Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-19

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sketch " touch of human nature.
AS "'ns as '": srty pinches you and
YOU run ,Ae gauntlet between tax
..,therer and landlord, and you have
lard work to educate your children,
here will he multitudes OF men to say:
| Poor fellow. lie ought to succeed.
| How sorry am Tor him." But, after
awhile, you begin 20 emerge from the
| darkness .Inat was u capital invest
ment lou purchased at just the
right tllne. fortune became good
natured and smiled. You builded
!our own house. lou &C, TO be one
ii the first men on the street. Now,
Is you pass, number Of those late
:ynlpathizers stand on the corner OF
lie street They scowl at you from
under the rim OF their hats. You
have more money now than they
have, and you ought to be scowled at
rom under the rim of their hats.
Again, behold in our subject an
exhibition OF
| TRUE DECISION OF CHARACTER.
Before Daniel were condemnation and
death, ii he continued faithful to his
religion. Yet, just rs before, three
times q day he prayed with his face
toward Jerusalem. There is nothing
more fatal for the religious or worldly
ion. How often youth is almost gone
before the individual has determined
upon his profession. How many men
have for q 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. The man who begins to
build house in the Corinthian style
and when half way up concludes to
make it Doric, and then completes it
i'll Ionic, will have an unseemly pile
and be cursed of every school OF
architecture. 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 moth
ing less. in that direction is your
success. Every other road is ruin.
Having adjusted your compass, go
ahead. Set your teeth together.
Small difficulties do not notice.
Great difficulties, by Gods grace
strike them down Onward! Let
towards skulk. Act you like sons OF
| Cod.
Again let this story of Daniel teach
us that the way to future success is
through
PRESENT sELE-DENIAL.
Not only did Daniel show his willing
ness for self-restraint by refusing the
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have denied Smself much social enjoy.
ment and sightseeing, in order to
have attained most wonderful profic.
iency in study. The rush of the char.
lots under his window and the sound
OF mirth that rung out on the air OIL
Babylon would have attracted most
young men into the streets and to ex.
pensive places OF amusement. But
Daniel knew that it was only through
severity of application he could at
tain the honorable position for which
he was intended. Indeed you may
carry this truth into universal appli
cation. The most OF those who have
succeeded in any profession or occu
patton have come up from the very
bottom OF the ladder The brightest
day began with the twilight. The al.
mirals who commanded the navies o.
the world started as cabin boys. The
merchant princes whose messengers are
ships and whose servants the nation's
custom houses, once swept the
store and kindled the fires. The
orator who lifts up the gates OF the
soul, as Samson carried off the
gates OF GAIA, once stammered anC
blushed on the stage OF country
school house. The young painter
under whose pencil skies blossom ano
waters CLEAN, understands his subject
SO we'll because he has but little to
shelter him from one and is obliged tc
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 o
wisdom and palaces of power Van
derlyn, the artist, must first content
himself with charcoal sketch
Franklin, before becoming the re
nowned philosopher, must be c
lourneyman printer Columbus must
weave carpets before he can weave
hemispheres. David must take care
of his fathers sheep before he rule:
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fore he becomes a prophet. DAME
must he the humble student before h,
rises to be the prime minister o
Babylon.
Men say success in life is all matter
of good luck, but industry and econ
omy and self-denial put together
always
MAKE GOOD LUCK.
There are young men who have failet
twice aud are getting notes shaved TIN
third time before they are as old al
their father when he first began
business for himself. They STARTED
with the idea that their wit would d.
as we'll as capital. For while it did
but when creditors sent their dun
and banks their protests, they found
that mere shrewdness was greatl!
below par.
If young men would seize the advan
tages of intelligence, it will he by grea
economy OF time and the refusing O
MANY forms OF qualification. Shoy