The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-10

CA(A11c up lIOA b11O very OOSbOU VI tuG
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 mp 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.
Out 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
lon.
If young man starts in life with
large notions of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no
economy, but expecting with a small
ship to unfurl as much sail as an ocean
frigate, he will find himself capsized by
the first northeaster. 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
century oak, though you may plant it,
you cannot make it live. So he who 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 hav-
ing a 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 lie Is all d L1dIISI
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 business for himself. They started
, with the idea that their wit would do as
well as capital For awhile it did, but
when creditors sent their duns and
banks their protests. they found that
mere shrewdness was greatly below par.
You cannot cross the ocean in yawl.
THE FOLLY OF AMBITIOUS IGNORANCE.
{ A young eaglet. far up in the noun
f tain eyrie. saws to its winged mother.
f 81 will fly no longer from tree to tree
. as you tell me. but like you, mother,
b will swing from this Chimborazo peak
I to yonder Chimborazo peak. Like an
. arrow it shot into the heavens, but when
a over the awful chasms its head was
:, dizzy and its wing weak, and it began
= to whirl downward, and with wild
v scream, until it struck on the rocks. A
J. traveller passing through the gorge saw
e the mangled remains of the eaglet
Y ''How came you to have this fall?' sait
: the traveller ''Ah, me-" says the eaglet
# sit was because | would not fly from
tree to tree until l was old enough, bni
e >headstrong | started from Chimborazt
f peak toward Chimborazo peak.
If young men would seize the advan
n tages of intelligence it viii be by grea
V economy of time and the refusing o
It many forms of qualification. Show M
d a man who. refusing many of the frivol
n tiles of gossiping youths, can see NOR
IL to attract his attention in the pages of ;
5. treatise or a history than III the flash o
V bright eyes or the airy step of those wh
d find more skill in their heels than thei
h heads and will show you man who VII
2. yet master languages and sway yer.
e scepter over his fellows. Many an edu
Is cation which is now considered com
plete is made up of smattering of news
d papers and the last page Of fashion
l. magazine.
10 The parlcr and the drawing room
IS cannot educate US. They may give u
is outward adornments of manner, but get
r ting valuable knowledge is like swelteI
is ing at a forge, bellows in one hand an
If hammer in the other-like digging i
-e mines with crowbars, prying under tn
10 ledge and the constant bang of blastc
lie rocks. Especially is it true that II
Is growth in grace is possible unless, lik
Daniel, we are willing to take up til
e. cross, however heavy it may be an
it rough with nails. Moses chose affliC
II ton with the people of God rather tn.
ls the pleasures of sin, and if we would b
S, anything ike him we must be willin
" sometimes to choose the hard bread {
" self denial rather than the imperial clu4
if tiers from royal vineyards. a..
I'D To get strength and depth enough
to rivers for turning mill wheels and maj
re ufactories, dams are built across then
I'd and then through the mill race the quic
:" floods leap on the water wheel to turn
III with tremendous power. So nature
il that would otherwise have been pow.
a less and insufficient by self restrai-