Part 9 (1/2)

The led upward to success is not their only, or indeed their chief reward When, after years of toil, of opposition, of ridicule, of repeated failure, Cyrus W Field placed his hand upon the telegraph instrue under the sea, think you that the electric thrill passed no further than the tips of his fingers? When Thoht had at last been developed into a coht rays failed to illuminate the inmost recesses of his soul? Edward Everett said: ”There are occasions in life in which a great lethe newly constructed telescope to the heavens, he saw fulfilled the grand prophecy of Copernicus, and beheld the planet Venus crescent like the moon It was such another mo received the first copy of the Bible into their hands, the work of their divine art; like that when Coluray dawn of the 12th of October, 1492, beheld the shores of San Salvador; like that when the law of gravitation first revealed itself to the intellect of Newton; like that when Franklin saw, by the stiffening fibres of the herasp, like that when Leverrier received back fros that the predicted planet was found”

”Observe yon tree in your neighbor's garden,” says Zanoni to Viola in Bulwer's novel ”Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted So, in the clefts of the rock Choked up and walled round by crags and buildings, by nature and ht You see how it has writhed and twisted,--how,the barrier in one spot, it has labored and worked, stem and branch, towards the clear skies at last

What has preserved it through each disfavor of birth and circureen and fair as those of the vine behind you, which, with all its arms, can embrace the open sunshi+ne? My child, because of the very instinct that iht won to the light at length

So with a gallant heart, through every adverse accident of sorrow, and of fate, to turn to the sun, to strive for the heaven; this it is that gives knowledge to the strong and happiness to the weak”

”Each petty hand Can steer a shi+p becalmed; but he that will Govern her and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents; how to shi+ft his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; What her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop them; What strands, what shelves, what rocks to threaten her; The forces and the natures of all winds, Gusts, storms, and tempests; when her keel plows hell, And deck knocks heaven; then to e her Becomes the name and office of a pilot”

CHAPTER V

USES OF OBSTACLES

Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains--EMERSON

Many randeur of their lives to their treood are better made by ill, As odors crushed are sweeter still

ROGERS

Arorow; But crushed or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balht to stars, woe lustre gives to man--YOUNG

There is no possible success without soressive and crowds so--HOLMES

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the her in inspiration his life will be--HORACE BUSHMILL

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circuold is tried in the fire and acceptable h losses and crosses be lessons right severe, There's wit there ye'll get there, ye'll find no other where

BURNS

Possession pathens it--HAZLITT

”Adversity is the prosperity of the great”

No man ever worked his way in a dead calainst, not with, the wind”

”Many andto her father's failure in business, ”have we said that, but for that loss of ht have lived on in the ordinary provincialand growing narrower every year; whereas, by being throhile it was yet time, on our own resources, we have worked hard and usefully, won friends, reputation, and independence, seen the world abundantly, abroad and at ho”

[Illustration: JOHN BUNYAN]