The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-05-13

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the twilight, The admirals who com
manded the navies of the world started
as cabin boys.
The merchant princes whose messen-
gers are ships and whose servants the
nations custom houses once swept the
store and kindled the fires. The orator
who lifts up the gate of the soul. as
Samson carried off the gates of GAIA,
once stammered and blushed on the
stage of country school house. The
young painter under whose pencil skies
blossom and waters CLEAN, understands
his subject so well because he has but
little to shelter him from the one and is
obliged to find his only beverage in the
other.
Out of the dark, deep mines of want
and suffering has been dug the marble
for the worlds greatest temples of wis
dom and palaces of power. Vanderlyn,
the artist, must first content himself
with a charcoal sketch. Franklin. be-
fore becoming the renowned philoso-
pher, must be journeyman printer.
Columbus must weave carpets before he
can weave hemispheres. David must
take care of his fathers sheep before he
rules Israel. Amos must be herdsrnan
before he becomes a prophet. Daniel
must be the humble student before he
rises to be the prime minister of Baby
Ion.
If a young man starts in life with
large notions of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no
economy but expecting with a small
ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean
frigate, he will find himself capsized by
the first northeaster. 1t is the small
sprig that you can carry in one hand
which will thrive best when planted.
But if, by levers and huge lumber wag-
ons, you bring down from the mountain
century oak, though you may plant it,
you cannot make it live So he who be-
gins life on such a grand scale and with
such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young man who
went to town without means, but hay
ing right spirit, through his self de-
NAL, planted a tree which has reached
above Wall street and flung its shadow
in one direction over the granite palaces
on the avenues and in the other far out
over merchant vessels anchored in the
bay.
Men say success in life is all matter
of good luck, but industry and economy
and self denial put together always
make good luck. There are young
men who failed twice and are getting
notes shaved the third time before they
are as old as their father when he first
began business for himself. They started
with the idea that their wit would do as
well as capital. For awhile it did, but
when creditors sent their duns and
banks their protests, they found that
mere shrewdness was greatly below par
You cannot cross the ocean in a yawl.
THE FOLLY OF AMBITIOUS IGNORANCE.
A young eaglet, far up in the noun
tain eyrie, saws to its winged mother.
81 will fly no longer from tree to tree
as you tell me, but like you, mother, |
will swing from this Chimborazo peak
to yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an
arrow it shot into the heavens, bdt~yhen |
over the awful chasms its head was
dizzy and its wing weak, and it began |
to whirl downward, and with wild |
scream, until it struck on the rocks. A |
traveller passing through the gorge saw
-he mangled remains Of the eaglet.
How came you to have this fall?' said
The traveller. "Ah, me-" says the eaglet,
1T was because | would not fly from
rec to tree until | was old enough, but
started from Chimborazo
1eak toward Chimborazo peak"
If young men would seize the advan-
ages of intelligence it will be by great
of time and the refusing of
many forms of qualification. Show me
! man who. refusing many of the frivol-
ties of gossiping youths, can see more
o attract his attention in the pages of a
realise or a history than in the flash OF
fright eyes or the airy step of those who
ind more skill in their heels than their
leads, and will show you man who will
et master languages and sway very
cepter over his fellows. Many an edu-
alton which is now considered COM
lete is made up Of smattering of news
apers and the last page of a fashion
Magazine.
The parlor and the drawing room
annOt educate us. They may give US
UPWARD adornments of manner, but get
ing valuable knowledge is like swelter-
lg at forge, bellows in one hand and
ammer in the other-like digging in
lines with crowbars, prying under the
edge and the constant bang of blasted
Ocks. Especially is it true that no
rowth in grace is possible unless, like
'aniel, we are willing to take up the
ross, however heavy it may be and
ough with nails. Moses chose Attic
on with the people of God rather than {
ne pleasures 0f sin, and if we would be |
nything like him we must be willing |
)metimes to choose the hard bread of {
elf denial rather than the imperial clus- s
RS from royal vineyards. !
To get strength and depth enough in I
vers for turning mill wheels and man.
factories, dams are built across them.
nd then through the mill race the quick '
Oods leap ON the water wheel to turn it I
18th tremendous power. So natures
lat would otherwise have been power
IS and insufficient by self restraints {