Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24

the Lord to descend amid yOciferatiOnS
of welcome, to come and take posses
ION of the most capacious and ornate
of the palaces and sail Galilee with
richest imperial f1otilla and walk over
flowers of SOlomOn's gardens, which
were still in the outskirts of Jerusa-
lem? No. It struck him with insult as
soon as it could reach him. Let the
camel drivers in the Bethlehem cara
yansary testify. See the vileSt hate
pursue him to the borders Of the Nile!
Watch his arraignment as a criminal
in the courts! See how they belle his
every action, misinterpret his best
words, howl at him with worst mobs,
wear him out with sleepless nights on
cold mountains! See him hoisted into
a martyrdom at which the monday
cowled itself with midnight shadows,
and the rocks shook into cataclysm,
and the dead started out of their sep
ulcher, feeling it was no time to sleep
when such horrors were being enacted!
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 on
and sowed the earth with sympathetic
tears and redeeming blood and consO-
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-
cations, millenniums!
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 cartooned by the satirists;
they lived on food which you and I
would not throw to a kennel. Some 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 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 or the world has
reared to their matchless fidelity and
courage. After 100 or 200 or 300 years
the world has made up its mind that
instead of being fagellated they ought
of the mountain for residence they
ought to have had bestowed upon them
an Alhambra.
Victory over Obstacles.
Young man, you have planned what
you are going to be and do in the
world, but you are waiting for circum-
stances to become more favorable. You
~. hn fo in no fav oh
ing the wind. Better start now. OBJ
stacles will help you if you conquer
them. Cut your way through. Peter
Cooper, the millionaire philanthropist,
who will bless all succeeding centuries
with the institution he founded, work
ed five years for $50 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 it is to ask a mother for bread
when she has none to give. l left my
home at 10 years Of age and served an
apprenticeship of II years, receiving
months schooling each year and at
the end of II years of hard work a
yoke of oxen and six sheep, which
brought me $S4. In the first month
after l was 21 years of age l went in
to the woods, drove a team and cut
mill logs. l arose in the morning be-
fore daylight and worked hard till aft
er dark and received the magnificent
sum of So for the months work Each
of those dollars looked as large to me
as the moon looks tonight" Wonder
full Henry Wilson! But that was not
his original name. He changed his
name because he did not want on him
the blight of q 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, l thought to myself, "YOu
yourself are the sublimest spectacle l
ever saw of victory over obstacles"
For 80 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 it too easy-far too
easy. We never appreciated what it is
to get an education, because our ia
theirs or older brothers paid the school
ing, and we did not get the muscle
which nothing but hard work can de-
velOp. I congratulate you, young man,
if 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 directors, in any board
of trade, in any legislature, state or ma
tinnaI and ask all who were brought