The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-08-13

ana Slluell, the distinguished Southern
ers, had been taken by our navy from the
British steamer Trent, and the English
Government resented the act of our Gov
eminent IN stopping one OF their ships
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 viii.
lam II. Seward, Secretary OF State. faced
one OF the iercest storms of public opin.
ION ever seen in this or any other country
Seeing that the retention Of these two men
was Of no importance TO our country and
that their retention would put Great Bri.
tam and the United States into immediate
conflict, said, we give them up" They
were gwen up, and through the resistance
OF popular clamor by that one man a
worldwide calamity was averted.
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
90 ahead and do 1t. There always viii be
hindrances. 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
1T does OF caution. It 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 10 NAV, next
wednesday, next Thursday, next Satur-
day the steamers will put 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 to consult the wind
nor can you IN your life voyage.
Dung men, you have planned what
You are going to be and do in the world,
but YOU arc 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 If you conquer them Cut your
way through. Peter Cooper, the million
are phllanthropist, who will bless all sue
eeedmg. centuries with the institution he
founded, worked five years for S25 q year
and his board. Henry Wilson. the Chris.
tan statesman who commanded the Uni
ted States Senate with the gavel of the
Nlce-Presldency, wrote of his early days:
Want sat by my cradle. | know what
1T IS to ask a mother for bread when she
has none to give. l 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 SS4. In the
first month after / was twenty-one years
OF age went into the woods drove
team and cut mill logs. ] arose in the
morning before daylight and worked hard
till after dark, and received the magnifi.
cent sum of Sc for the months work
Each of these dollars looked as large to
me as lue moon looks tonight. Won
ueriul 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.
President stood IN my pulpit in Brooklyn,
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
lan Il Il - IL. 4
kept right on sowing
Just call over 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 had mobs after them. They
were summed by the elite; they were
cartooned by the satirists they lived on
food which you and L would not throw
to a kennel
Many OF us who are now preachers OF
the gospel, or medical practitioners, or
members OF the bar, or merchants, or cti.
zens IN various kind of business had very
poor opportunity at the start because we
had 1t too oasy-far too easy.
II 1t were proper TO 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 mp IN luxury and ease 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 new hemisphere
/ somewhere to balance the old hemisphere
| or 1T would be lop-sided world. And I
/ nave 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
cuhar. The most favored have been
pelted 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 mastication
and stronger defense against climatic
/ changes, and better understanding of the
/ laws OF health, human life has been great
! ~ 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 a
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 quinn
| ullon OF centuries We are 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 op.
portumtY. We have too much business
\ 20 attend to now or too much pleasure 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-
mai harvest OF happiness. We like what
YOU say about heaven, and we are going
there, and at the right time we viii get
ready, but my lungs are sound, my diges-
ton IS good the examining physician Of
the lie insurance company says my heart
beats Just the right number of times a
minute, and / am cautious about sitting
ln draft, and ] observe all the laws OF
hygiene, and my father and mother lived
to be very old, and i come of q long lived
b family.
So we adjourn and postpone until, like
the farmer suggested by my text we allow
the seedtime to pass and sudden pneumo-
mia or q reckless bicycle or an ungov-
erncd automobile puts us out of life with
all ITS magnificent opportunities of decid-
ing Alright the question of everlasting res.
idcncc A Spanish proverb says, 1.-THE
road Of BY and BY leads to the town Of
Never"
Whether in your life it is a south wind
or north wind, a west wind OF an east
wind that Is now blowing, do you not feel
like saying: This whole subject j now de-
eide. Lord Cod through Thy Son Jesus
Christ, my Saviour / am Thine forever
/ throw myself, reckless of everything else,
INTO the iathomless ocean Of Thy mercy"
oar cotton Trade.