C. F. READ '& H. H. FRAZIER, EDITORS.
From the Atlantic Monthly
THE -GIFT OF TRITEDLIIIS.
Tritemius of Herbipolis one day, '
While kneeling at the altar's foot to pray,
Alone with God, as was`his pious choice,
Heard from beneath a miserable voice,—:
A pound that seemed (Tall sad things to tell,
As of a lost soul crying Ont of hell.
Thereat the Abbot rose, the chain whereby
His tholights went upward broken by- that cry,
And looking from the casement, saw below
X wretched woman, with gray hair allow,
And withered hands stretched up to him, who cried
for alms as one who might not be denied.
She cried: "Fur the dear love of Him who gave
His life for ours, my child from bondage save,
Ify beautiful, brave firstborn, chainedwith slaves
In the Moor's galley, where the sun-smit waves
ILae lite white walls of Tunis !" "Whit I can
I give," Tritemius said,- , —" my prayers." " . (30 man
Of God !" she cried, for grief had made her bold,
" Mock me not so ; I itsk not prayers, but gold ;
Words cannot serve me, alms alone Suffice!
Even while I plead, perchance my first-born dies !"
"'Woman !" Tritemius answered, " froth our door
None go tided ; hence are we always poor.
A single soldo is our only store.
Thou bast our prayers : what can ! give thee more
" Give me," she said, " the silver candlesticks,
On either side of the great crucifix ;
God Well may spare them on his errand sped,
Or He can give you golden - ones instead."
Then Said Tritemius, "Everkas thy word,
Woman, so be it; and oar gracious Lord;
Who loveth mercy more than sacrifice,
Pardon me if a hunian soul I prize
Above the gifts upon His: altar piled!.
Take what thou ask.est, and redeem thy Oild." •
But his hand trembled as the holy alms
He laid within the beggar's eager palms
And as she vanished down the Linden shade,
He bowed his head and' for forgiveness prayed.
So the day pissed; and when the twilight came
•
Hp rose to find the chapel-all a-flame,
and, dumb with grateful wonder, to behold . -
Upon the altar candlesticki of gold ! •
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AN -ADD ESS
11£1 ! IVEZEI) BEI' 11E F THE
SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL,
• November 9th, 1857.
By R. 8. BENTI.M", 'EN
TEACIIERS AND STUDF.STS OF THE NOENIAL
SCHOOL . :—I am- to address you this evening,
in a very plain and simple manner, upotl a 1:
subject thatAhe great and capacious energies
-91 a Locke, a Bacon, a-Stewart, and others, 1'
have never exhausted—l: mean: .the human
mind, its cultivation, its education, and its 1
great destiny. Why have you all come here!
this 'veiling ? Who• are you ? Ido not
mean all of you together, but I mean caeli_in-
dividual one of you. 4 do not like to speak
to masses, but to individuals. I want each
one to feel, Slone, personal itidividuality and
identity. • Where. did you come from ?
Where arc you now; what are you think
ing of and where_ate_xoli-e-;-e7 4- - -w 4 -•-• 4 -
yoUr destiny and where? I mean each one
of you, not all. Will you think- one too-
meat ?. Within sixty years, probably, every
one within the sound (;f my voice, commenced,l
an existence - that .is never to end., Sixty
years will carry us backto the boginning of the
oldest; Eternity alone marks the end of all of
us. Our bodies, which are now flushed with ;
.the health and vigor of childhood and youth,. f
or strong in. manhood, were once puny and i
weak, and dependent upon others to adminis
ter to us the simple food necessary fur our
existence. Look once now at the tender in-
flint in its .mothers arms, incapable of one
effort to sustain its own existence, feeble and.
reliant, and you see not only ourselves but.
the mightiest men-of 'earth, that have pre
ceded us. Within -that feeble, delicate, and
helplesS little body is placed au eternalprn
-eiple,• the human mind. In weakness and
absolute dependence fo`r everything, they
. commence their existence together, The
body grows, and receives vigor and strength.
The bones assuMe hardness, dui
,muscles
and-all the several members perform their
various offices. The mind expands with the
body.' Its powers are enhanced, and if you
watch the progress of the two, you will see .
that as the body grows up to vigorous man
' hood, and is prepared to grapple with phys
. ieal difficulties,: so the mind, till with Hercu
lean strength it overcomes every obstacle.—
. Does the body grow from puny infancy to
the vigor of man - hood, without food 1 If
never fed, would it ever increase ? Never,
but instead of vigor would be weakness—
instead of growth would be decay. So with
the mind. Give it food, and it grows—starve
it, and as sure as starvation produces lean
ness and death to the body, so. surely does
the want of proper food, to the mind produce
a like result. There is an unerring philoso
phy of mind as well as body.' How many
person-3, there are in the world who know
that without food the body dies, Who never
think in all their lives, that the same result
ill be produced in-regard to the mind.
The soul, hody, and mind. Constitute the
person—the man, the woman,' the child.—
In this trinity; the most essential and impor
tant' constituent - is the soul, the mind next;
and last and least the body ; and yet, and
I • g ill
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yet, alas! by how many thousands and mill-tit is a pity he - ever had • one- given to him.—
ions -in . this w;OrTd is. this -order entirely. You would say, that be ought to have pre
reversed ! The 'body first, the mind next, I pared it, by - ploughing deep and enriching
and the Soul, if any they hare, the last and it, to receive the seed • that then he ought to
the least. Now, if we take all the minds have sown the best seed upon it that he could
that are in the world, and put them together, get; - and that. just 'as soon as seed sprang up,
whatia vast complicated piece of machinery I he should watch it—should nourish every
we would have: Only think of it. Take . plant ; - and that 'every weed and every Cana
the Philosophers, the Historians, the ',Poets, da thistle, or Other obuoxious plant that
the writers of fiction; the Mathematicians, the should show itself, should be cut, down, deg
Astronomers, the "refined - minds, tlik coarse up by the roots,-and destroyed, so that the .
