The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-13

you come toia Olg leap, LnIoHsyouI uea1s
over. If any one of you not merely
wishes to be som mething, but wills to do
something, it is perfectly certain that
yor can be that thing. Youth and time,
with indomitable resolution, with sleep.
less energy, with endless tenacity Of pur.
pose, are simply irresistible; and I do
not know q single case, either as regards
small or great things, in which an
English boy has determined to accom-.
;plish. this Or that and has failed.
BOYS WHO SUCCEEDED.
There was once in Harrow School q
very poor boy, the son Of 8 small trades.
man in Harrow, Who was very much
hurt BY thoughtless taunts about the poY.
erty of his family; and he used to say !:
ever mind, j intend before I die to
ride in a coach and fourn q very
noble ambition. But long before DR..
;Parr died he had become the greatest
scholar Of his age, and habitually rode
in q coach and four. When Warren
Hastings was q boy. he used to grieve at
the fact that his family had lost their
.paternal estate at Daylesford, and to say,
will buy that back y = He grew5up to
..be: the great proconsnl Of the age. he
bought back the estate, and he died at
.Dayiestord. I had the honor of knowing
Mr.. George Moore. You may remember
that he came to London as poor,
unknown ,sunbe befriended Cumberlandlad.
When he entered a great commercial
establishment, his ambition was ''I
intend to marry my masters daughter
and become my masters partner Both
those things he accomplished: He not
only became a very wealthy man, but,
what Was infinitely better, 9 man of great
service to his generation. About sixty
years ago there was boy of Jewish
extraction, 4 clerk in a solicitors Office; (;
and, to the intense amusement Of his
companions, he used to say II intend to
be Prime Minister Of England" And,
in spite Of scorn, he became Prime Min-
lister; land his name was Benjamin Disra.
eli. Ninety: years ago there was q boy in
SStafordshire who had been told exactly
,what l amst ling you-tbat any boy
who. determined to,be this or that could
be; and The said - q that be true, I
3willitsst it and l am determined that /
will be Prime Mioister of En-
gland That boy; became Prime Min:
lister, and bis name was Robert Peel,
Some. fifty years ago there was very
rude and ungsinly looking boy who
seemed as if iallshis limbs were out Of
joint. When seven years old, he was
shoeless and penniless, at seventeen was
driving q canal boat, at twenty was q rail
splitter, at twenty ty,two was at the head Of
. small shop which was very unsuccess.
= = ~ ~ y !
Sful, but used to amuse his comrades by
saying Never mind, I intend to
become President of the United States
His nams.was Abraham Lincoln. 1t is
.dogged that does it, and it is thorough
thatdoes it. After all his failures, IN.
coin Thought helwould take to the lAa.
He bought q Law book /; and after break.
fast he used to 60 out and sit under 9
tree, and, With his!egs higher than his
head, moved round ths tree in the shade
from morn to dew eve. In that way he
mastered the law book, and in time he
became one of the greatest of the modern
Presidents of:America.
NOT INCH HIGH DIaN1TIEs ONLY.
The same thing which has happened
in these instances, the same career, is
open to every, one Of you boys. if only
you have the will and pay. the price,
which is indomitable resolution and
sleepness tanacity Of purpose. Try the
experiment; and if you succeed, and !
am not in my grave, l hope you will
write and tell me. I assure you you can.
not and will not fail. Bui do nn' wi b
to put before you merely this poor aud
vain unsatisfactory ideal Of merely
earthly success. It would not necessarily
make you happy or more useful. I want
much rather to point you, not othese
inch higher dignities, because after all
the extent to which one Of us differs from
another in life is in Gods sight no more
thu the tenth ofian inch by which one
blade Of grass towers over its neighbor,
Il want rather to point you to those eter.
nal heights ofmoral and spiritual excel
lence which every one Of you should try
to reach. I do not know whether many
of you will become great men; some ol
you, / hope, for the good of your country,
will; but every one Of yon may become
what is infinitely better-a true gentle.
man, q true Christian, truly good man,
and, as We used to say at Harrow, "a
profitable member of the Church and
commonwealth, aud hereafter partakel
of the immoral glory Of the resurrection y
That~is--the-- end and height which
earnestly entreat you all to-reach.
BE HONEST FIRST.
You know the old story of how Sir
Walter Raleigh wrote with diamond on
window
."Fain would 1 climb, but that / fear 10
fall"
aud Qneen Elizabeth wrote under it,
g If thy heart fail thee, do not elimblat all"
s1want every one of you to climb as high
sas ever you. can, but, in all your climb.
sing+, make essnre tofs climbing. aboye the
vulgar standard, vulgar conventional
habits. An American lll! ] vlil, in proposing