The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-08-26

regard to your adverse worldly cir
cumstances, in passing that you are on
a level Q with thcsss.4<1os are finally
to succeed. Mark my words, young
man, and think of it thirty years from
now. You will find that those Who'll
thirty years from now are the million
aires of this country, who are the ora
tors of the country, who are the poets
of the country, who are the .strong
merchants of the country, who are the
great philanthropists of the country.
mightiest in church and state-are
this morning IN a level with you, not
an inch above, and you in Strengthened
circumstances now. e.a
Herschel earned his living by play.
ing a violin at parties, and in the in
terstices of the play he would go out
and look up at the midnight heavens,
the fields of his immortal c%onquests:
George Stephenson rose from being the
foreman in a c%olliery to be the most.
renowned of the worlds engineers. No
outfit, no capital to start with! young
man, go down to the library and get
some books and read of what wonder
full mechanism God gave you in your
hand, in your foot, in your eye, in
your ear, and Their ask some doctor to
take you into the dissecting room and
illustrate to you what you have read
about, and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying O have no cap
ital to start with. Equipped. Why,
the poorest young man is equipped as
--1~, - H. T~l 80 thu tvr101n 1,niyorcn
could afford to equip him. Then his
body-a very poor affair compared with
hi, wonderful soul-Oh,. that is what
makes me so solicitous. I am not so
much anxious about you, young man,
because you lave so little to do with,
as I am anxious about you because you
have so much to risk and lose or gain.
; There is no class Of persons that SO
stirs my sympathies as young men in
great cities. Not quite enough salary
, to live on, and all the temptations that
= come from, that deficit. Invited on all
. hands to drink, and their exhausted
: nervous system seeming to demand
y stimulus. Their religion c%aricatured
y by the most of the clerks in the store,
- and most of the operatives in the fac
- tory. The rapids Of temptation and
y death rushing against that young man
:, forty miles the hour, and he in a frail
= - boat headed up stream, with nothing
y but a broken oar to work with. Unless
Almighty God help them they will &C
! under.
: The great musician who more thai
any other artist had made the violin
speak and sing and weep and laugh
and triumph-for it seemed when he
- drew the bow across the strings as i
y, all earth and heaven shivered in de-
=. lighted sympathy-the great musician
il a room looking off upon the sea, ar
~ surrounded by his favorite instrument:
;, of music, closed his eyes in death
While all the world was mourning a
- his departure, sixteen crowded steam
ers fell into line of funeral procession
~ to carry his body to the mainland
There were fifty thousand of his coun
- trymen gathered in an amphltheatre o
-. the hills waiting to hear the eulogium
-, and it was said when the great orato
- of the day with stentorian voice bega1
~ to speak, the fifty thousand people o.
49, the hillsides burst into tears. O! tina
- was the close of a life that had don
v 50 much to make the world happy. Blu
I have to tell you, young man, if yo
live right and die right, that was
l.. tame scene compared with that whic
~ will greet you when from the gallerie
-, of heaven the one hundred and fort
~ and four thousand shall accord wit
~, Christ in crying, well done, tho
- good and faithful servant" And tn
e. influences that on earth you put in MI
4" ton will go down from generation t
4~generation, the Influences o woun
IL up handed to our children, and the
IN influences wound up and handed
ell their children, until watch and c1oc
us are no more needed to mark the pr
g1ess, because time itself shall be r
re- longer. ~