The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-05-20

amazement the heavy load that person
with seemingly no draft power. will pull
when once he has been caught and har.
messed and properly driven, and probably
no one so much surprised as the maa him.
self The difficulty Is not in finding men
that are competent TO do what is needed,
but in getting men to do enough to become
themselves persuaded that they are compc
tent.
Just as there are peon,e that arc so in
The habit OF thinking they are sick that
they never got well. and nothing icss than
4 fright or an earthquake viii conyusc
them into couvaIC scence, 30 society and the
church and the State are full OF compe tent
lncapab'e- who are good for nothing siinp'l
because they have never commenced &c
imagine that they are good for almost any
hing. aEdSi have never been - c'rCum
it1uced or have never so had responsibility
oiled upon them rs to shake them out oi
heir inCapacity. Moses is n case IN pOnt,
Who, Mp to the time he was eighty, never
Bid anything noteworthy so far rs W. can
earn. except TO kill an Egyptian tundH.
mentally the same man. OF cC1r>o, ;t1t he
vls during the browning. Distinguishing
jerod OF his life but not having happened
Turing his first four score years io bc 81
.rcumStanced or to be 80 p,ucked { hv
hp pull of events as to discover that he
Sls not a nonentity, and when summoned
% action bv Jehovah, pleading uit. A. so
many like him have done since by alleging
himself to be constitut'oually unequal te
hc task that was set him. II YOU ask .
nan to do something who thinks himself
incompetent aud ne saws "N0.' You have
% take his "No.' The advantage the Lord
las is chat He does not have to. take =
mans "No." did not take Noses NO.
put clung to him. stood him up and put the
lold on him and tod him to 20 along with
T. ard Just the weight ot the ioad made
iim able to 90 along with il. pressure found
.hp linn muscles that had been waiting Tor
almost a century to be crushed into ever
lion. and circumstances not made him
treat. but gave him chance TO be what
he and millions OF other peop,e are in con
ltion to he when the chance comes, wher
he assassin's bullet strikes. when at the
pDportune moment a shove is given intn
he Pool OF Bethesda.
No matter what n person is in native
icuteness or in inward moral and Christian
beauty, we give him credit for only SC
much as has eNternali2el itscf and as has
wrought itself into a kind of encompas-ing
lalo, and we base estimate IN the square
contents OF the ha'o. You have many
line seen a locomotive looming our OF the
darkness With its flashing headlight, and
that light has auOenrcd to you so brilliant
n the dense night it has seemed to you az
most as though the front of the engine
Tcre trescoed with section of the sun
aud the ground for a hundred rods in ad
5ance OF the train whiteaed with almost
The brilliancy of daytime. But ii you have
had an opportunity to INSPECT that head
light and TO narrow oil this illumination
iown 10 its fountain source YOU have very
likely discovered there a small glass lamp
furnished with wick and little kerosene
)n. This is not to find fault with the light
out only to call attention to the fact
which you are Likely to forget, that in es
timating il you reckoned in the ref.rtOr
That was framed to encompass the light
and which made YOU suppose there was a
great deal more luminousness than was act.
ually the case. That is the way in which
our estimates generally are arrived at
original light with the circumiacent rehec.
tor added in--central flame plus the au.
veole.
Now the Lori in His estimates dis
penses with aureole-which is what Scrip
ture means when it says that Ire looketh
not on the outward appearance. He IL
never misled by reflectors or by the alb
sence of Iehectors. A man may have very
little virtue and yet put that virtue into
some snowy achievement with large su
perhcial area, whereupon men get out
their measuring rods. figure up the area
consult the multiplication table and decide
that he has great deal OF virtue; that is
what | mean by computing on basis OF
aureole, adding reflector to the little kero
sene lamp. On the other hard, a person
may have an immense amour. OF virtue,
but circumstances be such that 1t never
becomes manifested in a way to arrest at
tention--a very beautiful light it may be.
but not shining under conditions that ring
it with a halo.
Now that was the case with tire woman
in the temple. The halo hunlers saw
nothing hut a commonplace widow travel
ing past the contribution box. The Lord,
with whom nimbus does not count, saw
and felt what the woman herself meant
and was. To Him she was the same a.
though she had dropped in a thousand
shekels. but not to others who were pres
ent, for others would have reasoned jus: ~
people do now, and would have looked to
the size of her gift to determine the s.Ze
of her heart and would have concluded
therefore that she had n two-penny hear:
Already nineteen hundred years ago that
poor widow had been become convinced
that nobody has a right to die rich.'
She acted on the principle when she threw
in her two mites. No one made anything
OF il but Jesus because there was not gId
ing enough upon her advertisement OF the
principle to make the air bright about Il
Nineteen hundred years later the same
principle that NOBODY has q right TO do
die rich" was announced by one quite dIf
ferently situated from the widow with two
mites; and the principle and the man whl
announced ID were published and heralled
clear around the g,obe. In the first in.
stance there was only a two'penny halo.
and in the other a milion-dollar halo. and
the big halo won. 1t cannot he part OF
our purpose to claim that the illustr!ou:
Scotchman is not Just as charitable as the
inconspicuous Jewess We are only claim.
ing that the reflector that You frame
around the lamp is no part OF the lamp
and certainly no part OF the blaze that the
burning oil sustains.
1t would be interesting to see the com.
motion that would have been excited over
her there in the temple had heart as
sweet and beautiful as the Lord saw her
heart to he, not been he'd under the limi
tatIons OF ungenerous circumstances and
had it been within her means TO do all that
her heart prompted-in other words. had
the conditions under which she lived been
wide and open enough TO match her own
personal nobility. Most people live in a
very small world: they are in it and they
have to stay in it. Influences hereditary.
and providental ii YOU please, have built
around them an environment close and i'm
prisoning; possessed OF hearts and inteli'
gence larger than the sphere that despotic
circumstances permit them to fill Some
times il may be due to physical debility;
sometimes it comes as the result OF those
untow1rd conditions in early LIE that pre-.
vented the discipline of personal powers
and graces. certainly possessed. bat suf.
fcieutiy cultivated 10 make them -'ad
and servIceah'e potency. Such ones are all
about us and We could give their names.
Animal Sea Flowers.