Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1881.
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Jefferson Davis on Forestry.
Beauvoir, 10th Oct., 188i.
Sidney Root, Esqh.,
My Dear Sir:—Please
accept my thanks for the reports you have sent
me of the proceedings of the forestry Congress
Bv a brief compliance with your request I will
endeavor to show my grateful acknowledge
ment of your consideration.
The subject to which the attention of your
Association is directed has long commanded
my deep interest, and it has grieved me to sec,
as is too often the case, the danger that delay
of appropriate remedies has created. .
In *1830 there were between the upper i.Iissis-
sippi and the great lakes the finest forests of
mast timber to be found east of the Rocky
Mountains. Now they are Baid to have been
ouiie destroyed to make lumber for purposes
for which inferior trees would have served; and
that, such is the fact is indicated by the closer
attention recently given to the southern forests
by northern lumbermen.
How is the devastation to be checked. After
the land has become private property, contro.
ol it has passed to the owners, therefore it is
suggested whether that, where timberlands are
remaining in the hands of the government, the
sale of such should not be limited to alternate
sections, and whether no grants should be
made except in lots for actual settlement and
cultivation. In homestead grants conditions
might be introduced among which would be
the preservation of a certion portion of the
land in timber on each lot so granted. v\ her-
ever a public work would warrant the grant of
aid from the government, wby should not
money be given instead of land, and this herit
age retained for coming generations.
The startling exposures which have been
made of frauds and misappropriations of the
public lands raises the question whether for
security in administerting it, as well as for
public content, it would not be better to trans
fer the control of the public lands to the States
in which they lie. Agents of equal capacity
with those heretofore employed might be ob
tained and the State supervision would have
the prompting of a direct interest and greater
facilities for information.
The arbor-day presents a happy method of
renewing destroyed forests as well as creating
them on prairie and swamp lands where they
have not, within the memory of man, existed
In the northwest there are marshes which,
have no present or prospective value but which
might be utilized for forestry purposes with
tamarach. This tree does not attain a great
siz- > , but is very durable and the trunks are
quite straight. It was tne material mainly
employed In building the cantonment of Fort
Winnebago and also to make causeways across
the boggy marshes, for all of which it was
found to be admirably adapted. Why should
riot those marshes be thus made profitable?
In the historic field of Colloden there was, at
the date of the battle of that name a bare boggy
moor, it has since been covered by a dense
forest of larcb, a European variety imported
into Scotland and utilized as already stated.
Beyond the preservation of timber for me
chanical and domestic uses, there are climatic
and other considerations of grave importance.
The first effect of clearing the forest and reduc
ing the laud to cultivation is to aggravate the
spring Hoods through many tributaries into the
main°chamiels or rivers of the country—the
destructive oveiilows of the valley of the Ohio
which have lately been experienced would indi
cate this as the cause, for it is known that
there the ratio of cutivated timber land is ex
ceptionally great. This is however only the
lir3t effect due to the oestruction of the forest,
beyond that, we may anticipate aridity as the
consequence. It is proverbially the character
istic of the wise to learn from the experience
of others, and as the occupation of this coun
try by agricultural men is yet comparatively
recent, we must lcok elsewhere for instructive
examples of the effect to be produced by the
destruction of the forests. In this connection
let us refer to Spain; when Cesar invaded that
country there is evidence that it was not want
ing in rainfall. Travelers have noticed the
large stone bridges he built over what are now
mere rivulets, but which then must have been
rivers of such magnitude as required the bridg
es which stand to attest the need for which
they were constructed. Also districts which
were once productive are no w dependent upon
irrigation. The only assigned cause for the
change is the denudation of the land. From
like cause we must necessarily conclude like
results will follow under similar circumstan-
ces.
The extensive territory of the United States,
with its various climatic conditions present
many phases of the climatic problem. The
vapor which rises from the Gulf of Mexico as
from a vast cauldron is oorue northeastwardly
by the prevailing aerial current over the Gulf
States giving to them such an amount of rain
fall that they are marked on the pieterogical
charts as the rainy belt. There, it nrghtbe
assumed that the danger wo have been con
sidering from the destruction of forests would
not exist; but there are other consequences
alike injurious. If the land be exposed to the
scorching rays of a semi-tropical sun, there
w.ll be accelerated evaporation of useful mois
ture, and if the land be left to the free sweep
ot the winds, atmospheric fertilization will be
lost. From the joint effect of both productive
ness must be impaired though the rainfall
should continue.
In higher latitudes the anticipated atmos
pheric aridity would diminish the winter
snows, and the exposure of the surface would
increase the power of winter frosts, a contmu-
atian seriously detrimental to winter crops.
East of the Reeky Mountains and south of
the 45th degree of latitude, about the atmos
pheric current from the equator descends to
tie surftc ■, lies the grand prairie, or, as it has
been called, “the American desert.”
