The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-20

replied the snowflake, you are going
up and am coming down" Success is
often synonym for scorn. The first
thing a man wants is religion. The
second is grit. If you do not want to
face wild beasts you must never get to
be prime minister. If you are now, as
a young man, rising in any one respect,
I bless God for your advancement, but
1 wish to say before quit this thought,
look out for the lions.
Again, behold in our subject an ex-
hibition of true decision of character.
Before Daniel were condemnation and
death if he continued faithful to his re-
ligion. Yet, Just as before, three times
a day he prayed with his face toward
Jerusalem There is nothing more fatal
for religious or worldly advancement
than a spirit of indecision. How often
youth is almost gone before the individ-
ual has determined upon his profession.
There are those who for thirty or forty
years have accomplished nothing any
where because they have not felt them
selves settled. They have thought of
the law, of medicine, of merchandise, of
mechanism. They have some idea of
going west. Perhaps they will go east
Perhaps they won't. They may go
north or south. Perhaps they will in
vest their money in railroads or in real
estate. Perhaps they won't They are
like a vessel starting from New York
harbor, which should one day decide on
going to Liverpool, and the next on
New Orleans, and the next on Marseilles-
How many men have for long while
been out on the great sea of life and
they do not know to what port they are
destined. 1t is an everlasting lacking
of ship but no Roadway. These men
that try everything get to be nothing.
God wrote in your brain and engraved
on your bones what you ought to be.
Then be that, nothing more or nothing
less. In that direction is your success.
Every other road is ruin. Having adj
justed your compass, go ahead. Set
your teeth together. Small diff culties,
do not notice. Great difficulties, by
Gods grace strike them down. Onward!
Let towards skulk. Act you like sons
of God. Character. like the goldfinch
of Tonquin, is magnificent when stand
ing firm, but loses all its splendor in
fight. There is no such thing as fail
ure to those who trust in God. Paul
got to be an apostle by falling off his
horse. Stephen was stoned into Heaven.
When a young man resolves on a re-
ligious life, he does not always find it
smooth sailing. Ifyou have never seen
life as it is you know not what strength
of resolution it often requires for
young man to be Christian.
Again, let this story of Daniel teach
us that the way to future success is
through present self denial. Not only
did Daniel show his willingness for self
restraint by refusing the luxuries of
the kings table, but must have denied
himself much social enjoyment and
sight seeing in order to have attained
most wonderful proficiency In study.
The rush of the chariots under his win
dow and the sound of mirth that rang
out on the air of Babylon would have
attracted most young men into the
streets and to expensive places of
But Daniel knew that 1t
was only through severity of applica-
ton he could attain the honorable posi-
ton for which he was intended. Indeed
you may carry this truth into universal
application. The most of those who
have succeeded in any profession or
occupation have come up from the very
bottom of the ladder. The brightest
day began with the twilight. The
admirals who commanded the navies of
the world started as cabin boys. The
merchant princes whose messengers are
ships and whose servants the ma
TONS custom houses, once swept
the store and kindlcd 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 a county school
house. This 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 wisdom and palaces
of power. Vanderlyn, the artist, must
first content himself with charcoal
sketch. Franklin, before becoming the
renowned philosopher, must be jour
newman printer. Columbus must weave
carpets before he can weave hemis-
pheres David must take care of his
fathers sheep before he rules Israel.
Amos must be a herGsman before he be-
comes a prophet. Daniel must be the
humble student before he rises to be the
prime minister of Babylon. If a young
man start in life with large notions of
what he must Immediately have, willing
to consider no economy, but expecting
with 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.
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 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 yawl.
A young eaglet, far up in the noun
tain eyrie, says to its winged mother: Il
will fly no longer from tree 70 tree as
you tell me, but like you, mother, will
swing from this ChiInborazo peak to
yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an ar