The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1905-03-24

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honest man. You know when he Is
called he will not put you to bed for
an attack of grip and call it pneu-
monia Snd charge you 500 to cure you
of disease you never had. You know
he will not run up useless bills against
you, as some dishonest dentists do,
who, if they cannot find any cavities
in your teeth, will bore holes into them
just to send you bill to make you
support them and their families. You
know that yonder merchant has large
business not because he offers better
goods than his rivals, but because you
can believe his statements in reference
to those goods. Indeed, go further
than my original assertion in refer
ence to my text. A good name is more
often found in a comfortable home
than it is in howell.
Whore Good Names Are Found.
"Seek We first the kingdom Of God
and his righteousness, and all these
things will be added unto you" That
means clothing, food, home, education.
AS a rule, all these blessings accom-
pany the industry of a good name. In
order to win a good name, sacrifices
you will have to make. In order to
win the battle of Waterloo, Wellington
had to make awful sacrifices. A short
time after his famous conquest the
English commander wrote to a dear
friend as follows: What do you think
of the total defeat Of Bonaparte by the
British army? Never was there in the
annals of the world so desperate or SO
hard fought an action or such defeat
1t was really the battle of the giants
My heart is broken by the terrible loss
l have sustained, of my old friends and
companions and my poor soldiers" In
the battle of Waterloo, in which you
have to struggle for good name, you
will have to make many sacrifices, as
did Wellington. But, as rule, you Will
not have to suffer poverty, hunger,
homelessness and cold. A good name
is won by industry, frugllity, purity,
honesty and doing with all your heart
and mind what your hand finds to do.
These characteristics of man, earnest
ly and faithfully followed through life,
will inevitably land a man in better
place than the poorhouse or potter's
field. 1t does not follow because you
are financially poor that you are holy;
it does not follow because you live In
palace that you are rascal. Beau
Brummel died pauper; Peter Cooper
lived in rich mans mansion.
But a good name does more than pay
your butchers and bakers and grocer's
and clothier's bills. 1t does more than
give you title deed to the house in
which you live. 1t offers to you the
most priceless gift on earth, next to
the gift of Jesus Christ, the love Of
your family and your friends and the
love and respect of the community In
which you live. There is an old prov
erb which says: "a man cannot live
on love alone. When poverty knocks
at the door love 1ies out Of the win
dow" Poor proverb that! The richest
home on earth where love is not Is
poorer than the poorest mans howell
where love dwelIs. The love of COM
munity is yours if you will earn it with
the deeds and loves of good man.
IF you were a great man, truly
great man, | could not say this. One
of the heavy prices truly great man,
as a rule, has to pay for his greatness
Is to suffer Misrepresentation and SIAN
Ger and hate. Most of the contempt
raries of John Milton never could ap-
preciate the true worth Of the blind
sage. who in the black exile of national
contempt had to go to his study for
comfort until his blinded eyes saw
more Of the glories of heaven than the
two eyes Of any inspired writer have
ever seen since apostolic times. Many
a soiled statue in Westminster abbey
could be washed as white as the driven
snow If it were only possible to col
lect all the tears which once fell from
the eyes of those whose bodies are now
sleeping under yonder cold marble.
Those tears were shed in the days OF
neglect and ostracism and poverty.
Only the other day ran across an ed
itorial written by one OF the most IA
nous of northern writers, who after
ward became one Of the greatest eulo-
E.sts of our martyred president Abra-
ham Lincoln. This editorial was writ
ten in the heat of the civil war. ANY
man who would go down to Washing
ton and shoot the stupid fool In the
White House would be comforting an
inestimable service on the American
people were it not for the fact there
was a bigger blockhead in the vice
presidential chair" All, yes, the Dit
terest of excavations were huIed NJ
Lincoln when he was alive, as the most
fulsome of eulogies are given to him
now he Is dead.
The Injustice of the Public.
Though the world often has been I'M
Just and bitter to the great men. have
always felt that this persecution and
this bitterness were not due, as rule,
to the innate meanness of the human
race, but rather to its inability at GER
tain times to appreciate the heroes ana
heroines who were sacrificing thetf
lives for the good of their fellow men.
But, my friend. you need not be afraid
that the world will be unable to appre-
clate your good works. IL you are doing
any good works. You are not q great
warrior. a great statesman. great re-
former. You are only an ordinary man,
nving an ordinary life in an ordinar!
place. Therefore If you are kind au,
loving and gentle and forgivlng am
helpful to your fellow men they will b'
kind and loving and fOrglving and gen
tie and helpful to you. Why? Bccaus,
each day Of your life you come int,
personal touch with your little world
and the friends and the people of you
community see you just us you are.
Would you not like to be loved by tn