The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

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 Birthdays of Great Men
 Furtheymorc, I notice that January has been honored with the nativity of some of the greatest among the nations. Edmund Burke was born this month. the marvel and glory of the legal world; Fenelon of the religious world. Benjamin Franklin of the phil3sophic word, Will liam II. Prescott of the historic world. Robert Burns of the poetic world. Poly carp of the martyr world. Peter the Great of the kihsly world. Chrysostom of the sacred rhetoric world. DaniI Web ster of the statesman world.
 In this month. at Hampton court. 1904. new translation of the Holy Bible was ordered. There were Bibles of all kinds abroad. some of them translations from Hebrew and Greek by incompetent men. and the church and world cried out for Bible translated by a group of the good and the learned. King James disliked the Bibles abroad and appointed a commission of fifty-four men. after ward reduced to forty-seven. Those men presented the world with a Bible that held mighty sway among the nations Tor more than 250 years, the revision or the Bible thirty years ago being founded on that revision. which began under kine James of 1894. The old translation. made more than two and a half centuries ago, sustained the martyrs in the fire. Illus tions, was the book that was read aloud at the embarkation of the forefathers from Delft Haven, cheered the weary them in the wilds of America. was the book on which the first American Con gress, as we'll as the last, took the oath and with which all the Presidents of the United States have solemnized their ent- rance into office, is the book. that has advanced the worlds civilization as no other influence ever could and which now lies on the table of more homes than any book that was ever printed since Johann Gutenberg borrowed money of Martin Brother and John Faust to complete the art of printing. What a January. in the worlds history-tho January that gave the ages a book like that!
 Time of Sadness.
 But January like all the other months of the year, has had it's sadness and It's disasters. During this month died Lin naeiis, the botanist of Sweden and the world, who called the roll of the flowers and shrubs and trees, putting them into companies and calling them by their names his beautiful statue standing Tn a park of Stockholm, rose in bronze held in his right hand. During this month expired Francis Bacon and Gar. rick, and Galilei, and Louis VI., and William Pitt, and Francis Jefrey or the immortal pen, and Disraeli the first an. and
  iline. In this mont1 died Peter the Great, the man of whom it was written: .'He gave polish to his people and was amsst of warare ssyag o which he hmsef was ignorant. From the sight of a small boat on the river Moskwa he erected pow erful fleet, making himself an expert and active shipwright. pilot and commander: He changed the manenrs. customs and laws of the Russians and lives In their memory as the father of his country"
 But 1 cannot read the epitaphs of one out of a hundred illustrious graves in this first month of the year. Many Of those well known gained half their re- nown and did half their work through the help of those of whom we know little or nothing. Lord Herschei is known all the world over and will be anown through all time, but little is said of her who was b1In this first month of the year have been what he was-his sister. Car oline Lucretia Augusta. She helped him hunt the worlds. She repaired and ad- justed his telescopes. She ciphered out hmanuensis. She planned for him his work. She discovered seven comets and made "A Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters" The month of January in- troduced her to the observatories, but she has never been properly introduced
 Preparing for the Future.
 According to my text, This month shall be unto you the beginning or months; it shall be the first month of the year to you" Through it make prep aration for the other eleven months. What you are in January you will prob ably be in all the other months of the year. Preparation them neither by ap- prehension nor too sanguine anticipation. Apprehension of misfortune will only de- piete your body and gloom your soul ana unit you for any trouble that may come On the other hand. if you expect too much. disappointment will be yours. Gull tiVate faith in God and the feeling that ne will do for you that which is best, and you will be ready for either sunshine or shadow. The other eleven months of the year 1902 will not all be made up of gladness or of grief. The cup that is all made up of sweetness is insipid.
 Between theso just opened gates of the year and the closing of those gates thero will be many times when you will want God. You will have questions @ decide which will need supernatural i'm pulse. There may be illness of the body or perple xities of mind or spiritual ex- haustions to be healed and comforted and strengthened. During the remaining twcnty-six days of this month lay in supply of faith and hope and courage for all the, days of the eleven months. Start right. and you will be apt to keep right. Before the ship captain gets out Of the New Narrows he makes up his mind what route he will take. WhIle you are in the Narrows of this month make up your mind which way you will sail and unroll your chart and set your com pa ss and have the lifeboats we'll placed on the davits and be ready for smooth voyage all the way across or the swoop of a Caribbean whirlwind.
 Rev. Solomon Spauldlng was for some time in poor health and to while away tho time he wrote preposterous re- liglous romance. One Joseph Smith somehow got hold of that book before F was printed and published it as a rev elatlon of Heaven. calling it the Book of Mormon" and from that publication came Mormonism, the monster abomlna- ton of the earth. Rev. Solomon Spauld- ing might have beal better engaged than time wo have, We never have time to do wrong. Harness January for useful ness, and it will take the following months in It's train Oh, how much you may do for God between now and the Slst ct next December. The beautiful by Alexander Pope into England from u twig which the poet found in q Turkish basket of figs. He planted the twig. and from l. came all the weeping willows of England and America; and yoar small- est planting of good may under God be- come an influence continental and Inter- national
 Now that the train of months has started, jet it pass. January followed by February, with longer days, and March. with its fierce winds; and April. with its sudden showers: and May, with it's carnival of flowers: and July with it's harvests: and August. with ita swelter ing hearts; and September with it's drift ing leaves: and October. with Its frosts and November with its Thanksgiving l scenes: and December, with its Chris | tian hilaritles. March on. Q battalion | of the months. in the regiments of years | and the hrigades Of the centuries. March |