The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-01-08

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ming; come on, come on, you can't hit
me, but he did hit me and came
down through the room and burned
my house.
Any man that thinks love can be
made by machinery is no king.
The finest painter in America to
day, never took lesson in drawing or
painting. The author of Jane Eyre
received her education by teaching a
younger brother painting. She spent
nearly all her time with him and told
him to notice, notice, notice. He
died at an early age, but while teach
ing him she learned to notice things
herself. There never was and never
will be any one who gives himself for
anothei's good without making him
self better. / don't understand the
women. She received thirty eight
thousand dollars for her first book
"Janc Eyre"
Fifty years ago man in a lumber
camp studied out what dinner cost
On finding that 1t was not worth as much
as they were paying, he commenced
keeping a boarding house himself. In
the year '5S he was eating hash and
not worth five dollars. He is now in
Paris worth one million twenty five
thousand dollars. Where are the
others Eating hash probably.
Where will you find the kings?
Sometimes we expect to find them in
college, but there are other tests than
book education. The sun will serve
them, the waters obey them. animals
will follow them, and mankind will
love them
Go back with me few years and
let us go down into the coal shaft and
see that young man like the others
picking ore out of the banks of coal
Is he a king3 Yes, his name is Steven
son. If you notice him you will no.
tice that he notices everything else
| am always through when l see
people go to sleep when am preach
ing. / wish it would have been so
when l went to church. Perhaps
there are no such people here, but
when you come to Philadelphia l will
show you some. 1t is the fault of the
minister.
A man, who always went to church
to learn something, one Sunday be-
came intensely interested in a fly,
He drove it away from him several
times and at last it went to the win
dow. After watching it there for
some time, he found out that flies
never turn around without using their
wings. He said he ought to have a
patent for what he had learned, and
so from watching that fly he received
eighty three thousand dollars in gold.
say it payed him to go to church.
The world needs great teachers.
The time is coming when the teacher
will get twenty five thousand dollars
and the lawyer one thousand or in
that proportion.
Though they may forget the singer
they will never forget the song. l
taught music once and they used to
invite me to come and play for them
at parties. All the time l was playing
they would be talking. 1t was be-
cause | did not know what music was,
one part went up and up and the
other part went down and down to
the hades of song and staid there. If
I had stood there and swore it would
not have been much worse.
1t has often been great help to
my memory to shut my eyes and try
to see the words that l have read. 1t
is all dark for while, but at last the
words come like lightning flash. I
cannot explain this; how it is. |
never found anyone who could. A
few years ago when l lectured here
before, man, who is now in New
York, heard me tell about this, and he
told me to-day that he could remem-
Der in the same way. He cannot tell
how it is, but it is something wonderful
how the words seem to come before
his eyes.
We live for those that love us,
For those who know us true,
For the heaven that shines above us
And the good that we can do.