Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-18

rich; start him IN profession where hs
begins with an Office the floor covered
With Administer, and library OF book:
IN Russian morocco, and an arm chair
upholstered like throne, aud au
embroidered ottoman upon which to put
his Sl2 CATERS, and they lay upon his ia
bio the best ivory cIgar-holder you can
import from Brussels, and have standing
outside his door a pranoing span that
won the prize at the horse fair, and
leave him estate enough TO make hin,
independent OF all struggle, and what
will become OF him? II he do not die
early Of inanit!on or dissipation, he will
live useless life and die an unlamented
death and go into fool 3 eternity.
But what 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 con build the fires for breakfast. Put
your bare feet on the cold oilcloth, and
break the ice IN your pitcher before you
can wash. Yes; it has been showing
and drifting again last night. and we
will have TO break the roads. The
BOYS educational advantages, long
oak plank without any back to it, in
| country schoolhouse. and stove throwing
| out
MORE SMOKE THAN HEAT,
! pressing Oh from one hardship to m
other. After awhile a position on salary
| or wages small enough TO keep life, but
| keep il at its lowest ebb. Starting in
occupation or business with prosperous
men trying to fight you back ct every
| step. But after good while fairly on
your feet, and your opportunities WIDEN
| ing, ana 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
world IS sacred poesy, must sell his copy
right of Paradise Lost for $40 in three
payments. And William Shakespeare
| on his way up TO be acknowledged the
greatest dramarist of all ages, must hold
horses at the door Of the London theatre
for six-pence, and Homer must struggle
through total blindness to immortality,
and J John Bunyan must cheer himself on
the way ND by making flute
out OF his prison stool, ana
Canova, the sculptor, must toll on
through orphanage modelling lion in
butter before he could cut his statues il
marble. And the great Stephenson must
watch cows in the field for q few PEN
MES and then become stcker, and aft
erward mend clocks before he puts the
locomotive on its track and calls forth
plaudits from parliaments, and medals
from kings. Abel Stevens is picked up,
neglected child of the street, and rises
through his consecrated genius to be one
of the most illustrious clergymen and
historians of the century. And Bishop
James of the same church in boyhood
worked his passage from Ireland to
America, and up to u usefulness where,
in the bishoprlc, lie was second TO no
one who ever adorned it.
WHILE IN BANISHMENT
Neuophon wrote his Auabasis and
Thucydldes his "H!story of the Pelo-
ponnesian war; and Victor Hugo must
be exiled for many years to the island of
Guernsey before he can come TO that
height in the affections of his country
men, that crowds Champs Elysees and |
the adjoining boulevards with l 200, 200 !
mourners, as his hearse rolls down to
the church of the Madeleine. Oh, 1t is |
q tough old world and it will keep you |
back and keep you down, and keep you |
under as long as il can. Hail, SONS and |
daughters of the fire!
Stand, as the anvil When the stroke OF ST alwart
rlen falls fierce and fast.
Storms but more Ceeply root the oak whose |
prawny arms embrace the b. asst.
Stand like an anvil, roise and heat are born of !
earth and die with time:
The soul, like God, its source and seat, is SOL !
emn, Still, serene, sublime.
Thirty years from now the foremost |
men in all occupations and professions
will be those who are this hour in awful |
struggle of early life. many OF them
without 81 TO their name. So in spiritual |
life, il takes a course of bereavements,
prosecutions, sickuesses and losses to de-
velop stalwart Christian character. l |
got letter q few days ago saying: 81
have hardly seen n well dav since 1 was
born, and l could not write my own
name until was fifty years of age, and
am very poor, but l am, by the grace
of God, the happiest man in Chicago. -
The Bible speaks of the SHOWS OF Leb-
anon, and at this season of the year the
SHOWS there must be tremendous. The
deepest snow ever seen in America would
be insignificant compared with the mild
est winter of SHOWS on those Lebanon
mountains. The cedars catch that sky
full of crystals on their brow and on
their long arms. Piled up in Egrest
hefts are those SHOWS, enough to crush
Otuer trees 10 tue SEOuuu, sllllttiuR tue
branches from the trunk and leaving
them
RENT AND TORN, NEVER TO RISE.
But what do the cedars care tor these
SHOWS on Lebanon? They look up to the
winter skies and say: ''Snow on! Empty
the white heavens on us, and when this
storm lie passed let other PROFESSIONS of
tempest try to bury Us in their fury. We
have for 500 winters been accustomed 10
this, and for the next 500 winters we
will chserfully take all you have TO send,
for that is the way we develop our
strength, and that is the way we serve
God and teach all ages how to endure
and conquer. SO l say: Good cheer
TO all people who are showed under.
Put your faith in God and you will come
out gloriously. Others may be stunted
srowths, or weak jumpers on the lower
levels OF. spirituality, but you are going
to be Lebanon cedars. At last it will be
said of such as you: ''These are they
who came out OF great tribulation and
had their robes washed and made white
IN the blood OF the Lamb.
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