C. F. EEA.3S 6.; FRAZIER, ED-IrrOßS._
ADDRESS
RV.
W. S.BENTLEY,
Datteteinljnorustits SUSQUEHANNA:6I:3:ST 11 - 011.11 AL 5.116C11, AT hit
Mil - OF Ulf: TEM!, NOtEMDER
Ell di I . l'ol
'To chat a tnetiln e )te or t rsoccess.., rank, And position in fire
To natirt tainft, - or toper:iota/ efort and pirscrern 'Lee
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God made than fur an ttnnmeta/ dell4y, ' i'rom the cradle to
the grave„and from the grave onward and onward forever, Ile;
bath Slimed for his use } tables loaded - with provisions, rich inlf.'
abundant, suitable to'every, possible taste and appetite, to be eat;
en- without surfeitifwines-that erfhilarate and make glad the lart,
desserts, sweet as the honev-deWs of;:the , fairyland,. and - fruits
..delicious tor the taste, and healing hum_ an we. God. his spread'
tilde tattles for nian, and invites him. to them 1 and if he chboie
to get tinder them and pickup the erunrbs that - Alf flit- the do4s;
of if-he choose to partake of that wkieli Will turn to ashes will
is him and give him pain aid' sorrow or if he Keep away and
refuse id eta - altogether, the fault is hiS, and not his•ltaker's, - When We cointuence this life we are the most helpless and
Ignorant of all creatures. flaring no choice or controlfif the
circumstances into Which we are ushered, we sttiOt upon the
broad sea of life.for the goal of our - future: destiny` Ottr body,
fragile es the mostAelipate.hous.e plant wilen it first presses its
way out of -its'iitive Soil, ii ready to fade away at the.first Cold
Meath of Maven, Within it is placed that invsterious;imenor
tal, and ever-growing gerM, in embryo'. 'of all human greatness
and peter, the here, the philosopher ; - 61,1 poet, and the states-
Man. • Paint and feeble at first as _the ignited spark that falls
from the-Muted steel; it spreads into a flame that shall send its
lif:tht thfoughout the world. This is the beginning of us ell:- In
this starting point for time and for eleri?ity,..-1 ! od knows and gives
neither aristocracy not rank. . 1 : ,
_- •
- .The infant born in the log but, nay, in the very hovel of deg
radation and want, may fill the highest stati6nssd wealth, honor,
and .poweri nay, may become One cif"' ature's Notileiven,'' and
•qese memory shall lie treasured up iti those archives that eh
dare forever '
• while another that is barn in
.princely . halls, Sur
rounded with all the.gorgeous display, of royalty and wealth, a
poor,.ignorant, degraded, and miserable INteleit. who When. he
dies Will sink beneath the placid -waves of oblivion; and w ill
scarcely leave a ripple TO. remind the world that he ever lived..
.That.Giel has given try 01 equal capacities and Atellectual
poweri I- will notassert. . That every man - might" become a
Newton; a Locke, or a Bacon. Ido not iielieve. Human deyel
opmeiii- of ite own greatness
_and poWer requires diversity of
taste find of tatent. God did 'not make the' cool anaeurgling ..thus peep o'er hillF, and Al
liprinis as their sparkling writers rash out fro - t the .hilt or - ' ,
mountain side and ran in beautiful rivulets akin 'their flowery •
and yet where is the traveler intent
eouraged ? Or if for a , iliontent he i
banks, and in their course beautify the landsea e. and quench
the thirst of ,the weary traveler-and grateful' he
,ds i to carry the * rises to the top of one hill, and breat
mighty ships and become the highway of nhtions • but shall we ing air, renew his, courage and .with
infer that therefore 'they do' not • fulfill what God. ' designed for l next?. And as he-rises higher and I
them 1 Can proud - oak say to t h e spent of grain, ram more mitre the clear and heavenly atmospt
useful than you, because tam larger and stronger ? Verily, no. And the: beautiful views furnished to
Young ladies and gentlemen .of this Normal Soho& I—lt is And does not his_ very soul burn wit
not my purpose'to theorize to you, bittte make a few. suggest- cents and new views?—This Educat
ions for your consideration, mactical in - nature, truthful and every department of life. It belon g ,:
simple in : their bearing, '' - s' . -. king upon his throne may enrich bin
...
