The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-06-28


ing 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 MS
immortal "Hulsemann letter. braved
whirlwind of popular opinion and
saved this nation from useless foreign
ENHANCEMENT. Webster did not oDserVe
the wind when he wrote that letter. so
in state and church there have always
been men at the right time ready 70
face a nation full-yea, a world tull-
of opposition.
Beware of Overprudence.
How many there ale who give TOO
much time to watching the weather
vane and studying the barometer!
Make I'D your mind what you are going
to do and then go ahead and do IT..
There always will 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 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 II
may next Wednesday, next Thursday
next Saturday, the steamers VIII put
out from New York and Philadelphia
and Boston harbors and will reach
Liverpool and Southampton and Gas
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 a 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
Galilee with richest imperial iotilla
and walk over flowers of Solomon
gardens, which were still in the out
skirts of Jerusalem? No. 1t struck
him with insult as soon as it could
reach him. Let the camel drivers In
the Bethlehem caravansary testify. See
the vilest hate pursue him to the Dor
ders of the Nile! Watch his arralgn-
ment as a criminal in the courts! See
how they belle his every action, mis-
interpret his best words, howl at hin
with worst mobs, wear him out with
sleepless nights on cold mountains
See him hoisted into martyrdom al
which the MONDAY cowled itself WITH
midnight shadows, and the rocks shooR
into cataclysm, and the dead started
out of their sepulcher, feeling 1t was
no time to sleep when such horrors
were being enacted.
Make Opportunities
Young man, you have planned wha'
you are going to be and do in the
world but you are waiting tol
circumstances to become more favor
able. You are like the farmer in thu
text. observing the wind. Better star
now. Obstacles will help you if you
conquer them. Cut your way through
Peter Cooper, the millionaire philan-
thropist who will bless all succeeding
centuries with the institution he
founded worked for five years for S2l
a year and his board. Henry Wilson
the Christian statesman who COM
manded the United States senate with
the gavel of the vice presidency, wrote
of his early days: Want sat by my
cradle | know what it is to ask
a mother for bread when she he's none
to give. | left my home at ten years
of age and served an apprenticeship
of eleven years, receiving a month
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
q 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 magnificent sum of So for
the months work. Each of those dol
lars looked as large to me as the moon
looks tonight" Wonderful Henry Will
som 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, max
ing the last address he ever made, and
commended 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 Alsatia, tavorite CT
Edward III. of England, had excited
the jealousy of other courtiers, and
one time. while the king was absent,
they persuaded the queen &c turn a
lion loose in the court to test the
earl's 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
wiz fows watched the scene. The lion,
with bristling hair and growl, was
ready to spring upon the earl when
he undsunted shouted TO the monster