The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-10-02


great many trades and professions. suite
to each ones capabilities anl tastes. Som
excel in ART, some in literature, some i
agriculture, and some in politics. Bu
We must remember. while one is NOR
gifted in some things, than another, tha
no one was ever born ali artist. author
agriculturist. or politician. but each mus
commence at the beginning, and maste
his calling, or he will always remain ig
norant. And l would say to you. youn:
aspirant, whatever J-onr chosen field o
labor may be, depend upon it. there il
No excellence acttkoat great iabor.,'
And 10 those, who sit with folded hand,
and clouded brow, murmuring against
luck, and fortune, would say,
1t never pays TO fret and growl,
| When fortune seems our foe,
The better bred would push ahead,
| And strike the brarer blow;
For luck is work, and those who shirk,
| Should not lament their doom,
But yield the play, and clear the way
That better men have room.
For we haven't even standing room.
for those who '.shirk," in the busy moy-
| ing workaday world of ours, wherei pa
tient and persistent effort, is our only
guarantee of success. Just now we hear
great deal being said about overrun
professions; but we notice. there are plen-
ty Of work, and remuneration too, for
those, who have mastered their callings,
and attained an excellence deserving re-
spect. Labor To excel. Never rest con-
tent with medioerity, LEI your profession
be whafit may.
For honor and shame, from no condition
rise,
Act well your part, there all honor lies. :"
Apply yourself 10 some good honest
profession, not because some one has
made fortune at it, or because Il is the
most convenient, or the most gen,eel. but
because you like if. And thy plans once
formed; adopt railroad surveyors mot
to: sTo swerve not an inch for palace,
river or mountain" And though ST.
Gothard should stand in thy way ''have
faith rs grain of mustard seed,'' that
labor can remove it; enough at least for
the practical purpose. Doctor Johnston,
says:
''rhat it is a sad thought by all confessed.
Slow rises worth by poverty oppressed"
But when we see, that all the great
ones Of earth have labored up through
great natural disadvantages and poverty.
may we not believe, that the every exer-
ton is required to overcome their natural
defects and poverties, oppression gave
gave them herculean strength, to labor
for the excellence of their souls ideal.
And would especially warn you not to
rely upon ''that Divinity. that shapes our
ends, rough hew them how We may"
For Divinity itself would never under
take to shape fabric never begun, and
If begun, never completed In nature, as
in art. it is rough work, that polishes. 1t |
gives intellect its lustre, rs well as stones.
Many of those We delight to honor
Would never have dug deep down into
their SOILS.
And found the rich mines of treasure hid
den there,''
but for some woeful failure, or from some
quiet snubbing, that aroused every fibre
Of their latent strength, into activity.
And while we are admiring th, success
Iul, we should remember s.distance lends
TO the yiew.n and on rear
approach we will find, s.That there is
seldom line of glory written upon
Earth s face, but line of suffering runs
parallel with it; and they who read the
ustrous syllables of the one, and stop not
o decipher the spotted and worn inscrip-
ion of the other. gets the least half OF the
esson earth has to give" Alexander
Pope, to whom we are indebted for so
many gems of thought. was in youth a
'uny. sickly child, and during the more
han half century he lived his poor, de-
OAhNu, DoAN Was CN- 1
r free from pain. But to direct his
houghts from his deformity and suffer-
ng, he labored to excel in literature, and
ow well he succeeded, we may imagine,
fhen we are told, that he rose in those
times from the son of linen
rapcr. to the highest honors the rich
nd intelligent, were capable Of confer
ng, and left bright thoughts, that are
uotcd wherever the English language is ,
,oken. 1t may be true, that lone ink
rop on single thought has moved the ,
Iinds Of Millions" But I would ven /.
ire TO assert. that it would require the
of good large bottle to tell of ,
] the failures. vexations and labor, they ]
ldured before they arrived at any ,
Ionght capable of moving the minds OF I
illions. Daniel Webster, that great in +
liectual '.tower Of strength that stood
ur corners to every wind that bIowed," :" !.