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I.et me take each Ofieof-tyou'hY-the hand, and lead you back
twel4, fifteen, eighteen, on twenty years, and point out to you
sn infant in its mother's arms. - It. knows nothing. • it 'can do
nothing. , You mv-sho'w it all the beautiful things of earth, and
it cares not for-them. --7kou may tell the most marvelous tales,
and - ii anes - not for them. You may spean.-to o; a,..i r.. 4.:.....i
-you. not. You may.place l'hod within its • reach, and it would
starve. •It knows no - danger; and if the fire were to consume it,
it would not .flee froniliL -The fragile little form requires all the
aid that parental, and human kindness can b...tow upon-4,, or it
sinks into the grave. The little taper that jut , begins to burn
within -- with a light so small and dim as seareety to be pereepti
ble, and -which is to light that form' along life's.precarioup road
to the tomb; begins its. ceurse.with it. Without food, the body
dies—without food, the taper. oiVes .no light, and ought- but
death and darkness remain. The history of the one is the histo
ry of you all. Congenial food was giVeir to you, and you grew,
. Thelittle taper began to burn brighter and east its radiance.lover
the soul. You first began to understand what was .said to you.
You then began to articulate words Yourself _ You began to on•
serve whitlwas arotlnd yoii ; you ?earned yorir • .A. 13 C; you
then began to join letters into, syllables ; and notable was that
day to -you when you could pist.two syllables together and make
them read " Ba-ker." From that day to the present, you have
progressed; You probably lulow more today than you have
known any other day of your lives. ' It certainly.'ouglitto be so.
But have yotkall'progressed equally 1- If nut' in . what is. the•
cause of difference ? .If each one .,_if-you in your early, infancy
bad been shut-up in some diirk - room- where the. light of ;heaven
had never dawned upon yom—where no human form had ever
been seen by:You—where no human voice had ever fallen upon
yoar eatz-where no object of ..sense had ever • been impressed
- linen yots . r• brain, atol you . had all' been brought together- -this
afternoon, into this room, for the first time to see tiuman. faces
.—the. first time to listen to the human voice—the first time (o
, behold thelight of day,whieh one • of you • would know More
than the others; which of you wouldlinrv,most about Astron-
itinguages, or Mathematics:? Ti,loes mil
• one of you claim-that yon would - stand above the others-1 eould•,
Professor Steddard deters - Woe. by his most rjt.:-Idexatitiriatioi, for_
which of you'God - lied done the most, and to which of you be
had giyen the highest intellects?
.Instead of the:. intelligence,
thaondw beamsitt - every prt of this - room and fromeve4 eye,'
• what a dreadful'dreariness nd mental darkticis would be'hos e 1
s ti
More dreadful to be with you when the lighrof the soul' is ex
, tlet, than if-the light of life, had ,forever - gone out.
Again I repeat, whether. your progress.has beerier-vat; and if -
- not, what the cause has heen.? - lam now only spea.mig of
,who have bad erica opportunities., One: isf you may say that
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you are-behind-othere because God has not given you so large a•
• Capacity to learn;-so active anti posierful an-intellect as he has to
others.' Ilow-436,y0n . ktkett; that •tet, my friend? . When 'did
you learn it, andof Wholn?' Ile certainly has given 'you - - pro
gressive powers, or fou would never have been where' you
.ate•
today—youneyer could have learned your first letter. If you
first learned your letters, and then to-read, and then to cipher;
and -then' the selent.i pflanguage - 'and so on to your_ present
- knowledge ; hew do you kno 4at the fault is not your own for
nokhaving made a greater p acienty than you have"? ,_ •
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• That God may' have gives arger capacities to some_to acquire
knowledge, and stronger mental poWers to use it When tie:quirtad,
• than he has . to others,
,sts,,t I.liare stated before, I - tvill not deny.*
Bot . '
milting that propositionVl . still maintain and Most firmly
a t i ..42
• . believe ~,i the condition, if:lll44nd worth of Me - matt - -depend
more, as a general rule, vp9u himself: w/o?: -kis own. -personal,
and - determined efort, thou upon any .difference Mat 'God has
made between his mental eafracities . arid those of others: `‘ God
acts notby partial but by general rules." . Some men are not
, forinly healthy throoghslang live; and
. are never - sick- till' the
day-"of - theirsdeath.;' They.