That the absence of forests in that rigion is
due to aridity only is shown by tbe fringes of
trees along its few water courses. The cause
of the existing aridity is assignable to the fact
that ihe prevailing westerly current ot air com
ing from toe Pacific Ocean haa ita aqueous
vanor condensed in passing over the lofty
ranges of mountains which intercept it. At
some places it may be practicable, by artesian
wells to obtain water in sufficient volume to
fiow upon the sraface and to that extent, the
land would no doubt be soon clothed with
trees. Whether any climatic effect would be
thereby produced is problematical, but is it
not worth the experiment if the result should
only afford shelter for the herdsman, and the
herds and flocks which this vast pasture is
capable of supporting
It was surely a misnomer to call this region
a desert in view of the fact that myriads of
buffalo with herds of deer and antelope former
ly found adequate subsistence upon the “grand
prairie”
With gratification I have noticed the noble
purposes of your association, contrasting so
honorably with the selfish aims of partisan
strife. With cordial wishes for the success of
“the Forestry Congress."
I am faithfully yours,
Jefferson Davis.
FLORIDA ORANGE GROVES.
An Excellent Letter from a Reliable
Source.
Editor Sunny South: In a former letter I
stated that Marion county shipped one-fourth
the orange crop of the State. Since then I see
it stated in “Webb’s Florida,” that this county
shipped “two thirds.” This is certainly a mis
take, or a misprint.
Tbe severe cold of Jan. 1880, has discouraged
many who had yoimg groves cut down to the
ground, but as such low temperature as that of
the past two winters had not been known here in
fifty years, we may reasonably hope for ordin
ary winters now, for many years to come.
When trees have attained a sufficient age to be
in good bearing, and are kept in thriving condi
tion we regard them as out of danger from any
freeze ever known in this section.
Mr. Jones, the editor of the Times-Union, of
Jacksonville, visiting this county, says of the
groves on Orange Lake, “A giimpgs of those
groves, or any one of them, is sufficient to re
assure anybody whose confidence in the orange
industry had been shaken by last winters freeze.
In this Garden of the Hesperides, the only
effect of the freeze, so far as is apparent, has
been to increase the yield. The Harris grove
will drop 40,000 boxes this season; Bishop,
Hoyt & Co., 35,000; the Crescent grove Co.,
20,000; John O. Mathews, 10,000; Jno. Church,
10,000; Brown & Allen, 8,000, &c. Not only is
the yield increased this season, but in quality
and color the fruit surpasses any previous
crop.”
Your correspondent is receiving letters in
quiring how long it takes to bring an orange
grove into bearing and probable cosc.
If we have to commence a grove from the
seed, it takes seven years. Most of the old
groves about here, were that length of time
coming into bearing but as nurseries are now
plentiful in this region seedlings five years old,
may be had for about 35 to 40 cents each which
may be expected to bear fruit in three years
from setting out. Two years old buds on sour
stock, can be bought for 30 to 35 cents each,
which may begin to bear in two years; or three
years old buds, at 81 each, which are expected
to bear in one year from planting. Such trees
a few years ago were scarce and sold from §2
to $3 each. One advantage in using buddid
stock is that the purchaser may select just such
varieties as he may fancy.
As it is common to set the trees thirty feet
apart in the rows, it takes forty-nine trees to
the acre, if more than one acre is planted; so
your readers may calculate the cost of trees at
nursery.
Land costs from ?10 to 825 for good pine
lands; hammock land from 835 to 850 per acre
according to quality and situation. A grove
of five acres is all a man of small means should
undertake, at least until his grove becomes
self-sustaining. A grove of this size will take
good care of an ordinary family, if it(the grove)
is properly cared for. No grove, if neglected,
will be long profitable.
While trees are small, crops of corn, or cot
ton or vegetables are often planted between
the rows. It is common to sow the ground in
field-peas, and turn under the vines as a fertili
zer.
As lumber is cheap a good board fence will
cost only about sixty cents per rod.
The first ploughing costs obout 82 50 per
acre.
Experience has demonstrated that young
and tender trees may be protected against
cold, by wrapping them by the middle of No
vember, with Spanish moss, at a cost of about
two cents a tree. Elevation also protects
against frost. It is usual, since the cold of
1880, to leave all the timber possible as protec
tion for young trees, so that the cost, at first,
of starting a grove will be much reduced.
Fine or mixed lands may thus be prepared for
the plough at a cost of about 85 per acre.
An orange tree is “a thing of beauty” when
in bloom, or laden with its golden fruit; but to
become “a joy forever” it must be planted on
good soil, and’well worked and well cared for.
