The Red Cloud chief., 1890-12-26

have too much OF the willow and q
too easily beat this way Or that 70
much Of the aSpen and We tremble IN
der every sephyr Of assault; too muc
Of the bramble tree. and our shar
points sting and wound; but not enougl
Of the cedar. wide branched and heavel
aspiring and tempest graphing Bu
the cas- that these cedars stand O
we'll Is that they are deep rooted The,
run their anchors down into caverns q
tho mountain and. fasten to the ver,
foundations Of the earth and twist an'
fclinch themselves on the other side o
the deepest layer Of rock they ca
reach. And that 10 the difference be
tween Christians who stand and Chris
tians who fall 1t is the difference
between . superficial character and ont
that has clutched its roots deep doya
around and under tho Rock Of Ages
Ono Of the Lebanon cedars Fas
examined by . scientist and, frog Its
c%oncentric circles it was found 70 be
s, 500 years old and still standing and
there is such . thing as everlasting
strength. and such . staunofness OF
Christian character that all Ame and
all eternity instead Of being . demoli.
ton shall be its opportunity Not such
are those vacillating Christians who are
50 pious ON Sunday that 0ey have no
religion left for the week day. As the
anaconda gorges itself fifth food md
then seems for . lont time to lie
thoroughly insensible. = there are men
who will on Sunday gesuch . religious
surfeit that the rest O the week they
seem thoroughly dead to all religious
emotion.
The reason that iod planted these
cedars in the Bib!esas to suggest to rs
| that We ought in dr religious charac-
ter, be deep like the cedar. high like
the cedar, broad ranched as the cedar.
A traveller measued the spread of the
bouehs of one o these trees and found
It III feet from branch tip to branch
tin, and I haye,een cedars Of Christian
character tha' through their prayers
and charities iut out one branch to the
uttermost pas Of America and another
branch to II uttermost parts Of Asia,
and these jde-branched Christians will
keep on multiplying until all the earth
is oversh<owed with mercy. But mark
YOU. thet cedars of Lebanon could not
grow if5lanted in mild climates and
soft AZ and in carefully watered gar
dens/ They must have the gymnasium
and ae midnight hurricane to develop
the. arms They must play the athlete
via . thousand winters before their
fst are rightly planted and their fore
pads rightly lifted and their arms
muscled And If there be any
other way for developing strong Chris
tian character except by storms OF
I never heard Of it.
Men and women who hear this or read
instead Of your grumbling because
you have it hard, thank God that you
are In just the best school for making
heroes and heroines 1t is true both
for this world and the next. Rock that
baby in cradle cushioned and canopied;
graduate him from that into q costly
high chair and give him a gold spoon;
send him to school wrapped in furs
enough for an arctic explorer; send him
q college where he will not
have to study in order to get a diploma.
because his father is rich; start him in
, profession where he begins with an
office, the floor covered with Axmin-
ister, and . library Of books in Russian
morocco, and an arm chair upholstered
like a throne, and an embroidered otto
man upon which to put his twelve-dol-
lar CATERS, and then lay upon his table
best ivory cigar holder you can inn
port from Brussels and have standing
his door a prancing span that won
the prize at the horse fair, and leave
him estate enough to make him indie
of all struggle. and what will
Of him? II he do not die early
Of inanition or dissipation, he will live
useless life. and die an unlamented
leath and 60 into a FOOLS eternity.
Butwnat has been the history of most
Of the great cedars in merchandise, in
ART, in Law. in medicine, in statesman
in Christian usefulness? 'John.
up and milk the cows; it's late; it's
half-past five in the morning. Split IN
of wood on your way out so that
can build the fires for breakfast"
The boys educational advantages q
.ong oak plank without any back to it.
country school house. and stove
out more smoke than heat
Pressing on from n hardship to an
,ther. But after a good while fairly on
your feet, and your opportunities widen
ing, and then by some sudden turn you
ire triumphant You are master of the
situation and defiant Of all earth and
hell A Lebanon cedar!
John Milton on his way up to the
Of the worlds sacred poesy must
'ell his copyright of Paradise Lost"
Tor So in three payments And Will
am Shakespeare on his way up to be
acknowledged the greatest dramatist Of
III ages muA. hold horses at the door of
The London theater for . sixpsnce. and
Homer must struggle through total
to Immortality. and John
Bunyan must cheer himself on the way
up by making . 6ute out Of his prison
tool, and Canova, the sculptor, must
oil on through orphanage, modelling q
ion in butter before he could cut his
in marble. And the great
mustxatch cows In the field
or q few pennies and then become .
and afterward mend clocks be-
ore he puts the locomotive ON its track
md calls forth plaudits from Psrlia.
nents, and medals from Kings
When in Punishment Xenophen wrote
his Anabasis and Thucydides his "His-
'ory Of the Peloponnesian War;" and
Victor Hugo must be exiled for many
years to the island Of Guernsey before
ne can come to that height in the AZ
'ections of his countrymen, that crowds
clamps Elysees, and the adjoining
with LOCO, 900 mournerA IS
his hearse rolls down to the church of
he Madeleine. Oh, it is . tough old
world and It will keep you back and
Keep you down, and keep you under rs
ong as it al Hail. sons and daugh-
ara NJ tho 6pai