The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

with sympathetic tears and redeemins
blood and consolation and h~elpfalness
and redemption and victory. 1t was an
awful time to SOW. But behold the har-
vest Of churches, asylurns, worldwide
charities, civilizations, millenniumsi
Just call over the anne 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 / would not
throw to q 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 bounded out OF il. Now
we cross the ocean to see the room In
which they were born or died and look
up at the monuments which the church
Of the world has reared to their match.
less fidelity and courage. After 100 OF
200 or 800 years the world has made ur
its mind that instead of being ~hagellated
they ought to have been ~garianded, In.
stead Of a of the mountain for resi-
dence they ought to have had bestowed
upon them an Alhambra.
Make Opportunities.
Young man, you have planned what
you are going to be and do In the world,
but you are waiting for circumstances to
become more favorable. You are, like
the farmer in the text, observing the
wind. Better start now. Obstacles will
help 0 if you conquer them. Cut your
way through. Peter Cooper, the million
aire philanthropist, who will bless all
succeeding centuries with the institution
he founded, worked five years for $23 a
year and his board. Henry Wilson, the
Christian statesman who commanded the
United States senate with the gavei of
the vice presidency, wrote of his early
days: IVAN sat by my cradle. I know
what it is to ask a mother for bread when
h has none to give. / left my home at
10 years of age and served an apprentice
ship of IL years. receiving a 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 | was 81 years Of age ]
went into the woods. drove a team and
cut mill logs. l arose in the morning be-
fore daylight and worked hard till after
dark and received the magnificent sum of
Sc for the months work. Each Of those
dollars looked as large to me as the moon
looks tonight" Wonderful Henry Will
son! But that was not his original lame.
He changed his name because he did not
want on him the blight Of a drunken ia
Their. AS the vice president stood in my
pulpit in Brooklyn, making the last ad.
dress he ever made, and commended the
religion Of Christ to the young men Of
that city I thought to myself, you your.
self are the sublimest spectacle I 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 OIL
members of the bar or merchants or citi.
zens in various kinds of business had
very poor opportunity at the start be
cause we had it too easy-far too Easy.
We never appreciated what it is to gel
an education because our fathers or older
brothers paid the schooling. and we did
not get the muscle which nothing but
hard work can develop. l congratulate
you, young man. if to you life is a strug
gle. 1t is out of such circumstances
God makes heroes, if they are willing tc
be made. Cut your way through. II il
were proper to do s 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
brought up in luxury and ease to lift
their hand, here and there a hand might
be lifted. But ask those who had an aw'
full hard time at the start to lift their
hands, and most Of the hands would be
lifted. The heroes Of church and state
were not brought up on confectionery and
cake.
Defy Your Antagonists.
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 persuad.
ed the queen TO turn q 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 win
dows watched the scene. The lion, with
bristling hair and a growl, was ready to
spring upon the earl when he, undaunted
shouted to the monster, "Stand, you dog!
Then the lion couched, and the earl tool
it by the name Inc turned it Jack into
the cage, leaving his handkerchief on the
neck of the monster, and, looking up II
triumph to the jealous courtiers, who b.
knew were watching from the windows
cried out, Let him among you all tina
prideth himself on his pedigree go ani
fetch that handkerchief" And you
young man, will find a lion in your way
perhaps turned loose by the jealousy Of
those who would enjoy your ruin. Blu
in the strength of God make that lior
couch. By Gods help you can do it ani
defy and challenge your antagonists. Th,
Earl of Alsatia conquered the Lion b.
stoutness of voice and glare Of eye. bu'
you may overcome the lion with thu
proffered strength Of an almighty arm
and an almighty foot, for God hatl
promised: Thou shalt tread upon tn,
lion and adder. The young lion and thu
dragon shalt thou trample under feet"
Columbus. by calculation, made up hi
mind that there must be a new hemi
sphere somewhere to balance the old hem
isphere or IL would be a lopsiGed world
And l have found out. not by calculation
but by observation that there is a grea
success for you somewhere to balanc,
your great struggle. Do not think tina
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