The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-24
ROCKS, WRECKS, RESULTS.
Excerpts from an Address by Prof. J.
Willis Barney. Son OF Rev. j. II.
Barney, Of ClsarviIIe, Pa.
DELIVERED AT ELoN COLLEGE, N. C.

"a ship, laden with many pas
sengers, starts from New York
across the Atlantic. With smooth
seas and favoring winds she is
proudly plowlng her way across
the mighty deep, when suddenly
with grinding crash, she stops.
The cry OF Crooks ahead" goes
up; her engines are reversed, and
she backs off, only TO give lurch
and go down with all on BOARD;
or if she does not at once sink,
she is deserted by her passengers
and is left to drift, derellct of
no value to any one, and menace
to navigation, avoided by other
vessels; and, unless she is towed
into port BY another ship, after
tossing about for a tim ), she fin.
ally sinks.
"How often do "e see a human
life, freighted with rich possioili-
ties, go down to eternal destruc
tion after having given promise
of making a successful voyage,
The shores of time are strewn
with such wrecks. We may see
them at every turn in our great
cities. We pick up newspaper
and in glaring type we read {;
"Suicide of once prominent
business man." The ship has
gone down. We draw back i'll
disgust from a miserable beng
who, clothed in rags and reeking
with alcohol and tobacco, comes
reeling down the street. The
ship is still drifting, although
abandoned and avoided by others.
"When rock dangerous to
navigation Is discovered in the
ocean, 1t is marked by a buoy so
that mariners IN the future may
be able to avoid it. The rocks on
which so many human lives are
wrecked are also marked; but
how many rush blindly upon
them, either trusting to fate or
Indifferent as to the result.
"Let us stand on the shore,
and, looking out over the ocean
on which we are about to EN- bark,
read the names on the buoys
which mark the rocks along our
passage. Mark you, l say along,
because there Is a passage safe
from all dangers.
'The first we see is Idleness.
How many promising young men
and women starting out in life,
( have struck on the rock, Idieness,
and there have gone down, or
thereafter have drlfted slowly on
without any definite purpose or
/ ambition. Remember, that only
/ by conquering every lesson or
! task assigned to US, may we
steer entirely clear of this rock
D 'Look at the second. 1t is
D marked Low Con Jersatlon and
( Pre- family. We recall fable
: which told of poor shepherd
who one day found a small blue
3 flower on the hillside on which
+. his focks were grazing. AS soon
] as he had plucked the flower he
D saw before him a door which op-
r ened into the interior Of the hill.
/ He entered and found himself in
. the presence of an old kobold
1 who was seated on throne in the
s midst Of a magnificent cham ber
j. lighted by hundreds of glistenlng
Z ldul pS, duu uiiSu Will ucduIllul
4 gems of all kinds. the kobold
!. spoke kindly to him and told MIN
g to take all he wanted and not for.
j, get the best. The shepherd ca
5 gerly filled hls pockets with gems
S and was leaving, when the kobold
# cried out "Don't forgett the best.
G The shepherd, thinking he meant
}, the best stones emptied his pock
8 cts and refilled them with larger
/. ones and started to leave again
n when again ho was checked by
It the words, "Don t forget the
{. best" Again he emptied his
d pockets and rehlled them with
/, the largest gems he could find,
a and again as he turned to so did
q he hear the words, Don't forget
Is the best" but this time he pass
d ed out AS soon as he came Out
q INTO the sunlight he felt IN bis
l. pockets 10 reassure himself thai