and rough ones, the weak and strong ones; good seedthat:wiz sown might produce fruit
and *hat a piece.of machinery we have for - I abundantly, -unliindered and unmixed with'
human action ; and yet, in all this vast and those things that - would destroy the value of
complicatedl
machinery, every son: and daugh- the crop. lie would not only enrich his ground
• ter of. Adara, high or low, rich or podr, *no- 1 for the production of valuable crops of grain,
' rant or learned, has a place. Some May - be but he would :beautify and adorn' it. He
the great eeam. generator ,-or
main spring,,l would here and 'there have a beautiful elm
others the balance wheels, others the fly for shade, the rose and lilach for spring,
wheels, others the cog wheels,and sonie even the flowers for, summer, and the evergreens
the ,breaks or-clogs, to. prevent a - . tog much for winter. He would water-it with streams
accelerated 'motion of the - machine, \and I from living' springs, snthat he could recline in
k.some perhaps representing nothing but the the shade, breathe in the fragrance of the
:thistle produced by the escape of 'steam, flowers, and slake his thirst at:his never-fail
which dies as soli as it has made a noise, ing fountains. ' ' • '
and leaves nothing behind tint a small cloud - God has giVen to each one of us 'a field to
of vapor. Ibit, my friends, *hat is it that cultivate—an immortal mind. We may let
makes the difference in the parts of the ma- it ton to Waite, and produce nothing but
. chinery of whiCh I have spoken I. it is the weeds and therns, - or :it may be that it is so
mind and the soul—not the; body. The barren that it Will be nothing but a dreary
body is of the, same earth. The mind and waste, or we May - so enrich -and cultivate it
the soul though. different, and - distinct, (but . as to make it a souri.v of 'happiness and end
it is not my purpose to draw the distinction : less pleasure to us. _ - ' - ,-. •
between the two,) make the man. 1 ,- Solomon - says, "Get wisdom • get under
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Will you. - treasure up in your 'elude - for 1 kinding i forget it not. Wisdom is the
your future - use, it you have not done it, this , principal • thing, .therefore get wisdorn;-_,but
one proposition--Mind, educated -and cult', in all thy getting, get. understanding:"'understanding:"'
vated, is the great and mighty Locomotive,l "am dispoied for the purposes of the pres
tliat sway s , nm ss , a n d confro/ii human cc- cit. arm yument , .to consider that by .wisdoui t
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tion. • Mind is power. - Mind - acts .upon Solomon meant simply knowleag• and by
mind, till all the vast empire of universal understanding, education. 'We It' e apt to .I
mind is put in; motion; and when once put 'consider that knoidedge and educa; ion mean',
into motion, it rolls •and surges, like the, bil- the same thing, but it is not 50..! A man
lows of the mighty ocean, and then mind may have great knowledge, and b. t a poor '
alone can assuage it—not' bolts, ..nor, hers, education. How many men there are who are
nor. prisons, , nor , edicts—mind alone. But said to be, great scholars,who have a onderful
let us go back a little, - and enquire what mind amount. of knowledge. who have *raduated
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is : for it is Weil, for each one•of us; to know at our highest Seminaries of lea Mg, and
and reflect, .what we have within us that get a great name for their attain ents, who
Makes us, and Which . . we have to feed„ - and in fact are not sufficiently edteated to teach a
take care of, and control, which makes us common school. Teach a commot schook.l
what we are, and which is shaping out for .said. That will nut answer. Th compari
us our destiny; and preparing us for the sun fails; for•I do say, that if there ' s any im
place we are to occupy in the vast empire of portance to be attached to any osition in
which I have .spoken. • • . . tsociety, it should be •to that of th • common
It has. been Written, and so believed, that school teacher. The idea that an) ody who
the mind of a- Child is but. a sheet of clean, can read, and . write, and cipher asl
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far as .
white paper, uponwhich may be inscribed 1 Ruleof Three, is prepared to teacligicommon
one character just as .well as another ;- and I school, is the most preposterous Ind absurd
that the characters so inscribed will remain i notion on earth. What, set thegr2en novice
there, and will be reflected therefrom. To ,stif an apprentice to gut up the plats and de=
a . certain extent this is true, but it is not all i vices for the temple, and lay outs the work,
the truth. The 'paper is inactive—is dead— I and then let the artisan and the m+ter.work
it receives the intpressions and gives them 1 man do the boring, the mortising the 'plan.
back. again just as redeived, without change I ing, and 'the finishing up of the stucture !----
or tnoslification.i Not so with the . mind— i Set a bungler and a novice to buil. the foun
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that has life ar.d'energy. When a character i datiou and plan and lay out the v. tole struc
is impressed upon 'it from without,. it takes I lure of the - fabric, and then get . i viser and
that character, and scans it; works it over,' more skillful heads to finish ! . Outinpon such
and modifies .it, and appropriates it. "When ; foolery. The - presidents and - priessors, of
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another impression
,is made, it does the same i colleges and principals of acadeini s must be
thing, and then :tints the two together, and 1 knowing men, in order, to keep' the mind
works them over and over, and compounds I along in the track on which:it hasibeen start
them, and yet so
,as to use them either sepa- I ed, or
.to put it into some other' rack, if it
rattly or together; and so on, indefinitely, : has been put into a wrong one„an .1 to finish
SO long as any new object or subject is ad- ! it vp and put on the poliSh;'.whi e the man
mated to the precincts of the mind, the same i who is to put it on. its wane, to prepare it
process is • gone through with; and thus we I to think, reflect, and aet,rnay tie an gnOramus,
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have simple''- and ! complex ideas. If a man who perhaps never had a thought o his own in
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had never seen but one thing in' his lite, he his life bes-Jila tiug
_enough ,toleat and to
could never have'a thought of bow anything wear, and never knew how to think any fur
else would look. ', If be never :had seen i ther than a mud-turtle. How ca tt a man di :
anything but a - mouse; he could think of - neth- 1 sect another in a course of_iilticb he knows
-? ' 'rtev ice ' -
iug but - a
mouse :r. if ho should see a mouse
and elephant, be would begin to compare
their size and their strength, and begin to en
quire in his mir.d:' %whether they were of the
same species, and so on. . -If he had never
heard anything but a steam whistle, he could
have no idea of :'any-other sound, but if he
should hear. afterwards the sweet sounds of
the flute, or the soft voice of some woman'
Singing some beautiful song, hZ would at once
'be led to reflect, whether they were all made
in the same way,:m by the same instrument.
