Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-05-12

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snccnss Dcpend upon 1t that II In any
ONO resnect YOU rise far above your TEL
! owsif Won arc more TRUTHFUL more
wise more eloquent, more Influential
| the shadow Of your success VIII chiil
| somebody. The road Of honor and virtue
is within reach of tho enemies guns.
jealousy says, ''Stay down or VIII
| ,noc, Won down" In midair snow
fake said to n snowbird, Il don't ike
vou." "Why don't you like me-? sald
the snowbird because" replied the
snowflake, ''you are going up ana l am
coming down"
Success is often synonym for scorh.
The first thing a man wants is rcllSioh.
The second is grit. If you do not want
to face wild beasts you must never get to
be Prime Minister. If you are now, as q
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 mer-
chants young lawyers, young physicians,
Young ministers have much sympathy,
and kind advice is given them at Irst'
but as you become your own masters
and begin to succeed in your different
occupations and professions, how Is II
then young merchants, Young lawyers,
is it then?
Again behold in our subject an cXhibi-
ton of true decision OF character. be
fore Daniel were condemnation ana
death. if he continued faithful to his re-
ligion Yet just as before, three times
4 day he prayed with his face toward
Jerusalem. There is nothing more fatal
for the religious or worldly advancement
Wit Of inl
youth is almost gone before the individ-
ual has determined upon his profession.
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 HIM
self much social enjoyment and sight
seeing in order to have attained most
wonderful proficiency in study. Iho
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 uni, crsal application.
Tho most of those who have succeeded
in any profession or occupation have
come up from the very bottom of the
ladder. Tho brightest days began with
the twilight The admirals who com
mandcd the navies of the world
started as cabin boys. The merchant
princes, whose messengers are ships and
whose servants the nations custom
T.
: died the fires. The orator who'll up
the gate of the soul, us Samson carried
off the gates of GAIA once stammcred
and blushed on the stage of II country
school house. The painter, under whose
pencil skies blossom and waters CLEAN,
understands his subject so we'll because
he has but little to shelter him from the
one and is obliged to find his only bevcr-
age in the other.
A young eagle far up in the mountain
eyre, says to it's winged mother, 81 will
fly no longer from tree to tree as you tell
me- but like you, mother, | Will swing
from this Chimborazo peak to yonder
ChimboraZo peak" Like an arrow it
shot into the heavens, but when over the
awful chasm it's head was dizzy and its
wing weak, and it began to whrl down
ward and with wild scream until it
struck on the rocks. A traveller passing
through the gorge saw the manglcd re-
mains of the caglet elbow came you
to have this fall?" said the traveller.
"Ah, me-" said the eaglet, cit was be-
cause | would not fly from tree to tree
until l was old enough, but headstrong
/ started from ChimboraZo peak toward
ChimboraZo peak"
If young men would seize the advan-
%nr ~ i,,tn l>, ~
economy of time and the refusing of
many forms of qualification. Show me
a man who refusing many of Tie frivoli-
ties of gossipng youths, can sec more
to attract his attention in the pages
OF treatise or n history than in the
flash OF bright eyes, or the airy step of
those who find moro skill in their heels
than their heads, and l will show you q
man who will yet master languages and
sway very Scepter over his fellows.
Many an education which is now con-
Sldered complete is made up of n smat-
tering OF newspapers and the last page
of fashion magazine.
The parlor and the drawing room can
not educate us. They may give us out
ward adornments Of manner, but getting
valuable knowledge is like sweltering
at forge, bellows in one hand and
hammer in the other-like digging in
mines with crowbars, prying under the
ledge and the constant bang of blasted
rocks. Especially is it true that no
growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing to take up tho
cross, however heavy it may be and rough
with nails Moses chose aftliction with
the people of God rather chan the pleas
ures of sin, and if we would be anything
like him we must choose the hard
bread of self-denial rather than the i'm
perial clusters from royal vineyards.
10 get strength and depth enough in
rivers for turning mill wheels and manu-
factories, dams are built across them.
and then through the mill race the Quick
Hoods leap on the watcr-wheel to turn
IL with tremendous power So natures