Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-10-08

more % God lhAn those OF u Auo nav
/ never so much a. had finger joint still
fenced by a felOn.
Put 70 fun use all the faculties that re-
main aud charge on all opposing circum-
/ stances with the determination Of John OF
Bohemia. who was totally blind, and Vet az
I a hattl. cried out. Il pray and 6eseeeh
. YOU to lead me 80 far into the fight thar
NAV strike one good blow with this sword
81 mine," Do not think 50 much 81 what
| faculties YOU have lost a. Of what faculties
remain. You have enough left to make
. yourself felt inthree worlds. while you
help the earth aud halk hell and win
z heaven Arise from YOUR discOuragements,
/ o men aud women Of depleted or Grip = led
I physical faculties. and see what, ny the
I special help Of God, Won can accomplish
Another form Of disadvantage under
which many labor j. lack Of early educa-
Z ton. There will be no excuse for ignor-
I ance In the next generation. Free schools
and illimitahle opportunity OF education
I will make ignorance a crime. i believe IN
/ compulsory education. and those parents
who neglect to put their children under
/ educational advantages have but one right
left, and that j. the penitentlary. But
I there are multitudes Of men and women ia
midlife who have had no opportunity. Free
I schools had not vet been established, and
| vast multitudes had little or no school at
ALL They feel IL when. "a Christian men.
! they come to speak or pray in religious
assemblies or public occasions, patriotic
! or political or educational. They are
I ilent because they do not feel competent.
/ They owe nothing to English grammar. or
geography. or bellies lettres. They would
/ not know participle from a pronoun il
they met il many times a day. Many OF the
/ most successful merchants of America and
/ IN high political places cannot write an ac-
! curate letter on any theme They are com
/ pletely dependent upon clerks. and depu-
/ ties and stenographers, TO make things
4 right. knew literary man who in other
/ years in this city made his fortune by writ
| ing speeches for congressman or fixing
| them up for The Congressional Record after
! thew were delivered. The millionaire IL
! literary of this country is beyond measure
ment.
/ Not a word have / to saw against accur-
acv of speech or fine elOcution or high men
| tai culture. Get all these you can. But
/ do say to those who were brought up in the
/ day of poor school-houses and ignorant
! schoolmasters aud no opportunitv: Gou
! NAV have so much Of good in your soul and
! 50 much Of heaven in your everyday life
/ that YOU will be mightier for good than any
| who went through the curriculum OF Har-
/ ward or Yale or oxford, vet never graduated
/ in the school of Christ. When YOU get up
/ To the gate of heaven, no one will ask you
whether you can parse the first chapter OF
! Genesis but whether YOU have learned the
> fear 0f the Lord which is the beginning OF
wisdom, nor whether You know how to
square the circle hut whether YOU have
/ lived square life in a round world. Mount
| Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus.
But what other multitudes there are I'M
der other disadvantages! Here is u Chris
/ tian woman whose husband thinks religion
a sham, and while the wife prays the chill
drrn one way the husband swears them an
| other. Or here is Christian man who Is
/ TRYING to do his hest for God and the
church. and his wife holds him back and
. saws on the way home from prayer meet
/ ing. where he gave testimony for Christ:
/ what II fool YOU made of yourself, Ihope
| hereafter you will keep still" And when
| he would be benevolent and give $50 She
rritirises him for not giving nifty cents. |
must DO justice and publicly thank God
/ that never proposed at home to give any
/ thing for any cause Of humanity or religion
but the other partner in the domestic firm
| approved It, and when ii seemed beyond
my ability and faith In God was necessary
| she had three fourths the faith. But
| know men who, when they contribute to
charitable objects, are afraid that the wife
shall find il out. What whitening curse
such n woman must be to good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest2 You say those who
have little means. But they pay more. You
buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the
bucket. You buy flour by the barrel: they
buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheap
because you pay cash; they pay dear be-
cause they have to get trusted. And the
Bible was right when 1t said, THE destruc-
ton Of the poor is their poverty
Then, there are those who made q mis-
take in early life, and that overshadows all
their DAYS. "DO you not know that that
man was once in PRISON." is whispered Or.
"Do YOU know that that man once attempted
suiride?" Or, DO Won know that that man
once ahsconied?' Or, "Do you know that
that man was once discharged for dis
honestly" Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed in the mans life, and that one
act haunts the subsequent half century of
his existence.
Others have unfortunate predominance
Of some mental faculty, and their rashness
throws them into wild enterprises or their
trapidation makes them decline great OPP
portunitv. or there is a vein of melancholy
in their disposition that defeats them. or
they have an endowment OF overmirth that
causes the impression OF insincerity.
Others have mighty obstacle In their
personal appearance, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features, and their com
their nose and mouth and hands and
feet. and gave them their gait and
their general appearance. and they forget
that much of the worlds best work and
the churrh's best work has been done by
homely people, aud that Paul the Apostle
is said to have been hump-backed and his
eyesight weakened by ophthalmia, while
many Of the finest in apr earance have
passed their time before iiattering looking
glasses or in studying killing attitudes
and in displaying the richness of ward
rOheS-nOt one ribbon or vest or sack or
glove or shOestrng of which they have
had brains to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivites from the
start They were born wrong and that
sticks to one even after he is born again
They have a natural crankiness that is 275
years old. 1t came over with their great
grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales or
France. 1t was born on the banks of the
Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the
Rhine and has survived all the plaques
and epidemics Of many generations and is
living to-day on the banks of the Potomac
or the Hudson, or the AndroscOggin, OIL
the Savannah, or the La Plata. And wheT
II man tries to stop this evil ancestra
proclvity he is like II man on a rock in tn,
rapids of Niagara, holding on with a grill
from which the swift currents are trying
to sweep him into the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdeDed world
and oyerworked world 1t is an awfully tiret
world. 1t is dreadfully unfortunat
world. Scientists are trying to find on
the cause of these earthquakes in all lands
cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some sa,
this and some say that. | have taken tn
3 diagnosis Of what is the matter with tn
earth 1t has so many burdens on it AM
= so many fires within it, it has fit. 1t can
not stand such circumference and such
l diameter. Some new CotoXpaXi or Strom
: bolt or yesuvius will open, and then all wi
t be at peace for the natural world. BIZ
IL what about the moral woes Of the worl
e that have racked all Nations, and for GOO
years science proposes nothing but know