News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-04-10
WHAT ARE THE USES OF ADVERSELY?
A Paper BY Mrs. Geo. watkins. Topic Assigned
by the Young Peoples fraternity, Read at
their Sunday Evening Service at Unity
Church. Stowe, VI, March 81.


their Sunday Evening Service at Unity
Church. Stowe, VT, March 81.
Most people would say, We have no
use for adversely; we perfer pros
perity; we could do more good for
ourselves and others with wealth and
its attendant accessories.
In discussing this question, it may
be we'll to ascertain what the great OBJ
ject of life is. What is the end we are
seeking. Is it ease of mind and con-
science and a restful assurance that
we have done our best? What is the
object to be attained for all our labor
and thoughts and time? What do we
wish to hold up to the world, at last
and say, this is the result of all my
life work? Will it's remembrance be
a pleasant memory, it's fragrance
sweet perfume, its influence living
vital energy, all pervading, sending
its spiritual current through all space,
to comfort, encourage and warm the
hearts of generations yet to come?
Will we have the sweet remember
ance of helping friend in need, when
no eye but Gods was upon us, when
no lip ever revealed the kind act,
when no friend or neighbor was ever
the wiser for the kindness bestowed?
Did we ever take a poor child's part
in our young school days, when near
ly all were making fun Of it or look
ing askance?
Is it a small thing to help child?
Philips Brooks said, "He who helps
a child helps humanity with a dis
tinctness and immediateness, that
can never be given again, in any other
possible way or time of life"
President Garfield said, 81 never
meet ragged boy on the street, but
think owe him salute, for know
not what possibilities may be button
ed up under his shabby coat" 1t is
a generally acceded truth, | think,
that men must have some stimulus,
some impetus to force them to action
and on to success that may enable
them to help themselves and Others.
One thing is certain. PrOgIe5 is the
law ofnature; every greater thing is
world of mind as of matter. The
world must move, if so, there must
be some one to move it. Improve
ment must be made. Every law of
the universe and of God seems to be
calculated to work for the good of
man, the highest order of creation
and for the ameliorating of his con-
dition and for his elevation. The
heavy burdens must be removed from
mems back and work made easier.
We must have railroads, steam
ships, steel plants, boundaries and
costly machinery from the most deli
cate clock work, to the huge and
ponderous stone crushers, used for
the extraction of the mineral treas
ures stored in the gold bearing rocks
and the lodges. We must have it on
the form and in the erection of bust
ness blocks in the cities made of iron
and steel and 20 or 80 stories high.
We must have all sorts of machinery
for providing THERON and electricity.
The coal "output" must be brought
to the surface and made to do it's
work in running these great opera
tions, and when the coal fails the
heat of the sun must be utilized.
Then what? We must have men of
skill and ingenuity, men with clear
heads and brave hearts, for there is
danger as we'll as utility in all these
things. The steam and the electricity
in the hands OF the uneducated and
unprincipled may run us into the
land ofoblivion,as we'll as into the bar.
Dor of safety. Men must be controlled
and educated. We must have a good
government and wise craftsmanship,
not only for our oWn country but for
our own safety, the safety of the
whole world must be regarded and
protected, as we now, more than at
any former period, fully realize.
In the world of mind, as we'll az
of matter, there must be power be-
hind the gun; stimulating force
What is it? Many things come in,
indirectly, as pride of character, love
of country, love of truth and right OF
humanity; but nature has queer
way of combining forces and often
calls for pluck and daring wreckIess-
ness, forgetful of self, blind to every
thing but the one object to be attain
ed; it may be to rescue child from
burning building, or a city from con-
fagration, a shipwrecked crew, or
the flag of ones country in the hands
of an enemy. But what, it may be
asked, is the great stimulating force?
Is it adversely and poverty, that,
more than anything else spurs on to
success and when success comes, as
come it will to many, what power is
it that moves the successful ones to
look after the less fortunate in pro-
vidiDg colleges, libraries, hospitals,
industrial and mechanical schools,
and for children free kindergarten
schools. Men like Carnegie and Others
and women like Miss Helen Gould,
Mrs. Leland Stanford, Mrs. Hearst,
Clara Barton and others? We can't
solve these questions, "we can only
rattle around q little"
In many ways adversely is STEP
ping stone to success. Necessity is
said to be the mother of invention"
1t compeIs thought and action, en-