Some parties are already shipping oranges
which have been artificially ripened, or rather
I should say, yellowed. Those who buy them
will not form a just idea of a good ripe Florida
orange. The shippers may make money now,
by this fraud, but the reputation of our fruit
will inevitably suffer, and hone3t growers by
damaged.
This county vo‘ed, Sept. 20th, to close the
saloons,by a handsome majority. The religious
portion of the people, and the friends of tem
perance were greatly surprised and mortified
at the stand taken by Ex-President Jefferson
Davis, on the Liquor question.
R. M. Typings.
Anthony, Marion Co. Fla.
I’. S.-Parties wishing advice about starting a
grove now, and not coming to Florida for a few
years yet. Many non-residents own groves in
this State, and pay them a visit in winter, but
ucless the grove is ol such extent as to justify
employing a reliable man to live on it and de
vote his entire time to it, the results have not
been satisfactory.
I have selected lands for parties who could
not come and select for themselves, and who
relying upon my judgement, and decription
given, have chosen a tract from a number ac
curately described to them. I obtain deed,
and examine chain of titles, before paying over
purchase money. I then employ reliable par
ties to clean and fence the tract, select trees,
and see that they are properly transplanted,
and afterwards properly attended to. This is
a delicate trust, and of course, I cannot do all
the above without suitable remuneration.
R. M. T.
Cuttings, Crafts and Buds.
A hybrid cotton growing in Hanvett county,
central North Carolina, has been discovered
that averages 50 bolls of cotton to the stalk
where the common cotton has only 7 or 8.
This new cotton has leaves similar to okra.
Eighty dollars per bushel have been offered for
the seed.
In England a very fine flavor is imparted to
the fiesh of fattening turkeys by feeding them,
in confinement, with cooked food in which
chopped sweet herbs, like parsley, have been
mixed.
Since the beginning of the present year, the
100 hens (more or less) of B. B. Reames, of
Oakland, have laid 375 dozen of eggs, not in
cluding those used by the family.
A good farmer writes: Don’t plow land in
the spring until it is dry enough to crumble as
your plow passes through it.
A gill of linseed meal fed daily to each cow
or horse will keep the bowels in good condi
tion and greatly promote the health.
The grape-growers of New York have resort
ed to burning fires in their vineyards and gath
ering fruit all night to escape the frosts.
At a California agricultural show two tons
ot grapes form one exhibit, illustrating the
culture of the vine in one coHnty.
Talking is like playing on the harp, there is
as much in laying the hand on the strings to
stop their vibrations as in twanging them to
bring out their music.—Qlicer Wendell Homes.
When men live as if there were no God, it
becomes expedient for them that there should
be none; and then they endeavor to pursuade
themselves so.—Tillotson.
No man can be provident of his time who is
not prudent in the choice of his company.—
Jeremy Taylor.
He that despairs measures Providence by
his own little contracted model.—South.
The great principle of human satisfaction is
engagement.—Paley.
How ready is envy to mingle with the no
tice which we take of other persons.—Dr. I.
Watts.
Friendship improves happiness and abates
misery by the doubling of our joy and the di
viding of our grief.—Cicero.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on
the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to
cast a gleam of light on these that are without,
while the inhabitants sit in darkness.—Han
nah More.
The purse of the patient frequently protracts
his cure.—Zimmermann.
Government is the creature of the people ,and
that which they have created they surely have
a right to examine.—Robert Hall.
Gratitude is properly a virtue, disposing the
mind to an inward sense aud an outward ac
knowledgement of a benefit received, together
with a readiness to return the same, or the
like, as the occasions of the doer shall require,
and the abilities of the receiver extend to.—
South.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and
cementing principle.—Edmund Burke.
0Lft[PtoT
Curious
Arbor dav-A Local Holiday.
Governor Hill, in a speech at the Orange
County Fair. Newburg, N. Y., favored a State
law legalizing another holiday, to be known as
“Arbor Day,” to be devoted to tree planting,
tree culture and education in forestry.
We believe that our readers, generally, will
approve the above wise suggestion; but we
would suggest that tbe holiday should be
National, instead of State.
Agriculture a Born Science.
Those who look upon farming as only an
ordinary occupation are mistaken. As Prof.
Wrighton remarks, agriculture is a born
science. It is full of botany, zoology, geology
and entomology. It is full of chemistry, from
the soil to the growing plant, the ripening seed
and the animal life which is the crowning out
come. There is no more varied pursuit, and
most others are narrow in their scope in com
parison with it.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
Nianaeement of Poultry-Read It.
