The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-09


your different occupations and professions,
how is it then, young merchant, young
lawyers, young physicians, young MINISTER'S
How is it then!
Again, behold in our subject an ex-
hibition of true decision of character.
Before Daniel we're condemnation and
death if he continued faithful to his re-
liglon. Yet, Just as before. three times a
daY be prayed with his face towar
Jerusalem. There is nothing more fatal
for the religious or worldly advancement
than a spirit of indecision. How often
youth is almost gone before the in
dividual has determined upon his profess
sion. There are those who for thirty or
forty years have accomplished nothing
anywhere because they have not felt them
selves settled. TheY have thought of
the law, of medicine, Of merchandise, OF
going west. Perhaps they will 60 east.
Perhaps thew won't. They may go
north or south. Perhaps they will in
vest their money in railroads or in real
estate. Perhaps they won't. They are
like a vessel starting from New York
harbor. which should one day decide on go
ing to Liverpool, and the next on New Or
leans, and the next on Marseilles. How
many men have for long while been out
on the great sea of life and they do not
know to what port they are destineds 1t is
an everlasting lacking of ship, but no head
way. The man who begins to build house
in the Corinthian style and when half way
up concludes to make it Doric, and then
completes IL in Ionic, will have an unseemly
pile and be cursed of every school of archi-
lecture. These men that try everything
get to be nothing. God wrote in yoar
brain aud engraved on your bones what you
ought 20 be. Then be that. nothing more
or nothing less. In that direction is your
success. Every other road is ruin. Having
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teeth together. Small difficulties, do not
notice. Great difficulties, by Gods grace
strike them down. Onward Let towards
skulk Act you like sons of God. If you
want to sail to the land of gold,
you must double the cape. To
usefulness and strong character there is no
overland route. Over the great deeps you
must fly. Most of the way il is either head
wind or tempest Character, like the gold
finch of Tonquin. is magnificent when
standing firm, but loses all its splendor in
flight. There no such thing as failure to
those who trust In God. Paul got to be an
apostle by falling OH his horse. Stephen
was stoned into heaven. When a young
man resolves on a religious life, he does not
always find it SIN both sailing Old compan-
ions laugh and say with sarcastic tone: He
has got to be pious." They go on exclr-
sions, but do not ask him. They prophesy
that his regihon will not hold out. They call
him "long faced They wonder if ne is
not getting wings, They say sharp things
about him for themselves to laugh at. When
be spasses they grimace and wink and
chuckle and say loud enough to be heard:
There goes a saint" If you have never
seen life as it is, you know not what
strength of resolution it often requires for
young man be a Christian.
Again, let the story Of Daniel teach us
that the way to future success is through
lie la.s.e 81 H.. I'll
show his willingness for selt-restraint by
refusing the luxuries Of the kings table, but
must have denied himself much social enjoy
ment and sightseeing, in order to have
attained most wonderful proficiency in
study. The rush of the chariots under his
window and the sound of mirth that rung
out on the air of Babylon would have at
tracted most young men into the streets and
TO expensive places of amusement But Dan-
lei knew that it was only through severity
OF application he could attain the hon orabe
position for which he was intended. In.
deed you may carry this truth into uni
versal application. The most of those who
have succeeded in any profession or occupa-
tion have come up from the very bottom of
the ladder. The brightest day began with
the twilight. The admirals who com
Inanded 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 kindled the fires. The orator who lifts
up the gate of the soul, as Samson carried
of 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, I'M
derstands mis- subject so will 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
haQ ANtor
the marble for the worlds greate-t
temples of wisdom and palaces of power.
Nanderlyn, the artist, must first content
himself with a charcoal sketch. Franklin,
before becoming the renowned philosopher,
must be 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 herosman before he becomes a
prophet. Daniel must be the humble stu
dent before he rises to be the prime minister
of Babylon. If a young man start in life
with large notions of what he must imme-
diately have, willing to consider no econo-
my, but expecting with a small ship to IN
furl as much sail as an ocean frigate, he will
ind himself capsized by the first north
easter 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 wagons, you bring down
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you may plant it, you cannot make it
live. So he who begins life on such q
grand scale and with such exorbitant no
tions, will never succeed, while some young
man who went to town without means, but
having right spirit, through his self-denial
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 mer-
chant vessels anchored in the bay. Men say
success in life is all a matter of good luck,
but industry and economy and self-deuial
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
be 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
schrewdness was greatly below par. You
cannot cross the ocean in a yawl.
A young eaglet. far up in the mountain
eyre, says to its winged mother: will
fly no longer from tree TO tree as you tell
me, but like you, mother, 1 will swing
from this Chin borazo peak to yonder Chin
borazo peak" Like an arrow it shot into
the heavens, but when over the awful
chasms its head was dizzy and its wing
weak. aud it began to whirl downward, and
with wild scream, until it struck on the
rocks. traveller passing through the
gorge saw the mangled remains of the