Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-06-30

III some courtroom, or MS astronomers
exploring the pathway of the stars.
But nov instead of being artists and
creating masterpieces to hung IN the
French salon. we find ourselves com.
mon sign painters. Instead Of being
authors writing books. we find our
felves AS common printers. setting the
type or as b0okhindcrs putting other
mems books together Instead of he
ing n Catherine Booth or Il Frances
Huvcrgal or II Miss Willard or a Fanny
Crosby or Susan H. Anthony, we
find ourselves washing dishes and
scruhbing floors and cooking meals and
being household drudg,'S The vapor
and the miSts Of early childhood. upon
which were photographed and reflected
the dreams Of youthful ambitions. hive
been condensed into the common pud
dies Of everyday life. "Oh, you say.
how my early hopes have mlscarricd.
From living among the clouds | have
dropped Ia hc nothing hut snail
crawling In the dirt Bitter. bitter. are
the waters which have been condensed
from the nistS Of our early dreams
photographed in the miragcs OF the
nursery and the schOolroum''
Yes. my brother. II Is certainly sad
to see PAU Potter cXhauStng his
genius rs a sign painter. Perhaps you
have been to Europe and have stood
before "Thc Jewel of The Hague" II
f. the picture of the farm lands There
under II tree are lying Il COW. n goat n
mother sheep and Il himb. But above
them all stands the magnificent proper
tions of the male offspring of that COW.
Strong powerfully formed Is he. From
the looks of the animal lie must he
about Il year and half old. Instead of
the mother protecting him. he now
stands ms the protector of the mother.
All the artistic world has sat before
that picture rs before shrine Yet
Paul Potter painted The Jewel of The
Hague" for Il tavern sign. For years IL
swaycd backward and forward. heck
oning the traveller to come and find
rest and refreShment behind the open
doors There are many Paul Pottcrs.
There are many men and women who
have had beautiful and inspiring earth
~ dreams. hut they have never been
able to make those dreumS matcrialize.
The vapors which photographed those
miragcs of early childhood have been
changed into the common puddlcs Of
prosnic. ordinary life.
But have you and | n right To sup.
pose that the work of any Paul Potter
has gone nStray and been uselcSSf Let
me mention Il few Of the Paul Totters
of your life There was your mother.
She was what might he called n
household drudge" Was her life Il
failnrcf Sh" spent far more time in
washing dishes and with the sewing
needle IN her hand than you do. Her
family was larger Was her life use
less. hundrum one? Then there was
that proprietor Of the village store near
your fathers farm Most OF his life
shirt sleeves: but were not his quaint
words of wisdom carried far up and
down those valleysf Was not his help
ing hand extended To every Onci And
were not the words he So often gave
To his customers of God bless YOU"
the means OF spiritually blessing hun
dreds upon hundreds Of livesf And
there was your old nurse Was her
life failuret Henry Ward Beecher
once declared that one of the greatest
gospel teachers he ever studied under
was an old black man. who used Ia
work for his father and who used 10
sing Ia him the gospel SONGS and tell
10 the towheaded boy Henry the Bible
stories which ever after were SO pre-
cious to him. DO you mean 10 tell me
that your opportunities for working
for God and man are not as great as
those of the old black man who used tn
work IN Lyman Beechcr's parsonage and
who helped start Henry Ward Beecher
out on his worldwide ministry
Farragurs Opportunity.
Then most people have no right 10
complain about their insignificant posi-
tons. hccaiise they are not yet through
with life. and they do not know what
positions OF conspicuousncss they may
yet he called upon 10 fill. | was in
tcnsely Interested the other day In
reading about the supreme moment OF
Farraguts life That moment was
when In command OF the Hartford he
was leading his ships into Mobile bay.
The monitor Tccumseh was NJ the
head OF the line. She struck II torpedo
In the most dangerous part of the en-
trance TO the bay and almost instantly
disappeared Soon the next boat in
line. the l,rooklyn. began TO back wa
ter away from the dreaded torpcdocs
AMI was backing upon the aduiral's
flagship. All seemed lost But sud
denly Admiral farragut lifted his
trumpet and called. -Four bells. Cap.
tain nraytnn; 20 ahead" Instantly
the flagship moved ahead. and all the
other ships followed As the ships
passed into the hnrhor the men could
hear the torpedocs humping upon the
huls But they were dumb torpedoes
ana exploded not. All America and
the whole civilized world NJ once hail
ed Admiral Farragut as one of the
bOldeSt naval heroes But Farragut