Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-14

carry thist truth into universal application.
The most of those who nave succeeded in
any profession or occupation have come up
from the very bottom of the ladder. The
brightest day began with the twilight. The
admirals who commanded the nayies of toe
world started as cabin boys. Tne merchant
princes. WHOSE messengers are ships and
whose servants the nations custom houses,
once swept the stora a1i kindte1 ths firss.
The orator who lifts up tls z ate of tn SOIL,
as Samson carried of ths gatss of Gazl,
once stammere1 and biushei on the stays OF
q country scaool house.. Ths young painter.
under whose pencil skies blossom au waters
g.eam. understands his subject So well be-
cause he has but little to shelter him from
the one AMI is obliged to in1 his only bsv.
erage in the other.
Out of the dark, deep mines OF want and
suffering has been dug the marble for this
worlds greatest TEMPLES of wisdom and
palaces OF power. Vanderiyn, thu artist.
must first content himself VITA a charcoal
sketch franklin, before becoming the re-
nowned philosopher, must bs a journeymau
printer. Columbus must weave carpets be-
lore he can weave hsmispderes. David must
take care OF his fataar's sheep before he rules
Israel. Amos must be a herdsman before
he becomes a propast. Daniel must be the
humble stu tent before he rises to be the
prime minister of Babylon.
La JOun5 ind SbdTUS Ill lie WIN larg5
notions of what he must Immediately have.
willing to consider no economy, bue expect
ing with a small ship to unfurl as much sail
as an ocean frigate, he will int himself clp-
sized by t1e first NORTHEASTERN. 1t is the small
sprig that you can carry in one IAN which
will thrive best when planted. But If, by
levers and huge lumber wagons, you brin Z
from tho mountain a century oak, though
you may plant it, you cannot make it live,
80 Hn IN ~ hapi rs life ~ ctsAt N --o,l -,.la
and with such exorbitant notions, will never
succeed, while some young man who went
to town without means, but having a right
spirit, through his self-denial, planted a 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 an
ehored in the bay.
Men say success in life is all a matter of
good luck, but industry and economy an |
self denial put together always make goo1
luck. There are young men who failed twico
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 we'll as capital. For awhile it did, but
when creditors ssnt their duns and banks
their protests they found that mere shrewd-
ness was greatly below par. You cannot
cross the &C ean in a yawl.
A young eaglet, far uo in the mountain
eyrie, 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 ChimborazJ
peak" Like an arrow it shot into the heay-
ems, but when over the awful chasm its heal
was dizzy and its wing weak. and it began
to wlirl downward and with wild scream
until it struck on thu ROCKS. A traveller
passing through the gorge saw the manglei
remains of the eaglet. "How came you to
lave this fall?' said the traveller. "-Ah,
me-" said the eaglet, ut was Because l
would not fly from tree to tres until / was
old enough, but headstrong [ started from
Oh mborazo peak to Chimborazo peak"
If young men would seiz3 the advantage
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 frivolities of gossipiny youths,
can see more to attract his attention in the
pages of a TREATISE or a history than in thu
fash of bright eyes, or the airy step of those
who find more skill in their heels thar their
heads. AMI l will show you a man who will
yet master languages and sway a very
seepter over his fellows. Many an education
which is now considered complete is made up
OF a smattering of newspapers and the last
page OF a fashion magazine.
The par.or aui the drawing room cannot
educate US. They may give US outward
adornments of man-but getting valuable
knowledge is like sweltering at a forge, be-
lows in one hand and hammer in the other
like digging in mines with crowbars, pry-
ing under the ledge and the constant bang OF
blasted ROCKS. Especially is it true that nc
growth in grace is possible unless, like
Daniel, we are willing TO take up the cross.
however heavy it NAV be and rough with
nails. Moses chose affection with the people
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if we would be anything like him we mus.
be willing sometimes to choose the hard
bread of self-denial rather than the imperial
clusters from royal vineyards.