I have just been experimenting with a flock
of forty hens belonging to a neighbor. I found
five of them in jail for sitting too much, many
of the others were molting and the whole forty
only laid five eggs a day. I cleaned up their
coops and yards, prevented their eating corn
with the hogs, and fed them with a mixture of
bran and oats in the morning and clear oats at
night. Bone broken up line was also given to
them and earthenware pounded up fine was
given every morning in place of oyster shells,
which are'not readily obtainable here. In five
days they increased to twelve eggs a day, and
before two weeks they laii as high as thirty
eo-gs a day. Y, r e thus see that, contrary to the
usual notion, fowls having plenty of run and a
little feed require an addition of lime and gravel
in some shape to produce eggs. When the
hens roam on the grass plots, the growth fre-
cmently covers the ground so closely that the
fowls cannot set gravel, and disease breaks
out. This should be guarded against. They
must have lime. It is well to use wood ashes
for beds in which the birds can wallow and rid
themselves of lice. The droppings should al
ways be carefully saved for garden manure.—
T. L Foulboef.
A young Mexican girl is soon to appear in
the arena as a bull-fighter.
Twenty-five thousand and thirty-seven loco
motives in the United States killed 142(3 rail
road employes the past year, and wounded
6548. Nearly one half of these accidents oc
curred in coupling cars.
There is a watch in a Swiss musenm only
three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, insert
ed in the top of a pencil case. Its little dial
indicates not only hours, minutes and sec
onds, but also days of the month.
The building of railroads in Mexico has
been accompanied by a singular phenomena.
Wherever the rails are laid rain follows, and
where there are no rails there has been i
drought. The fact is said to be well authenti
cated.
Death Valley, Nev., is to be turned into an
ostrich ranch. A Mexican has fourteen well-
grown chicks that he hatched oat there at his
little ranch from eggs brought from the neigh
borhood of Los Angeles. The eggs were bur
ied in the hot sand, and of nights the ground
was covered with blankets to retain the heat
it absorbed during the day. The ranch is
about 220 feet below the level of the sea.
An astonishing firearm has been introduc
ed in France. It is of French origin, and
wonderful in the results obtained. At three
thousand feet distant ninety-eight per cent, of
the balls hit a number of baskets representing
a company of soldiers. Col. Lebel, the inven
tor, stood within ten feet of a target while one
of his friends fired at it 0000 feet distant.
A case of poisoning by nutmeg is recorded
in the British Medical Journal, in which one
nutmeg had been eaten by a patient as a cure
for diarrbeea. It caused him to become giddy,
stupid and very drowsy all next day. The
narcotic properties of these seeds, and of oth
ers of the same natural order, do not appear to
be generally known, and seem worthy of in
vestigation.
Two interesting physical experiments are
amusing French scientific men. In the first a
lighted candle is placed behind a bottle and the
latter is blown upon with the breath from a
distance of about a foot. The meeting of the
air currents set in motion around the bottle
quickly extinguishes the flame, though extinc
tion would be impossible if a flat board or
sheet of cardboard should be substituted for
the bottle. For the second experiment two
botties are placed on a table, with a space of
half an inch between them. The candle is
set behind ihis space, and from the same dis
tance as before, on the opposite side, the
breath is blown smartly against the flame. Not
only tfill the latter continue burning, but
it will incline slightly toward the operator as
if through the effort of suction. This phe
nomenon, analogous to the first, is due to the
fact that a portion of the air cannot pass be
tween the bottles, and is forced around them
and back toward the experimenter.
1$ igftorical.
The Parian Chronicle is on marble, found at
Paros, and (if true) formed in 284 B. C.
Chinese chronology is founded on their ob
servations of eclipses over 4700 years ago.
By an inudation at Dort in 1447, seventy-two
villages were swept away and 100,000 people
perished.
The Hindoo Vedas, or Laws of Menu, ad
dressed to a civilized people, were edited by
Kuilnea, about 880 B. C.
The first known circulating library is said to
be that of St. Pampbilus of Ciesarea, who in
307 A. D. collected 30,000 volumes to lend out.
The Roman Empire ended with the taking of
Rome by Odoacer, who was made king of Italy,
A. D. 476. This was 1228 years after the
building of the “Eternal City."
The battle of Bosworth, in which Richard
III, was defeated and killed, and Richmond
won his way to the English throne as Henry
VII.,eccured A. D. 1485.
The origin of spinning, weaving and dyeing
is ascribed by tbe Egyptians to Isis, by the
Greeks to Minerva, and by the Peruvians to
the wife of Manco Copac.
Coffee was first used in Arabia^ about 1420,
and was introduced at Cairo in 1530, at Con
stantinople in 1554, at Venice in 1615, at Paris
in 1644, and in London in 1652.
The Bibliothfque Royale, Paris, was found
ed with only twenty books in 1340. It is now
one of the finest libraries in Europe, especially
rich in ancient manuscripts.
“A little fire is quickly trodden out
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.”
Procrastination may rob you of time, but by
increased diligence you can make up the loss;
but if it rob you of life the loss is irremediable.
