The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

all these things shall be added unto you"
What is knowledge? How do we gain
knowledge? There sits Thomas Carlyle,
the lonesomest man in England, and one
Of the poorest, feeding his shaggy intellect
on French revolution, storm Of modern
ages. When he speaks we. call him our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message is: 'T have found God regnins
among all peoples" He writes down for
us the laws Of divine retribn,tion which
Scandinavian Titan that he is, he drinks
the liquid fire of divine wrath out OF the
skull Of perished empire. And he smacked
his Puritan lips as though IT was savory
wine. knowledge is finding out divine
laws. There is Charles Dickens; He is
as we do and shake hands with them and
| learn their names. But. looking into their
| hearts and homes and haunts and sins
with sympathy, with pathos and with rar-
est humor. he writes his books. These
books become sort of Bible Of the sub
merged tenth of society, and in them we
find written down the great 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 knowl-
| edge is revelation.
Seeking the way God made the stars go,
Kepler became an astronomer. Seeking the
way the world was made, Wallace became
a scientist. Seeking the mysteries and se-
crets of the human soul and Gods doing
therein, Kant became philosopher. Seek
ing to find out how God wrought upon hui
man nature Shakespeare penetrated into
The soul depths of Iago, Hamlet, Desde..
mona, Richard, Henry and Lear, and
transcribing into words what he found
written there, he has given US his great
dramas. Lo! the dramas of Shakespeare
are almost another book of God in which
we find written the divine law of retrbu-
ton and forgiveness and sacrifice and re.
| iemption. Augustine comes and his one
word is law but it is the law OF God.
Browning comes and his one word is in
spiration, but it is the inspiration OF God;
And Beecher and Phillips Brooks come and
their one word is love, but it is, the love
OF God. Save he bring us a word OF God,
the wisdom of the scholar ia foolishness
Have YOU ever seen the sAmmering OF
lake when the sun was playing IN Its
surface? Have YOU seen the CLEANS OF sun
light dancing like angels on the water.
You know the glory was in the sun, not
in the water. The sun was the source; the
waters were clothed in borrowed glory.
IL you have ever stood in a great valley
surrounded by mountains, and heard the
echoes repeated from mount to mount,
some loud, soms soft, some distant. some
near at hand, you know the voice was not
IN the mountains. The mountains only
carried the voice. so great scholars are
only waters and mountain peak. 1t Is
God Almighty who speaks. Ut is his glory
that shines. There is difference IN men.
The difference between great men and nt-
tie men always consist in this-the great
man is always listening for the voice OF
God. The little man is taken up with the
sound of his earthly on-going. The jews
heard sound and said: 1T thundered.
Jesus standing, with them knew NJ was 2vl an
angel that had spoken unto Him.. WIS.
dom is revelation. There is no other way
il you would be scholar, if you would
wear a scholars crown and have schoi-
ar's power, you must seek and know race
to face and to find out His ways, which
are above our words. Here is the prescrlp-
ton for all scholarship: Seek first the
Kingdom of God and His Righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto
you"
In every age men believe that fame can
be bought for price, and so they tear
down their warehouses and build larger.
So they multiply their fleets until their
white sails cover every sea; SO they get ior
themselvI, houses and lands and stocks
and bonds. When they die the market
drops down for day or a 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 who
had wealth, but you do do not know the
name OF any man who had nothing but
wealth There was man who laid the
foundation of his fortune in the days OF
the Stuarts He was a powder manufac,,
tnrer He drove his coach and four and
lived in a palace. He built silken nests
for his children. He had been an ardent
Royalist, but when the Revolution came,
he said: "There is tide in the affairs OF
men, which, if taken in its Hood, leads on
70 fortune" And he cut off his powdered
81 aE hia taSvplad sword. lie
wen sang psalms. He turned Puritan he
.urned his back on the cathedral and went
n worship in a Puritan conventic!e. he
,ad his reward He got the contract To-,
making powder for CromwelPs army ana
,ecame a mult-millionaire. And when the
Dyke beard, he again wore his velvet douo'
ct. he again went to church with prayer
book and crucifix. He even stood oy anu
,DDlauded when CromwelPs bones were
nung up to dry on TyDurn Hill. lie quick
" became a cavalier and he had his re-
yard. For 10! Charles made him Knight
,f the Garter and he still had the contract
Tor making powder for the English Army
What was his name? You do not know
Nobody knows. You cannot lind 1t WIFI
ten down in any book. But in that same
time there was a poor man VINO was a
Puritan under the first Stuarts, who was
Puritan secretary OF commonwealth uh'
iey Cromwell, and who was Puritan
hind and DOOR an exile threatened witn
1is life under the returned Stuarts. lie
mad the pen of ready writer and the stu.
,rts offered him gold to make the , worse
appear the better side. He said: -, Nay,
nav. / will live in hunger and VIII near
mv children cry for bread, but WIZ noS
seil INV honor. / care not for parties; l
strive only for the truth of the Kingdom
Of Cod And everything be ever SAID ~ 10
prose or in poetry is still remembered. ms
name was John Milton, and every school
|. bow knows it by heart. Seek hrst the
Kingdom of God and fame will hnd You
out. Always the pathway to greatness IS
. along the line OF loyalty to the Kingdom
, Of God. A.,
!. Seek the Kingdom of God, that Is the
, great thing. ANY man who seeks wealth
Tor wealths sake will always Le poor,
though he be clad in purple: Any man
who seeks first and always the kingdom
of God will be rich, whether lie live IN q
. garrett ora kings palace. II is the law OF
the universe. They who love. truth and
. serve her, receive true mans reward,
houses and lands in the present time, and
In the time to come, life eternal. Chang'
ing an old poem little;
, Then to side with truth is noble.
Though we share her wretcned crust,
For her cause brings fame and prest,
And tits prosperous to be Just.