The Globe-republican., 1897-12-30

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wheel. or tho spread Of ships
may 60 all around the
and thus be fulfilled the prof. II
There shall be no more sea. -
But the durability Of the eelefs
work is not at all to be compared 49,
the durability of our work for Gel,
The coral is going to crumble n -
fires OF the last dag, but our work 80
God will endure forever. No more 81
couraged man ever lived than Beeth0ve
en-. the great musical composer. D.
mercifully criticized by brother artinoo
and his music sometimes rejected
Deaf for twenty-five years, and foFes1, 8
on his way to Vienna, to beg food ara
lodging at plain house by the road
side. In the evening the family opened
a musical instrument and played a11
sang with great enthusiasm: and o.
OF the numbers they rendered was -
emotional that tears ran down their
cheeks while they sang and played.
Beethoven. sitting in the room, too
deaf to hear the singing. was curious
to know what was the music that 20
overpowered them, and when they got
through he reached up and took the
folio in his hand and found it was hiD.
own music-Beethoven's SYMPHONY IN
A-and he cried out, 81 wrote that!
The household sat and stood ab96hed
to find that their poor-lcoking 1nege
was the great composer. But he 0eHfr
LETT that house alive A fever oo9El
him that night, and no relief coQn1l
AFFORDED, and in few days he s.
But just before expiring he to-
hand of lis nephew. who had beoa -
Tor and arrived, saying, Al
Hummel. l must have had sonq
ent. Poor Beethoven! Hia 4k
still lives, and in the twentieth -
fury will be better appreciated tn14NS
was In the nineteenth; and as lo09sN4
there is on earth an orchestra to DlD@
or an oratoriO to sing, BeethosN1
nine symphonies will be the ench15
ment of nations. But you are not
composer, and you say there is nothiNG
remarkable about you-only mother
trying to rear your family for useful
ness and heaven. Yet the song with
which you sing your child to sleep
will never cease it's mission. You viii
grow old and die. That son will pass
out into the world. The song with
which you sang him to sleep last night
will go with him while he lives, a con-
sciOus or unconscious restraint and in
spiration here, and may help open to
him the gate Of glorious and trium-
plant hereafter. The lullabies of this
century will sing through all the GEN.
turtles. The humblest good accom-
plished in time will last through eter-
nifty l sometimes get discouraged. AZ
suppose you do, at the vastness Of
the work and at how little we are do {.
ing. And yet, do you suppose the
rhizopod said, There is no need of my
1 can not build the Cordil-
leras." Do you suppose the madrepore. I
said: There is no need of my work
ing; 1 can not build the Sandwich Is-A
lands" Each one attended to his own
business; and there are the Sandwich
Islands, and there are the Cordillef1 "
All. my friends, the redemption Of Il
world is great enterprise. I did NOT
see it start; l will not in this world
see it's close. / am only an insect IS
with the great work to -
done, but yet I must do my part.
Help build this eternal corallum VIII
My parents toiled on this reef long bo-a
fore l was born. l pray God that my I
children may toll on this reef long
after am dead. Insects all of us. but
honored by God to help heave up the
reef of light across which shall break
the OCEANS immortal gladness. Better
be Insignificant and useful than great
and idle. The mastodOns and mega
theriums of the earth, what did they
DO but stalk their great careasses
across the land and leave their skele-
tons through the strata, while the cor
allines went on heaving up the islands
all covered with fruitage and verdure.
Better be a coralline than a masto-
don. So now l am trying to make one
little coralline. The pOlyp picks out
Of the wave that smites it carbonate
Of lime, and with that builds up IT.
own insectile masonry. So out Of the
wave of your tears take the salt: out
Of the bruise l take the blue. and out
Of your bleeding heart take the red:
and out of them altogether l take thios
coral, which I pray may not b 49,
owned in the day when God make m
MS jewels.
Little things decide great thines.s
All that tremendous career of the 81
Napoleon hanging on the hanASk{&
brakeman who, on one of our Ama11 ~
railways, caught him as he Wa 80
ng between the cars of a flying TO-
The battle of Dunbar was $780,
against the Scotch because
had given out. Agrees