Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-15

rich; start him in a profession where b.
begins with an Office the floor covered
with Administer. and a library OF book
IN Russian morocco, and an arm chail
upholstered like throne, and au
embroidered ot.opsn upon which to pu
his Sl2 gal ers, and they lay upon bis ta-
BILE the best ivory cigar holder you car
import from Brussels, an have standing
outside his door prsncing span tina
won the prize at the horse fair, and
leave him estate enough 10 make hin
independent OF all struggle, and wha'
will become OF him? If be do not die
early OF hamilton or dissipation, he will
live useless life and die an unlamented
death and 20 into fool $ eteruitys
But what has been the history Of most
OF the greut ceiars In merchandise, in
art, In law, in medicine, In statesman
ship, in Christian usefulnessP ''John
get up aud 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 breakfast. Put
your bare feet on the cold oiicloth, and
break the ice IN your pitcher before you
can wash. Yes; it has been showing
AMI drifting again last night, aud We
wilt have TO break the roads, The
boys educational advantages, a long
oak plank without any back TO II, in
| country schoolhouse. and stove throwing
out
| MORE SMOKE THAN HEAT,
pressing on from one hardship to an
other. After awhile q 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 ying TO fight you back Mt every
step. But after good while fairly on
your feet, and your opportunities widen
| lug, and then by some sudden turn you
are triumphant. You are master Of the
situation, and defiant OF all earth and
he'll. A Lebanon cedar? John Milton
on his way up to the throne of the
worlds sacred poesy, must sell his copy
right of Paradise Lost for So in three
payments. Aud William Shakespeare
on his way up to be acknowledg ed the
greatest draruatist of all ages, must hold
horses ut the door OF the London theatre
for six pence. aud Homer must struggle
through total blindness to immortality,
and John Bunyau must cheer himself on
the way up by making flute
out of bis prison stool, ana
Chnova. the sculptor, must toll on
through orphanage modelling q lion in
oNs.N. touiN CUT his III
marble Ana the great Stephenson must
witch cows IN the field for few peu-
mics and Their herome IL stoker, aud 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,
a neglected child of the street, and rises
through his cCnsecrated genius to be one
of the most i!lustrious clergymeu and
historians of the century. And Bishop
Jane. of the same church in bOyhood
worked his passage from Ireland 20
America, and up to usefulness where
in the bishopric. he was second TO no
one who ever adorned it.
WHILE IN ENLISTMENT
Nenophon wrote his Anabasis and
Thucydldes his History of the Pelo-
ponnesian war; and Victor Hugo must
be exied 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 Ejysees and
the adjoining boulevards with ,00n 200 |
mouruers, as his hearse rolls down to |
the church of the Madeleine. Oh, It is
q tough old world and il will keep you |
back and keep you down, and keep you
under rs long as it can. Hail. sons and |
daughters of the fire!
Stand, as the anvh when the stroke OF ST alwart !
men falls fierce and fast.
Storms but more deeply root the oak whose |
brawry arms embrace tine blast.
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 IRE this hour in awful
OF early life. many of them
without So to their name. So in spiritual
life, II takes q course Of bereavements,
prosecutions, sicknesses and losses to de-
velop stalwart Christian character.
got n letter a few DAYS ago saying: 81
have hardly seen a well day since ! was
boru, and l could not write my own
name until was nifty years of age, and
am very poor, but / am, by the grace
Of God. The happiest man in Chicago"
The Bible speaks of the SHOWS OF Leo-
anon, and q: 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 cejars catch that sky
hull of crystals on their brow and Oh
heir long arms. Piled up in fgrent
|
other trees to the ground, splitting the
from the trunk aud leaving
hem
RENT AND TORN. NEVER TO RISE.
But what do the cedars care tor these
nows on lebanon They look up 10 the
= inter skies and say: :Suow on! Empty
he white heavens on US, and when this
torn is passed let other professions of
empest try to bury Us in their fury. We
ave for 500 winters been accustomed to
his. aud for the next 500 winters we
will cheerfully take all you have to send,
or that ls the way We develop our
;rength, and that ia the way we serve
iod aud teach all ages how to endure
nd conquer. So l say: Good cheer
o all people who are showed under.
'ut your faith in God and you will come
ut gloriously. Others may be stunted
rowths, or weak jumpers on the lower
evels of spirituality, but you are going
o be Lebanon cedars. At last il will be
aid of such Us you: 'These are they
tho came out Of great tribulation and
ad their robes washed and made white
j The blood Of the Lamb i