Yod can
. carry this , idea out, by the thousand
illustrations that :will suggest themselves to
your minds, and you will understand sit once,
how the mind acts in forming ideas from' the
impressions received . from without, through
the senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, &c.
The mind is an active, not an inert princi
ple. Were it not so, whatever it received,
would lie like kernels of wheat in the grans
117ki.VcrniTry
receives whatever is furnished it, for building
up its - own fabric, or temple, and - it also pos
sesses the astonishing and to .us..imaceounta-
ble power of keeping the temple : .se; built by
itself perfect in all its parts, and, yet-lays the
material into different cells, to be - taken out
and used in constituting other ever-varying
fabrics, at its v6II. Reason
_occupies the
throne and should hold princely dominion
over the will and memory. Like a monarch,
it - calls for contributions from the treasures
of memory, and ,they are furnished. Obedi
ence is rendered:in all its &mains.
My friend, in mind, for a moment, will
you lead me back a few years, and take me
to some hallo Wed spot of vour childhood ?
It matters not whether it - be.....some• old tree
uniler ,whieh,,yon have played—some rock
On which you were accustomed to sit; in the
Sunny days of spring—some old school
house where happy days were spent—some
pretty brook rtnining thronA the pasture,
where you were wont to fetch the cows at
night—l care not what : when we get there,
how many
. associations of by-gone ;days will
rush upon the !Lind 1. • A father, a mother,
brothers, sisters; and playrnats, some per..
haps of whom have long.siuce been numbered
with the dead, will again meet 3, ou there.—
Their images Will 'be as fresh upon your
naind ; as in days lon,g since departed. . The
mind is at work; calling up those loved ob.
jects that have long slept' in memory,
and that are now called forth by some little
incident that puts the mind into action.
In my judgment, a much better type of
the - mind is the !•;01l of .ti..e earth. Seeds are
put into it,and by its own power and the effect
of the heat and the.
,rain, they spring forth
and produce 'first the' plant, then
.the stalk,
and then the fall ear ; but while it thus pro
i duces grain, at: the lame titre it produces
weeds, and thistles, and thorns; which if left
to themselves always grow more abundantly
than the grain. i`NoW, if a man . had. but one
field to cultivate, and, every thing depended
upon the manner in which he prepared,
sowed, and cultivated it, and he should let it
run to waste and. grow up with weeds, what
'would you, :ay. him 7 You would . say
that God ought never to have given .him
one, that he was riot - fit to have it, and that
had him
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nothing : Who would trust' ii novice to put
a piece of valuable machinery - into motion,
who knows nothing of its poWer"tuil velocity?
And yet that great piece of "maeliint3ry, the lata 7
man mind e is to be tampered with Aid tobeput
into motion & its first direction kilnpulse giv:
en to it, which titno and eternity Pigether can
oalyshow the results of, by . perst .t ait who can
not understrgor appreciate mind any more
than an owl can bigic. This ma , not often
be the case, yet, shatne to our p Edecessors,
and to us, it has been and still = s too often
the case, and by this how many it mind •that
might . have been directed and ;trained to
mighty ends, and to a high pcisipon among
the great minds of the earth, has iheen crush
ed in embryo, or a direction On to it•that
led it on to misery and ditrksess forever.
But 1 have digressed, and will return.
Knowledge may exist without eation, but
edw:ation never without knowledge. Know/.
edge /a - zotrictturs put E Rto the. rut& through'
the several senses,..and is often ' •eceived by
students from their books and ichuina, -just
previous to am examination, and s familiarly
known by them- as craniming .f. r the oc
sion. Education is a discipline, reparation, ca
p
or slate of the mind, that pretax sit to act,
to draw forth from the treasury knowledge
it contains, the material therein epusited, for
its proper and legitimate use ; r, in other
words, the fruits and results of knowledge,
thought, ant' reflection. Newt 4 sari an ap
ple fall. Ile received the knowOge of the
t
fact through his eyes. Thousat sof others
had seen the
_same thing, and ~received, of
course - , the same knowledge;- b t, while oth
ers received only knowledge of he fact, by
thought and re&etion, the n - intil lt ] of the great
philosopher was so, educated, 11.1 'to see and
to learn from that fact, the great} principle of
gravitation by which this earth'and all the
planetary system of the univers . are kept in
motion and intheir. proper sp eres. That
the squares erected upon the tosides of a
right-angled triangle are equal - the square
erected upon the base, is a fact tihat has exist
ed from eternity, and is known Ito thousands
ii
who never think further upon t e zubject ;
but to demonstrate that fact an pro% eit step
by step, required thyught, refle tion, and rea
soning that could only come fr m an educat
ed mind. See that mighty and ponderous
machine standing upon the ra I-toad track,
it stands there, firm as a roe -, without life
or motion. The wheels are th re—the boil
er is there—the arms and pist ns and all the
varied parts of the vast machi • ace there—
the tender is there, filled with w I od—the boil
er is filled with water; and y. there 'is nei
ther life nor motion. These are all substanbial
facts. All the material fur so ne mighty ef
fect seems to be there. and yet there is no ef
fect produced. Soon a little 're is kindled
under the boiler; the elemen , within it be
gins to move—first a partici• expands and
rises to the top. and then ano her, and then
more rapidly another, till the whole mass' is
in commotion, and the ponder s engine be
gins slowly to move, and c% •ry part, both
great and small, is put icto r
,quisition, and
it moves off majestically, draultng after it the
Lang train of cars, freighted ibith hundreds,
1 nay thousands, of human beings, increasing
1 its '•ed P % u , ..... till it thuildr ind sh-
, speed as it goes, thunders ai ..rug.
es over the tra:k, like a mighty giant, driv
en on to madness and fury, 411 every thing
seems flyitig from behind it fa.ith the speed
of lightning. What the fire •Ifr -to the wood
and
. water, so is education to 1 the - mind. It
moves upon the mass,—the seam : is genera
ted, and there Must b life arid. action.
