Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-06-28
VOL XIV. NO. "a. WHOLE NUMBER, 1910

tofore were your friends and admirers
1t requires a heroism which few possess
Yet no great reformatOry or elevatins
movement has ever been accomplished
until 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, examples for US tc
follow. Charles Sumner ia the United
States senate, Alexander H. Stephens in |
Georgia convention, SavOnarOla stalking
his life in time Of persecution, Martin Lu.
Their 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 denounc
ed him as a fanatic and with attempting
an impossibility; Jenner, the hero OF
medicine, carieatured for his attempt By
vaccination to beat back the worst dis
case that smOte the nations. They VIII,
watch the wind of public opinion will NOT
SOW. 1t is an uncertain indication and Il
apt " DlDM tue WEVuE WAIs
Communities and churches and nations
sometimes are thrown into hysteria, and
it requires a man Of great equipoise tc
maintain a right position. Thirty-three
years ago there came a time Of bitterness
in American politics. and the impeach
ment Of u president Of the United States
was demanded. Two or three patriotic
men. at the risk Of losing their senatorial
ho nd
of their political associates and saved the
country from that which all people Of all
parties now see would have been a ca.
lamity and would have put every subse-
quent president at the mercy Of his Op.
ponents. 1t only required the waiting OF
a few months. when time itself removed
oil controversy.
LET us have war with England Il
needs be-" said the most Of the people OF
our northern states in 1861, when Mason
and Slidell. the distinguished southerners,
had been taken by our navy from the
British steamer Trent and the English
government resented the act Of our gov.
eminent in stopping one of their ships,
"Give up those prisoners" said Great
Britain. mo" said the almost unani.
nous opinion OF the north. do not give
rather than surrender them" Then VIII.
liam H. Seward, secretary Of state, faced
one Of the fercest storms of public opin
ion ever seen in this or any other country
Seeing that the retention of those two
men was Of no Importance to our country
and that their retention would put Great
Britain and the United States into i'm.
mediate conflict, he said, 1--WE give them
up" They were given up, and through
the resistance Of popular clamor by that
one man a worldwide calamity was avert
ed.
Some OF us remember as boys huzzaing
when Kossuth. the great Hungarian. rode
up Broadway. New York Most Ameri.
cans were in favor Of taking some decid
ed steps for Hungary. The only result
Of such Interference would have been the
sacrifice of all good precedent and war
with European nations. Then Daniel
Webster. in his immortal "Hulsemann
letter." braved a whirlwind of popular
opinion and saved this nation from use.
less foreign ENHANCEMENT. Webster did
not observe the wind when he wrote that
letter. So in state and church there
have always been men at the right time
ready to face a nation full-yea, a world
full-of opposition.
Beware of Overprudence.
How many there are who give toe
much time to watching the weather vane
and studying the barometer! Make uI
/ your mind what you are going to do and
then 80 ahead and do it. There always
will be hindrances. 1t is a moral disas
ter If you allow prudence to overmasteI
! all the other graces. The Bible makes
more Of courage and faith and persever
ance than it does OF caution. II is moi
] once year 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 cy
clone It may, next Wednesday, mex
Thursday, next Saturday, the steamer
will put out from New York and Phla
delphia and Boston harbors and will
reach Liverpool and Southampton anC
Glasgow and Bremen. their arrivals a
certain as their emharkation. They can
not afford to consult the wind, nor cal
you in your life voyage.
The grandest and best things ever &C
complished have been In the teeth o
hostility. Consider the grandest enter
prise of the eternities-the salvation OF
world. Did the Roman empire send a
invitation to the heavens inviting til
Lord to descend amid deliberations o
welcome to come and take possession 0
the most capacious and ornate of the pa
aces and sail Galilee with richest i'm
perial 1otilla and walk over flowers O
SOlomOn's gardens, which were still
the outskirts Of jerusalem No.
struck him with insult as soon as it coul
reach him. Let the camel drivers In th
Bethlehem caravansary testify. See th
vilest hate pursue him to the borders {
, the Nile! Watch his arraignment as
criminal In the courts! See how they b,
lie his every action, misinterBret his be.
words, howl at him with worst mob
wear him out with sleepless nights O
cold mountains! See him hOisted into
martyrdOm at which the MONDAY cowle
! itself with midnight shadows, and Il
rocks shook into cataciysm, and the dea
o started out OF their sepulcher, feeling
was no time to sleep when such horrO
/ were being enacted.
q The winds of stormiest opposition BILE
z on his cradle. blew on his mountain pU
/ pit, blew upon the homesteads that dare
to give him shelter, blew upon his grav
t but he went right on and sowed the cart
/
II blood and consolation and helpfulne
a and redemption and victory. It was
a awful time to sow. But behold the ha
# vest Of churches, asylums, worldwi,
n charities, civilizations, millenniums!
'e Just call over the names of the nj
i and women who have done most for o
s. poor old world, and you will call t
n names of those who had mobs after the
y They were stunned by the elite, tn
lie were cartooned by the satirists, they liv
id on food which you and l would I
to throw to a kennel. Some Of them di
to In prison, some Of them were burned
rs the stake, some of them were buried
r. public expense because Of the laws
ID sanitation. They were bounded thrOu
ID the world and bounded out of it. N
he we cross the ocean to see the room
rs which they were born or died and lC
or up at the monuments which the chuI
at Of the world has reared to their mat
ne less fidelity and courage. After 100
er 900 or 800 years the world has made
We its mind that instead of being fagella
We they ought to have been garlanded,
nd stead Of cave OF the mountain for n
ad dence they ought to have had bestOv
Is upon them an Alhambra.
Make Opportunities.
Young man, you have planned W
you are going to be and do In the wO
let but you are waiting for circumstances
on become more favorable. You are,