Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-19


regard to your adverse worldly cir
cumstances, in passing that you are on
a level now with those who are manly
TO succeed. Mark my words. young
man, and think OF II thirty years from
now. You will find that those VINO
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 untry-
m:ghtiest in church and state--are
this morning on level with you. not
an inch above, and you in Strengthened
circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living by play
ing 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 conquests.
George Stephenson rose from being the
foreman in a colliery 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 me chanism God gave you In your
hand, in your foot, in your eye, In
your ear, and then ask some doctor to
take you into the dssecting room and
illustrate to you what you have read
about, and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying you have no cap
ital to start with. Equipped! Why,
the poorest young man is equipped as
only the God of the whole universe
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. / am not so
much anxious about you, young man,
because you have so little to do with,
as 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
K. 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
stimulus. Their religion caricatured
by the most of the clerks in the store,
and most of the operatives in the fac
tory. The rapids of temptation and
death rushing against that young man
forty miles the hour, and he in a frail
boat headed UP stream, with nothing
but broken oar to work with. Unless
Almighty God help them they will go
under.
The great musician who more than
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 IL
all earth and heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great musician,
ii a room looking off upon the sea, and
surrounded by his favorite instruments
Of music, closed his eyes in death.
While all the world was mourning at
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 amphitheatre OF
the hills waiting to hear the eulogium,
and it was said when the great orator
Of the day with stentorian voice began
to speak, the fifty thousand people on
the hillsides burst into tears. .! that
was the close of life that had done
Sd much to make the world happy But
| have to tell you, young man, if you
live right and die right, that was
tame scene compared with that which
will greet you when from the galleries
of heaven the one hundred and forty
and four thousand shall accord with
Christ in crying, We'll done, thou
good and faithful servant" And the
influences that on earth you put in mo-
ton will go down from generation to
generation, the influences you wound
up handed to your children, and their
influences wound up and handed to
their children, until watch and clock
are no more needed TO mark the pro-
81 ess, because time itself shall be no
longer.