In all the - countless multithdes of minds
that God ever created, no,two have been pre
licisely alike. - What woulded ' to one might
not another. Education is ii: r a
the reach of
all, and yet bow few there ary. that are edu
cated. Ido not mean academical or collegi
ate education. I 'mean that 'education which
prepares the mind and soul to fulfill the high
destiny that awaits it. Wha, educated Na-'
I d
I peleon Bonaparte, and prepared Win for that
career of military glory whi the world be.
held but to admire and wen er at? It was
the state of Europe: Whateducated Oliver
Cromwell'? what. Benjamin- _ re'nklin? what,
I Martin Luther, but the time- and circumstan-
I eeslunder 'whiel they were p aced r The one,
i a youth; lounging alting tbr ugh the streets
1 of 'our own beautiful . Phila elphia, withbUt
h h
' I home or friends, carrying in. j is hand a little
I checkered handkerchief wit. ' a shirt and a
pair of blue wollen it:Ockingo in it,aud eating
Ia penny-roll - as be went. Who educated him
; and prepared him to . transm t a name to ttils
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terity, covered with honor • . d fame? N 'to
educated Martin Luther, a i onk in a clois. ,
.ter, and prepared him top uce a mighty
revolution in the religion world,
_whose
1 waves rolled over every Itultd4 So witli. the
1 renowned .of every no. ,_ .1-
[ - If I were to define educatt,
would - say it we 'thc In«
TITURSDAY I NOVEMBER 19 1 1857:
dyer, and compounding of iimple knowledge,
or simpleideas,in and •by the mind—You may
call is education,- discipline, or what you
please. One man may instruct another. 'He
may impart knowledge to him, he may en
lighten hins, but 1 insist upsn it:that he can
not educate him. Every -man must educate
himself. Wealth cannot do it, friends can
not do it, nor wise teachers, but he must du
it by the means furnished him._
" A teacher's skill can near suffice;
Do well your part; in that the secret lies." 1 ,
.
If you were to ask me wha; you should do
while you were acquiringnowledge, and af-
ter you had acquired it, what you should do
next, I would tea you to think. What next?
Reflect. What neat l' : pink snore. What
next.? Keep thinking over all . you see, and
hear, and feel, and know; The great talis
manic word to success, is thought, thong/et,
TIIOCOIIT. None. of . us begin to think one
half as much as we ought.•
. .
God is the great source whence all good
emanates,,and to Whichall good tends.. lie
has given us minds to be instructed, to edu
eate and cultivate. He has allotted to us a-
destiny in other worlds than this, and has on
ly placed us here to prepare fur that destiny:
He has given us minds to appreciate the
goodness with which he Surrounds us, and he
desires that that goodness should lend us to
himself. The world is full of food for thought
and reflection, The sun, the Moon the stars, 1
nay, the Whole firmament showed; forth his
• handy wOrk, and the world, is full of htsglory.
The mighty ocean, the rivers, the forests, the'
green grass, the flowers of .the
losophy, Chemistry.; Botany, 'Mathematics;
Whose principles tire as unerring and- eternal
as God himself, if I unir be allowell - the, ex.
pression, the animal, ir*tetable, and mineral
kinkdoras, the nations ofthe-EArth,lind man
himself, all; I, 'are . grind and`sublime, and 1
lend us to their, great:Author, and furnish us I
objects for thought, ,ane : contemplati?,p; riot
only for this life, .hite for that eternity of I
years _which lie beyond our - present existence.
Ire hits given us hearts to love and 'adore
him, and social affections, for our happiness
here, and our joy and bliss hereafter. As
Gud is good su his works, and not
one of . them but what is intended to. be a
teacher and instructorto us, and , upon which
our minditnay, and ought forever, to dwell
with increasing delight and. profit: And as .
such ive shoUld study them. We can only .
begin to do iehere. We can only trace up
a few of the small rivulets, and branches, and
take a few small draught,. from - them as we
pass along, but the countless ages of EternitV
alone can suffice for us to follow up the migh
ty streams that lead to that, ocean of good
ness, and knowledge;and happiness, that God
has created for the Isnmortal.;mind. How
grand and everWhertnieci the thbught that
itteVicit;4-4. to-be s &tin;tl A l Gektirdir frWii"ct.h.-
and the. Universeour subject for study, and
the mind constantly enlarging, for the.-recep-
tion of truth and knowledg,e', " What is man
that thou are mindful of hiin, or - the. Son of
man that thou visitcst hint ? Thou bast creat
ed- him a little lower than the angels; thou
last croWned him with glory and honor."--
King David, when he . wrote - the above, did
not mean some great k ing like hiniself, or arty
other great triad of the earth, but simply man
—man as GOd created him; with that germ
of immortality planted m hiS breast.. If there
is any thing more humiliating to- a right
minded man than any thing else, it - is the
False estimate that the world puts optan,:man.
We lose sight of the prieelessiteaSure With.;
in, and admire the mud walls that *lose it.-
We admire the..brass - on the outside, while
the gold, the pearl, and the
. prPcions'atones
lie within, unnoticed, and
. uncamd for by us.
What is man ? Not the being that - 0e tai
; for makes, a 3 some men think and say. He
and the barber.tuay Arms up and 'perfume
the exterior, but they add not one particle to
the man. You may go into our - eitien - and.
visit. the museums of am - Yon will see
there representations of Napoleon Bonaparte,
of Sir William Wallace, of General Washing
ton, and of hundreds of other heroes and illus
trious men,and beautiful women. Their-forms
are perfect, their hair, their teeth; their noses,
their mouths ' are all as perfect, and beauti
ful as nature herself could make them.' hey
are dressed . with.all the beauty and elegance
that wealth, art, and taste, can do t' - and,. yet,
what are, they ? cold and senseless - wax !
