Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-23

physical temperament 10 Wink III hls
fathers footsteps. And yet. strange
to say. we find many fathers almost
compelling their unwilling boys to be
doctors or lawyers or even ministers or
merchants because they themselves
have made successes in those profess
Bons or businesses. And we also find
many young men forcing themselves to
take up a line of life work for which
they are entirely untiJted merely be-
cause their fathers won fame and for
tune in those walks OF life.
Saul's armor was appropriate to his
magnificent frame. His son Jonathan
NAV have been able to wear it. There
is no reason why if a man is fitted by
nature and mental power TO follow i'll
his fathers footsteps he should not en-
ter the profession his father adorned
and fight in his fathers arm0r. There
are men who have made greater sue
cess than their fathers in the same
field. When we study history we find
that men who were great ministers
lawyers. doctors, artists, authors and
merchants have had sons who became
even greater ministers, lawyers, doe
TORS artists. authors and merchants.
Hamilcar was a great Carthaginian
general. He was the parent of Hanni
bal. who was u greater general than
his noble sire. There were two great
Scipios. father and son. Which was
the greater it is impossible to tell
Samuel D. Gross and II. L. Pancoast
and Lewis A. Sayre were the great
American surgeons Of their times. They
all had sons who became just as great
as they were. Lyman Beechers fame
is no greater than that of his son, Hen
nv Ward Beecher Thomas Moran be-
longs to q family Of artists who are
all masters of the brush. Charles Yves
ley the hymnologist, had a son who
for years was the most eminent organ
|. list of all Europe. Walter DamrOsch
and Frank DamrOsch are treading in
the footsteps of their gifted father, DR..
Leopold DamrOsch. Because a father
is a great musical genius that does not
prove that his son or sons may not be-
come as great musical masters as their
sires. Lord Chatham was premier Of
England. His son, William Pitt, was
premier also. But, though genius in
one line OF work may pass from father
to son and be inherited, that does not
prove that all sons are fitted by brain
and temperament to fight the battle in
| their fathers armor or to achieve with
| the same sword victories such as their
| fathers won.
Great In Different Field.
The son of a great genius may be as
| great a man as his father, but in a
| different sphere. He cannot wear his
| fathers armOr, but he can wear armOr
of another kind in which he may win
victories in a different field. Oliver
| Wendell Holmes was one of the most
| beloved writer's in American history.
His son is a great man. but he is not a
great writer. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr., is a member of the highest judicial
bench of the world. He is an hOnOred
associate justice of the supreme court
of the United States. Judge Joseph
Story had one of the greatest legal
minds this nation ever produced In
his class room at Harvard many who
afterward became great lawyers sat at
his feet to learn of this modern Cana
liel. Judge Story had a son who be-
came one Of the greatest Of America
sculptors -William Wetmore Story.
Here we find the laws of heredity
changed A great lawyer has a poet
and sculptor for son, while in Oliver
Wendell Holmes case we find a poet
who has a great lawyer for son.
What is true in reference to law and
poetry is also true in reference to the
ministry. Great ministers have had
sons who became great ministers, but
that does not imply that all boys born
in a parsonage should follow the pro
fession of their fathers. John Mitchell
Mason was the greatest pulpit orator
of New York city in his day. He dice
Dec. %, 1929. A contemporary gives
this powerful description of this kine
Of pulpiteers who Swayed his audience.
for Christ: Taken altogether NJ
American preacher has combined NOR,
impressive qualities. His aspect wa
t on a scale of grandeur correspondin:
2 to the majesty of the mind within
IAN, ROBUST, WITH Il mead modelled afte
S neither Grecisn nor Roman standard
: yet symmetrical, combining the dig
e nifty of the one and the grace of tn
f other, with an eye that shot fire, e.
: pecially when under the excitement c
+ earnest preaching, yet tender and tea
' full when the pathetic chord was toucl
s ed. with a forehead broad and high an
L with a mouth and a chin expressive {
4 firmness and decision, DR.. Mason stoo
before you, the prince of American pu
t pit orators" But, though John Mitche
e Mason was all that, his father, Re
2 John Mason, was just as great. job
l Mitchell Mason without doubt inherite
2 the pulpit genius of his father. Bl
r as l read history where l find OF
minister's son who became a gret
} minister l also find a dozen minister
sons who won their fame in oth'
: walks of life than in the ministry. b
the ministerial talent is not necessaril
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