They who have been the deliverers of literature and nations have come from homes without affluence, and by the discipline of their own privations have learned how to speak and fight for the ignorant and oppressed.
Poetry and science and laws and constitutions and commerce were born, like Jesus, in a manger. Most of the great thoughts which have seemed the axletrees on which the centuries turned, had their start in obscure corners, and had Herods who tried to slay them, and Iscariots who betrayed them, and unjust prelates who condemned them, and rabbles that crucified them, till they burst out again in glorious resurrection. Many are the noble sons of humanity.—TALMAGE.
