The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-26
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SHOWS OF Russia, one of the most awful
tragedies Of the centuries, represented under
the figure OF a monster called General Frost
shaving the French Emperor with q razor OF
lcicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he Is repre-.
sented page after page, page after page,
England cursing him, Spain cursing him,
Germany curslng him, Russia cursing him,
Europe cursing him, North and South Ameri.
ca cursing him, the most remarkable man Of
his day and the most abused ALI those men
Ia history who now nave a halo around their
name on earth wore q crown OF thorns.
Take the few extraordinary railroad men
Of our time and see what abuse comes upon
them while thousands of stockholders escape.
All the world took after Thomas Scott, Pre5i-
dent Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, abused
him until he got under the ground. Thou
sands OF stockholders in that company. All
the blame on one man. The Central Pacific
Railroad. Two or three men get all the
blame II anything goes wrong. There are
II, 900 in that company.
I mention these things to prove 1t is ex-
traordinary people who get abused while
the ordinary escape. The weather OF life Is
not so severe on the plain as it is on the high
peaks. The world never forgives a man
who knows or gains or does more than 1t can
know or gain or do. Parents sometimes
give confectionery to the children as an in
ducement to take bitter medicine, and the
worlds sugar plum precedes the worlds
aqua FORTS. The mob cried in regard to
Christ, "Crucify Him, cruelty HimF'
and they had to say 1t twice to be IN
derstood, for they were 80 hoarse, and they
got their hoarseness by crying a little while
before at the top of their voice, "Hosanna!"
The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake
Leman, but crystalline when it comes out on
the other side. But there are men who have
entered the bright lake Of worldly prosperity
crystalline and came out terribly riled. II,
therefore, you feel that you are ordinary,
thank God for the defense and the tran
utility of your position.
Then remember, II you have only what IL
sailed al ordinary home, that the great de-
liverers Of the world have all come from such
q home. And there may be seated reading
at your evening stand a child who shall be
potent for the ages. Just unroll the scroll
Of men mighty in church II state. and
you will find they nearly all come from log
ways runs out in the third or fourth
generation. You canno find in all his
tory an instance where the fourth gem
Grafton of extraordinary people amount to
anything. Columbus from a weaver's hut,
Denosthenes from a cutters cellar, Blooms
fed and Missionary Carey from a s~hoemakers
bench, Arkwright from a BARRIERS shop, and
He whose name Is high over all in earth and
air and sky from a manger.
Let US all be content with such things as
we have. Col Is Just as good in what He
keeps way from US as in what He gives u.s..
Even a knot may be useful if it is at the end
If a thread.
At an anniversary of a leaf and dumb asy-
lum one of the children wrote upon the
blackboard words as sublime as the "Iliad,"'.
The Odyssey and the "Divina Commedia'
ll compressed in one paragraph. The ex-
lminer, in signs of the mute language,
asked her, "Who made the world2' The
leaf and dumb girl wrote upon the black
BOARD, SIN the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth" The examiner
asked her, "For what purpose did Christ
come into the world?" The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard, This is a
Iaithful saying and worthy OF all accep..
.ation, that Christ Jesus zane into the world
o save sinners" The examiner said to her
'Why were you born deaf and dumb while
lear and speak," She wrote upon the black
BOARD, Gwen so, Father, for 50 1t seemeth
rood in Thy sight" Oh, that We might be
Baptized with a contented spirit! The spider
travis poison out OF a flower; the bee gets
honey out OF a thistle. but happiness Is a
heavenly elixir, and the c%ontented spirit ex-
tracts it not from the rhododendron OF the
Hills, but from the lily of the valley.