Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-26

gOou, strong sermon under the Di-
vine blessing would have led her into
the kingdom of God and afterward
her whole family. The children,
whether they became farmers or me-
chanics or merchants or artists or
men of learned profession or women
at the head of households, would
have done their work in Christian
way and after lives of usefulness on
earth would have taken thrones in
Heaven. 1t would have been whole
family saved for time and saved for
eternity. But the pastor had adj
journed the strong and effective
discourse to a clear Sunday. The
mother went home chilled in body,
mind and soul. and concluded not to
trouble herself or her household
about the future, and to let to-mor-
row take care of itself and keep on
doing as they had been doing. No
God in that home. No religious con
ISOLATION in time of bereavement. No
formation of thorough Christian
character in the lives of those grow
ing up boys and girls. They will go
out into the world to meet it's vics-
STUDIES without any sublime reen-
forcement of the Gospel What pity
il was that he did not put down the
manuscript of his well prepared SER
mon on the Bible If he preached from
notes or pour it out of his soul If he
had lodged it there through careful
preparations, No. He allowed that
opportunity, which could never re
turn, to pass into eternity unim-
! proved. He observed by the way the
rain dashed against the windows of
the parsonage and the windows of the
church that the wind was from the
east or the northeast, and he did not
SOW, or sowed that which was not
worth sowing.
In all departments of life there are
those hindered by the wind of public
opinion. 1t has become an aphorism
in politics and in all great movements:
He is waiting to see which way the
wind blows" And it is no easy thing
to defy public opinion. TO be run down
! by newspapers, to be overhauled in So
! clal circles, TO be mathematical by
| those who heretofore were your
| friends and admirers. 1t requires a
| heroism which few possess Yet no
| great reformatory or elevating move
ment has ever been accomplished un-
| til some one was willing to defy what
/ the world should think or say or do.
But there have been men and women
of that kind. They stand all up and
down the corridors Of history, exam
I pies for us to follow. Charles sum
ner in the United States senate. AL
| eNander II. Stephens in Georgia con-
vention. Savonarola stalking his life in
| time of persecution. Martin Luther
fighting the battle for religious free
dom against the mightiest anathemas
that were ever hurled, William Carey
| leading the missionary movement TO
/ save a heather world while churches
| denounced him as a fanatic and with
| attempting an impossibilitv: Jenner.
| the hero OF medicine. carica tured for
/ his attempt by vaccination TO beat
| back the worst disease that smote the
nations. They who watch the wind Of
/ public opinion will not sow. 1t is an
uncertain indication and is apt to blow
the wrong way.
How many there are who give too
much time TO watching the weather
/ vane and studying the barometer,
I
ing 10 do and then go ahead and do it,
There always will be hindrances. 1t is
moral disaster if you allow prudence
| TO overmaster all the other graces.
/ ne Bible makes more Of courage and
| faith and perseverance than il does of
caution. 1t is not once a wear 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 1T
may. next Wednesday, next Thursday.
next Saturday, the steamers viii put
out from New York and Philadelphia
and Boston harbors and will reach Liv-
erpool and southampton and Glasgow
ana Bremen, their arrivals as certain
. as their embarkation. They cannot af-
/ ford to consult the wind, nor can YOU
in your life voyage.
Young man, you have planned what
I you are going to be and do i'm the
I world. but you are waiting for circum-
stances TO become more favorable.
/ \ on are, like the farmer in the text.
/ observing the wind. Better start
I now. Obstacles will help Won If Won
/ conquer them. Cut your way through.
| Peter Cooper, the millionaire philan-
/ thropist, who viii bless all succeeding
I centuries with the institution he
/ founded, worked five years for S25 a
I year and his board. Henry Wilson.
/ the Christian statesman who com
manded the United States senate
/ with the Ravel Of the vice presidency.
/ wrote OF his early days: Want sat
I by my cradle. / know what IL 10 TO
I ask a mother for bread when she has
/ none 10 give. left my home 40 ten
+ years Of age and served an appren-
/ uceshiP Of ~ years. receiving a
months schooling each year. and at
/ the end of ~ years OF hard work a
/ yoke Of oxen and six sheep. which
/ brought me $50. Ia the first month
. after ! was ~ years OF aye went iu-