If your health jis delicate, your appetite fickle,
your sleep broken, your mind depressed, your
whole being out of sorts, depend on it you are
seriously diseased. In all such cases Dr.
Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will
speedily effect a genuine, radical cure—make
a new man of you and save you from the tor
tures of lingering disease.
Inter State Poultry Association.
The Inter-state Poultry Association will
have an exhibition at Jackson, Tennessee,
December, 12-17.
Western Settler’s Chosen Specific.
With every advance of emigration into th®
far West, a new demand is created for Hos ■
tetter’s Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled re
gions are frequently less salubrious than older
settled localities, on account of the miasma
which rises from recently cleared land, par
ticularly along the banks of rivers that are
subject to freshets. The agricultural or min
ing emigrant soon learns, when he does net
already know, that the Bitters afford the only
sure protection against malaria, and those
disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels to
which climatic changes,exposure, and unaccus
tomed or unhealthy water or diet subject him.
Consequently, he places an estimate upon this
great household specific and preventive com
mensurate with its intrinsic merits, and is care
ful to keep on hand a restorative and promoter
of health so implicitly to be relied upon ia time
of need.
Flour is like butter; it absorbs smells read
ily. It should not be kept in a place where
there are onions, fish, decaying vegetables, or
other odorous substances, or in a damp room
or cellar. Keep it in a coo!, dry, airy room,
not exposed to a freezing temperature, or to
one above seventy degrees, and always sift
before using.
Brooklyn, October 30.—Six thousand peo
ple; sitting and standing in the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle, and all the adjoining rooms packed,
and people turned away! Such was the scene
to-day. The congregation sang :
“Awake my soul, stretch every nerve,
And press with vigor on.”
The Rev. T. De Witt Ta'mage, D. D.,
preached on the subject: “Defense of Young
Men,” and took his text from II. Kings, chap
ter 6, verse 17: “And the Lord opened the
eyes of the young man.” He said :
One moraing in Dothan a young theological
student wa3 scared by finding himself and
Elisha, the prophet, upon whom he waited,
surrounded by a whole army of enemies. Bui
venerable Elisha was not scared at all, be
cause he saw the mountains full of defense
for him, in chariots made out of fire, wheels
of fire, dashboard of fire, and cushion of fire,
drawn by horses wiih nostrils of fire, and
mane of fire, and haunches of fire, and hoofs
of fire—a supernatural appearance that could
not be seen with the natural eye. So the old
minister prayed that the youDg minister might
see them also, and the prayer was answered,
and the Lord opened the eyes of the young
man and he also saw the fiery procession,
looking somewhat, I suppose, like the Adiron-
dacks or the Alleghanies in this autumnal re
splendence.
Many young men, standing among the most
tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut
or entirely closed. May God grant that my
sermon may open wide your eyes to your
safety, your opportunity and your destiny.
A mighty defense for a young man is a good
home. Some of my hearers look back with
tender satisfaction to their early home. It
may have been rude and rustic, hidden among
the Hills, and architect or upholsterer never
planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on
princely walls never looked so enticing to you
as those rough hewn rafters. You can think
of no park or arbor of trees planted on fash
ionable country seat so attractive as the plain
brook that ran in front of the old farm house
and sang under the weeping willows. No
barred gateway, adorned with statue of bronze,
and swung open by obsequious porter in full
dress, has half the glory of the swing gate.
Many of you have a second dwelling place,
your adopted home, that also is sacred for
ever. There you built the first family altar.
There your children were born. All those
trees you planted. That room is solemn, be
cause once in it, over the hot piliow, flapped
the wing of death. Under that roof you ex
pect when your work is done to lie down and
die. You try with many words to tell the ex
cellency of the place, but you fail. There is
ouly one word in the language that can de
scribe your meaning. It is home.
Now I declare it, that young man is compar
atively safe who goes out into the world with
a charm like this upon him. The memory of
parental solicitude, watching, planning and
praying, will be to him a shield and a shelter.
I never knew a man faithful both to his early
and adopted home, who at the same time was
given over to any gross form of dissipation or
wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment
chiefly from outside association, rather than
from the more quiet and unpresuming pleas
ures of which I have spoken, may be suspected
to be on the broad road to min. Absolom des
pised his father’s house, and you know his
history of sin and his death of shame. If
you seem unnecessarily isolated from your
kindred and former associates, is there not
some room that you can call your own? Into it
gather books, and pictures, and a harp. Have
a portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly
mirth stauAback from the threshold. Conse
crate some spot with the knee of prayer. By
the memory of other days, a father’s counsel,
and a mother’s love, and a sister’s confidence,
call it home.
