The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
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This story OF Joseph opens up bright
and trcmulous with life Rs juno
morning. Seventeen-ycnr-old shepherd
boy, light hearted and strong, is strid-
Ing over the fields OF Shechem to find
his brothers and their Cocks He stops
one by the way 10 ask II he has seen
them. The stranger tells him they're
at Dothnn, thirty miles away. He
starts off again with all the buoyanCy
OF youth, his young frank eyes filed
with wonder as he remembers his
strange dreams Ivy night God has told
him he Is to occupy large space some
day II he is faithful In smaller one.
Then the chapter closes like the storm
lest and blacklist day I'm December
when the old year is dying. All Is dark
and black ms sin and guilt and jcal-
ousy can make it-Joseph sod into
slavery, Jacob mourning him IA dead,
the brothers carrying n load OF guilt
that only the years Of Gods providence
can clear away. In that day, In Pha-
raoh's palace, with Joseph as prime
minister, the triumph OF the dreamer
is complete.
Substance and Shadow
In nothing is the practical man 30
likely to err as in Understanding the
value OF the man OF thought He
doesn't read history Alright. Some man
OF thought, some pioneer of imagina-
tion, some dreamer, has been back OF
every worthy work the world has ever
known. Samuel Adams did us much
with his pen as George Washington
with his sword for the colonies. Our
national danger today is American
ideals becoming materialistic We're
pla cling our trust in horses and chart
OTIS rather than in men. | stood not
| long ago on deck OF steamer watching
the launching OF the mightiest engine
Of destruction the world has ever seen,
turret rising upon turret battery upon
battery. No wonder bands played,
flags waved and crowds cheered The
evening papers called attention to this
floating citadel as n symbol Of the pow
er of our great republic. Yet the event
was neither so interesting nor so sug-
gestive of the real glory and hope of
our nation as the simple commence
ment exercises which will take place
in hundreds of towns throughout our
land during the month of June. Young
men and women representing the best
and highest type of the American peo-
pie will graduate from our high schools,
colleges and universities. These rep
resent the real strength Of our nation
more than armies or navles.
Looking at or Through.
"Where there is no vision the people
perish" says Holy Writ. Then is told
the story of Abraham forsaking his
idols going out, mot knowing whith-
err" Jacob at Bethel, with the angels
descending and ascending the heaven
| ly ladder; child Samuel on his couch in
twilight Of temple; Solomon at GibeOn
hearing God say, ASK what l shall
give thee" Tell me your dreams, III
tell you the history Of your life.
Dreams are shadows of things hoped
for, the substance Of things not seen.
Every concrete thing In the world is a
dream made true, whether Indian wo-
man weaving basket in Oklahoma or
engineer pushing tube under Hud-
son river. Phidias dreamed and the
marble spoke; Joan Of Arc dreamed
and French armies fought; Field
dreamed and tied two continents to-
gether; Bell dreamed and the telephone
spoke; Edison dreamed and the phOno-
graph sung; the Wrights dreamed and
airships sail the skies. The worlds
dreamers are the worlds doers, for 1t
must needs be the dream come true.
| The difference between dreamer ana
visionary is as much as between child
like and childish. Much depends ON
the looking. One can look at win
dowpane or beyond It, upon tele-
scope or through 1t.
The Triumph Of tho Dreamer.
When Lorenz, great Austrian sur
geon, was ragged, barefoot lad, he
found one day q glove, the glove of
gentleman. Mother said sadly, ut will
be long before you can earn the other,
my boy" Ever read the story Of win
ming the other glove? It's thrilling.
Years of struggle, poverty, defeat A
terrible ecnsma breaks out on him and
closes the coveted door, Twenty years
later, in our day, the prayers and
blessings Of Europe and America are
his-he has found the other glove.
Thursday noon, Dec. IL, 1901, great
inventor awaits the decisive moment
of his life. Signal Hill, Newfoundland; ;
a bluff, raw day; 800 feet below him
thunders the cold sea stretching out
1000 miles TO the coast Of the British
isles. No sound. A kite gyrates wild
ly above. Then three sharp clicks Ten
minutes later more agreed signals
Dramatic mOment-the dreamer has
wOn-Marconi's wireless is assured.
Surely the Southern Cross never
crowned more sublime scene than at
4 o'clock on the morning Of Oct r.
1892, when Roderigo de Friana from
masthead Of Columbus flagship shouts,
Land, landw The news is flashed
from Pinta to Nina to Santa Maria,
and San Salvador is written on the
worlds map for first time The mys-
terry Of the sea Is revealed-the dream
er's dream Is now history.
What's the dream of that young car
penter2 Ruler of synagogue? Rabbl2
High prtest2 Foolish boy! He has no
| teacher no great frtanda No monav