Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-12


! will knock you down" In mid-air
snowflake said TO a snowbird: II
don't like you.' ''Why don't you like
me?' said the snow bird. Because"
replied the snowflake, You are going
up and am coming down" Success
is often synonym for = scorn.
The first thing man wants
is religion. The second is
grit. If you do not want to face wild
prime minister. II you are now, as a
young man, rising in any one respect.
! bless God for your advancement, but
wish to say before quit this thought
look out for the lions Young merch-
ants, young lawyers, young physicians.
Young ministers have much sympathy,
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 law
yers, young whysicians, young minis
tiers? How is it then?
Again, behold in our subject an ex-
hibition of true decision of character.
Before Daniel were condemnation and
death, If he con inued faithful to his
religion. Yet, just as before, three
times day he prayed with his face to-
ward Jerusalem. There is nothing more
fatal for the religious or worldly ad-
vancement than spirit of indecision.
How often youth is almost gone before
the individual has determined upon his
profession. There are those who for
thirty or forty years have accomplished
nothing anywhere because they have
not felt themselves settled. They
have thought of the law, of med
dicine. of merchandise, of mechan-
ism. 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 in
vest their money in railroads or in real
estate. Perhaps they won't. They
are like vessel starting from New
York harbor which should one day
decide on going to Liverpool, and the
next on New Orleans, and the next on
Marseilles. 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? II is an
everlasting lacking Of ship but no
Roadway. The man who begins TO
build a house in the Corinthian style
make it Doric, and then completes il
in Ionic, will have an unseemly pills
and be cursed of every school of arGhi-
lecture. These men that try every
thing 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, do
not 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
usefulness and strong character there
is no overland route Over the great
deeps you must fly. Most of the way
il is either head wind or tempest
Character, like the goldfinch of Ton
guin, is magnificent when standing
firm, but 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 young man resolves on
religious 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
prophecy 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 a
Christian.
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-restraint by refusing the Injuries
of the Kings table, but must have
denied himself much social enjoyment
and sightseeing, in order to have at
tanned most wonderful proficiency in
study