Another defense for a young man is indus
trious habit. Many young men, in starting
upon life in this age, expect to make their
way through the world by the use of their
wits rather than the toil of their hands. A
child now goes to the city and fails twice be
fore he is as old as his father was when he
first saw the spires of the great town. Sitting
m some office, rented at a thousand dollars a
year, he is waiting for the bank to declare its
dividend, or goes into the market expecting
before night to be made rich by the rushing
up of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he
resolved on some other tack. Perhaps he bor
rowed from his employer’s money drawers,
and forgets to put it back, or, for merely the
purpose of improving his penmanship makes a
copy-plate of a merchant’3 signature. Never
mind, al! is right in trade. In some dark
night there may come in his dreams a vision of
Blackwell’s Island, or of Sing Sing, but it soon
vanishes. In a short time he will be ready to
retire from tbe busy world, and amid his flocks
and herds culture the domestic virtues. Then
those young men who once were his school
mates, and'knew no better than to engage in
honest work, will come with their ox teams to
draw him logs, and with their hard hands
help heave up his castle. This is no fancy pic
ture. It is every day life. I should not won
der if there were some rotten beams in that
beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire
sicknesses .should smite through the young
man, or if God should pour into his enp of life
a draught that would thrill him with unbeara
ble agony. I should not wonder if his children
should become to him a living curse, making
his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not
wonder if he goes to a miserable grave, and
beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. The way
of the ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way to genu
ine success except through toil, either of the
head or hand. At the battle of Crecy, in 1346,
the Prince of Wales, finding himself heavily
pressed by the enemy, sent word to his father
for help. The father, watching the battle from
a windmill, and seeing that his son was not
wounded and could gain the day if he would,
sent word: “No, I will not come. Let the boy
win his spurs, for, if God will, I desire that
this day be his with all its honors." Young
man, fight your own battle all through, and
you shall have the victory. Oh, it is a battle
worth fighting. Two monarchs of old fought
a duel, Charles Y. and Francis, and the stakes
were.kingdoms—Milan and Burgundy. You
fight with sin, and the stake is heaven or hell.
Do not got the fatal idea that you are a ge
nius, and that therefore there is no need of
close’ application. It is here where multitudes
fail. The great curse of the age is the geni
uses men with enormous self-oonoeit and ego
tism’ and nothing else. I had rather be an ox
than an eagle; plain, and plodding, and useful,
rather than high-flying and good for nothing
but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extra
ordinary capacity without use is extraordinary
failure. There is no hope for that person who
begins life resolved to live by his wits, for the
probability is he has not any. It was not safe
for Adam, even in his unfatien state, to have
nothing to do, and therefore God commanded
him to be a farmer and horticulturist. He was
to dress the garden and keep it, and had he
and his wife obeyed the divine injunction and
been at work, they would not have been saun
tering under the trees and hungering after that
fruit which destroyed them and their posterity:
proof positive for all ages to come that those
who do not attend to their business are sure to
get into mischief. I do not know that the
prodigal in scripture would ever have been re
claimed had he not given up his idie habits and
■rone to ret t ing swine for a living. “Go to the
ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be
wise, which, having no overseer or guide, pro-
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the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread.”
We must endure our time of drudgery, and
then, after awhile, we will be allowed to go in
to comparative liberty. We must be willing to
endure the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the beginning of
any trade or profession; but this does not con
tinue all our lives, if it be the student’s or the
merchant’s or the mechanic’s life, l know
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but after awhile these things will become easy.
You will be your own master. God’s sentence
will be satisfied. You will be discharged from
prison. Bless God that you have a brain to
think, and hands to work, and feet to walk
with, for in your constant activity, O, young
man, is one of your strongest defences. Pat
your trust in God and do your level best.
That child had it right when the horses ran
away with the load of wood and he sat upon it.
When asked if he was frightened he said:
“No; I prayed to God and hung on likes
beaver.”
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath will
be to the young man a powerful preservative
against evil. God has thrust into the toil and
fatigue of life a recreative day, when the soul
is especially to be fed. It is no new-fangled
notion of a wild-brained reformer, hut an insti
tution established at the beginning. God has
made natural and moral laws so harmonious
that the body, as well as the soul, demands
this institution. Our bodies are seven-day
clocks, that must be wound up as often as that
or they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sab
bath. Inspiration has called it the Lord’s day,
and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of
robbery. God will not let the sin go unpun
ished, either in this world or the world to
come. This is the statement of a man who
had broken this divine enactment:
“I was engaged in manufacturing on the Le
high river. On tho Sabbath I used to rest, but
never regarded God in it. One beautiful Sab
bath, when the noise was all hushed and the
day was all that loveliness could make it, I sat
down on my piazza and went to work invent
ing a new shuttle. I neither stopped to eat nor
drink till the sun went down. By that time I
had the invention completed. The next morn
ing I exhibited it, boasted of my day’s work,
and was applauded. The shuttle was tried
and worked well; but that Sabbath day’s work
cost me thirty thousand dollars. We branched
out and enlarged, and the curse of Heaven was
upon me from that day onward.”
