The Princeton union., 1892-05-19

GUS? Why, he had got to be prime
Minister OF Babylon. That they
could not forgive. Behold in this
sketch a touch OF human nature.
AS long as poverty pinches you and
you run the gauntlet between tax
gatherer and landlord, and you have
hard work to educate your children,
there will be multitudes of men to say: !:
Poor fellow. He ought to succeed.
How sorry l am for him." But, after
! awhile, you begin to emerge from the
darkness. That was capital invest
ment. You purchased at just the
| right time. Fortune became good
| natured and smiled. You builded
| your own house. You got to be one
| OF the first men on the street. Now,
as you pass, number OF those late
| sympathizers stand on the corner OF
the 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 a
from under the rim of their hats.
Again, behold in our subject an
exhibition OF
TRUE DECISION OF CHARACTER.
Before Daniel We're condemnation and
death, if he continued faithful to his
religion. Yet, just as before, three
times a day he prayed with his face
toward Jerusalem. There is nothing
more fatal for the religious or worldly
advancement than a spirit OF indecis-
ion. How often youth is almost gone
before the Individual has determined
upon his profession. How many men
have for a 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 tacking OF ship, but no
headway. 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
in 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
God.
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 willing
ness for self-restraint by refusing the
luxuries OF the kings table, but must
have denied himself 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 OF
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
! mlrals who commanded the navies of
the world started as cabin boys. The
merchant princes whose messengers are
ships and whose servants thenation's 8
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 and
blushed on the stage of a country
school house. The young painter,
under whose pencil skies blossom and
waters gleam, understands his subject
so we'll because he has but little to
shelter him from one and is obliged to
lind his only beverage in the other,
Out OF the dark, deep mines of want
and suffering has been dug the marble
Tor the worlds greatest temples of
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 a
Journeyman printer. Columbus must
weave carpets before he can weave
] AiCAIlSpllSIcS. DaFlu IQuSU Jake care
OF his fathers sheep before he rules
Israel. Amos must be a aherdsman be-
lore he becomes a prophet. Daniel
must be the humble student before he
rises to be the prime minister of
Babylon.
Men say success in life is all a matter
OF good luck, but industry and econ
omy and self-denial put together
always =
MAKE GOOD LUCK. -..-
There are young men who have failed
twice aud 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 we'll as capital. For while it did,
but when creditors sent their duns
and banks their protests, they found
that mere shrewdness was greatly
below par.
| II young men would seize Che advan-
.tages OF intelligence, it will he by great
economy of time and the refusing of
many forms OF qualification. Show
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