.have constitutions that will carry
them through the abuse - of all 'the laws of health : others have
organic and hereditary
.diseases that they can . never' 'overcome,.
though they;strietly ObserVe all the:rules of health : but the gen. :
eat rule is, that , by an obServimee -of the. laws' of nature? the'
masses enjoy about the sante degree of •healty, So with the
- laws of-mind;' God has;
- at various tithe; given to soiree men
- those migl,styintelleets, .t.hat an the pines of the forest overt oWer
all other tiees, so they
,iiS'e above all other minds, and sts to oth
ers He hiNgiven thoSe bairesi - und sterile,intellects, that will not
produce anything beyond hazel bushes and scrub oaks; whatever
culture you may bestow upon them. -• But this is not the getter
alrule. ' ' •-•
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- The educotecilnan.isialwiya man of..power.' :No man ail
educate another... , He may -aid in doing it, hut every marl must
'educate himself; with -such aidine may be furnished "him, One
Pan may impart knowledge tei„enother, but if the man, doeknot
educate himself with that knowleage so as, , use
' it is of ni% afore vane - 4o liim,than broken Jim:l:bilis in
g 004Am:tough lo ie . deposited
_there, but nqt worth A. farthing for .
currency. I have; 'cal a .foritter ciceasion, given .niy. - vieWs as' to,
die difference betweei4:docation 'and knowleAlge, and will not
43 well.iipoi - ifno , r,i)iity . to.aitild' that kuowledge, man
'kg, not'utental powei'to Work it over and Compound it and use
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It i . W ;if no more ptietital benefit thitn food is to:the" stoinacl
of a dead man, As f,:iod ha:l mitchi the mind immortal, with
tiowdr and capacity fir et.irind pr gression, hr whidt 'is the
Same thing, for: being -forever edu ated, so he has fuinished
Means tor._said progression or eilticaiion that will. condone for-
Oer 1. atui as the Mind progresses; go will the means adeipuwe
to that progression be forever rankled:
• - In this state of existence wc'eattmy learn the alpliabet=:-
some ha!'dlrthe first letters:of it. We learn here till ripe
Iman
hood.: We.theit begin to go back t second childhood,_ and to .
infancy--drop Into glare, are i orn into anothar world—
comtherice Our existence there int nts agalh,- but with More
knowleue'tei commence upon than the - greatest scholars,- aml
larger capacities for advaneemet tl n the mightiest,intelleets of
earth, facilities for knowledge and o jests Tor study that earth
CO never - dream. of. i
..The term - edimition in its popular
restricted. Perhaps some students
flair egticatioit" at this term.' We
a young man "Intsjinished his ed tic
going to travel or do something else
.has just completed her education at s i
Did you ever hear such paltry nonst
by it ?, Nothing mine nor less than
,of hours-in a . day, for a certain nun .
their heads have been stuffed with fl
that lie tip'on their brains as leaven
'Without producing the first symptom
they call education.
. There.are Many different kinds of
, Wu hear.it said of t3orne that the ..
for-the penitentiary and the gallo'‘‘s
almshouseolliers for'being poor in
in themselves, a turtlien upon-their..
.cotnntmity in-which they star/, for
hate no life, and the world will-be n
ing been in it..'
- Again there is that-kind of edueat
femi fucks the mind-.---and na means
rndre Succegsfully for educating the r
reading of the totskyleashy literary
years.ki.s been delugifig the World •tt
the mind down instead of iv-.:-wealy
ing it, and leads to vice initeSd,of vi
hapPiness.