While the divine frown must rest upon him
who tramples upon this statute, God’s special
favor will be upon that young man who scrup
ulously observes it. This day, properly ob
served, will throw a haliowed influence over all
the week. The song and sermon aDd sanctu
ary will hold back from presumptuous scenes.
That young man who begins the duties of life
with either secret or open disrespect of the
holy day, I venture to prophesy, will meet
with no prominent successes. God’s curse
will fall upon his ship, his store, his office, his
studio, his body and his soul. The way of the
wicked He turneth upside down. In one of
these old fables it was said that a wonderful
child was born in Bagdad, aud a magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand miles
away. But I can hear in the footstep of that
young man, on his way to the house of wor
ship this morning, a step not only of a lifetime
of usefulness, but the coming step of eternal
joys of Heaven yet millions of miles away.
Again, a noble, ideal and confident expecta
tion of approximating to it will infallibly ad
vance. The artist completes in his mind the
great thought that he wishes to transfer to the
canvas or the marble before he takes up the
crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out
the entire structure before he orders the work
men to begin; and though there may for a long
while seem to be nothing but blundering and
rudeness, he has in his mind every Corinthian
wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capi
tal. The poet arranges the entire plot before
he begins to chime the first canto of tingling
rhythms. And yet, stranger to us, there are
men who attempt to build their character
without knowing whether in the end it shall
be a rude traitor’s den or a St. Mark’s of
Venice. Men who begin to write the intricate
poem of their lives without knowing whether
it shall be a Homer’s Odyssey or a rhyme
ster’s botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
men out cf a thousand are living without any
great life-plot—hooted and spurred and plumed
and urging their swift coursers in the hot
test haste. I come out and ask: “ Hallo,
man, whither away?” His response is: “No
where.” Rush into the busy shop or store of
many a one, and taking the plane out of the
man’s band and iaying down the yard-stick
say: “What, man, is this all about, so much
stir and sweat?” The reply will stumble and
break down between teeth and lips. Every
day’s duty ought only to be the following up
of the main plan of existence. Let men be
consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to correct
course of action, then let them draw out the
design of knavery, and cruelty, and plunder.
Let every day’s falsehood and wrong-doing be
added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody
deeds red stripe the canvas, and the clouds of
a wrathful God hang down heavily over the
canvas, ready to break out in clamorous tem
pest. Let the waters be chafed, a froth-tangle,
and green with immeasurable depths. Then
take a torch of burning pitch and sdbrch into
the frame of the picture the right name for it,
namely, the Soul’s Suicide. If ono entering
upon sinful directions would only, in his mind,
or on paper, draw out in awful reality this
dreadful future, he would recoil from it, and
say: “Am I a Dante, that by my own life I
should write another Inferno?” But if you
are resolved to live a life such as God and
good men will approve, do not let it be a vague
dream, an indefinite determination, but in
your mind or upon paper sketch it in all its
minutia;. You cannot know the changes to
which you may be subject, but you may know
what always will be right and always will be
wrong. Let gentleness, and charity, and ver
acity and faith stand in the heart of the sketch.
On some still brook’s bank make a lamb and
lion lie down together. Draw two or three of
the trees of life, not frost-s'ricken, nor ice-
glazed, nor wind-stripped, hut with thick
verdure waving like the palms oi heaven. On
the darkest cloud place the rainbow, that pil
low of the dying storm. You need not burn
the title of the frame. The dullest will catch
the design at a glimpse, and say: ‘ That is
the road to heaven.” Ah, me! On this sea of
life what innumerable ships, heavily laden
and well rigged, yet some bound for another
port. Swept every whither of wind or wave,
they go up by the mountains, they go down
by the billows, and are at their wits’ end.
They sail by no chart, they watch no star,
they long for no harbor. I beg every young
man to-day to draw out a sketch of what, by
the grace of God, he means to be, though in
excellence so high that you cannot reach it.
He who starts out in life with a high ideal of
character, aEd faith in ils attainment, will find
himself encased from a thousand temptations.
There are magnificent possibilities before
each of you young men of the stout heart, and
the buoyant step, and the bounding spirit. I
would marshal you for grand achievement.
God now provides for you the fleet, and the
armor, and the fortifications; who is on the
Lord’s side? The captain of the zouaves in
ancient times, to encourage them against the
immense odds on the side of their enemies,
said: “Come, my men, look these fellows in
the face. They are 6,000; you are 300. Surely
the match is even.” That speech gave them
the victory. Be not, any hearers, dismayed
at any time by what seems an immense odds
against you. Is fortune, is want of educa
tion, are men, are devils against you, though
the multitudes of earth and hell confront you,
stand up to the charge. With a million
against you, the match ia just even. Nay,
you have a decided advantage. If God be for
us, who can be against us? Thus protected,
you need not spend much time in answering
your assailants.
