News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-05-12

! bright eyes or the airy step of those who
! find more skill in their heels than their
heads, and will show you man who will
vet master languages and sway very
scepter over his fellows. Many an edu-
cation which is now considered COM
plete is made up of smattering of news
papers 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 get
ting valuable knowledge is like swelter-
ing 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. Especially is it true that no
growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing to take up the
cross, however heavy it may be and
rough with nails. Moses chose af1lic-
ton with the people of God rather than
the pleasures 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 clus-
tiers from royal vineyards.
To get strength and depth enough in
rivers for turning mill wheels and man
ufactories, 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 power
less and insufficient by self restraints
have been damned back and deepened
until, with concentrated power, they
rush into the world, turning its ponder
Gus machinery of important interests.
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 har-
messed and yoked make excellent beasts
of burden. However attractive 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, if nothing be left US but
plain pulse.
Oh, how we want the faith and cour-
age OF Daniel and a Paul, but how we
dread the hot atmosphere of trial, in
which their graces ripened. The richest
fruits of religion grow in the sultry
tropics of trial. If you want pearls you
must dive for them. If you want gold
you must dig for it. The richest part of
California and Australia are under
ground. Depend upon, it if no pruning,
no fruit; no climbing, no elevation; no
battle, no victory; no cross, no crown.
Had there been 40 NebuchadnezZar
there would have been no Daniel. Even
so it has been in Ill ages. The flames
that have flashed up from the stake have
been so many Examinations of Christian
triumphs. When God would make a
great light of truth and holiness in the
world he often takes great prosecutions
and with them strikes fire.
The DEVILS hate is Gods glcry. Had
it not been for the prosecutions of EN-
porer Valerian, the world would not
have known of the courage ola Cyprian,
and if the tyranny of Diocletian had
never been known, the triumphant grace
would not have been seen which made
Macmillan, when sentenced to death,
exclaim, ''God be praised!' Hadnot the
bandits of Piedmont pursued the Wal
denses through the valleys of the Alps,
and the infuriate decree put to massa-
ere 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.
THE BEAUTY OF YOUTHFUL PURITY.
Again let the story of Daniel teach
us the beauty of that youthful charac-
ter which remains unblemished and up
right when away from home. Had
Daniel on arriving in Babylon plunged
into every excess his friends in Jeru-
salem would never have heard of it.
His dissipation and remuneration of re
hgion 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
the Stock exchange. How often does
the kind, retiring spirit become bold
effrontery, and the accommodating self
sacrificing disposition once exhibited
among brothers and sisters becomes
cold and unresponsive selfshness, and
economy, wastefulness, and opened hand
ed charity, tight listed stinginess, and
the keeping of good hours is changed
into midnight revelry.
| probably address young men now
distant from their fathers house, and
others who, still under the parental
roof, look forward to time when they
will depart alone to conflict with the
world and among strangers be called to
build up characters for themselves
Happy for you, oh, young man, if you
shall, like Joseph, be the same when
living with the wicked Pharaoh as with
pious Jacob, or Daniel as pure in Baby
Ion as in Jerusalem. There is no pas
sage in a mans life of more thrilling in
terest than the day in which he leaves
home and goes off to seek his fortune.
The novelty and romance connected
with the departure may keep the young
man from any poignant sorrow, but
parents, who have seen the destruction
among strangers of those who We're con-
sldered promising youths, cannot help
feeling that this step is full of momen-
tous Importance. Before the youth left
home all his conduct was under affeC-
tomato guardianship. Outbursts OF
folly, carelessness and improperly of
manner and looseness of speech were
kindly reprOved, and although the re
straint seemed sometimes too severe,
yet hours of sober reflection have con-
WINGED him that it was salutary and
righteous. But behold, how the scene
changes.
The father, through the interceding
of metropolitan friends, has secured the
son a place in some bank or store or of
fee. Schoolmates on the night before
his departure come to take their fare
well of the young adventurer That
morning he takes a last walk around
the old place, and going past some loved
spot SLY tear may start, but no one
sees 1T. The trunk is ON the carriage.
and after a warm goodby away they
speed over the hills. Set down amid ex-
elements and among companions not
as to their words or
deeds, temptations troop around the
stranger.
The morning comes, but no family |
altar, and the Sabbath, but no real
quiet, and perhaps at the sanctuary the
faces are all strange and no one cares |
he goes to church or whether |
he does not go. Long winter evenings
arrive and how shall they be spent? On |
mis- wav home from his 1,Iaca of l,,,ei,,o.e, |