The eye is 'perfect - in all its propoytious and
symmetry, and yet , there is no life there.—
Man may• mike the image and dress it tip,
but all the artists that God ever created can,
not plant intelligence - in the eye, or imitate
the
_soul and
. mind, sparkling through it. He
who made the mind, alone can do this. Man
cannot even counterfeit it. .
If mind makes the man, then indeed .man
is of More importance than - anything-else we
can conceive of. The wails of ancient Baby. I
lon, her temples and her towers, lie buriedln
the dust. , The ancient cities of. Thebes, and
Antioch, and -Rome, and Tyre, once thronged
with busy - life,and where wealth, and luxury, i
and fashion, and elegance,. held sway, have
crumbled and -mingled with: the earth on
which . they stood, and are numbered with the .
things that, live only in the history of the
World.. The Pyramids of Egypt shall
fall,—
the mighty structures of Earth-that are laid
upon foundations of adamant, shall totter and
fall, and pass away like the morning mist,
the earth on which we dwell shall pass away,
—the sun shall be darkened in the heavens
and shall forget-to shine,-the moon and the
stars shaWf
e away and
. fid m
l, and yet an
shall live; and when the material universe
shall cease to exist, then man shall have but
first.begun his course, and shall be but in the
, dawn of his existence. ' Who, then, am him
it man's duration? How mysterious is man !-
Nou may bring together all the-complicated
machinery the world ever saw, and what is
I it, as compared with the machinery of the
human - Mind? • Who has ever understood it
in all its parts and complicatest operations
We talk about the soul—about reason =.I
about the Will—about memoi r —aboutre- .1
vetige—about love—about envy-4bout hate
—about adMiration, &c. What is the soul?
Where is reason located—where the various
passions of the human breast? How do they
act, and how arc
_they controlled I It is said
that reasoli.si.ts upon as throne in the breast,
and goLerns the passion's. What is reason,
and how does it act If it be, a king, then
like other kings it has rebellious subjects.,-
, Will is its 'commander-in-chief to carry out
its commands ; and yet, let 10ve,,. or hate, or
pride, or revenge,.,take. : . posseSsion of the
. breast, and how strong they become 1 ..1 When
. once in - rebellion, neither, reason, nor
nor all the forces' they, c can ring, can subdue
the rebellion till it expends its. own strength.
I. practically, •I .
ifs ink , workin
What is the mina I Is it a part of the.ibul,
or is it distinct . ? Does the soureotrol the
mind, or tins mind the soul Is the.soill
tinetfrolitAhe Fissions, or are they a part - of
it 7,. One thing we do knew, that all theseltt
tributes co,nstitute man., and man alone.. How
myeterious, then, is man,. and Wonderfully
made!
Man is not only more durable than all
things material, not only more mysterious
than all•things else of earth, but he is richer
in himself than all the treasures ofearth cont.
biped. You may put together in one , vast
pile, all the wealth of the aesars, all the dia
monds of Golconda, all the silver -mines of
Potosi, and all the gold mines , of California,
all the pearls of the ocean, all the itmense, of
Arabia, all the comnieree of the world ; and
you may throw in all the dotn.ains of all the
Monarchs and princes, their estates, their esiij
ties, and their towers, and all of Eardt's'
boasted wealth combined. and put them all
together into the scale, and one man out
weighs them all. You need not put a Gesar,
°els Bonaparte, or a "Rothschild, or a Sir
Walter Scott, or a Byron, nor anybody .else,
in. Get jn yourselland you will find that
there is-no perceptibledifferenee in the move
meat of the scale. whether i you
known and feeble as you may :be, or whether
one of Eiren's_mightiest an l richest' Sens or
- daughters is_ in: You . canntit weigh matter
against mind. The gold of Oplitr cannot
outweigh the soul; The affections ofthe soul,
drawn out • towel da God end our • fellow
men, are richer and inore preductive of hap-
pines.: than all the treasures ofgahr,tind frank-
incense, and Myrrh, that the earth evet%did
or ever can produce.
lam not visionary in this matter. Cam
uneupon va . in - spee.utatiims. It is ni'r image
of my imagination, but plain, simple;unvar:
nished truth, and seta startling and fearful
truth. When will man learn ►•hat he is—
what it is that is within hitn, what eonst:tutes
him, and for what destiny he is created.!=
The &Al is sick and sad at the. manner in
which men estimate man.
. If we see a. man who has atnas.sed wealth.,
who' bas_, surrounded, himself with all that
wealth can procure,lf we tee a man who oe
copies a. throne, or a man who is elevated to
high station or power, or whose name is en
graVen.high on the rolls of fame, we are apt
to run after him and cry out, "Great is •Di
ana of the Ephesians.r And even the ladies,
God's inasterpiece of all his workmanship, as
connected with this earth, often so far 'forget
thei , own worth and dignity, and so far -for
get the true estimate of others, as to be envi
lills of some of their tex,who'fitay be able-to
dress in finer silks, and wear . more costly
jewel:: than they can, and who. may have fin- -
er forms and more beautiful faces, without
considering that, if there be not a . heart and
-500 t ishto , :sizav .
