The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

notes shaved the third time before the,
are as old as their father when he frs
began business for himself. They started
with the idea that their wit would do a,
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,
tain eyrie, saws to its winged mother
~ will fly no longer from tree to tree
as you tell me, but like you, mother,
will swing from this Chimborazo peal
to yonder Chimborazo peak" Like an
arrow it shot into the heavens, but wher
over the awful chasms its head was
dizzy and its wing weak, and it began
to whirl downward, and with wild
scream, until it struck on the rocks. A
traveller passing through the gorge saw
the mangled remains Of the eaglet
"How came you to have this fallY' said
the traveller. "Ah, me-" says the eaglet
sit was because | would not fly from
tree to tree until / was old enough, but
headstrong ! started from Chimborazc
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 the frivol'
tiles of gossiping youths, can see more
to attract his attention in the pages of q
treatise or history than in the flash OF
bright eyes or the airy step of those who
find more skill in their heels than their
heads, and Twill show you man who will
yet master languages and sway a very
scepter over his fellows. Many an edu.
cation which is now considered COM
plete is made up Of smattering of news.
papers and the last page of fashion
magazine.
The parlor and the drawing room
cannot educate us. They may give us
outward adornments of manner, but get
ting valuable knowledge is like swelter.
ing at forge, bellows in one hand and
hammeMn 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 the
cross, however heavy 1t may be and
rough with nails. Moses chose afflic-
ton with the people of God rather than
the pleasures of sin, and if we would be
like him we must be willing
sometimes to choose the hard bread of
self denial rather than the imperial clus.
tiers from royal vineyards.
To get strength and depth enough in
rivers for turning mill wheels and man
dams are built across them,
and then through the mill race the quick
floods leap on the water wheel to turn it
with tremendous power. So natures
that would otherwise have been power
less and insufficient by self restraints
have been damned back and deepened
until, with concentrated power, they
rush into the world, turning its ponder
Ous machinery of important interests.
Unrestrained men may have much
good in them, but it is so scattered that
you see no positive effects. Electricity
in the air does not strike, but gathered
in the cloud with its bare red arm it
cleaves the mountain. Passions har-
messed and yoked make excellent beasts
of burden. However attractive may be
the sinful offers of the world, though
rich and luxurious as the provision of
the kings table, we must be willing to
refuse them, if nothing be left us but
plain pulse.
Oh, how we want the faith and cour-
age of Daniel and Paul, but how we
dread the hot atmosphere of trial, in
which their graces ripened. The richest
fruits of religion grow in the sultry
tropics of trial. If you want pearls you
must dive for them. If you want gold
you must dig for it. The richest part Of
California and Australia are under
ground. Depend upon, it if no pruning
no fruit; no climbing, no elevation; nc
battle, no victory; no cross, no crown
Had there been no Nebuchadnezzar
there would have been no Daniel. Even
so it has been in all ages. The flames
that have flashed up from the stake have
been so many Examinations of Christian
tri,imphs. When God would make &
great light OF truth and holiness in the
world he often takes great prosecutions
and with them strikes fire.
The devils hate is Gods glory. Hat
it not been for the prosecutions of EN-
porer Valerian, the world would moi
have known of the courage Of a Cyprian
and if the tyranny of Diocletian hat
never been known, the triumphant grace
would not have been seen which made
Macmillan, when sentenced to death
exclaim, "God be praised" Had not TIT
bandits of Piedmont pursued the Wal
denses through the valleys Of the Alps
and the infuriate decree put to f1iassa
ere the Albigenses of France, the worlt
would have had fewer illustrations o
Christian heroism. Be Joseph befor'
Pharoah. Be Paul before Felix. B.
Daniel before Darius.
THE BEAUTY OF YOUTHFUL PURITY.
Again let the story of Daniel teacl
us the beauty of that youthful charac
ter which remains unblemished and up
right when away from home. Hal
Daniel ON arriving in Babylon plunge'
into every excess his friends in Jeru
salem would never have heard of ii
His dissipation and remuneration of re
igion would not have cast one sorrow
on the family hearth where he had live
or the old family Bible which he use,
to read. But, though far away fror
home, he knew that Gods eye watche,
him and that was enough. 1t is no
every young man who maintains tn
same character when absent that wa
maintained at home.
Frederick watching his fathers shee
among the hills or thrashing rye in tn
barn is far different from Frederick O
the Stock exchange. How often doe
the kind, retiring spirit become boil
effrontery, and the accommodating, sci
sacrificing disposition once exhibite
among brothers and sisters becomes
cold and unresponsive selfshness, an
economy, wastefulness, and opened hand
ed charity, tight listed stinginess, an
the keeping of good hours is change
into midnight revelry.
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