Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-18


estate enough to make him independent of
all struggle, and what will become of him?
If he do not die early of inanition or dissi-
patton he will live useless life, and die an
unlamented death, and go into FOOLS
eternity
But what has been the history of most
of the great cedars in merchandise, in art,
I'm law, in medicine, in craftsmanship, in
Christian usefulness? John, get up and
milk the COWS; it's late, it's half past In
the morning. Split an armful of wood on
your way out so that we can 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 win have to break the roads " The
boys educational advantages, a long oak
plank without any back TO II, in country
school house, and stove throwing out more
smoke than heat Pressing on from one
hardship to another After n while a posi-
ton on salary or wages small enough to
keep life, but keep it at its lowest ebb
Starting in occupation or business with
prosperous men trying TO fight you back
at every step But after good whlle fairly
ON your feet and your opportunities widen
ing, and then by some sudden turn you are
triumphant You are master of the situa-
ton and defiant of all earth and he'll.
THE SCHOOL FOR HEROES
A Lebanon CEDAR John Milton on his
way MP to the throne " he worlds sacred
poesy must sell his copy tight of Paradise
Lost" for s72 in three payments. And
William Shakespeare on his way up TO be
acknowledged the greatest dramatist of all
ages must hold horses at the door of the
London theatre for a siXpence, and Homer
must struggle through total blindness to
Immortality, and John Bunyan must cheer
himself on the way up by making flute
out of bis prison stool, and Canova, the
sculptor, must toll on through orphGnage
modelling hon in butter before he could
cut his statues in marble. And the great
Stephenson must watch cows in the Held
for few pennies and tAen become astoker,
and afterward 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 a
neglected child OF the street. and rises
through his consecrtcd genius to be one
Of the most illustrious clergymen and his
torians of the century. And Bishop James
of the same church IN boyhood worked his
passage from Ireland TO America, and up
to a usefulness where, in the bishopric, he
was second TO no one who ever adorned it,
While in Punishment Xenophon wrote his
"Anabasisi and Thucydides his History
Of the Peloponnesian War" and Victor
Hugo must be exiled for many years to
the island of Guernsey before he can come
to that height 10 the affections of his coun.
trymen that crowds Champs Elysegs and
the adjoining bonlevards with one million
mourners MS his hearse rolls down TO the
Church of the Madeleine oh, it is Il tough
old world, and it will keep you back and
keep you down and ke,p you under rs long
as it can. Hail sons and daughters OF the
fire.
stand, as the anvil when the stroke Of stalwart
men falls fierce and fast,
storms bu; more deeply root the oak whose
brawny arms embrace the blast;
stand like an anvil; noise aud heat are born Of
earth ana die with time;
The soul lac Cod. its source and seat. IS solemn,
still. serene, sublime
Thirty years from now the foremost men
in all occupations and profess ons will be
those who are this hour in awful struggle
OF early life, many Of them without five
dollars TO their name. 50 in spiritual life
it takes a course II bereavements, perseeu-
tions, sickncsses and losses 60 develop stall
wart Christian character got a letter a
few days ago saying. - have hardly seen a
well day since ! was born, and ! could not
write my own name until was 80 years Of
age, and ann very poor; but ! am. by the
grace of God, the happicst man il Chicago
The Bible speaks ofthe SHOWS 81 Lebanon,
and at this season of the year the SHOWS
there must he tremendous The deepest
snow ever seen in America would be iusig.
nificant compared with the mildest winter
OF SHOWS on those Lebanon mountains
The cedars catch that skyfull Of crystals on
their brow and on their long arms Piled
up n great heaps are those SHOWS, enough
to crush other trees 70 the ground, split
ting the branches from the trunk and leav
ing them rent and torn, never 70 rise. But
what do the cellars care for these SHOWS on
Lebanony They look up to the winter skies
and say; Snow on! Empty the white
heavens upon US and when this storm is
passed let other PROFESSIONS Of tempest try
TO bury us in their fary We have for five
hundred winters been accustomed to this,
and for the next Eve hundred winters we
Wtl cheeriully take all you have 10 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
| say: Good cheer to all people who are
showed under Put your faith in God and
you viii come out gloriously Others may
be stunted growths, or weak jumpers on
the lower levels of spirituality, but you are
going to be Lebanon cedars At last il will
be said Of such as you: These are they
who came out Of great tribalat!oa and had
their robes washed and made white in the
blood of the lamb
TIE GREAT MANS FALL
But while crossing over these mountains
of Lebanon | bethink myself OF what an
exciting scene it must be when oIe of the
cedars does fall. 1t does not 90 dowa like
other trees with a slight crackle that
hardly makes the woodsmnn look up. or a
hawk llutter from a ueighboring bough.
When cedar falls it is the great event in
the calendar Of the mountains. The axmen
fly. The wild beasts stink to their dens
The partridges swoop to the valley for es-
cape The neighboring trees go down I'M
der the awful weight of the descending
monarch. The rocks are moved ont Of
their places, and the earth trembles as