The Globe-republican., 1892-05-23

their neck What have You done. out
rageous culprit? You ought to be cast
to the lions. You have dared to achieve
success. Depend upon it that If In any
one respect you rise far above your fel'
lows-if you are more truthful. more
wise. more eloquent, more influential
the shadow Of your success will chill
somebody. The road of honor and virtue
is within reach of the enemies guns.
Jealousy says, "Stay down or l vii
knock you down. In midair a snow
fake said to a s1owbird, Il don't like
you" "Why don't you like me?" said
the snowbird. Because" replied the
snowflake, you are going up and ar
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 beasts you must never get tc
be 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 mer.
chants, 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 lawyers,
young physicians, young ministers? How
is it then?
Again behold in our subject an exhibit
ton Of true decision of character. Be-
fore Daniel were condemnation and
death, if he continued faithful to his re-
ligion. Yet, just as before, three times
a day he prayed with his face toward
Jerusalem. There is nothing more fatal
for the religious or worldly advancement
than spirit of indecision. How often
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 luxuries 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. The
rush of the charicts under his window
and the sound of mirth that rang out on
the air of Babylon would have attracted
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 universal application.
The most of those who have succeeded
in any profession or occupation have
come up from the very bottom of the
ladder. The brightest days began with
the twilight. The admirals who COM
manded the navies of the world
started as cabin boys. The merchant
princes, whose messengers are ships and
whose servants the nations custom
houses, once swept the store and kim
died the fires. The orator who lifts up
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 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 bever-
age in the other.
A young eagle far up in the mountain
eyre, says to its winged mother, 81 will
fly no longer from tree to tree as you tell
me, but like you. mother, l will swing
from this ChimborazO peak to yonder
Chimborazo peak Like an arrow it
shot into the heavens, but when over the
awful chasm its head was dizzy and its
wing weak. and it began to whirl down.
ward and with wild scream until it
struck on the rocks. A traveller passing
through the gorge saw the mangled re-
mains of the eaglet. SHOW came YOU
to have this fall?" said the traveller
''Ah, me-" said the eaglet sit was be-
cause would not fly from tree to tree
until was old enough, but headstrong
l started from Chimborazo peak toward
Chimborazo peak"
If young men would seize the advan-
tages of intelligence, it will be by great
economy of time and the refusing of
many forms of qualification. Show me
a man who. refusing many of tie frivoli-
ties of gossiping youths. can see more
to attract his attention in the pages
Of treatise or a history than in the |
fash OF bright eyes. or the airy step of
those who find more skill in their heels !
than their heads, and will show you a |
man who will yet master languages and |
sway a very scepter over his fellows. |
Many an education which is now con-
sidered complete is made up Of q smat- |
tering OF newspapers and the last page |
If fashion magazine.
The parlor and the drawing-room can
not educate us. They may give us out
ward adornments of manner, but getting
knowledge is like sweltering
It forge, bellows in one hand and
hammer in the other-like digging in
mines with crOwbars, prying under the
edge and the constant bang of blasted |
'ocks. Especially is it true that no
growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing to take up the
ross, however heavy it may be and rough
With nails. Moses chose affection with
he people Of God rather than the pleas
Tres of sin, and IL we would be anything
ike him We must choose the hard
,read of self-denial rather than the i'm
'erial clusters from royal vineyards.
To get strength and depth enough in
ivers for turning mill wheels and manu-
actories, dams are built across them,
md then through the mill race the quick
oods leap on the water-wheel to turn
with tremendous power. So natures
hat would otherwise have been power
esS and insufficient by scls.restraint