The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-25

Yet the past and the present are hlled
with lives that have accomplished much,
though subject to the same onrush. Bear
that what has been done can be done
again.
They accomplish most, who spend no
time repining mt circumstances. Seeing
things around them To he done, they take
hold and d. them well. just because they
come next 20 hand. | verify believe the
secret OF all true greatness is found in
faithfuluess 10 the present duty no mat.
ter how small and insignificant, Peter
Cooper made good glue and from small
beginnings grew gre &C. used his greatness
well; and the glue-msker ranks high
among the worlds philauthropi-ts.
Even as the caterpillar in a physical sense
comes to the wider. fire sphere by doing
the things necessary to growth day by
day, so sha We in moral sense. To
faithless, and complaining over little
duties il certainly no guarantee that
greater duties will be better done. While
il il not fair TO say that all faithful ones
become prominent, it is fair TO cay that
patient, out-of-sight work, must be done
TO ensure prominence OF lasting char
acter. Humanity itself is our teacher;
twenty We years OF body-b building pass
before we are mature enough TO stand
the strain of real life.
We must try to take saner view of
life. Then can we understand thai the
little acts make up in large part the
worlds progress Thus will our own
work take It's proper dignity. A few
great deeds show forth in history here
aud there; but built of them only the
worlds )tal gam would stand up like
the naked steel frame work OF lofty
building. A. matter If fact, clustered
around every monumental deed are in
Vulnerable small ones that have been well
done and that have made the greater deed
possible. No general ever wins with an
army of dissaffected eoldlery. No wide
stretching bridge is built merely by the
mind Of the engineer; to his aid is brought
the sulen strength OF stone and iron that
winter in and out, will steadily do it's
WORK. No great onward step il taken in
any country unless there il an upheayai
of public opinion. YOU aud |, obscure
Does. are public opiuion. We are in all
great progress il the spirit OF progress il
n Ne; JUST az the boiler ia thing 81
power because OF the steam within
and the steam is a thing of 90 wer because
Of the boiler without.
Pray mourn no more over your hidden
state. Do your little and do it well.
Then whether y on come to greatness or
DOT, you can not be robbed If one gre {
thing. the real usefulness of your life. liz
needs but few words Co remind you
that our great nation Is Ike a huge body,
with interdependent parts. Let me em-
phasze your possible Importance from
your own bodies. A drop Of blood, NOV
log hi her and thither in your veins in "A
small thing. Yet your breath al whole
carries Oxygen from the lungs, or nour-
ishment from the stomach and the intes-
tinPs; then gives that up somewhere
brightens the eyes, perhaps, or strength
ens the brain. Once more it loads itself;
this time with the poisons that come
from wasted muscles and nerves, and, for
your maintenaDceinb health, it discharges
those poisons in the breath you exhale,
or the secretions that leave the body
then dear man. dear woman, disap-
pointed often, perhaps neither eye nor
brain Of this great country; may you not
possibly be a globule OF it's most essential
blood, or minute lung cell, working TO
save il from wasting consumption, weak
ness Of character, loss OF libtr ty. Fur
thermore, il within you is working tue
high motive OF goodwill to your race be-
cause OF some fragmentary understand
ing OF the goodwill OF the Ail-Father to
you, then, ia truth, need not your heart
be troubled because OF the little things
you do. When sturdy legs come hurry
ing in the door, and q little pudgy fist
grasps tight a withered dandeliop, or
catered daisy that has been carried
long way as a posey for you, you never
Judge the value of the love by the SIZE Of
the gift. This way ofregarding the deed
is, reckon. nothing but a faint rtfec-
ton of Gods way Of looking at you and
the good works, but small, that you do.
have grown altogether too serious.
IL Is well to be serious some times Full
al laughter, though am, | can plainly
see that the man who ia never 10 earnest
is never Il influence Then II not too SER
ious, will fl lsh this little chat by al.
d essing the younger ones in the family;
for they often meet with real burdens,
and unless there in a. ideal OF lie within,
these burdens make the heart sick. You
girls read book full Of delusive thought