Many years ago word came to me that two
imposters, as temperance lecturers, had been
speaking in Ohio in various places, and giv
ing their experience, and they told their an
dienes that they had long been intimate with
me and had become drunkards by dining at
my table, where I always had liquors of all
sorts. Indignant to the last decree. I went
down to Patrick Campbell, chief of Brooklyn
police, saying I was going to start that night
for Ohio to have these villians arrested, and I
wanted him to tell me how to make the ar
rest. He smiled and said: “Do not waste
your time by chasing these men. Go home
and do your work, and they can do you no
harm.” I took his counsel and al! was well.
Long ago I made up my mind that if one will
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the counting house. He may b9 as sharp as
Herod and as strong as Samson, with as fine
locks as those which hung Absalom, still he is
not safe from contamination. The more ele
gant his manner, and the more fascinating his
dress, the more peril. Satan does not care
much for the allegiance of a coward and illiter
ate being. He can bring him into efficient
service. But he loves to storm that castle of
character which has in it the most spoils and
treasures. It was not some crazy craft creep
ing along the coast with a valueless cargo that
the pirate attacked, but the ship, full-winged
and flagged, plying between great parts, carry
ing its million of specie. The more your nat
ural and acquired accomplishments, the more
need of the religion of Jesus. That does not
cut in upon or hack up any smoothness of dis
position or behavior. It gives symmetry. It
arrests that in the soul which ought to be ar
rested and propels that which ought to be pro
pelled. It fills up the gulleys. It elevates
and transforms. To beauty it gives more
beauty; to tact more tact, to enthusiasm of na
ture more enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit
impresses the image of God on the heart lie
does not spoil the canvas. If in all the multi
tudes of young men upon whom religion has
acted you could fiud one nature that had been
the least damaged, I would yield this proposi
tion. You may now have enough strength of
character to repel the various temptations to
gross wickedness which assail you, but I do
not know in what strait you liny be thrust at
some future time. Nothing-- it of the grace
of the cross may then be a 1 o deliver you
from the lions. You are i meeker than
Moses, nor holier than Da'. . nor more pa
tient than Job, and you ougirt not to consider
yourself invulnerable. You may have some
weak point of character that you have never
discovered, and in some hour when you are
assaulted the Philistines will be upon thee,
Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or
your early training, or your pride of charac
ter; nothing short of the arm of Almighty God
will be sufficient to uphold you. You look
forward to the world sometimes with a chil
ling despondency. Cheer up! I will tell you
how you all may make a fortune. “Seek first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness and
all othir things will be added unto you.” 1
know you do not want to be mean in this mat
ter. Give God the freshness of your life. You
will not have the heart to drink down the
brimmirg cup of life and then pour tho dregs
on God’s altar. To a Savior so infinitely gen
erous you have not the heart to act like that.
That is not brave, that is not honorable, that
is not manly. Your greatest want in all the
world is a new heart. In God s name 1 tell
you that. And the Blessed Spirit presses
through the solemnities and privileges of this
holy hour. Pat the cup of lite eternal to your
thirsty lips. Thrust it not back. Mercy of
fers it, bleeding mercy, long-suffering mercy.
Reject all other friendships, he ungrateful for
all other kindness, prove recreant to all other
bargains, but despise God’s love for your im
mortal soul—don’t you do that.
I would like to see 3ome of you this hour
press out of the ranks of the world and lay
your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesu3.
This hour is no wandering vagabond stagger
ing over the earth, it is a winged messenger of
tbe skies whitpering mercy to thy soul. Life
is smooth now but after a while it may be
rough, wild and precipitate. There comes a
crisis in the history of every man. Wo seldom
understand that turning point until it is far
past. The road of life is forked and I read on
two signboards: “This is the way to happi
ness.” “This i3 the way to ruin.” How apt
we are to pass the forks of the road without
thinking whether it comes out at the door of
bliss or the gates of darkness.
Many years ago I stood on the anniversary
platform with a minister of Christ who made
this remarkable statement:
"Thirty years ago two young men started
out in the evening to attend Park theater. New
York, where a play was to be acted in which
the cause of religion was to be placed in a ri
diculous and hypocritical light. They came
to the steps. The consciences of both smote
them. One started to go home hut returned
again to the door and yet had not courage to
enter and finally departed. But the other
young man entered the pit of the theater. It
was the turning point in the history of these
two young men. The man who entered was
caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank
deeper and deeper in infamy. He was loBt.
That other young man was saved, and he now
stands before you to bless God that fnr twen
ty years he has been permitted to preach the
gospel.”
“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youtn. and
let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
vouth; but know thou that for all these things
God will bring thee into judgment.”
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