that shines -through 'the eye,
whiterer' trap;
pings they' may , have around them, .they are
po4r, very poor, indeed,-no better than the
image of wax, and no snore lovely or valua
ble from their decorations of gold, and Hari,
and silks, than the wax-figuresare that are
put up in show windows and cases in our
Cities. • •
We are not all alike, but . that makes no
difference. Yon may, go into . the prden,and
you will see every grade and kind of flower,
from the modest and beautiful little violet
under the moss, to the gaudy sun flower.—
Is not the violet, small as it is, the work
manship of the same hand, and is it not equal
ly adMircd with the rose'? Go into the for
est: , Will You - uot see every tree, from the
small shrub to the Mighty oak; the pine, and
the stately cedars - of Lebanon ? Look at the
small rivulet that - runs through the meadow
'then go and visit .the,broad Amazon, then
the tnajettitiOlissiOppi
. as it runs through a
rich and variegated country, bearing on its
bosom the wealth of the land—then go to
Niagara falls, and see* the mighty cataract
and hear the loud thunder of the waters rush
ing oVer'it, then go and stand upon the beach
of the. mighty ocean, as it heaves and singes,
and rolls, the very emblem of subliinity it
self. Is the rivulet Of , less . value, or is it
ashamed. of itself because it is nut the Miss-
issippi, or the Mississippi .because it is not
the ocean ? - Each can say to the 'other, Am
I not made of the same material that you
are? Did not tl►e same hand make us ?: Are
not our properties
.the same?. Will l not
last as long as you will ? If you hear ships
do not I furnish cowl and rich beverage •to
man and.beast and deli.ht the eve? So it
is. with you, my friends. You may not all be
great men nor great women; but that makes
no difference..
" Honor and fame from no condition rise—
•" Act well your part, in that the honor lies."
From my very soul, I loathe and abhor
the distinction that is made between men On
account of their external circumstances and
advantages. A man, by some good luck, or
perhaps by some' villainy'
. or scoundrelism,
or perhaps. by inheritance, gets a little gold,
dresses finery, has a finebotise,"earriages,and
servants, and then dashes around. Ile may
be as corrupt as Satan,as ignorant as a block
head, and as senseless as an oWl,"bnd yet he
will be courted and thwncd on by all the fools
in the community, and if a young man,would
be esteemed a great match by sortie mammas
for their daughters. It is not the_ man, of 1
course, the gold thatgives.the charm. Shame,
shame, that such estimates of human worth;
shOuld ever be . made! I care not Whethera
man is a : kint., , or a peasant, a rich man or a
poor inan,:a. !Muer or samerehant, a Mechan
ic Or, a day :taterer—whether he is dressed
in silks and satins or in a tow freck, whether
he wears a b old Watch, and chain of the- same
material, or whether he has time, whether he
tides in - a coach and four, or whether he puslf
es a wheelbarrow,—if he have a heart and a
soul, the impress of God upon man i and that
makes maw—if he has educated - the - mind
that God gave him, he is entitled to my re
sped and my love, and he , shall' have these.
I will do obeisance to no man upon earth.—
The highest exidrieliest is but a man. I claim
to be &plan. I look dovit upon no-inan,and
never will. If he: is a man he is my brother,
and my hand shall ever be extended to him.
I acknowledge no aristocracy but that of mer
it, and never will do obeisance to any other.
But 1 must - forbear. I have already. tres
passed long upon you ;- but pardon me—the
subject is inexhaustible. You know the plea
sure that knowledge and discipline' bring to.
1 the soul. Whoever has. tasted .and relished
one draught from the Pieriewapring, 'knows
1 something of its value and powen'i • '
• One word before I close. - You hate bees s pending three , months:together, as teachers
- and icholata. :You are now about_tn.nap4.!
atC, I trust it hay been profitable ;Ind pleas-
* , ) , U*BLISII , ER-o=7;eoL l .B:' , NO. 45
. ,
ant ,to you - ail . . ft has been pleasant to see
you 'around o ur. town: We: regret; to-have
you leave-us, and: you =will--- - earrreur best
wishes -With Again ask - you,leich one
of you, to think whei - yota are and, What- - your
destiny is.' , Think of *bit Y9u . •.heyie- been
over duringg-04 - s term. Reeolleet always and
at all titres what.yon are, lnd *lntl - zit:4 has
implanted•ln your:;breaste; and put into your
charge and,keeping..l Ever he ready to cher
ish antteultiVato all the uoble..and elevating
qualities. of the soul. Educate yourself thou',
oughlv for meeting ° all the reeponSibilities. of '
life. "Earth will have man,y, rough
perhaps, for many of YoU--,discipline and -
prepare your minds for them; Let virtue
and truth ever be found with you. - th;s
principle now and forever, be impressed up.
; on your very hart and soul, that virtue and
virtuous :Mons, will ever bring With, their
their rich rewards of peace, joy,
.and happi
ness ; and that vice, however it may disguise :
itself, wiLl;bring with it, sooner. or later ,
Fe
pen lance, sorrow, anct s , remorse. God has so
decreed it, and our experience.teaches it."
That each one of you may so educate your
minds. so discipline . your
. hearts-iuid affec- .
tions. so meet all the responsiliiiiiies that
God has laid upon you, and so - fulfill the high .
•
destiny for 7.Vhieh you , were createA is the
sincere wish 'and 'prayer of your friend and
servant,' Farewell.
The Yankee and his Chiekettis.
One of those peculiarly .slah-sidod,' gaunt.
Yankees ; whom the prolific soil down East
produces' in abundance, lately emigrated and.. -
in
settled down the vicinity Of Chestnut Hill.
He was the very picture of d mean, shiftless.
Yankee, but as he put himself to • work in
good. earnest to ,get his house to rights, the
neighbors willingly lent him a helping band.
After he got everything according-to his rio.
tions,,a thought struck him that he: had no
chickens, and he was powerful fond ofsick
ing raw eggs. _ Ile was too hottest to -steal
them, and too mean to buy: them. 'At fast a
thought struck hg; , piNld burrii'w lie
then went_to - ii, neighbor 'and accosted him :
" Wa11,.1 reckon Yeti hain't.gOt no old hen
nor nothin" you, would lend me for. a. few
weeks V' : • .F.
