Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-06


from branch tip to branch tip, and |
have seen cedars of Christian character
that through their prayers and chart
ties put out one branch to the utter
most parts of America and another
branch to the uttermost parts of Asia,
and these wide branched Christians
will keep on multiplying until all the
earth is oveishadowed with mercy.
But mark you, these cedars of Leb-
anon could not grow if planted in mild
climates, and in soft air, and in care
fully watered gardens. They must
have the gymnasium of the midnight
hurricane to develop their arms. They
must play the athlete with thousand
winters before their feet are rightly
planted, and their foreheads rightly
lifted, and their arms rightly muscled.
And if there be any other way for de
veloping strong Christian character ex-
cept by storms of trouble, | never heard
of it. Cali the roll of martyrs, call the
roll of the prophets, call the roll of the
apostles and see which of them had an
easy time of it. Which of these cedars
grew in the warm Valley Not one of
them. Honeysuckles thrive best on
the south side of the house, but cedars
in a Syrian whirlwind.
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 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 a
diploma, because his father is rich !;
start him in a profession whore he be
| gins with an office the floor GOV
cred with Administer, and a library
of books in Russian morocco, and an
armchair upholstered like a throne,
and an embroidered ottoman upon
which to put his twelve dollar CATERS,
and then lay upon his table the best
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 independent
of all struggle, and what will become
of him? If he does not die early of in
anition or dissipation, he will live q
useless life and die an unlanented
death, and go into FOOLS eternity.
PERFECTED THROUGH SUFFERING.
But what has been the history o.
most of the great cedars in merchan
disc, in art, in law, in medicine, il
craftsmanship, in Christian usefulness
"John, get up and milk the cows; it:
late; it's half past in the morning
Split an arnful of wood on your way
out, so that we can build the fires fol
breakfast Put your bare fees on the
cold oilcloth and break the ice in you
pitcher before you can wash. Yes, i
has been showing and drifting agail
last night, and we will have to breal
the roads" The boys educational ad
vantages, a long oak plank withou
any back to it in country school house
and stove throwing out more smok
than heat Pressing on from one hard
ship to another.
, After II while position on salary o
wages small enough to keep life, bu
keep it at its lowest ebb Starting il
, occupation or business with prosperou
, men trying to fight you back at ever
81, "a l. e.; I'll,
. your feet, and your opportunities wild
! ening, and then by some sudden tur
you are triumphant. You are maste
of the situation and defiant of a
, earth and hell A Lebanon cedar
, John Milton on his way up to tn
throne of the worlds sacred poesy mus
sell his copyright of paradise Lost
. for seventy-two dollars in three pay
+ ments. And William Shakespeare, O
+ his way up to be acknowledged tn
i, greatest dramatist of all ages, mus
. hold horses at the door of the Londo
:, theatre for siypence and Home
: mu't struggle through total bint
a ness to Immortality, and ,~5hn Bun
= yam must cheer himself on the wa
up by making a flute out of h
h prison stool, and Canova the sculptor
= must toll on through orphanage, moo
+ cling a lion in butter before he coul
! cut his statues in marble And til
g, great Stephenson must watch COWS i
the field for few pennies and then bt
- come n stoker, and afterward men
:, clocks before he puts the locomotive o
its track, and calls forth plaudits frol
y parliainents and medals from king
u Abel Stevens is picked up a neglecte
child of the street, and rises throug
his consecrated genius to be one of I'll
. most ilIustrious clergymen and hist,
~ rians of the century. And Bishop Jan,
- of the same church in boyhood worke
- his passage from Ireland to AmeriC
" and up to usefulness, whore, in Il
- bishopric, he was second to no one wi
ever adorned it,
:, While in Punishment Nenophon wro
=. his "Anabasis" and Thucydides h
History OF the PeloponneSian War
y andVictor Hugo must be cxiled for MAJ
u years to the island of Guernsey befo
f. he can come to that height in the afIe
- tons of his countryInen that crow
III the Champs Elysees, and the adioinil
u bOuleV1r1S with ono million rnct,rra,