Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-05-19


come your own masters and begin 20 sue |
ceed in your different occupations and |
professions, how is IL then. young mer-
chants, young lawyers. young physicians, |
young ministersi How is IL theni
THE SPIRIT OF INDIGESTION.
Again behold In our subject an exbibi- |
tion Of true decision Of character. Before !
Daniel were condemnation and death, II he |
continued faithful to his religion. Yet,
just as before, three times day he Frayed
with his face toward Jerusalem. There is
nothing more fatal for the religious or
worldly advancement than spirit of in
decision. How often youth is almost gone
before the individual has determined upon
his profession.
There are those who for thirty or forty
years have accomplished nothing any
where because they have not felt them
selves settled. They have thought of the
law, of medicine, Of merchandise, of mech
anism. They have some idea of going
west. Perhaps they will go east. Perhaps
they won't. They may go north or south.
Perhaps they will invest their money in
railroads or in real estate. Perhaps they
won't. They are like vessel starting
from New York harbor, which should one
day decide oil going to Liverpool, and the
next on New Orleans, and the next on Mar
seilles. How many men have for a long
while been out on the great sea of life and
they do not know to what port they are
destined? 1t is an everlasting tacking of
ship, but no headway.
The man who begins to build house in
the Corinthian style and when half way up
concludes to make it Doric, and then COM
pletes it 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 your brain
and engraved on your bones what you
ought to be. Then be that, nothing more
or nothing less. In that direction is your
success. Every other road is ruin. Hav-
ing adjusted your compass, go ahead. Set
your teeth together Small difficulties do
not notice. Great difficulties, by Gods
grace strike them down. Onwardl 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 char
acter there is no overland route. Over the
great deeps you must fly. Most of the
way it is either head wind or tempest
Character, like the goldfnch of Tonquin,
is magnificent when standing firm, but
loses all it's splendor in flight. There is no
such thing as failure to those who trust in
God. Paul got to be an apostle by falling
off his horse. Stephen was stoned into
heaven.
When young man resolves on a re-
ligious life, he does not always find it
smooth sailing. Old companions laugh
and say with sarcastic tone, "He has got
to be pious." They go on excursions, out
do not ask him. They prophesy that his
religion will not hold out. They call him
'long faced" They wonder if he is not
getting wings. They say sharp things
about him for themselves to laugh at
When he passes they grimace and wink
and chuckle, and say loud enough to be
heard, ''There goes saint" If you have
never seen life as it is, you know not what
strength of resolution it often requires fol
a young man to be a Christian.
VALUE OF SELF DENIAL.
Again, let this story of Daniel teach us
that the way to future success is through
present self denial. Not only did DAME
show his willingness for self restraint by
. refusing the luxuries of the kings table
, but must have denied himself much socia
. enjoyment and sightseeing in order to have
attained most wonderful proficiency il
, study The rush of the chariots under hi
window and the sound of mirth that ranl
out on the air of Babylon would have at
tracted most young men into the street.
and to expensive places of amusement
, But Daniel knew that it was only through
severity of application he could attain th
, honorable position for which he was in
tended. Indeed, you may carry this trutl
into universal application.
! The most of those who have succeeded
! in any profession or occupation have COM
: up from the very bottom of the ladder
The brightest day began with the twilight
The admirals who commanded the navie
!, of the world started as cabin boys. Th
! merchant princes, whose messengers ar
a ships and whose servants the nations Gus
q tom houses, once swept the store and kin
. died the fires. The orator who lifts up tn
: gate of the soul, as Samson carried off tn
: gates of GAIA, once stammered an,
blushed on the stage of country schoo
h house. The young painter, under who's
pencil skies blossom and waters CLEAN, ur
= derstands his subject so well because b
a has but little TO shelter him from the on
= and is obliged to find his only beverage i
the other.
= Out of the dark, deep mines of want an
+ suffering has been dug the marble for th
q worlds greatest temples of wisdom an
n palaces of power. Vanderlyn, the artist
q must first content himself with charcof
= sketch. Franklin, before becoming th
4 renowned philosopher, must be a journe.
:. man printer Columbus must weave ca
a pets before he can weave hemisphere
- David must take care of his fathers shee
e before he rules Israel. Amos must be
herdsman before he becomes prophe
Daniel must be the humble student befol
- he rises to be the prime minister of Bah
II Ion.
\ If young man starts in life with lare
i notions of what he must Immediately hav
= willing to consider no economy, but e.
10 pecting with a small ship to unfurl
- much sail as an ocean frigate, he will fir
II himself capsized by the first northeaste
,s It is the small sprig that you can carry
N one hand which will thrive best whe
70 planted. But if, by levers and huge luI
re Der wagons, you bring down from 81
y, mountain century oak, though you m;
,r plant it, you cannot make it live. So
who begins life on such grand scale al
,a with such exorbitant notions, will nev
al succeed, while some young man who we
"a to town without means, but having rig
n spirit, through his self denial, planted
a tree which has reached above Wall sire
,a and flung its shadow in one direction ov
Of the granite palaces on the avenues and
w. the other far out over merchant vessels a
m chored in the bay.
70 Men say success in life is all matter
~ good luck, but industry and economy al
m m self denial put together always make go
luck. There are young men who fail
a twice and are getting notes shaved t
lie. third time before they are as old as tn
sr. father when he first began business
nv himsnIf They started with the idea I'll