"1 will lend . yon one with pleasure,P-re:
plied his neighbor, picking outone of the fin-.
est in his-coops. The .Yankee took the: hen •
home, and then went to another neighbor and
borrowed . a dozen or eggs:. He • set the hen
on the eggs, and in duo course of time she
hatched out. a dozen chickens: The Yankee
was anaiu puzzled ;he could return the hen,
but how was ,he to return the tws. Anoth
er idea, and who &et' Saw - allattkee without
one, came to his - relief, he , would "keep the :
hen until sholitid a dozen eggs. Ile then re
tu ed_. the , hertuss-tf.!.4lSisii.
ive owner, remarlCiniaeriits =
1 guess I've gut as fine, a dozen of
chickens as you ever, your-eyes up, and
they didn't cost nie.a.eenL.nother." •
.
A N9TH ER IIEILMNE.--47110 . dangers:a the
ocean within a few weeks, have developed
many, cases of tardship and heroism, both by
men ,anti women. Our.readers 'may reniem..
ber an accouniof the perils through whichlhe
steamer Southerner -lately. passed.. : During
tkeStorrn,.-and when death was staring each -
one . in the-fitt,*; lady . : was constantly seen
among the men, serving theiw with . refresh=
ments, and cheering.. them withkind wordi
and hope. Sliewas always. ready to carry
out the wishes of and engineers ;.
,
and it was by her 'example of coolness and
bravery that all on board 'woe Inspired with
fresh zeal and energy. All honor to such a
woman. Her name should be passed froln,
lip to lip in the language of praise,.and her
example should be held tip as every. wayiwor
thy. of emulation on similar occasions.—Phil
adelphia Paper.
The - Heroine - spoken of in the above.para
graph; was Harriet A. Mersereau,. of this
village. The Southernor Was in the gale.
that the Central America foundered, and
the next morning, dead bodies from theC;A.,:
were seen floating around.the S.. The S. lost
her smoke pipe, masts, &e., and was left to
the mercy-of the waves, being without sails
or steam.- The steamer drifted to the mouth
of Charleston harbor; and was towed in in
almost a sinking condition. It was • in . this
severe gale, when almost every person on -
board but herself was sick or so frightened
that they could do nothing, that Miss Mer
sereau was seen, perfeitly calm and .compos
ed, passing around. among them, administer
ing to their wants, and 'by her coolness and
bravery, cheering them - with- kind w0rd,....
Cases arc rare, in a scene- like this, where a
woman has the (Zioltiess and presence of mind
.that Miss M. had on the above occasion.--
,
But this is a characteristic of her. Truly, she . ,
is a flak woman. Her natne:should ever:
Win remembrance by everyone, and her
example followed by all on similar occasions.
—Union (Broome Co.) News.
NATIONAL PRoDUCTIONI3.-Nations, say's'
the Boston Post, are characterized not more
by their people than by their other and infe
rior productions. Here, are some of the most
notable " specimens"' offered-by several corm- •
tries : China has tea, porcelain and long-tailed
mandarins; Germany, clocks, printing, ghost
stories, lager bier and transecnitental plains°.
phy ;
.Russia, emperors,. hemp, and knout;
France, cooks, capons,•cornplinients. ' and crin !.
()line • Austria, - .mrpets, •diploinaey and two
headed eagles ; Prussia, Frederick theat eat,
school-masters:, and tall grenadiers ; - -Switzer ,
land; watches, wooden .toys and Calvinism;:
Italy,- popes, pisons, paingngs, !•musiogrind
ers arc},. revolutionary manifestoes ; • Spain,
chi valry,court - etiquette, ,Cortez; • oluitibus
and Cervantes. • England has produced statei
men, poets, 'orators; generals; roust beet, the
" Times'- newspaper, poor laws, taxation,
fogs, spleen,*rurtiblers, colonies, cockneys
and "Punch." - America, has prod need-:Wa4i
ington,a model - repuhlic,the electric telegraph,
anaesthetic ether, Gen. Jackson, and- several
thousand "live • Yankees"---Who • • proauw
every thing :that- is
. worth producing, and
some thing. over !
gre'thomas Campbell .rocs said :—" I
never like. to see Mr name before ti
k 'Pleas
ures of }lope; ' , whir, I cannot e , -ss it
is that, when young, 1 wa. : Tway . ted
among my friends as, 'r. r. Camp's(' , author
of the Pleasures of - IThpe,'--‘Good '• cirning
to you, Mr. Campbell, author of- the Plea
' sures of Hope.'- 'When_ I got married, l•was
,snariied as the author: of the . Pleasures. 95f
iro'oo :f and when I became's father, my son
was' the son of the author of the Pleasures
of Hope.' ,'
IEIIII
Wetleyliog heremik:Oldring.
light Tra+eling is the4!mtleitif-Cleybn.
In . order .
to avoid- tlinAfreist- '4 1 4-4, the
sun, the Missionailen4khorth:Ci Inn fri
quently travel' y.'itiglit, e l, - 14,11*
.„ 4 ,..!tia'n
40,
laktutt
shines bright, it i nenkt , -
scene is ertokk ,4iellit.. ' 1 1 4 .-' 4 ' war
and then we emerge ' - _ ~
~...:;, , iii. 'Odin, .'
over which are thitaai t til - - . liletniant •
trees, not litiliknic en o ttaw-it g k -in !..ng
lend.. ' I- Immense hems beliettrif ; : inietly
feeding 'in' the distanee,"?-oilibme , Itociitdisg
across our. path. :we break inittOctn_the sol
ittide. of their rich pastures. .Agaiplail pltnige
into the dense forest, - .W hire :the
,rainonfinnet
can hardly 'Penetatate the lay lireniihes'irha
interlace'each4thefaboia'our•hlads , " •-•'- , T
.•••• It is very different" from atl-this inhearkthe
nights are clerk. • How . =do we•eontiuniciar -
journeys through the thick . , woods where .
there ' are no roads, and serosse, es
rivers where there • are neither - _neither . -
ferries, when neither moon nOrsfirs give
light? You '-will" say, - vie carry niiiitern.-1-:
No, that would be of.very - little natio tis. - .4:- -- ,
It might be • broken by a stragglieg branch,
or extinguished -in a
_moment,- if ,the, man
whOcarried,it happened to fall ; or a pit
o( :.. wind might blow it out. Besides, oar
light must be one which can be projected Si :
fore or behilid, to the right of to_the left, or
-raised high above the head at a mOnien4no- -
tic° on thei sudden appearance of -danger.t-.
