-
vide another President for the next
thousand years. Columbus from
weaver's hut, Demosthenes from the
cutters home, Bloomfield from a
shoemaker's bench, Arkwright from
barber's shop, and He whose name
is over all in earth and air and sky
from Bethlehem manger.
Last of all, remember to be con-
tented with your lot. We owe as
much to God for what He has kept
from us as for what He has given US.
Even knot may be useful if it is at
the right end of thread. The
blackboard at the anniversary of a
deaf and dumb asylum had on it
something as sublime as the Iliad ana
Odyssey and DIvina Comedia COM
pressed in one. s'Who made the
world?" the examiner asked in the
signs of the mute language. The
deaf and dumb girl wrote with chalk
upon the blackboard, "In the be-
ginning God created the heavens and
the EARTH" The examiner asked:
"Why did Jesus Christ come into the
world?" The deaf and dumb girl
wrote: tThis is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners" The examiner asked:
"Why were you born deaf and dumb,
while / hear and speak?' The stu
dent wrote this answer: 'Even so,
Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy
sight. So may we be in accord with
our circumstances. A spider will
draw poison out of a flower; but a
bee will get honey out of a thistle /; |
and happiness is heavenly elixir,
and contented spirit extracts 1t, not
from the rhododendron of the noun
tain, but from tho lily of the valley.