The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-27

British steamer Trent, and the English
Government resented the act of our Gov
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 Will
lam II. Seward, Secretary of State faced
one of the fiercest. 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-
tain and the United States into immediate
conflict, said, eve give them up" They
were given up, and through the resistance
OF popular clamor by that one man q
worldwide calamity was sverted
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
80 ahead and do it. There always will be
hlndrances. 1t is moral disaster il you
allow prudence to- overmaster all the
other graces. The Bible makes more of
courage and faith and perseverance than
1t 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 it may, next
Wednesday, next Thursday, next Satur.
day the steamers will put out from New
York and Philadelphia and Boston har.
bors aud 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.
Young men, you have planned what
you are going to be and do in the world,
but you arc waiting for circumstances 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
alre philonthropist who will bless all sue
ceeding. centuries with the institution he
founded, worked five years for $25 year
and his board. Henry Wilson the Chris
tlsn statesman who commanded the Uni
ted States Senate with the gavel of the
Nlee-Presidency, wrote of his early days:
Want sat by my cradle. / know what
1T is to ask mother for bread when she
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 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 magni6
cent sum of Sc for the months work
Each of these dollars looked as large to
me as the moon looks tonight" Won
derful Henry Wilsonl 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 religion of Christ to the
young men OF that city, thought to my
self, you yourself are the sublimest spec
tacle | ever say 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.
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 Stunned by the elite; they were
eartooned 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 citi-
zens in various kind of business had very
poor opportunity at the start because we
had it too easy-far too easy.
1t 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 up in luSury and ease to lift
their 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.
Columbus. by calculation, made up his
mind that there must be a new hemisphere
somewhere to balance the old hemisphere
or it would be Il 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
struggle. Do not think your case is Pc
cuiar. 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
ly prolonged. But centenarian is still
wonder. How many people do you know
a hundred years old? / do not know one.
We talk of a century as though it were q
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 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 Tor more propltlous op-
portuuity. We have too much business
to 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-
nal 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-
tlon is good the examining physician of
the life insurance company says my heart
beats just the right number of times a
minute, and / am cautious about sitting
in draft, and | observe all the laws OF
hygiene, and my father and mother lived
to be very old, and come OF long-lived
family. ~.ssf --.~sssu- iso--..
So we adjourn and postpone until, like
the farmer suggested by my text, we allow
the seedtlme TO pass and sudden pneumo-
mia or reckless bicycle or an ungov-
erned automobile puts US out of life with
all its magnificent opportunities of decid-
ing Alright the question OF everlasting res
idence. A Spanish proverb says, 1.-THE
road Of BY and BY leads to the town of
Never"
Whether in your life il is a south wind
or a north wind, a west wind or an east
wind that is now blowing, do you not feel
like saying: This whole subject l now de-
eide, Lord God, through Thy Son Jesus
Christ, my Saviour. I am Thine forever.
throw myself, reckless of everything else,