The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-06-19


iting upon the ranch of a wealthy man
in California He turned and said to
me: NO young man ever amounts to
anything unless he Is compelled to
work for his own mental and physical
and spiritual development. SO firmly
do | believe ii Is the mountain upon
the man aud not the man upon the
mountain that brings man TO the high
ed him that have compelled my boys
to work for every cent they have re-
ceivcd, even when they were little chill
dren. ! never give them anything
without q return. If they want spend.
ing money they must earn it by paint
ing the fences or cutting the wood or
gathering the walnuts. If they want
gun or q riding horse they must buy
II with their own. money which ihcy
have earned. | have not told them that
| each year .flcy have an $4,000 income,
which was left them by a dead rela-
tive, and that at twenty years of
age they will lie independently rich.
know that knowledge would ruin
them, | make them work for every
cent they spend In their working |
am developing two of the finest boys
in all this part of the country"
The Dead Heart Led On.
That earthly parent Is developing his
children by work. Cannot we realize
God is developing us spiritually, men
tally ana physically by work, ana hard
work? Why were the old Yankees, born
amid the New England hills, and the
old highlanders, born amid the Scot
fish heather, of the same heroic mold?
We have read that in the chivalrlc
times the Scottish crusaders were be-
ing driven back, when IN Old highland
chief took from his girdle the lcathcrn
bag which incased the heart of the
dead Bruce. He flung it far into the
ranks of the enemy, as he cried: Thou
brave heart of a mighty Bruce, lead us
on TO victory. Lead us on, Lead US on"
Then the fleeing highanders turned
and charged where the dead Bruce
would have led them Oh, how we
thrill at the story of that mighty deed!
But why did the Scotchmen and the
Yankees Of Old belong TO races OF
giants and the Latin people of Central
America and Of the southern parts Of
Portugal ana Spain degenerate into
race of pysmiesf Difference of blood?
Perhaps But | believe it was not SO
much Il difference of blood rs a diner
encc of geographical surroundings
In the southern parts Of Europe all
that the inhabitants had TO do for cen
turtles was to tickle the soil and it
would laugh with plenty, While
among those northern snow clad hills
not only did the inhabitants have to
fight human enemies, but climatic ones.
ANY man who wrestcd harvest from
the New Hampshire valleys or from
the Scottish highlands had by nece5-
sity 10 be strong of brain and power
fully muscled of arm. 1t was the eli
matte obstacles which made the New
Englandcrs and the Scottish clans the
mighty men they were and are, md it
is trouble, great trouble, which always
develops men, The old parental eagle
pushes her fedgelings off the nest to
teach her young how to fly. God
pushes us one and all out into the
abyss Of fathomess trial TO teach us
how to tnke care of ourselves. God
does not want to run perpetual nurs-
cry. He wants to make us Of men and
women Of fully developed powers. lie
disturbs us from our places Of ease and
comfort and thrusts Us forth into
SCENES Of conflict and difficulty in order
that we may learn to use the spiritual
powers with which we are endowed,
and to teach us in dire extremity what
infinite resources there are in him for
every one of his children who looks
confidently up to him and cries, "Our
Father"
God again stirs up our nests and
pushes us off our eyries, as the eagle
does its young to show us our limta-
lions as well as our possibilities. The
caglet has 10 learn what it cannot do
as well as what 1t can do. 1t must
be taught in one sense how to depend
upon ITSELF it must be taught in an
other sense how it must depend up
on the parent bird. The Bible in the
beautiful figure Of my text pictures the
old eagle, when the right time comes,
stirring up the nest and pushing her
young off the cliff Oh, yes, that is
beautiful. but the next statement of
the verse is Just as Beautiful When /
the young bird drops down and down
and the fluttering wings grow weaker
and weaker. then the llcdgeling gives a
faint, frightened call for help. Then
what happens? Why, the old bird at
once starts To- the rescue. Swiftcr than
any sea gull oyer dropped into the wa
tiers to clutch a fish. swiitcr than ever
a hawk pounced upon chicken in the
barnyard, the old mother bird starts
to save her young. How She swoops
down below the futterng carlct and
rising with outstretched wings, re
ceives it on her shoulders and bears
il aloft into safety. Is not this a beau
tiful symbol Of Gods care for his chill I
dren? The psalmist says. "Hc walkcth
upon the. wings Of the wind" Yes;
that is lire the eagle. lie pushes US
off the nest. but he does not leave Us
TO perish. He is near. and underneath
us are the everlasting arms. When we