Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-11-09

ObiAC Va NhO <ot'
seeking the haunts of the American
birds. to reproduce their likenesses In
his portfolios. After years Of work he
went TO Philadelphia with the results
of his labor. He was compelled to
leave the city for u few weeks, and
when he returned he found that the
ats had entirely destroyed the results
Of a decade of labor. The precious
portfolios which contained the delinea.
tions of over a thousand rare birds
were forever ruined. His portfolios
were forever destroyed, as the manu-
script Of "The French Revolution Of
Thomas Carlyle was burned by an ig-
norant servant, who threw 1t into the
fire as worthless paper when she was
sent into the study Of the friend to
whom he had lent 1t to clean up. So
great was the shock in Audubon's case
that ut first he was flung upon a bed Of
sickness, where for weeks he lowered
between life and death. Then he arose
and went back to the forest. He hunted
up his old friends, the birds. He spent
three more long, weary years repro
ducing what the rats had made nests
Of. Aud he did all this for the love Ut
science, for during Audubon's lifetime
his printed books hardly paid for the
cost Of the printing.
What Is true in reference to science
and professional life is equally true in
business. The young man who makes
a success In business Is the one who
makes his employers interests his own.
1t il not the young man who simply
does what lie is told to who Is promot-
ell in the store. 1t is not the young
man who works with his eyes upon the
clock, ready to drop his tools at the
first stroke of the bell. who becomes
the foreman Of the factory. II Is he
young man who is a perfect glutton
for work who finally sits in the glass
office. 1t Is the young man who is will
ing to do what he Is not asked 10 do,
and what other clerks are unwilling to
do. who finally gets the promotion. In
other words, the successful man in the
mercantile world is the successful man
in the scientific or the professional
| world. the man who for others IL ready
to travel the twain mile.
Oh. the neglected opportunities OF
business. to which some of us shut our
eyes. These neglected opportunities
are lying about, despised, everywhere
around us. The story is told that one
day a couple of humorists were wan.
dering through the geological gardens
of London. While there they saw the
carcass Of a huge lion being dragged
from its cage. In a spirit Of fun they
bought it and sent the dead lion us Il
joke to their friend. Sir Edwin Land
seer. 1t arrived at the great artists
house early n morning. The servant.
in amazement, went aud awOke his
master to ask him what he should do
with it. Landseer at once dressed and
went down to see it. He stood IA mo-
ment and looked at the huge body
Then he said. Bring it into my study
They carried it in. Then I.andseer
paint. He painted that dead lion in
the midst Of a great expanse OF sand,
He called the picture The Desert" II
became his most famous masterpiece.
The model which his friends tossed
aside as u joke he took and made out
of it a stepping stone to O throne. So
in professional as well as in mercan-
tile life there are opportunities lying
about II everywhere. If we grasp
them in the love Of work, IL we sacri'
fee for them, even though Mt the time
they may seem to amount to naught,
our dead lions" will become Giving
lions" When a man works for love,
then a man. like Sir Edwin Landseer,
will make everything he touches re-
dound to his own success. IF in the
mercantile world thy employer compel
thee to 60 with him one mile, so with
him twain"
The Call of the Church.
But there is another authority that
has a right to subpoena your time and
your sacrifice. just as Caesars courier
had a right to compel the Hebrew tC
protect him when he was carrying the
royal message over the Judaean hills
This authority is the church. 1t has
right to come to you in the home, in
the store-anywhere you may be-and
say: .'God wants your money. Goo
wants your time. God wants your
personal sacrifices. Come with me fol
at least II mile" Now Christ says
I'm the name Of the church you should
not only be willing to go II mile FOL
Gods church: you should be willing Il
go the twain mile" Yet how few PEG
pie are willing to give up their none!
and time and personal sacrifices fol
the church of God as they ought.
You seem to have time for almOs
every other line of work OH earth bu
that of the church. i go to you t0da!
and say: Mrs. So-and-so, l do wisl
you would come and work in III Sun
day school. l have one Of the fines
classes of girls You ever saw. Ther'
are almost twenty girls in it. They ar
just at the critical age Of life. If w
can only hold them for five or six years
longer they will make grand workers
for God. But they must have the righ'
kind Of a teacher. Will you Gomez
Aud inevitably | hear an answer some
thing like this: ''Oh, l can't come. Tha
"a l will have to get up early Sun
day morning and always be there. Y0l
had better ask some one else who cal
be more faithful and better fitted fol
that work han l." And 81 l am pu
Off from getting the right kind of teach
ers for my Sunday school, just as near