Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-05-12

luck. There are young men who failed
twice and are getting notes shaved the
third time beioTe they are a. 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 il did, but when creditors sent their
duns and banks their protests they found
that mere shrewdless was greatly below
par. You cannot cross the ocean in yawl.
MUST BEAR THE CROSS.
A Young eagiet, far up in the mountain
eyrie, says TO its winged mother, II 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 but when over the
awful chasm its head was dizzy and its
wing weak, aud il began to whirl down
ward 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 falli"
said the Traveller "Ah, me-" said the
eaglet, ''it was because would not fly from
tree to tree until | was old enough, but
headstrong | started from Chimborazo
peak toward Chimborazo peak"
If young men would seize the advan-
tages of intelligence, it will be by great
economy of time and the refusing Of many
forms of qualification. Show me man
who refusing many OF the frivolities Of
gossiping youths, can see more to attract
his attention in ae rag OF Il treatise or "A
history than in the fash of bright eyes,
or the airy s,rp Of hose who lind more
skill in their Lee z ils.l their heads, and
will show you man who will yet master
languages and sway very scepter over
his fellows. Many an education which is
now considered complete is made up of
smattering Of newspapers and the last
page of fashion magazine
The parlor and the drawing room cannot
educate us. They may give us outward
adornments of manner, but getting yalu-
able knowledge is like sweltoring at
forge, bellows in one hand and hammer in
the other--like digging in mines with
crowbars. prying under the ledge and the
constant bang of blasted rocks. Espe-
cially is il true that no growth in grace is
possible unless, like Daniel. we are willing
to take up the cross, however heayyit may
| be and rough with nails. Moses chose af-
| Fiction with the people Of God rather than
the pleasures Of sin, and II 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 wheels and manu-
factories 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. So natures that would
otherwise have been powerless and INSULT
cient by self restraint have been damned
back and deepened, until with consecrated
powert they rush into the world, turning its
ponderous machinery Of important inter
ests Unrestrained men may have much
good in them, but it is so scattered that
you see no positive effects. Electricity in
the air does not strike, but gathered in the
cloud with its bare red arm it cleaves the
/ mountain.
Passions harnessed and yoked make ex-
cellent beasts of burden. However at
tractive may be the sinful offers Of the
world, though rich and luxurious as the
provision of the kings table, we must be
willing to refuse them il nothing be left us
but plain pulse. Oh, how we want the
faith and courage of a Daniel and Paul,
but how we dread the hot atmosphere OF
trial, in which their graces ripened The
flCIt5l lFults vi FtilElol EfNW III hIt SuiAtg
| tropics of trial If you want pearls, you
must dive for them. II you want gold.
/ You must dig for it. The richest parts of
| California and Australia are under ground.
Depend upon it. il no pruning, no fruit; no
climbing, no elevation; no battle, no vic
tory; no cross. no crown. Had there been
no Nebuehadnezzar, there would have
been no Daniel. Even so it has been in all
ages The flames that have flashed up
| from the stake have been so many illumina-
tions Of Christian triumph.
When God would make n great light of
truth and holiness in the world, he often
takes great prosecutions and with them
strikes fire. The DEVILS hate is Gods
glory. Had IL not been for the persecu-
tions Of Emperor Valerian, the world would
not have known of the courage of Cy
prian. and If the tyranny of Diocletian had
never been known. the triumphant grace
would not have been seen which made
Maximilian, when sentenced To death, ex
claim. God be praisedF' Had not he
bandits OF Piedmont pursued the Wal
denses through the valley Of the Alps, and
the infuriate decree put to massacre the
Albigenses Of France, the world would
have had fewer Illustrations Of Christian
heroism. BE Joseph before Pharaoh. BE
Paul before Felix. Be Daniel before
Darius.
1T PURE ALWAYS
Again let the story Of Daniel teach us
the beauty Of that youthful character
which remains umhlemished and upright
when away from home. Had Daniel, on
arriving in Babylon, plunged into every
excess, his friends in Jerusalem would
never have heard of it. His dissipation
and remuneration Of religion would not
have cast one sorrow on the family hearth
where he had lived or the old family Bible
which he used TO read. But, though far
away from home, he knew that Gods eye
watched him and that was enough. 1t is
not every young man who maintains the
same character when absent that was
maintained at home.
Frederick watching his fathers sheep
among the hills or thrashing rye in the
barn Is far different from Frederick on the
Stock exchange How often does the kind,
retiring spirit become bold effrontery, and