The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-09-29

many separate drinks, SO we become
saints in the moral and authorities
and experts in the practical and
scientific spheres, by so many separ-
ate acts and hours of work. Let
no youth have any anxiety about the
upshot Of his education, whatever the
line Of 1t may be. II he keeps faith
fully busy each hour Of the working
q day, he may safely leave the final
result to itself. He can with perfect
certainty count on waking up some
fine morning, to find himself one
of the competent ones Of his genera
ton, In whatever pursuit he may have
singled out. Silently, between all the
details of his business, the power of
judging, in all that class of matter,
will have built itself up within him
as a possession that will never pass
away"
"It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth" Let me re-
mind you Of some cases in which this
has proved true.
You have all heard of Daniel Web
ster. When he was ten years old he
was sitting one day with his father
in the bayfield,, and the father said,
Daniel, exert yourself, improve all
your opportunities-you may do far
better in life than / have DONE The
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fathers breast, and promised never
to idle away a moment that might
be devoted to study. In five years he
entered Dartmouth College, and in
eight years, while still in college,
he delivered a fourth OF July Grafton
before the citizens of Hanover which
embraced all the great principles
which distinguished Daniel Webster's
entire public career. The ten year
old boy in the bayfield, had In eight
years made himself into Daniel Web
ster, the statesman. OF course he had
done it by hard work and obedience
to the laws of his conscience. 1t was
good for Daniel Webster that he bore
the yoke in his youth.
The distinguished French patriot
Lafayette was the son of nobility,
and might easily have shirked all
Jokes. But he devoted himself to
study, mastered foreign languages,
history, philosophy, and military sci
ence. You have heard of his coming
to America to assist Washington in
the revolutionary war. Congress made
him a major general, and gave vote
of thanks for his victory Of Monmouth.
How old do you suppose he was?
Only one and twenty. 1t was good for
him to bear the yoke in his youth.
1t is not the genius of these men
which we admire, but the fact that
they worked and studied and obey
ed the laws of conscience in ear
ly years. Isaac Newton had so stu
died. trained himself, and borne the
yoke in his early years that he made
his great discovery at %. Sir Hum
phrey Davy made his great discovery
at 81, Mccormick invented his har-
vester at %. James Watt, kinsman OF
our Prof. Raine, perfected his first
work on the steam engine before he
was 30, Geo. Bancroft, the historian,
won the decorate in Philosophy at
Gottingen at 20, Elihu Burnett the
learned blacksmith sat down to stu
dy night after night with aching
limbs and calloused hands, and MASTER
ed so languages by the time he
was q. Livingston was a weaver at
IL and spent his first earnings for
a Latin grammar. He was exploring
Africa at 20. All these men bore the
yoke in their youth.
John Tyndall, the scientist. at u
was errand boy to a surveyor. fell
low workman saw his ability and ad-
vised him to study. Next morning
Tyndall was at his books at five
o'clock, and he kept up that morn
ing study for dozen years.
Bayard Taylor, the traveller, lee
turer and poet, wrote in his diary at
16, 81 am now a humble teacher, but
l might by unremitting and arduous
intellectual and moral exertion be-
come a light, a star, among the names
of my country. May it be-" His pray
er was fulfilled.
Wendell Phillips, Americas great
est orator, when IL years Of age heard
Lyman Beecher preach upon the theme
"You belong to God" He went home,
locked his door and prayed, 20 God,
/ belong to thee, take what is thine
own" From that hour he spurned
temptation and undertook every duty
with courage. At 26 he quelled the
Boston mob. He had borne the yoke
of obedience.
George Washington at 1S copied
out hundred and ten maxims and
rules, of good behavior. Thus ne
sought to put on the yoke Of obed-
icDce.
Noxv hava haan maintaining VOung