Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-05-28

haps they will go east. Perhaps they won't.
They NAV go north or SOUTH. Perhaps they
will invest their money in railroads. or IN
real estate. Perhaps they won't. They are
Dor. which should one day decide on going
TO Liverpool. and the next on New Orleans.
and the next on Marsetlies. 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 d%estinei?- 1t is an everlasting
lacking of ship. but no headwav.
The man who begins to build a house in
the Corinthian sly le AMI when half way up
concludes to make it Doric. AMI then COM
pletes it in Ionic. will have an unseenly pile
and be cursed of every school OF architect
ure. These men that try everything get to
be nothing. Go1 wrote in YOUR brain and
engrave1 on your bones what you ought ,ta1
be. Then be that, nothing more or nothing
less. In that direction is your success. Every
other road is ruin. uavin, adjusted your
compass, 60 ahead. Set your teeth together.
Sinai difficulties DO not notice. Great diff
f~cultiss. by Gods grace strike them down.
Onward. Let towards skulE.
Act you like son, OF God. II you want to
sail 10 the land of gold you must double tho
Cape. 10 usefulness ani strong character
there Is no overlau / route. over the great
derps you must fly. Most OF the way it is
either head wind or tempest. Character,
like the goiitincn Of Tonquin. is magnificent
when standing firm, butioses all its sp,enjor
in flight. There is no such thing as failure
To those who trust in God. Pau got To be
an apostle by falling OF his horse. Stephen
was stoned into heaven.
When q Young mar resolves on a religious
life, he does not always find it smooth sill
ing. Old companions laugh and say with
sarcastic tone, 'He has got to be pious."
They 90 on excursions. but do pot asK him.
They prophecy that his religion will not hold
out. They call him iong-faced." They
wonder it he is not getting wings. They say
sharp things about him for themselves to
laugh at. When he passes they grinaca and
wink and chuc<le, and say loud enough to be
heard, There goes a SAINT" Ii You have
never seen life as tits, you know not what
strength Of re- tuition it often requires for a
young man 10 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
MS willingness for self restraint by refusing
the lu1urie5 OF tho kings table, but must
have denied himself much social endowment
ana sightseeing III ORDER to nave attained
most wonderful proficiency in study. The
rush oe the char.ots under his winioW and
the sound OF mirth that rang out IN the air
Of Babylon would have attracted most
young men into the streets and to expensive
places of amusement. But Daniel knew that
1t 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 VINO have succeeded in
any profession or occupation have come w
from the very bottom Of the ladder Tie
brightest day began wath the twilight. The
admirais who comman led the navies OF the
world started as cabin boys. The merchant
princes. whose messengers are ships and
whose servants the nations custom houses,
Il ~y lt~ a. &c..
The orator who lifts Up the gate OF the soul,
as Samson carried Oft the gates of GAIA,
once sta and blushel on the stage OF
u country school house. The young painter.
unner whose pencil SKIES blossom an d waters
g.eam, understands his subject 50 we'll be-
cause he has but little TO shelter him from
the one AMI i, obliged to find his only bev-
erage in the other.
Out Of the dark, deep mines OF want and
suffering has been dug the marble for tbs
worlds greatest temples o. wisdom and
palaces OF power. Vanderlyn, the artist,
must first content himself with q charcoal
sketch. Franklin, before becoming tho re-
nowned philosopher, must be a journeyman
printer. Columbus must weave carpets be.
fore he can weave hemlspheres. David must
take care of his father's sheep before be rules
Israel. Amos must be a herdsman before
he becomes a prophet. Daniel must be the
humble student before be rises TO be the
prime minister Of Babylon.
If q young man starts in life with large
notions OF what he must Immediately have,
willing to consider no economy, buG expect
ing with a small ship to unfurl as much sail
as an ocean trlgate, he will find himself cap.
sized by the first northeaster. 1t is the small
sprig that you can carry i'll one hand which
will thrive best when planted. But If, by
levers and huge lumber wagons, you brine
from the mountain a century oak. though
You may plant it, you cannot make it live
SO he who begins life on such a grand scale
and with such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young mar who Wen
to town without means, but having q RICH,
spirit, through his self denial, planted a tire,
which has reached above Wall street anl
flung its shadow in one direction over the
granite palaces on the avenues and in tn
other far out over merchant vessels an
ChOred IN the bay.
Men soy success in life is all a matter O
good luck, but industry and economy an
self denial put together always make GOO
luck. There are young men who failed twic'
and are getting notes shaved the third tim
before they>are as old as their father whel
he first began business for himself. The,
started with the idea that their wit wouk
40 as well as capital. For awhile it did, bu
when creditors sent their duns and bank
their protests they found that mere shrewd
ness was greatly below par. You canno
cross the ocean III n Sawl.
A young eaGlet, lar up IN tae mountain
eyrie, says to its winged mother, IL will Il,
no longer from tree to tree as you tell me
but like you, mother. l will swing from thi
Chimborazo peak to yonder Chimboraz
peak Like an arrow it shot into the heav
ems, but when over the awful chasm its hea'
was dizzy and its wing weak. aud it begar
to whirI downward and Will wild scream
until it struck on the rocks. a travele
passing through the gorge saw the mangle,
remains of the ea Stet. How came you t
nave this tall*f said the traveller. "At
me-" said the eaglet, lit was because
would not fy from tree to tree until l wa
old enough, but heaistrong | started frol
Oh mborazo peak to C~himborazo peas
If young men would selz. the advantag
of intelligence, it will be by great econom
of time and the refusing of many forms c
qualification. Show me a man who, refuSin
many OF the frivolities OF gossiping youth:
can see more TO attract his attention i'll tn
pages of a treatise ora history than in tn
fash Of bright eyes, or the airy step OF taos
who find more skill in their heels than thei
heads. and l will show you a man who wi
Vet master languages aul sway a yer
scepser over his fellows. Many an elucatio
which isnow considered complete is made u
OF a smatter!ng Of. newspapers and the l,
page OF a fashion magazine.
The parior and the drawing room cam,