Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-01-26
SECRET OF PROGRESS.


Add to your faith, virtue.-II. Peter
l., Is.
This Is the translation Of our COM
mon version, and virtue, in the time
of King James translators, was syn
onymous with that indefinable quality
called grit, bravery or manliness.
Most people fail for want Of force.
Their backbone is all pulp and their
nature all straw.
Look at the men who have made a
success of their lives, and whose in
fluence tells for righteousness; few
had friends or backing, nothing but
pure grit and invincible purpose to
commend them.
When Lincoln was asked how Grant
impressed him as a general, he re-
piled, The greatest thing about him
is a cool persistence of purpose. He
mas the grip OF bulldog; when he
once gets his teeth in nothing can
shake him off" 1t was ION to Rich
mond" and II shall fight it out on this
line If it takes all summer" that broke
the backbone Of the rebellion.
When Phil Sheridan found his army
retiring before the victorious Early,
the general in command said: "Oh,
sir, we are beaten" NO, sir" said
Sheridan, you are beaten, but not
this army" Then seizing his army as
Jupiter his thunderbolt he hurled 1t
upon the enemy and snatched victory
from the jaws of defeat.
Do you know how General Thomas
Jonathan Jackson received the sobri-
Quet "Stonewall," which never left
him? The troops Of South Carolina,
commanded by General Bell, had been
overwhelmed at the battle of Manas-
sas, and he rode up to Jackson in des-
pair, exclaiming: "They are beating
us back" Then" said Jackson, I'VE
will give them the bayonet." Bell
rode back to his command and cried
out to them to look at Jackson, say
Ing, There he stands like stone
wall. Rally behind the Virginians."
at is in me and it shall come out"
said Sheridan, when told that he
would never make an orator, as he
had failed in his first speech in par
lament He became one Of the fore
most orators of his day.
Behold William Lloyd Garrison. A
broadcloth mob is leading him
through the streets Of Boston by
srope. He is hurried to Jail. He re-
turns unfinchingly to his work, be-
ginning at the point at which he was
Interrupted. Note this heading in the
Liberator: 81 am earnest, | will not
equivocate, l will not excuse, will
not retreat a single inch and | will be
heard" That one man of grit became
Gods red-hot thunderbolt that shiver-
ed that colossal iniquity-slavery.
Even the gallows erected in front Of
his door did not daunt him. His grit
made an unwilling world hear the
word freedom" which was destined
never to cease its vibrations utnil 1t
had breathed its sweet secret to the
last slave.
Grace will avail little unless it Is
REINFORCED by grit Daniel in the
Babylonian court had the same temp
tations that our young people encoun-
ter in social life He was saint In
the corrupt household Of Darius. He
dared to stand alone for principle,
and, instead of losing his head, crown
ed it.
The printer did not make a mistake
who set up that verse about Daniels
spirit: "As for Daniel, an excellent
spine was in him." One of the most
that mighty monosyllable mo" Here
In lies woman's strengthen her
moral excellence. She cannot find her
true dignity apart from goodness. The
regard paid to women in society de-
pends very much upon the standard
Of morality she sets up, and in every
circle she fixes standard above which
few men care to rise. 1t may be NOR
tifying to mems pride, but. it is true
that they seldom rise quite up TO the
standard or morality which women
hold before them.
If woman speaks lightly of religion,
man will blaspheme it. If she is de-
voted to pleasure, he will enter into
dissipation. If she treats temperance
as joke, he will regard drunkenness
as a pardonable fault. Woman is the
law-giver; man is the subject. The
only hope for the moral advancement
of society is to keep woman in the
advance guard. Let her grace point
the way and her grit lead to 1t and
the right progress is secured.
Do you remember that very strik-
Ing scene in George Eliot's Adam
Bede," where Mrs! Poyser,. while