The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-08-19
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IN paradise ana uitahl Nl NtNA NisuNin
is the principal thing. Many a slave un.
taught and nnthinking has lived and died
IN the sight OF the Parthenon. knowledge
is greatness. knowledge always makes
the difference sbetween Ep,ctetus and his
lowly brother. knowledge is power.
What IL knowledge! How Go We gain
knowledge There sits Thomas Carlyle,
the lonesomest man IN England, and one
Of the poorest, feeding has shaggy intellect
on French revolution. storm Of modern
ages. When he speaks We call him our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message is: Il have found God reignlng
among all peoples" He writes down for
us the laws OF divine rctrlhntion which
run through the nation. Like the old
Scandinavian Titan that he IS, he drinks
the liquid fire of divine wrath out OF the
skull Of perished empire. Ana he smacked
his Puritan lips as though II was savory
wine. knowledge Is finding ont divine
laws. There rs Charles Dickens. He Is
not satisfied 20 meet people on the street
as we DO and shake hands with them and
learn their names But, looking INTO their
hearts and homes and hgunts and sins
with sympathy, with pathos and with rar-
est humor he writes his books These
books become a sort OF Bible of the sub
merged tenth of society, and IN them We
find written down IN, erea. divine laws
which govern action and conduct and char
acter, He is the poor mans prophet, be-
cause he found on the heart OF the poor
man the handwriting OF God. All know.'
edge Is revelation.
Seeking the way God made the stars so.
kepler became an astronomer Seeking the
way the world was made. Wallace became
a scientist. Seeking the mysteries and Sc
crets of the human soul and Gods dong
therein, Kant became philosopher Seek
ing TO find out how God wrought upon hu.
oil M t,H n a
the soul depths Of lago, Hamlet. Desde.
mona, Richard, Henry and Lear, and
transCrihing into words what he found
written there, he has gwen us hlS great
dramas. Lo! the dramas of Shakespeare
are almost another book of God m which
| we find written the divine law OF retTlhu'
| ton aud forgiveness and sacrifice aud re-
| dempton. Augustine comes aud his one
word is law but II Is the law Of God.
| Browning comes and his ono word ls IN
| spiration, but II Is the inspiration of God.
| And Bcechor and Phillips Brooks come and
| their one word is love, but II IS the love
| of God. Save he bring ms word OF God,
| the wisdom OF the scholar ~ iooIshness
Have YOU ever seen the shlmmenng oil
| lake when the sun was playing m lts
surface? Have YOU seen the CLEANS OF sun.
| light dancing like angels on the water!
| You know the glory was M the sun, not
| m the water. The sun was the source tue
waters were clothed IA a borrowed glory.
| Ii YOU have ever stood IN a great valley
surrounded 10y mountains. and heard the
| echoes repeated from mount To mount
| some loud, some soft some distant. some
| near at hand. YOU know the voice was not
m the mountains The moudtails only
carried the voice. So great scholars are
| only waters asd mountain peak ~ ~
| God Almighty who speaks. Vt Is bls glory
that shines. There Is difference ln men
| The difference between great men ana NJ
| tie men always consist m ths-the great
| man IS always listening Tor the voice oi
| God. The little man ls' taken up with the
| sound OF his earthly ongong The jews
| heard a sound and said. 1t thundefed
| Jesus standing with them knew At was an
! angel that had spoken unto HIM. WIS
| dom IL revelation. There ~ 40 other way
| II YOU would toe a scholar II YOU would
wear scholars crown and have a schol
| ar's power, you must SEEK ana know Iac'
| to face and 10 find out HIS ways, winch
are above our ways. and His words. which
are above our words. Here ~ the prescup'
| tion for all scholarships Seek FIRST the
! Kingdom OF God and His righteousness
| and all these things shall be aided unto
| you"
| In every age men believe that fame can
| he bought for a price, aud 50 lhey tear
| down their warehouses and build larger
| So they multipiy their fleets until their
| white sails cover every sea 50 they get Tor
| themselves houses aud lands and stocks
| aud bonds. When they die the market
| drops down for a day or week and then
| the world goes on. You do not know the
names Of any rich men IN Athens or Rome
| or Thebes or Babylon. You may know the
| name OF some orator or some scholar VINO
| had wealth. but YOU do DO not know the
name OF any man who had nothing but
| wealth There was a man who laid the
| foundation OF ms fortune IN the days ol
| the Stuarts lie was powder manuiac,
| turcr. He drove hls coach and four and
| lived IN a palace He built siIkon nests
for his children. He had been an ardent
| Royallet, but when the Revolution came
| he said. There is a .ldc m the affairs OF
| men, which, # taken IA ITS flood, leads on
| TO fortune" And hc cut of his powdered
| curls and left of his lcwelcd sword. h'
| even sang psalms. lie turned Puritan. ~,
| turned his back on the cathedral and wcn'
TO worship IN a Punt0n conVenticle. n'
had his reward lie got the contract ioi
| making powder for CfOmwells army and
| became a multi.mIllionaire And when tho
| restoration came he grew again NE van
| DYKE beard he again wore his velvet douD
| et he again went 10 church Wlth prayci
| hook and cruchZ. lie even stood uy and
applauded when CromwciFs bones were
| hung up 20 dry on 1yburn Hhl lie quick
| ly became cavalier and he hdd nus I'
| ward. For 10, Charles made him kmgh'
og tho Garter and bc stIll had the contract
| for making powder for the English Army
| What was his namey You do not know
| Nobody knows y on cannot find ~ writ
! ten down IN any book But m that sans
| time there was a poor man VINO was
| Puritan under the first Stuartsi VINO was
| Puritan secretary Of commonwealth an
der Cromwell, and who was IuHtat
l. fhTfaffTgn
his life under the returned NtuaIif n'
had the pen OF a ready writer and the stu
| arts offered him gold 90 make the worse
appear the better side. lie SAID Nay
nav. | viii 1--we IN hunger and wall heal
nv children cry for bread, but ] VIII no,
| sell nv honor. ] care not Tor pait";
| strive only for the truth OF the Kingdom
| of God b." And everything he ever faid %
| prose Ct m poetry ~ stlii remembered. u"
| name was John Milton, and every schoo
| bov knows IL by heart Seek hrst 10
| Kingdom of God and fame viii Ind you
| out. ALWAYS the pathway 20 greatness -
along the line Of loyalty to the hlnElon
| Oi God
great thing. Any man VINO seeks "os''
| ior wcalth's sake vii always Le poor
| though he BE- clad N purple. Any man
| ,gbo seeks frat and always the Kingdom
| of God Will he rich, whether he 1--we ~ a
yarret or a king's palace Jt - the law q
| the universe. They Who love truth ana
serve her, receive a true mans r"W.rs
| houses and ands IN the Jrescrt time ana
| in the time 70 come, life eternal Gang
| ing an old poem little:
| Then 10 side with truth II noble.
| Though We share her wTetcned crust,
| For her cause brings fame and profit,
And It's prosperous 20 be just