Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-07-04

tam ana the Onltsd states into immediate
conflict, said, 1--WE give them up" They
Of popular clamor by that one man q
worldwide calamity was averted
How many there are who give too much
time to watching the weather vane and
studying the barometeri Make up your
mind what you are going to do and then
90 ahead and do it. There always will be
hIndrances.. 1t is moral disaster If you
allow prudence to overmaster all the
other graces. The Bible makes more of
courage and faith and perseverance than
1t does of caution. 1t is not once a year
that the great ocean steamers fail to sail
at the appointed time because OF the storm
signals; Let the weather bureau prophesy
what hurricane Or cyclone it may, next
" ednesday, next Thursday, next Satur-
day the steamers Will put out from New
York and Philadelphia and Boston har-
bors and viii reach Liverpool and South
ampton and Glasgow and Bremen. their
arrival as certain as their embarkation
They cannot afford to consult the wind,
nor can you in your life voyage.
Young men, you have planned what
you are going to be and do in the world,
but you are waiting for circumstances to
become more favorable. You are, like
the farmer in the text, observing the
wind. Better start now. Obstacles will
help YOU II you conquer them. Cut your
way through. Peter Cooper, the million
aire philanthr0pist, who viii bless all sue.
ceedIng centuries with the institution he
founded, worked five years for S25 a year
and his board. Henry Wilson, the Chris
tan Statesman who commanded the Uni
ted States Senate with the gavel of the
Nlce-Presidency, wrote of his early days:
Want sat by my cradle. l know what
it is to ask mother for bread when she
has none to give. | left my home at ten
years of age and served an apprenticeship
OF eleven years, receiving months school
ing each year and at the end of eleven
years OF hard work a yoke of oxen and
six sheep, which brought me $S4. In the
first month after | was tWenty-one years
OF age / went into the woods, drove a
team and cut mill logs. | arose in the
morning before daylight and worked hard
till after dark, and received the magnifi-
Each of these dollars looked as large to
me as the moon looks tonight" Won
dcrful Henry Wilson! But that was not
his original name. He changed his name
because he did not want on him the
blight of a drunken father. As the Vice
making the last address he ever made and
commended the religion of Christ to the
young men OF that city, | thought to my
self, ~ on yourself are the sublimest spec
tacle / ever say OF victory over obstacles"
For thirty years the wind blew the wrong
way, YET lie tIt not OJSGihC inc NlilNl DuL
kept right on sowing.
| just call OYER the names of the men and
women who have done most for our poor
,old world and You will call the names of
those who h,td mobs after them. They
were Stunned by the elite: they were
cartooned by the satirists; they lived on
food which you and / would not throw
70 a kennel.
Many OF Us who are now preachers of
the gospel, or medical practitioners, or
members Of the bar. or merchants, or citi-
2ens in various kind of business had very
poor opportunity at the start because we
had it too easy-far too easy.
If it were proper 10 do SO, and you
should stand in any board of bank direc-
tors, in any board of trade. in any Legis
lature. State or national, and ask all who
were brought up in luxury and case to lift
their hand, here and there a hand might
be lifted, but ask all those who had an
awful hard time at the start to lift their
hands, and most Of the hands would be
lifted.
Columbus, by calculation, made up his
mind that there must be a new hemisphere
or it would be a lop-sided world. And [
have found out, not by calculation, but by
observation, that there is a great success
for YOU somewhere to balance your great
struggle. DO not think your case is pc
cuiiar. The most favored have. been
1ClJGt. L ne nous SFlliSu6u inc NIlLtQHS
of the Duke of Wellington while his wife
lay dead in the house.
But my subject takes another step.
medical science, and dentistry
that has improved the worlds mastication,
and stronger defense against climatic
changes, and better understanding Of the
laws of health, human life has been great
ly prolonged. But a centenarian is still a
wonder. How many people do you know
a hundred years old? | do not know one.
We talk Of a century as though it were Il
very long reach Of time. But what is one
century on earth compared with centuries
that we are to live somewhere, somehow
ten centuries. a million centuries, a quin-
tillion of centuries? We arc all determined
to get ready for the longer life we are to
live after oUr exit from things sublunary.
We are waiting for more propitious OPP
portunitv. We have too much business
to attend to now or too much pIa}sure to
allow anything to interfere with its bril-
liant progress. We are waiting until the
wind blows in the right direction. We
are going to SOW, and SOW the very best
grain, and we are going to raise an eter- !
nal harvest of happiness. We like what
on say about heaven, and We are going
there, and at the right time We will get
ready, but my lungs are sound, my diges.-
ton IS good, the examining physician of
the life Insurance company says my heart |
beats just the right number of times a
minute, and | am cautious about sitting
in q draft, and / observe all the laws of !
hyriene and nv father and mother lived !
to be very old, and [ come o. d long-lived |
family.
SO we adjourn and postpone until, like |
the farmer suggested by my text, we allow |
the seedtme TO pass and sudden pneumo- |
MA or a reckless bicycle or an ungov-
crued automobile puts Us out of life with |
all It's magnificent opportun ties OF dccid |
inc arirht The question Of everlasting res