The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-20
SMALL BEGINNINGS.
A Discourse on the Greatness Of
Little Things.

Little Things.
Great things begin small The giant
oak began with the acorn. The ocean
began with the "little drop Of water''
and the continent with the "little grain
Of sand"
The American Republic was only .
few prosecuted. poor and torlorn men
and women landing on Plymouth
rock, in 1920, for freedom to worship
Cod" a....
The Sunday-school enterprise, with
which from twenty to thirty millions
Of people, of all ages, are connected in
the United States and Great Britain.
began with Robert Raikes teaching a
few ragged street urchins on Sabbath
morning. And the Christian church
itself, having foothold in almost
every country, its membership number
ing hundreds of millions, and its
mighty influence dominating thrones
and empires began with mere hand
full Of believers in Palestine, despised,
poor and oppressed.
The first sixpence that Samuel Ap-
pleton, the Boston millionaire of forty
years ago, possessed, was earned by
assisting o cattle-trader to drive his
herd few miles. The first cent which
Samuel Budgett the wealthy English
merchant of a former generation,
ever had. wns paid him by a black
smith for an old horseshoe picked up on
his way to school. The "village
smithy" promised to add another PEN
ny TO it at the end of two weeks If the
boy would keep it so long. The prom
ise and pledge were both kept and two
cents became the first capital Of the
future millionaire.
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced SIN
gle potato into Great Britain in the
sixteenth century. and it has sustained
the life Of millions Of people by its in
crease, conquered famine again and
again, and contributed largely to the
wealth, prosperity and glory OF En-
gland and America.
And SO on, through the whole range
OF race and lands, the actual OF the
young man and woman is inexperience,
obscurity, ignorance, penury. hard
ship and whatever else belongs 10
early struggles, while the possible is
learning, renown, wealth, usefulness
and true greatness. -a ..-.
Young people should learn wisdom
from this lesson OF history. They
should be content to begin life work in
n small way. They must not despise
the lowest round Of the ladder, nor
Jump 1t II they can. 1t is on the way
to the top round. The youth who
aspires to begin where his father
left of is at war with history. He
wants to break up the estab-
lished order OF things. He would
begin great and not small. He does
not want to pay the price Of success.
He expects TO secure 1t cheaper. As
II Providence would make him an ex-
ception TO the rule! Nothing would be
more unwise and perilous. The sure
experience OF such Q youth is to end
smaller than he began.
MIR. Parton says: "Men destined to
great career l have observed gener-
ally serve a long and vigorous ap-
premiership to it of some kind. They
try their forming powers in little
things, before graphing with the
great. l can not call TO mind a single
instance Of man who achieved sue
cess Of the first magnitude, who did
not at first toll long ii obscnrity."
Peter Cooper's attention was called,
In his early manhood, to the manu-
facture Of glue. He began in a very
small way. With horse and cart he
secured the country round about, for
the hoofs Of slaughtered cattle. con-
veying them to small factory which
he had extemporized, where he con-
verted them into glue. He was quite
successful from the beginning, work.
ing early and late, keeping his own
books, selling his own goods,
and practicing the most rigid econ
omy. As his business increased be en-.
larged his mandatory. Having no
competitors, an extensive market for
his wares was opened and his profits
grew to large proportions. But it re-
quired time IN which to reach these
results; and 1t was forty-fve years be-
fore he reached the highest success.
He HAD commenced, and launched out
In fine style ut first, he would have
made failure Of it in five years,
Amos Lawrence said, near the close
Of his life: "The first year did busi-
ness in Boston, in q small way, l made
fifteen hundred dollars. Tho second
year i made four thousand dollars. II