The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-25


deep mines of want and suffering has
been dug the marble for the worlds
greatest temples of wisdom and palaces
of power. Vanderbilt, the artist, must
first content himself with a charcoal
sketch. Franklin, before becoming the
renowned philosopher, must be a
journeyman printer. Columbus must
weave carpets before he can ~eave
hemispheres. David must take care Of
his fathers sheep before he rules
Israel. Amos must be a herdsman
before he becomes a prophet. Daniel
must be the humble student be-
fore he rises to be the prime
minister of Babylon. If a young man
starts in life with large notions of what
he must Immediately have, willing tc
consider no economy, but expecting
with small ship to unfurl as much sdil
as an ocean frigate, he will find hlmsel,
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 large
lumber wagons, you bring down from
the mountain century oak, though
you may plant it, you can not make it
live. So he who begins life on such
grand soale and with such eXorbitant
notions, will never succeed, while some
young man who went to town with
out means, but having a right
spirit, through his self-denial,
planted 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 be-
gan business for himself. They started
with the idea their wit would do as well
as capital. For while it did, but when
creditors sent in their duns and banks
their protests they found that mere
shrewdness was greatly below par. You
can not cross the ocean in yawl.
A young eaglet, far up in the mount
ain eyrie, says to its winged mother: II
you tell me, but like you, mother, l will
swing from this Chimborazo peak to
yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an ar
row it shot into the heavens, but when
over the awful chasms it's head was
dizzy and it's 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 the mangled remains of the eaglet.
How came you to have this fall?" said
the traveller. "Ah, me-" says the eaglet,
sit was because would not fly from
tree to tree until was old enough, but
headstrong l started from Chimborazo
peak to Chimborazo peak" If young
men would seize the advantages of in
telligence, it will be by great economy
of time and the refusing of many forms
of qualification.
Show me man, who, refusing many
of the frivolties of gossipping youths,
canlsee more to attract his attention in
the pages of treatise or a history,
than in the flash of bright eyes or the
airy steps of those who find more skill
| in their heels than their heads, and l
will show You man who will yet mas
ter languages and sway n very scepter
over his fellows. Many an education
which is now considered complete is
made up of q smattering of newspapers
and the last page of fashion maya
zine. The parlor and the drawing-room
can not educate us. They may give us
outward adornments of manner, but
getting valuable knowledge is like swell
tering at forge, bellows in one hand
and hammer in the other-like digging
in mines with crow-bars, prying under
the ledge and the constant bang Of
blasted rocks. Especially is it true that
no growth is possible unless, like Daniel.
we are willing to take up the cross,
however heavy 1t may be or rough with
nails. Moses chose affection with the
of sin, and if we would be anything
like him, we must be willing sometimes
to choose the hard bread of self denial
rather than the imperial clusters from
royal vineyards. To get strength
and depth enough in rivers for turning
mill-whecls and manufactures dams
are built across them, and then
through the mill-race the quick floods
leap on the water-wheel to turn
it with tremendous power. SC
natures that would otherwise
have been powerless and insult
ficicnt by self-rcstraints have beer
damned back and deepencd until, with
concentrated power, they rush into the
world. turning its ponderous machinery
of important interests. UnrestraineC
men may have much good in them, but
it is so scattered that You see no posi-
tive effects, Electricity in the air doe:
not strike, but, gathered in the CLOUD
with its bare red arm. It clcaves the
mountain. Passions barncssed ant
yolied make excellent beasts of burden
However attractive may be the sinful
offers of the world, though rich and lux
urioIS as the provision of the King!
table we must be willing to refuse
them, if nothing be left us but plat,
pulse. Oh, how we want the faith anC
courage of a Daniel and I, Paul, but how
we dread the hot :,tmosp here of trial il
which their graces ripen,d The rich
est fruits of religion grow in the sultr,
tropics of trial. If you want pearls yol
must dive for them. If You want golt
you must dig for it. The richest par
of California and Australia are unde
ground Depend upon it if no pruning