TO get strength and depth enough "a
rivers for turning mill wheels and manufac-
tories, dams are built across them. and then
through the mill race the quick floods LEAP
on the water wheel to turn it with tremend'
Gus power. So natures thai would other
wise nave been powerless and insufficient by
self--astraint have been damned back and
deepened, until with consecrated power they
Tusu into the world, turning its ponderou;
machinery of important interests. Unre
strained men may have much good in them,
but it is so scattered that you see no positive
effects. Electricity i'll the air does NO
strike, but gathered in the cloud with it;
bare red arm it cleaves the mountain.
Passions hsrnessed and yoked make excel
lent beasts of burden. Howeyac attractive
may be the sinful offers of tina word, though
RIGA aud luxurious as the provision of tn
king table, we must be willing to ref 8.
them il nothing be left us hut pain pulse,
Oh, how we want the faith AMI courage ct a
Daniel an | a Paul, but how we dread thu
hot atmosphere of trial, in which their
braces ripensj. TIL richest fruits of re
lgion grow in the su try trooics of trial. If
you want pearls, you must dive for them. Il
you want gold. Won must dig for il. The
ricaest parts OF California AMI Australia ara
under ground. Depea1 upon it, il no prun.
ing, no fruit; no climbing, no elevation; no
battle. no victory; no cross, no crown. Hal
there been no Nebucd1dnezzlr, there would
have been no Daniel. Even so it has been in
all ages. The flames hat lave flashed III
FROM the stake have been 50 many illu nina
lions OF CHRISTI, n Triumph.
When God would make a great light o.
truth an1 Holiness in th3 world, he often
takes great prosecutions AMI with them
strikes fire. The DEVILS hate is Gods glory
Had it not been for the persecution; OF EN-.
peror Valerian, tia world would not havs
Known o. the courage Of a Cyprjan, AMI ii
the tyranny of Disclatian had never baaa
known, the triumphant grace would not h1v4
been seen which mads Maximiiian, wher
sentenced to death. exclaim; "Goi b.
praised" Had not tao b9n1its of Piedmont
pursued thu Waldenses through the vale,
VI tue Ettps, dul Jne l0EutiaJe QeeFe9 put r.
massacre the Albigeuses of France, the worlC
would have hal fewer illustrations of Chris
tian heroism. Be Joseph before Pharaoh
Be Paul before Felix. Be Daniel befsr;
Darius
Again let the story Of Daniel teach US tn
beauty of that youthful character which re.
mains unblemishei aud upright when away
from home. Hal Daniel, on arriving il
Babylon, plu1gel into every excess. nj
! frianHG in JaruSaiNot trCsII ,,atrar haua oap
OF it. His disiipatioa a1l renuuci ition o,
religion would not nav cast ons sorrow on
the family hearth where he had lived or tbs
old family Bible which he uset to read. But
though far away from home, he knew thai
COTS eye watched him and that wa,
enough. 1t is not every young man waJ
maintains the same character when absent
that was maintained at home
Frederick watching his fathers sheer
among the h lis or thrashing rye in the bari
is far different from Frederick on the St)c.
Exchange. How often does the kind, retir
ing spirit become bold %effrontery. and the
accommodating, self sacrificing disposition
enc exa1oirei among brothers and sister;
becomes a cold and u~nrespnnsiv Va salhshness,
ana economy, wastefulness and open hande1
charity, tight fiste1 stinginess, ami til,
keeping of good hours is caaugel to mid
night revelry.
/ PROBABLY address young men now, dis
tai' AIoui theF la-herS house, an1 other.
vino, still un Ter the parent II roo look for
ward to a tims VIII N they will depart alon
TO conflict WITH the world aud among stran
gers be called to bull 10 characters fol-
themselves. Happy for you, oh, youn9
man, II you shail, ike Joseph, he the sans
wnen living with wicked Pharaoh as with
plons Jacob, or Daniel as pure in Babylon a,
IN Jerusalem. There is no passage in a mani
lie or more thrilling interest tnan the day
in which he Leavas hnr,, a ~