Connecticut western news., 1901-06-27

:pu are goIng to ue and do in tn
 world. but you are waiting for circun.
 tances to become more favorable. You
 Ire. like the farmer in the text. obSery- ing the wind. Better start now. Ob
 ~tacles will help you if you conquer them. Cut your way through. Peter Cooper, the millionaire phlanthropist
 who will bless all succeeding centuries with the institution he founded. work
 ed five years for S25 a year and his board. Henry Wilson, the Christian statesman who commanded the United States senate with the gavel of the vice presidency, wrote of his early days: Want sat by my cradle. l know
 what 1t Is to ask n mother for bread when she has none to give. l left my home at 10 years of age and served an apprenticeship of II years, receiving q months schooling each year and at the end of II years of hard work yoke of oxen and six sheep, which brought me $S4. In the first month after I was 21 years of age l went in- to the woods. drove team and cut mill logs. I arose in the morning be- fore daylight and worked hard till aft CT dark and received the magnificent sum of $6 for the months work. Each of those dollars looked as large to me as the moon looks tonight" Wonder full 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 re- ligion of Christ to the young men of that city, 1 thought to myself, You yourself are the sublmest spectacle l ever saw of victory over obstacles" For 30 years the wind blew the wrong way, yet he did not observe the wind, but kept right on sowing.
 Many of us who are now preachers of the gospel, or medical practitioners, or members of the bar, or merchants, or citizens in various kinds of business had very poor opportunity at the start because we had it too easy-far too easy. We never appreciated what it Is to get an education, because our fa- thers or older brothers paid the school ing, and we did not get the muscle which nothing but hard work can de- velop. I congratulate you, young man, If to you life is a struggle. It is out of such circumstances God makes heroes
 if they are willing to be made. Cut your way through. If It were proper to do so, and you should stand in any
 board of bank directors, in any board of trade, in any legislature, state or na- tional, and ask all who were brought up In luxury and ease to lift their l hand, here and there 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.
 Danger of Hesitation.
 The Earl of Alsatia, a favorite of Ed
 ward 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 earps cour- age. The earl, rising at break of day, | as was his custom, came into the court yard and met the lion, and the jealous | courtiers from the windows watched I the scene. The lion, with bristling hair and growl, was ready to spring upon | the earl when he, undaunted, shouted | to the monster. Stand, you dog" | Then the lion couched, and the earl ] took it by the mane and turned 1t back | into the cage. leaving his handkerchief on the neck of the monster and, looking up in triumph to the jealous court1era 1 who he knew were watching from the | windows, cried out, Let him among | you all that prideth himself on his ped | igree go ind fetch that handkerchief. | And you. young man, will find lion | in your way. perhaps turned loose by
 the Jealousy of those who would enjoy | your ruin. But fn the strength of God make that lion couch. By Gods help | you can do 1t and defy and challenge | your antagonists. The Earl of Alsatia | conquered the lion by stoutness of voice | and glare of eye, but you may over come the lion with the proffered
 strength of m almighty arm and an almighty foot, for God hath promised: | 'Thou shalt tread upon the lion and
 adder. The young lion and the dragon
 shalt thou trample under feet"
 l Columbus, by calculation, made up
 his mind that there must be a new
 hemisphere somewhere to balance the
 old hemisphere or 1t would be lop-
 sided world. And I have found out,
 not by calculation, but by observation,
 that there Is great success for you | somewhere to balance your great strug- | gle. Do not think your case Is pecul-
 far. The most favored have been pelt-
 ed. 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 mastica-
 ton, and stronger defense against cli-
 matic changes, and better understand
 ing of the laws of health, human life
 has been greatly prolonged. But a
 centenarian Is still a wonder. How
 many people do you know a hundred years old? I do not know one. We
 talk of a century as though 1t were a
 very long reach of time. But what is
 one century on earth compared with
 centuries that we are to live some
 where, somehow-ten centuries, mill
 lion centuries, Quintillion of cen
 turies? 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-
 portunity. We have too much business
 to attend to now or too much pleasure
 to allow anything to interfere with its
 brilliant progress. We are waiting un-
 til the wind blows in the right direc-
 tion. We are going to SOW, and SOW
 the very best grain, and we are going
 to raise an eternal harvest of happi-
 ness. We like what you say about
 heaven, and we are going there, and
 at the right time we will get ready, but
 my lungs are sound, my digestion is
 good, the examining physician of the
 life insurance company says my heart
 beats just the right number of times a ] minute. and I am cautions abOut Sit-