We must have fire.as well as light..' .1 ,_,--
The natives provide_for .the, ',came in the
folloWing manner.: l ---A strai ght : about branch about
- twelve feet long, and of hethicknnsa of t a
little boy's arm, is cut fawn - a *tree WFWW
wood is known to 'burn easily. --Whilst it; in
green and full of sap., eummencing at about*
a foot from one end, theY7apht. througkita
entire length into tel l or twelve pieces.' It
is then bound together--again •tti itt•ciriginal
form with rough twigwahout.a fiat aptkrt,amd •
I suspended from the - '
r'oofs of theif_ bona: , to -
dry. They frequently keep them for several
I years, and the older and drier' thaftheyste,
the better they will burn. ' ~ ; • ;,... -•.. ,
..i.,,.,;
- ..This stick is non _called n cheek -. pa sfiqt.
ing on a journey byrilklit,_ - bite * Of these ii,hild
to the fire until the 'end is thillibughlylighted ;
a native *Of -the Village acquainted - ' viith•the
_forest is appointed'. to carry it• L iind; grasping
it by the middlp so as to balance it in his
hand, he moves, on in advance; immediately
followed by the : Missionary and'his besreis.
'Such is our forest light. As the ihoetiia not -,
I kept in constant flame, it will .burn'fintaive
ral hours, if useilwith.ecorromy; : , :bni..itinal ,-
wa ys ifs adopt the- precaution of having:one or
.
twu in reserve - to provide Air accidental,
4 i
On we move in perfect silt-nee - . Andden/b
-on our : right there is the siiiily - liiiiritt of ari
elephant ; the chooles wive - alit Ina:- - ftes.and
bursts_ into a beautilill otisir k r ino.** the
whale , regiol4-iiiid - there , i is ai*iii4: 344 -
forest as the nugn - beast fikei:hti'lltele.r, -le
are in no danger, for the elepha#lcterrifle#
by our torch, and
r wiCratit - 400 , :tilieit,
on, on : for many aAiti - AitillOisi- •
knee. Those faithfill - 11 - 14i4ht4:Ciirt
upon their fiends my cloth es --- Aai*iihttifoit:
exchange not ti....single _Word 4nringlbeie, night.
journeys, but ; pins* close : open the._.„ .. istailkef -
lay har3y_litile horse. , y..t•rhlya Ake -1
4444,1
, ivy, break s . the stillkieklii:telak:thep';4ll
I,Gospel story, the history .of clitistif*aalt.
love and sacrificial ileatlil - dr; foltapiow- -
often is it thus 1.-4ieis:alletitilio - o;-hletimetat
revert to his English hoine, his esfky,, - o*,
hopd, the songs of, the Sabbath-school; hts
heart fills - he;blns - -tif. sing, aila,th6 o -.4i.
(Ail woo ds the rich - lay oui'lieleivW
Methodism ! '.',.•-' --•-.... I'` . - " --'''''
At last we coma. to tj,,,deep and raptak#Seei ---
or, it may be, anitlait- froth the") fthich,
we cannot attenals.•34.ford till . '....reek t l
Again the dosiiisltaited„ and, • -rf , it_liiiiits,..
Dried• leavese... - tiasid asa..„c,ol -* Off, and_i;
fire kindled ; ilith4tJe if , aillia - 1. - ; tegruie it
will. Masterrt* . 4:4tiiiiiit lie - . 4 , ' • Ciporktliti
grass, and are
.ititik-liat-italeinnr,!-1,-.':
. -
WHAT'S kAriioAiidier="iii:spearnuitt
of isiewtonhalf,"-af,'„ the...46cent dinner• tif the
Durham Countitiral Sogjety,i.Was
reminded, by th6 -. '" ofile4allfarra a -
story, which perhaps he* Amino&
to relate,aShe hid it froirli7v.oo 3 o: B 9fifee. :
—vii from a very. e.xcelreltfr.diri3e, who, was,
himself a prebendary o(tl4"Cisthedral Church
of,Durham. Two hon4firmers,
along together, encettntjtfid 1(1016' iv,
of clergymen; one of ihein issid,to - the Ober::
" Where be all these'parsons - iorning frank 1"
To this his friend replied, "They've beeti . :st.
a visitation." The other, no wistir-thsit, be.,
fore, says,—" What's a visitatiortrigid, the, :
answer. he received was, " WhY;itii 'white r ,
all the parsons goes ones n year and swam
their sermons.'' frisnd; otr.beingihusp
enlightened,tquietly remarked, , "Dang
but our char mun get the -worst on, it every'
time."—Gateshead .06serre . r. •, - •
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" The principal avenues:4 our eity," ,
writes a 'learned friend from Detroit, "has
toll-nate just by the Elmwood Cemetery read,
.As the cemetery had been laid out sotmi time:
previous to tbe construction of thti plank reiid,'
it was.. Made one of the conditions of the Comm;
pany'S charter ' that all funeral proemial:las
should go back...end forth /rec. One day.w
Dr. Price, a Celebrated physician, stopped to-.:
pay his toll, he remarked to the
" Considering the beneiolent character of '
Our profession, - r
thiuk euiht,s9, us -
pass free of charge," - -
"No; no, Doctor," the keeper reitird.Ortif!
"we - couldn't afford that.x searia - k
too mans 'dead through
" Ttie_Doctoi paid his tolt,' iioSr. ask,
ed any-favors after that:"
of Dr. Hall, , of he :lourniti
gives a great deal 'of excellent - column)
advice to all nora_of. , people, the - Jar:41(1, 1 01e
healthy, those suffeiingUnder anaecuMultitinct
of . dikirderei,„ those sinking' under s great
weight. of doetora; &e., To his; " eon. ,
sumptivelriends," he says—" You -want. air,'' .
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