The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-06-28
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Sthment IN stopping one OF theit snips.
Give up those prisoners,". said Great
Britain. NO" said the almost unani.
nous opinion OF the North, "do not give
| them up. Let Us have war with England
rather than surrender them" Then Will.
| lam III. Seward. Secretary Of State. faced
| oae OF The fercest storms OF public opin.
/ ION ever seen IN thus or any other country.
Seeing that the retention of these two men
was OF no importance 90 our country and
/ that their retention would tut Great Br.
tain and the United States into immediate
| conflict, said. I'VE give them up" They
we're given up. and through the resistance
! OF popular clamor by that one man a
worldwide calamity was averted.
Some OF Us remember as boys hu2xaing
| when kossuth, the great Hungarian. rode
| up Broadway, New York Most Ameri-
cans were in favor OF taking some decided
steps for Hungary. The only result OF
| such interference would have been the
sacrifice. of all good precedent and war
| with European nations Then Daniel
| Webster, in his immortal 'Hulsemann let.
| ter" braved a whirlwind OF popular opin-
| ion and saved this nation from useless
| foreign ENHANCEMENT. Webster did not
| observe the wind when he wrote that let.
ter. So in state and church there have
| alwaysfbee men az the right time ready
10 face nation full-yea, world full
| of opposition.
How many there are who give too much
time to watching the weather vane and
studying the barometer! Make ~ your
mind what You are going to do and then
| so ahead and DO IL. There always VIII be
hlndrances. lt is a moral disaster II you
| allow prudence TO overmaster all the
| other graces. The Bale makes more OF
| courage and faith and perseverance than
| II does OF caution. It Is not once a year
that the great ocean steamers fail 10 sail
| at the appointed time because of the storm
1 n al.
| what hurricane or cyclone II may, next
| Wednesday, next Thursday, next Satur.
day the steamers will nut out from New
| York and Philadelphia and Boston har-
bors and will reach Liverpool and South
ampton and Glasgow and Bremen, their
arrival as certain as their embarkation.
| They cannot afford 10 consult the wind,
nor can you IN your life voyage.
| The winds of stormiest opposition blew
on His cradle, blew on His mountain pull.
pit. blew upon the homesteads that dared
10 give HIM shelter, blew upon His grave,
but He went right on and sowed the
| earth with sympathetic tears and redeem.
ing blood and consolation and helpfulness
and redemption and victory. IL was an
| awful time 90 SOW. But behold the har
vest of churches, asylums, worldwide
charities, civilizations, millenniums!
Some of them died in prison; some OF
them were burned at the stake; some OF
1
cause of the laws OF sanitation. They
were bounded through the world and
bounded out Of IT, Now we cross the
ocean 10 see the room IN which they were
born or died, and look up at monuments
which the church of the world has reared
to their matchess fidelity and courage.
Young men, YOU nave planned what
you are going 10 be and do in the world
but you are waiting for circumstances 20
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 philanthropist, who will bless all sue
ceeding centuries with the institution he
| founded, worked five years for s25 year
and his board. Henry Wilson, the Chris
tian statesman who commanded the Uni
ted States Senate with the gavel of the
| Nice-Presldency, wrote of his early days:
Want sat by my cradle. / know what
| 10 is TO ask n 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 a months school
ing each year and at the end of eleven
years of hard work yoke of oxen and
six sheep. which brought me ssi 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 magniii'
cent sum OF 81 for the months work.
Each of these dollars looked IA large TO
me as the moon looks tonight" Won
derful Henry Wilson, But that was not
his original name He changed his name
because he did not want on him the
blight of drunken father. As the Vice
President stood in my pulpit in Brooklyn,
making the last address he ever made and
commended the religion OF Christ To the
| una Of / thnnUht IN
self, you yourself are the sublimest spec.
tacle ever saw OF victory over obstacles" p"
For thirty ysars the wind blew the wrong
way, yet he did not observe the wind, but
kept right on sowing.
Many OF us VINO are now preachers Of
the gospel, or medical practitioners, or
members of the bar, or merchants. or citi-
zens IN various kind Of business had very
poor opportunity at the start because we
had IL too easy-far too easy.
We never appreciated what it is 10 get
an education because our fathers or older
brothers paid the schooling, and we did
not get the muscle which nothing but
hard work - develop. ! congratulate
you, young man, II 10 you life il a struggle
| 1t * out of such circumstances God makes
heroes If they are willing 10 be made
| Cut your way through.
II IL were proper 20 do so, and you
should stand in any board Of bank direc-
| lOfr, IN any DOdF0 Oh LTdue, IN any leRlH-
| lature. State or national, and ask all who
were brought up IN luxury and ease 20 lift
their hand, here and there a hand might
| be lifted, but ask all those who had an
| awful hard time at The start 10 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
| somewhere 20 balance the old hemisphere
1 pT 1 Ia a pd
have found out not by calculation. but by
| observation, that there - a great success
| for you somewhere 90 balance your great
struggle. Do not think your case ~ pc.
culiar. The most favored have been
peted. The mobs smashed the windows
Of the Duke Of Wellington while his wife
! lay dead IN the house.
| But my subject takes another step.
| Through medical science, and dentistry
| that has improved the worlds mastic8tion,
and stronger defense against climatic
| changes, and better undertaking OF the
laws Of health, human life mas been great.
| ~ prolonged But CenJenarian ~ still
| wonder How many people do you know
| 3 hundred years Old / DO not know one.
| We talk OF A century as though u were
| very long reach Of time But what u one
osH.ury on earth compared with centuries
| that we are % 1--we somewhere, somehow
| sra centuries a million centuries, guin-
/ tiU.Ol cs centuries? We are al determined
90 get ready for the longer life we are %
| live after our exit from things sublunary.
| We are waiting for more prOpitiOUs op-
| Dortunity. We nave too much business
| 10 attend 20 now or too much pleasure 70
| allow anything % interfere with ~ bril-.
| liant progress We are waiting until the
wind blows IN the right direction We
/ are going % SOW and SOW the very best
| grain, and We are going % raise an eter-
| nal harvest Oi happiness We IKE what