North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . thepinnacle of fame and fortune by mereforce of circumstances, and theresmany a fellow equally deserving whohas been held in the abyss of obscur-ity, for the same reason. Take, for instance, the case of ourgreat ex-president, Theodore Roose-velt. The circumstances surroundingthe lamentable death of Mr. McKin-ley, placed him in the presidentialchair. Then again, lets take the caseof Captain Hobson, the popular Ala-bama statesman who is now repre-senting his district in congress. In asingle night, he rose from obscurityto international fame, by sinkin
North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . thepinnacle of fame and fortune by mereforce of circumstances, and theresmany a fellow equally deserving whohas been held in the abyss of obscur-ity, for the same reason. Take, for instance, the case of ourgreat ex-president, Theodore Roose-velt. The circumstances surroundingthe lamentable death of Mr. McKin-ley, placed him in the presidentialchair. Then again, lets take the caseof Captain Hobson, the popular Ala-bama statesman who is now repre-senting his district in congress. In asingle night, he rose from obscurityto international fame, by sinking thecollier Merrimac, in Santiago was through the circumstances ofthe Spanish-American war that Hob-son found his opportunity. Had therebeen no hostilities, Hobson might to-day be still a little-known naval offi-cer. During the war or the AmericanRevolution, Paul Revere, like Hobson,climbed the ladder of fame, in a sin-gle night. We have all read how atthe approach of the British soldiers,this great patriot made his historic €.
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