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

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] clans, young ministers have much sym
pathy, and kind advice is given them at
! first, but as you become your own
masters and begin to succeed in your
| different occupations and professions,
how is it then, young merchants, young
lawyers, young physicians, young min
listers? How is it then?
THE FIRM FOUNDATION OF FAITH.
Again, behold in our subject an exhi-
! bition of true decision of character.
Before Daniel We're 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 the religious or worldly advance
ment than a spirit of indecision. How
often youth is almost gone before the
individual has determined upon his pro-
| fession.
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 invest 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 go
| ing 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 des-
| tined? 1t is an everlasting lacking OF
ship, but no Roadway.
The man who begins to build h 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 nothing less.
In that direction is your success. Every
other road is ruin. Having adjusted
your compass go ahead. Set your teeth
together. Small difficulties donot notice.
Great difficulties, by Gods grace strike
them down. Onward Let towards
skulk Act you like sons of God.
If you want to sail to the land of gold
you must double the Cape. To useful
ness and strong character there is no
overland route. Over the great deeps
you must fly. Most of the way it is
either head wind or tempest. Char
acter, like the goldfnch of Tonquin, is
ct1 firm a11t
loses all its splendor in fight There
is no such thing as failure 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. Old companions laugh
and say, with sarcastic tone, He has
got to be pious." They go on excursions,
but do not ask him. They prophesy
that his religion will not hold out. They
call him ''long faced" They wonder if
he is not getting wings. They say sharp
things about him for themselves to |
laugh at. When he passes they grimace |
and wink and chuckle and say LOUD |
enough to be heard, There goes a saint"
If you have never seen life as it is you |
know not what strength of resolution it
often requires for young man to be |
Christian.
SELF DENIAL NECESSARY TO SUCCESS.
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 |
by refusing the luxuries of the |
kings table, but must have denied him |
self much social enjoyment and sight |
seeing in order to have attained most |
wonderful proficiency in study. The |
rush of the chariots under his window
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 amusement.
But Daniel knew that it was only
through severity of application he could
attain the honorable position 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 COM |
manded the navies of the world started |
as cabin boys.
The merchant princes whose messen-
gers are ships and whose servants the |
nations custom houses once swept the |
store and kindled 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 country school house The |
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.
Ont of the dark, deep mines of want |
and suffering has been dug the marble |
for the worlds greatest temples of wis
dom and palaces of power. Vanderlyn, |
the artist, must first content himself !
with charcoal sketch. Franklin, be- |
fore becoming the renowned philoso-
pher, must be a journeyman printer
Columbus must weave carpets before he
can weave hemispheres. David must |
take care of his fathers sheep before he
rules Israel. Amos must be a herdsman
before he becomes a prophet Daniel
must be the humble student before he
rises to be the prime minister of Baby
Ion.
1t young man starts in life with
large notions of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no
economy, but expecting with small
ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean
fripate he will find himself capciza6 Nv. |
the first northeastern. 1t is the small
sprig that you can carry in one hand
which will thrive best when planted
But if, by levers and huge lumber wag-
ons, you bring down from the mountain
a century oak, though you may plant it,
You cannot make it live So he wEo be-
gins life on such grand scale and with
such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young man who
went to town without means, but hay
ing right spirit, through his self de-
NAL, planted tree which has reached
above Wall street and flung its shadow
in one direction over the granite palaces
on the avenues and in the other far out
over merchant vessels anchored in the
bay.
Men say success in life is all a 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
began busin ess for himself. They started
with the idea that their wit would do as