The Penn's Grove record., 1901-06-28

such interference would have been Ihe
sacrifice of all good precedent and war
with European nations. Then DanleI
Webster, in his immortal "Hulsemann let
ter braved a whirlwind of popular Qpln-
ion and saved this nation from useless
foreign enhancement Webster dld nos
observe the wind when he wrote that iet,
ter. So in state and church there nave
always been men at the right time re9hy
to face a nation full-yea, a world fuli-
Of opposition.
How many there are who give too much
time to watching the weather vane ana
studying the barometer! Make up your
mind what you are going to do and theh
20 ahead and do it. There always Will be
hindrances. 1t is a moral disaster Il you
allow prudence to overmaster all the
other kraees, The Bible makes more OF
courage and faith and perseverance than
it does IF caution. 1t is not once a year
that the great ocean steamers fail to san
at the appointed time because 81 the storm
signals. Let the weather bureau prophecy
what hurricane or cyclone 1t may 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, thclr
arrival as certain as their embarkatlon.
They cannot afford to consult the wind,
nor can you in your life voyage.
IIt. EltllAif6t NV pN9N tiAirb
eomplished have been in the teeth OF hos
tility: Consider the grandest enterprise
of the eternities-tht salvation OF q world
Did the Roman empire send up INVITATION
to the heavens inviting the Lord TO ae'
scend amid vociferations OF welcome, to
come and take possession OF the most ca
pacious and ornate of the palaces and san
| Galilee with richest imperial tiotilla and
walk over flowers of Solomon's gardens,
| which were still in the outskirts OF Jeru-
salem? No. 1t struck Him with insult
as soon as it could reach Him. Let the
camel drivers in the Bethlehem caravan
sary testify. See the vilest hate pursue
Him to the borders Of the Nile! Watch
His arraignnient, as q criminal IN the
eourtsi See how they belle His
every action, misinterpret His best
words, howl at Him with worst mobs,
wear Him out with sleepless nights Oh
cold mountains! See Him hoisted into Z
martyrdom at which the MONDAY we
itself with midnight shadows, and the
rocks shook into cataclysm, and the dead
started out of their sepulcher, feeling 1t
was no time to sleep when such horrors
were being enacted!
The winds of stormiest opposition blew
on His cradle, blew on His mountain, pull,
nit. blew upon the homesteads that dared
to give Him shelter, blew upon His grave,
but lie went right on and sowed, the
earth with sympathetic tears and redeem
| ing blood and consolation and helpfnlness
| and redemption and victory. 1t was an
awful time to sow. But behold the har"
vest of churches, asylums, worldwide
charities, civilizations, millenniums!
Just call over the names of the men and
women who nave done most for our poo.
old world, and you will call the names of
those who had mobs after them. They
were Stunned by the elite; they were
eartooned by the satirists; they lived on
food which YOU and l would not throw
to d kennel.
them were burned at the stake; some OF
them were buried at public expense be-
cause Of the laws of sanitation. They
were bounded through the world and
bounded out of it. Now we cross the
ocean to 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 matehless fidelity and courage.
After 100 or 200 or 300 years the world
has made up its mind that instead of
being flagellated they ought to have been
gaflanded; instead of cave. in the mount,
ain for residence they ought to have had
bestowed upon them I'm Alhambra.,
Young men, you have. planned what
you are going TO be and do in the world,
but you are Waiting for circumstance to
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
aire philanthropist, who will bless all sue
ceeding centuries with the institution he
founded, worked five years for SO q year
and his board. Henry Wilson, the Chris
tian statesman who commanded the Unl-
ted States Senate with the gavel of the
VicesPresideney, wrote of his early days:
"Want sat by my cradle. / know what
| "a =. - IL .aa+Io,. fa,s tpad1 prlpp sim
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 a yoke of oxen and
six sheep, which brought me Ss4. In the
first month after ! was twenty.one years
of age | vent into the woods, drove q
team and cut mill logs. | arose in the
morning before daylight and worked hard
till after dark, and received the magniti-
cent sum of So for the month"; work.
Each of these dollars looked as large to
me as the moon looks tonight" Won
derful Henry Wilson! But that was not
because he did not want on him the
blight of drunken father. As the Vice
President stood in my pulpit III Brooklyn,
making the last address he ever made and
commended the religion Of Christ to the
young men OF that city, l thought to my
self, You yourself are the sublimest spec,
tacle / ever say of victory oyer obstacles"
For thirty 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 eiti-
zens in various kind 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 fathers or older
brothers paid the schooling, and we did
not get the muscle which nothing but
hard work can develop. | congratulate
you, young. man, II to you life Is a struggle.
1t 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 direc-
tors, in any board of trade, in any Legis-
lature, State or national, and ask all who
were brought up 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 a new hemisphere
somewhere to balance the old hemisphere
or it would be d 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
culiar. 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 mastieation,
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? l 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 hive somewhere, somehow
ten centuries, a million centuries, a quin.
tillion 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 OPP.
portunity. We have too much business
to attend to now or too much pleasure to
allow anything to interfere with its bril-
| liant ppOurpss We are waiting until the