The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-07

after the ClrtQ CT Lef sou W SSi'O A1!' "
name. In faint whisper she said, Call
him Een-ori," which means "son OF
my pain," and ell modern travellers On
tho road from Jerusalem to Bethel un-
cover their heads and stand reverent'y
1T the.tomb of Rachel who died for her
toy. But in all ages how many mothers
die for their children, and in many
cases grown up children, who by recro-
ancy stab clear through the mothers
heart. Suffering for Others? Why, the
world is full CT it. Jump! said the
engineer to the fireman on the lccomo-
tive. Zone of Us is enough to die.
Jumpl' And SO the engineer died at
his pest, trying TO savo the train When
this summer the two trHias crashed into
each other near Atlantic City, among
the A who lost their lives the engineer
was found dead with one hand cn the
throttle Of the locomotive and the other
or the brake. Aye, there are hundreds
here today suffering for others. You
know and God knows that 1t is vlcarl-
ous sacrifice. But on one limestone hill
about twice the height Of this church.
fi7e minutes walk from the gates OF
Jerusalem, was tho sublimest case OF
suffering for others that the world ever
saw or ever will sec. Christ the victim,
human and satanic malevolence the exc
cutioner, the whole human race having
an overwhelming interest in the specta-
Gle. To oren a way for US sinful men
and sinful women into glorious pardon
and high hope and eternal exa!tatlon'
Christ, with hand dripping with the
rush Of opened arteries, swung back the
gate, and behold! it is red gate,
gate of deepest hue, a gate OF carbuncle.
What is true in spirituals is true III
temporals. There are young men and
older men who hope, through the right
settlement Of this aorid controversy be-
tween silver and gold, or the bimetallic
quarrel, that it will become easy to
make living. That time viii Eever
come. It never has been easy to make
living. The meN who have it very easy
now went through hardships and self
derials to which most young men woald
never consent. Unless they got it by ~
heritance you cannot mention 20 men
who have come to honorable fortune
that did not fight their way inch BY
inch and against fearful odds that again
and again almost destroyed them. tor
some good reason God has arranged 1t
for all the centuries that the only way
for most people to get livelihood for
themselves and their families is with
both hands, and all the allied forces CT
body, mind and soul to push back and
push open the red gate, the gate Of car
buncle. For the benefit of all young
men, if T had the time, I would call
the rcll Of these who overcamc obstacle.
How many of the mighty men who
went one way Oh Pennsylvania avenue
and reached the United States senate CT
walked the other way on Pennsylvania
avenue and reached the White House
did not have to climb over political oblo-
GUY? Not one. How much scorn and
scott ard brutal attack did Horace Mann
endure between tie time.w hen he E:st
began to fight for better common
school system in Massachusetts and the
day when statue in horor Of him was
placed Gu the steps of the statehouse
overlooking the Commons?
Read the biography of Robert Hall,
the Baptist preacher, who, though he
had been pronounced a Ounce at school,
lived to thrill the world with his Chris
tian eloquenco, and Of George Peabody,
who never owned carriage and denied
himself all Injuries that he might
while living aud after death, through
last will and testament, devote his un
counted millions to the education CT the
poor people in England and America,
and of Bishop James, who in boyhcod
worked his passage from Ireland TO
America and became the joy of Metko-
dism and blessing to The race. Go to
the Biographical alcove i'll city, state or
national library and find at least every
other book All illustration Of overcome
obstacle and of c&rnine gate that Lad to
be forced open.
Living Gates.
What is true of individuals IS true CT
nations. Was it mild spring morning
when the pilgrim fathers landed cn
Plymouth rock and did they come IL
gilded yacht, gay strcamers flying? no.
1t was in cold December, and frc,n a
ship in which ono would not want to
cross the Hudson or the Potomac river.
Scalping knives all ready to receive
them, they landed, their only welcome
the Indian warwhocp. Rcd men cn the
beach. Red men il the forest. Red mci'
on the mountains. Fed men III the val
leys. Living gates cf red men. Gates ci
carbuncle.
Aboriginal hostility pushed back,
surely now our forefathers will have
nothing to do but to take easy posses
sion of the fairest continent under the
sun. The skies so genial, the soil so fer
tile, the rivers SO populors with fi2Ey
| life, tie acreage so immense, there WI!
| be nothing to do bnt cat, drink anu bf
merry. No The mcst powerful nation,
by army and navy, sounded its protest
ScTOSS O,VOO VI Ht&tSi. A-'>1A Ss'AAA>
| Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and Mcn
mouth, and Long Island battles, aIc
Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and star
walton, and widowhccd, and orphGnage
| and the Is colonies went through suffer
ings which the historian las attempted
10 put upon paper ard the artist to pu
upon canvas, but all i'll vain. Engraver'
knife, and reporters skill, aud tele
| graphic wire, and daily press, which
have maGo Us acquainted with the hor
| rors Of modern battlefield, had rot yc
begun their vigilance, ard the s;cry G.
the American Revolution has never bec,
told and never will lie tclG. 1t did 10
take much ink to sign the Dcclaratlci
of independence, but il took terrific
amount CT blood to maintain it. 1t Wa
all awful gate of opposition that th'
men and wcmen-and the women a
much as the n:eE-uushcd hack. 1t VIC
did Yol Ever