The Globe-republican., 1901-06-27

zaing when Kossuth. the great Han |
garian. rode up Broadway, New York |
Most Americans were in favor OF TAX
ing some decided steps for Hungary |
The only result of such interference e |
would have been the sacrifice OF all
good precedent and war with European
nations. Then Daniel Webster, in his
immortal ..Hulsemann letter. braved
whirlwind of popular opinion and
saved this nation from useless foreign
ENHANCEMENT Webster did not observe
the wind when he wrote that letter So
in state and church there have always
been men at the right time ready to
face a nation full-yea. world full
of opposition
Beware Overprudence-
How many there are who give too
much time to watching the weather
vane and studying the barometer
Make up your mind what you are going
to do and then go ahead and do it.
There always will be hindranees- 1t is
a moral disaster if you allow prudence
to overmaster all the other graces-
The Bible makes more of courage and
faith and perseverance than it does of
caution. 1t is not once year that the
great ocean steamers fail to sail at the
appointed time because of the storm
signals. Let the weather bureau pro-
phesy what hurricane or cyclone 1T
may, next Wednesday, next Thursday,
next Saturday. the steamers Will put
out from New York and Philadelphia
and Boston harbors and will reach
Liverpool and Southampton and Glas-
gov and Bremen, their arrivals as GER
tain as their embarkation- They can
not afford to consult the wind, nor
can you in your life voyage
The grandest and best things ever
accomplished have been in the teeth
of hostility. Consider the grandest en-
terprise of the eternities-the salvation
of world. Did the Roman empire
send up invitation to the heavens in
| viting the Lord to descend amid vo-
| alterations of welcome to come and
! take possession of the most capacious
and ornate of the palaces and sail
| Gali1ee with richest imperial hotllla
/ and walk over flowers OF Solomon's
| gardens, which were still in the out
! skirts of Jerusalem? No 1t struck
| him with insult soon as it could
reach him Let the camel drivers in
the Bethlehem caravansary testify See
! the vi1est hate pursue him to the Dor
ders of the Nile! Watch his arra1gn-
ment as a criminal in the courtst See
how they belle his every action, mis-
interpret his best words. howl at him
| with worst mobs, wear him out with
! sleepless nights cold mountains,
! See him hoisted into a martyrdom at
| which the MONDAY cowled itself with
! midnight shadows, and the rocks shook
! into cataclysm, and the dead started
out of their sepulcher, feeling it was
no time to sleep when such horrors
! We're being enacted
Make Opportunities
Young man, you have planned what
you are going to be and do in the
world but you are waiting for
| circumstances to become more favor
able. You like the farmer in the
text, observing the wind Better start
/ now. Obstacles will help you if you
! conquer them. Cut your way through
| Peter Cooper. the millionaire phi1an-
| thropist, who will bless all succeeding
centuries with the institution he
! founded worked for five years for S25
/ a year and his board. Henry Wilson,
| the Christian statesman who com
manded the United States senate with
| the gave1 of the vice presidency. wrote
| of his early days: Want sat by my
| cradle. [ know what it is to ask
I a mother for bread when she has meme
! to give I left my home at ten years
of age and served an apprenticeship
of eleven years, receiving a month S
/ schooling each year, and at the end of
eleven years of hard work yoke Of
oxen and six sheep, which brought
me SS4- In the first month after | was
21 years of age 1 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 magnificent sum of IS for
the months work Each OF those dol
lars looked large to me as the moon
looks tonight" Wonderful Henry Will
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name. He changed his name because
he did not want on him the blight of a
drunken father. AS the vice president
stood in my pulpit in Brooklyn, MAX
ing the last address he ever made, and
com amended the religion of Christ to
the young men of that city, thought
to myself, You yourself are the sub
FINEST spectacle L ever saw of victory
over obstacles" For thirty years the
wind blew the wrong way, Yet he did
not observe the wind, but Kept right
on sowing.
Defy Your Antagonists.
The Earl OF A1satia, a fayorite CT
Edward III of England, had excited
the jealousy of other courtiers. and
one time, while the king was absent
they persuaded the queen to turn a
lion loose in the court to test the
eaTls courage The earl. rising at
break of day, as was his custom, came
into the courtyard and met the lion,
and the jealous courtiers from the