The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-19

'Ho- 1A7t4y GenI TINS way OF LOO I
much OF the aspen and we trembie I'M /
der every zephyr of assault; too much |
OF the BRAN BILE tree. and our sharp |
pcin - st ng- and wOund5 but not enough
OF the cedar. wide brauchsd and heaven
aspiring and tempest graphing. But
the reason that these csdars stand SO
well Is that they are deep rooted They
run their anchors down into caVerns of
the mountain and fGsten to the very
foundations of the earth and twist and
ciiEch themselves on the other side OF
the deepest layer of rock they can
reach And that is the difference be-
tween Christians who stand and Chris
tians who fall 1t is the difference
between q superficial character and one
that has clutchsd its roots deep down
around and under the Rock of Ages
One OF the Eeba cedaFs was
examined by scientist and, from Its
concentrie circles, It was found to be
s, 500 years old and still standing, and
there is such = thing as everlasting
strength. and such staunehness of
Christian character that all time and
all eternity instead of being its demoli-
ton shall be its opportunity. Not such
are those vacillating Christians who are
SO pious on Sunday that they have no
religion left for the week day. As the
anaconda gOrges itself with food and
then seems for a long time to lie
thoroughly insensible, so there are men
who will on Sunday get such a religious
surfeit that the rest of the week they
seem thoroughly dead to all religious
emotion
The reason that God planted these
cedars in tho RibIo was to suggest to US
that we ought in our religious charac-
ter. be deep like the cedar, high like
the cedar, broad branched as the cedar
traveller measured the spread of the
boughs of one of these trees and found
-. -
tip and have seen cedars of Christian
character that through their prayers
and charities put out one branch to the
uttermost parts of America and another
branch to the utteFmost parts of Asia,
and these wide-branched Christians will
keep on multiplying until all the earth
is oVershado owed with mercy. But mark
you, these cedars of Lebanon could not
grow if planted in mild climates and
soft air, and in carefully watered gar
dens. They must have the gymnasium
and the midnight hurricane to develop
their arms They must play the athlete
with a thousand winters before their
feet are rightly planted and their fore
heads rightly lifted and their arms
rightly muscled. And if there be any
other way for developing strong Chris
tian character except by storms of
trouble ] never heard of it
Men and women who hear this or read
this, 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 a costly
high chair and give him a gold spoon;
send him to school wrapped in furs
enough for an arctic explorer; send him
through college where he will not
have to study in order to get diploma,
because his father is rich; start him in
a profession where he begins wi tn an
office, the floor covered with Axmin-
lister, and library of books in Russian
morocco, and an arm cha T upholstered
like throne, and embroidered otto
man upon which to put his twelve-dol-
lar CATERS, and then lay upon his table
the best ivory cigar holder you can i'm
port from brussels, and have standing
outside his door a prancing span that won
the prize at the horse fair, and leave
him estate enough to make him indie
pendent OF ali struggle, and what will
become of him? II he do not die early
of inanitiOn or dissipat ton, he will live
useless life, and die an unlamented
death and go into FOOLS eternity.
Butwnat has been the history of most
of the great cedars in merchandise, in
art. in law, in medicine. in statesman
ship. in Christian usefulness? ''John,
get up and milk the cows; it's late; it's
half-past five in the morning. Split an
armful of wood on your way out so that
we can build the fires for break fast"
The boys educational advanta q
long oak plank without any back to it,
in country school house, and stove
throwing out more smoke than heat
Pressing on from one hardship to an
other. But after good while fairly on
your feet, and your opportunities widen
ing, and then by some sudden turn you
are 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
throne of the worlds sacred poesy must
soil his copyright of Paradise Lost
| for S72 in three payments And WILL
lam shakespeare on h way up to be
! acknowledged the greatest dramatist of
all ages mus hold horses at the door of
the London theater for sixpence, and
Homer must struggle through total
| blindness to immortality. and John
| BUnyan must cheer himself on the way
| up by making a flute out of his prison
stool, and CanoVa, the sculptor, must
\ toll on through orphanage, modelling q
lion in buttor before he could cut his
/ statues in marble. And the great
/ for a few pennies and then become a
/ stol1er. and afterward mend clocks be-
/ fore he puts the locomotive on its track
/ and calls forth plaudits from Pariia-
ments, and medals from Kings
| When in Punishment XenoPhen wrote
his Anabasis and Thucy1ides his His
| tory of the Peloponnesian Var" and
| Victor Hugo must be exiled for many
years to the island of Guernsey before
he can come to that he 'ght in the sf-
fectiOns of his countrymen, that crowds
/ Champs Eiysees, and the adjoining
boulevards with LOCO, coo mourners, as
his hearse rolls down to the church of
/ the Madeleine. Oh, it is a tough old
| world and it will keep you back and
keep you down, and keep you under rs
/ long as it can. Hall, sons and daugh-
/ ters of the Grei
| Stand, the anvil when the stroke of stall
| Wart men falls fierce and fast.
| Storms but more deeply root the oak whose
| brawny arms embrace the blast.
| Stand like anvil; noise and heat are born
of earth and die with time;
The soul. like God, its source and seat, Is
solemn, still. serene sublime