Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-18

for, the cloud increases, increases, will
it never stop growingp The foremost
men in the colony observe its threaten
inc aspect and endcavor to dispel it, but
still it grows dcnscr and heavier until in
1861 the awful storm bursts upon us.
This darkness is fit setting for one of
the worlds grandest lights, Abraham
Lincoln. From out the smoke of the
conflict we hear these words, "With
malice towards none, with charity for
all, with lirmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in." Such
sentence was never uttered but by a
great leader in great cause. Lincoln's
greatness is growing in the minds OF
men today, and the Muse of History in
the twentieth century will record him
as the greatest human benefactor of the
nineteenth.
Literature furnishes so many ex-
amples of brilliant achievment amid
gloomy circumstances that one might
we'll eXclaim, "Woc adds lustre to man
as night adds beauty to the stars"
Prison walls witnessed De Fou writ
ING Robinson Crusoe, Raleigh, His His
tory of the World, Cervantes, his Don
Quixote, Bunyan, his Pilgrims Progress
and Luther translating the Bible, while
still others wrote their masterpieces
under as unfavorable circumstances.
Homer wrote his epic poem, The Iliad
and Milton Paradise Lost after they had
become totally blind. Dante was al
most deprived of his sight in writing his
Inferno.
Their misfortune served only to con-
centrate energy to the noblest ends.
You recall what George Mcdonald says
of Milton, Il do believe God wanted a
Grand poem of that man and so blinded
him that he might be able to write it,"
But Bunyon's is the life that shows the
Gem that may be polished from the
rough. The son of a poor tinker he re-
ccived only enough education to enable
him to read and to write. But after his
wonderful conversion he became a
su 'cessfnl preacher among the dissenters
Of the time of the Stuarls. While thus
occupied Ike was seized and imprisoned
for disregardng the Five Mile Conven-
tide Act. English prisoners in those
days We're furnished with only the es-
sentials of existence, yet on the untwist-
ed rapers used to cork the bottles of
milk brought for his meals, BunYan
wrote his immoral ailegory.
Science, invention, art--in fact every
d partmcnt of human activity-affords
It ,odqut proof that "Night brings out
tAr slars. Continued poverty, obscurity,
and abuse are but the stepping-stones to
grratnc-s. They develop in the very
power Ivy which we overcome, AS
rough seas make good sailors so en-
ergcneirs make great men.
"W'hcn God wants TO EDUCATE man He
does not send him to the school OF
pr.ces but to the school of the necessi-
1ies."
Addison in one OF his deli ehtful es-
SAYS says, "The Gods in bounty work
~ stornlS about us, that give mankind
a chance 10 exert their hidden strength
and throw into practice virtues that shun
the day and lie concealed in the smooth
season and calms of life"
From the dawn of history oppression
has been the Jt of the Hebrews, yet
they have given to the world its noblest
songs, its wisest proverbs, its sweetest
music. its purest religion. Prosecution
fosters their growth, and the darkest
periods of their history were the heralds
of brighter days.
Long years ago a German knight I'M
dertooIl to make an immense Aeolian
harp by stretching wires from tower to
tower of his castle. When he finished
the harp it was silent, but when the
breeze began to blow he head faint
strains like the murmuring of far dis
tanl music. One day Il tempest arose
aud swept with widest fury over his
castle and then rich, grand music came
from the wires.
SO in life ordinary experiences dc
not seem to bring out the truest qualities
of manhood and womanhood.
AS the sculptor thinks only of the
beautiful form in the marble so nature
cares only for the hoblest character, and
as the sculptor chips off all supertluou>
mHtter until the material becomes the
ideal, so nature disciplines us in thou
sand ways to bring out our possibilities
In every great painting of the old
masters there is subordinate and contrib
utory on the worlds canvas. Mar
stands as the central figure, to his fullest
and noblest expression every light and