The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-30

iu one CoUEt6l pee HoW tuSt 0ottS &Ato every action. mlsintefpret His best
 wear Him out with sleepless nights on
 cold mountainsi See Him hoisted into . martyrdom at which the monday cowl itself with midnight shadows. and the rocks shook into cataclysms and the dead started out of their sep | ulcher. feeling it was no time to sleep | when such horrors were being enactedi The winds of stormiest opposition
 blew on His cradle, blew on His noun tain pulpit. blew upon the homesteads that dared to give Him shelter. blew upon His grave, but He went right 0i and sowed the earth with sympathetic tears and redeeming blood and coneo. lation and helpfulness and redemption and victory. 1t was an awful time to | SOW. But behold the harvest of church. | es, asylums, worldwide charities. civili-
 zations. millenniumsi @ 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 summed by the elite; they were cartooned by the sa:'rists: l they lived on food which you and I would not throw to kennel. soma of them died in prison; some Of them were | burned at the stake: some of them were buried at public expense because of the laws Of sanitation. They were bounded through the world and hound ed out of 1t. Now we cross the ocean to see the room in which they were born or died and look up at monuments
 which the church or the world has
 reared to their matchless fidelity and courage. After 100 or 200 or 800 years the world has made up its mind that ;vsR nF c oA1lNfaA fhav Gn0ht
 to have been garlanded; insIad of cave
 of the mountain for residence they
 ought to have had bestowed upon them an Alhambra:
 Young man. you have planned what | you are going to be and 3o in the world, but you are waiting for circun- stances to become more favorable. You are, like the farmer in the text, cbeerv- ing the wind. Better start now. ob-
 stacles will help you if you conquer l them. Cut your way through. Peter l Cooper, the millionaire philanthropist. who will bless all succeeding centuries with the institution he founded, work
 ed five years for $25 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. know
 what 1t is to ask | mother for bread | when she has none to give. I left my
 home at 10 years of age and served an
 apprenticeship of Il years, receiving
 a 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 was st years of age I 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. dul Henry Wilson! But thst 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, making the last address he ever made and commended the re- ligion of Christ to the young men of that city. I thought to myself. You yourself are the sublimeet 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 1t too easy - for too easy. We never appreciated what 1t 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. 1 congratulate you, young man,
 if to you life Is struggle. It is out of
 such circumstances God makes heroes
 if they are willing to be made. Cut your way through. If 1t 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 National. and ask all who were
 broushEup 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 life their hands. and most of the hands would be lifted.
 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 loose in the court to test the earls
 courage. 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 the scene. The lion with brist-
 ling hair and a growl was ready to spring upon the earl, when he, un-
 daunted. shouted to the monster:
 Stand, you dogi" 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 courtiers,
 who he knew were watching from the Windows, cried out, Let him among
 you all that prideth himself on his l pedigree so and fetch tlSat handker-
 chief" And you, young man, will find
 lion in your way, perhaps turned loose by the jealousy of those who
 would enjoy your ruin. But in the
 strength of God make that lion oQlich,
 By Gods help you can do it and defy
 and challenge your antagoniSts. The
 Earl of Alsatia conquered the lion by
 stoutness of voice and glare of eye. but
 you may overcome the lion with the
 proffered strength of an almighty arm
 and an almighty foot, for God hath
 promised: Thou shalt tread upon the
 lion and adder. The young Hon and
 the dragon shalt thou trample under | feet"
 Columbus, by calculation, made up
 his mind that there must be a new l hemisphere somewhere to balance the
 old hemisphere or 1t would be a lop-
 sided world. And I have found oat,
 not by calculation. but by observation,
 that there IS a great success for you
 somewhere to balance your great strug-
 gle. Do not think your case is pecul- l