Show run POWER or OF WILL the 1 he czar bleter and benjamin franklin I 1 one ot of the longest remembered lessons that the great bon benjamin amin i franklin u over ever received from bid bi s 1111 cle who was also his bis tutor tuter and which holl ich llpyd to make him the man boweter be after wan annl become became yes was t tha h 9 a bowing what might bo be done donaby by the untiring 11 r in i energy 1 1 e of 0 the will in the right fir direction 1 agy 1011 strengthening the g good 0 0 d tin impulse impulso I 1 U I 1 so an and d controlling the bad to 4 po a 4 thing at all times and sections sett seasons ions because our tell us ua that it is ia right wb whether effier it suits our oar inclination or abt natia is a matter ol of stern duty end and duty bo be said to the boy always do de manila more or less sacrifice on our part he told bold him also how to make we work ik pleasant pheasant and hofto bow to be richi rich how bow to bot and how to lit it and above all about the ital ill ismall IV obice I 1 I 1 a 1 11 I want a tto to makola mako a manof ny 7 namesake be ba said bald to tin mother o I 1 day an and I 1 have first taught 0 hi him in that he 6 m baust t either work beg or then I 1 showed lim bow to work pleasant plea ant that the produce of bis work be theonea the knea denture co comfort 1 to bimi riita and how byl patti dg his bis heart into labor he ba would lighten the slavery beavery of work and abiva all how to put his will into every good impulse I 1 want tu to teach tesch ben to got get money rather than want it if or beg for it to got get it with honor and dignity to husband it with honor and dignity anil and what is ia more to it with honor end and dignity di t T each day KU ancla V C je benjamin drew his lesson from some 1 e of lif life around him and upon this bis occasion be law spoke of the life of peter anee once emperor of russia whose u untiring n ring energy 0 of f the will working g i in I 1 n n ison with the heart renders rendered the 01 feet labor light and gave him a this tapi I 1 eity for endurance almost bosen abla to suffering buffering hod and fatigue I 1 young ben had beard him bin a di dia 8 cubard in ia a general way wore before when ahe aba chapal deacons diacona had bad dropped in to talk alk with his hia father but as yet be had bid never dreamed that that same game peter was a icing who somewhere had bad worked as a h common shi shipwright owr ight of course coma at the mention of his bia name the ladeas lad was all attention as his uncle pro posed to 16 narrate the story of offia his mar inar veloas will and purpose I 1 the old man be began gan by telling him hat at at ten years of ago age peter came i to 0 tb the crown crow of russia but sophia queen regent hia halt sister bister made every effort to keep beep him ia as ignorant ad 6 possible as well as to make inake him iola idle and vicious b by putting in g the worst temptations in his hi t e w way ay nod and kee keeping i n g tall all moans of ivia instruction t r no tion and ro renna ph n e merit from him this she bo did that she might keep her brother longer from the throne and render him unfit for royal power I 1 but bat rudo rade and i ignorant as peter wasat waa at seventeen he burnt bund through the regents control nod took ithee the v very e Kown government mont into his bis own b hands d though uneducated he bad what w was 8 I 1 even better a strove strong persi persistent alen will J J tw which bo i h enabled him to educate himself and give him a firm reliance upon his hill own powers the mechanic king had not only an instinct i to conceive conc oivo great things wi without it h out is special I 1 training but a will that gave him zeal zal to undertake them endurance endor acce to labor for them and enough come what might to master them when peter aseen ascended deol the throne russia had no seaport but that of archangel on the banks banka of the white ses sea and to rivo give all chini a and ki X com commerce merel to bi his a country w waa as ats the aone one ill all absorb joy ing object in the boys mind hardly eira i VM the crawn on his bis head than th lh bold young czar determined to doreata create reata fleets and harbors trade an end d manufactures arts arta and schools for the tha whole nation rotor peter was no ordinary youth uncle da baa weal na inn to say bay anil and instead of setting betting the leopla to work in building labi chips aps he b resolved to ta learn low bow to build them himself and ad instead of mastora ha wont w ati a acorn a common a shipwright ip wright and worked with mith his own hands hati old living sod and raring faring like lita fellow follow mechanics ins crown laid abide for a a piper paper cip cap 0 will is the g greatest ii power in mat man as we shall see gee peter traveled to the two great maritime countries of theotime time ora first 11 to holland rd R chento abon to I 1 I 1 Eng england and waked iu in tile the dock yards of unil and Dept depthford deptford ford as ah an ordinary ship builder lie ire longed in his hia heart to make his c country 0 u n trl a grent great commercial nation ani and t this is waa van t alio h way he was doing it what 1141 a strange thing for a king to do you oa so say and so it was but do 10 you 0 u thin alink j such labor to such anch a lifey life wa was No indeed there wa was a not ft a hand on those docks the t worked more zealously or with to so willing it a hand and so BO light a heart or nr so BO little idea of 0 fatigue as he ha who welland the hammer instead of 0 the and all this was because he was working with his whole heart and soul too ifil ife was not a more mere animal in quest of food but he be had a pure and noble purpose in his mind a strong will giving courage and vigor to his bis heart it was the will ill within him lad 1 l said uncle benjamin banjamin as he concluded the story atory that mado made that laborer king do his hia work with so BO little effort tuat kept him day by dagand mouth by monab without any rest though he ha could lava have hadit stay any day making his humble bumble mechanics homo home happier than a palace and ilia hia simple we IOB fare dall itier than a 0 royal ban baa so remember my boy that of 0 all ways to make labor pleasant and vala voidable able there is 18 nothing like a noble purpose r 0 backed by a strong noble pill w will history fae story will record to you whitt what peter ieter of russia accomplished by this im hinmon so sacrifice Bacr ilice young ben was ws so BO impressed this lesson that after the evening hymn was chi chilsted in bits bia uncles lam fam ily fly ha be was waa found in his hia little room upon his knees asking askim of god strength to use his hia will in the right direction and it is said that this thia one lesson though he ha was taught many another went far towards forming the th character ot of tho the great creat and good benja benjamin in in franklin would that i every boy who reada the teaching may profit by it as L lie did and determine de to use his hi god given will tor for tho the tight right in every event ot of ibis his life i land and ills blessing will as aa surely test leet itly it ly Y observer |