Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-07-27

the SHOWS OF Russia, ono or the most aw-
full tragedies of the centuries represented
under the figure Of monster called Gen
cral Frost shaving the French emperor
with razor of iciclc As Satyr and Bccl-
zcbub he is represented, page after page,
page after page, England cursing him,
Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him,
North and South America cursing him,
the most remarkable man of his day. and
the most abused. All those men in history
who now have "a halo around their name
ON earth wore crown of thorns Take
the few extraordinary railrnadncn of our
time and see what abuse comes upon them
while thousands If stockholders escape
All the world took after Thomas scott,
president Of the Pennsylvania railroad
abused him until h. got under the ground
Thousands of stockholders in that com
pany. All the blame ON one mani The
Central Pacific railruad-twoo or three men
get all the blame ii anything goes wrong.
There ara 10, 600 In that company.
Let u he Content.
mention these things to prove it i cx-
traordnary people who get abused " hiie
the ordinary escape. The weather %: life
Is not ~ severe ON the plain a. il IS on the
high peaks The world never for;,iNcs "a
man who knows or gains or does more
than il can know OF gain or do. Parents
sometimes give confectionery 10 their chill
drcn rs an induccm,nt Ia take bitter mcdi-
cine, and the worlds sugar plum rcccdcs
the worlds aqua FORTS. The mob cried ia
regard 10 Christ: Cruelty him. Cruelty
him And they had To say il twice 10 bc
understood, for they We're 80 hoarsc, and
they got their hoarscnes> by crying little
while before AT thc top OF their voice.
'Hcsanna!" The river Rhonc Is iuul
when il enters Lake Lcuan. bat crystalline
when it comes out Oh the other side. But
there are men who have entered the bright
lake of worldly prosperity crystalline and
came ont terribly rilcd II, therefore, you
/ feel that you are ordinary, thank God for
/ the dcfcnscs and the tranquility Of your
I position.
Then remember. If you have only what
\ is called an ordinary home that the prca;
/ deliycrcrs of the world have all come from
such home. And there may be seated,
reading at your evening stand. "A child VIII"
shall be potent for the ages. just unrYll
the scroll of men mighty in church and
state, and You will find they nearly all
same from log cabin or poor homes. Genius
almost always runs ont in the third or
fourth generation. You cannot find IN nil
history AN instance where the fourth gen
sration of extraordinary people amount to
I ANYTHING. Columbus from "A weaver ;
hut, Dcmosthcncs from "a cutters cellar.
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from u
shoemaker bench. Arkwricht from a bar
ber's shop, and he whose name is high
sll In earth and air and sky from a
..scr.
Lat us all be content with such things
rs W. have. God Is just as good in what
he keeps away from Us Us in what he gives
u. Even a knot may be useful If il is at
the end Of thread.
At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb
asylum child wrote upon the blackboard
words as sublime as the 'lliad. the
Odyssey and the "Divina Commcdia'
all compressed in one paragraph. Tho cx-
amincr, in the signs Of the mute language.
asked her, Who made the world Tho
deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the black
board, I'm the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. The examiner
asked her. Por what purpose did Christ
come into the world The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the blackboard. This is "A
faithful saying and worthy Of all acccpta-
fiun that Christ Jesus came into the world
To- save sinners" The examiner said to
her. why We're you born deaf and dumb.
while hear and speak, She wrote upon
the blackboard, Even 50, Father for so
1t secmeth good in thy sight. oh, that
we might be baptized with contcnted
spirit, The spider draws poison out of a
flower, the hec gets honey ont Of thistle,
but happiness Is "A heavenly elixir. and the
eontented spirit extracts IL not from the
rhododcndron Of the hills, but from the
lilv of the valley