•To many minds this kind of educa
ant, as it requires - no effort to sail do}
quire a Strong one to go against the . ;
But there is -an education differing'
quisition and results. Its course is
course
. --
man upon the - Zunghtll may revel in
ly controls it. No aristocracy appr,
en boon to
till
family. It c:: exhausted, till earth and the-whole
So long as mind remains, so long wi
mirdion, till the small rMila. shall
and the pool, a mighty ocean, whim
This education elevates and ennoble;
dignity of man. It makes themian
to make himself. It comes n s at fro
that comes in ethltact with The mind
• • ' ... In all above; in ail a
In earth and air, in
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If we consider the works of God
objects of study,.contemplation, an
they appear ! - Without number
searchable and past finding , out !
mind.becoines_absorhed an d r lost it
we are led to cry our, "Who is se
we study His works, our th4ught.,
are elevated and drawn out towar.:
erupt tp study them niases, er
o9'shoit to_ make the -be;iihniug ;
when we attempt them in detail?
and view tir6 starry heavens. We
ilecl with ten thousand shining wo
whole, and it is.shblirne antf ntaani
upon .a single planet, or a cluster
and Orion just where they were w
and sang of them.. Next we look
glorious forerunner c,f the sun, bril
again-the beauty of the evening.
star to star and .from planet to pla
immesurable instances from us,
and fl3' away fro us, and it is, wit
t
call them to carte. . .
Again; -if we, and stand upon, he shore of the mighty At
lantic or. Pacific; and watch the wa 'es as they roll on, in ever
Varying and never ceasing motion till they spend' themselves_
harmless-at - bur feet, or the snip) billows as they dash in fury
against the opposing rocks , ,
,we feel as though some mighty pow
er was in motion before us, and in r minds: are filled with awe
And sublimity. Did you ever still d end look at Ocean's vast
expanse stretching out before you ; till the dipping - of the sky
down into the mighty waters cuts off your vision? If you ne‘-
' er have, do it as sorlis you cari; nd learn howinsignificant and
-- powerless you are. as:you.stand a.r d look upon the wonders of
i
1 the mighty deep. If you can get ;our thoughts from the mighty
expanse of waters - before: you, you begin to think of-the 'shi ps that are sailing over this highway cff nations, with . their white
-sails spread •to catch the breezes of heaven ;, of the millions of
living...animals that wine therein : -- r the mighty whale and down
through the endless varietyof smaller fishes to the little. insects
that make - the coral reefs a n d isladds firm as the everlasting hills
—of the deep sea caverns ivhere ttie eye of man never penetrat-
A-and where Mermaids have thC r abode,—of the millions or
treasure and of human beings thai have been swalloWed, up and
are held in its insatiable niaw.
-.. Again we look upon the autumnal forest in all its beauty.—
We at first . COnteinplate it, as a whole.. Soon some towering pine
attracts our attentionr-tlier. a majestic eak-:-and then , 10 - beauti
hil Maple. ~We weliffer:Why.theY. grew there, side,by side. fed
by the same keit,- Watered by thesame rains, and . - v, - -armed •by
1 3
the same sun, - What laboratory r -What
different
of machinery is
•it that works the sauce material i to the different kinds of leaveS: -
branales.ovecid; and bark ? ' Who can study:Mit and explain the
process by which it is done? ' •
, Again; we lobk upon, to;us, thi. broad earth with all its mount-:
Sins, rivers; atlas, and oeeans..,. ,T iere is'enough upon its surface
to - occupy us for a thousand years, to say nothing of the niincE
els. and dark Caves that lie beneath its surface.
thought of as. suggestive of anyth nglnteresting. It was the sub
ject of rocks 211(1'a : tones '-• and he wrote a book, not long, since
published, hi Which he has classifed• them ; and whiCh b00k,...„is
one of the moitinte're3tingof the present da) - , and which - magas
Geology bear unmistakable:eVidrec Of the authenticity of - the
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But toy_ friends: r why should•llenlar^e. ? Therels nothing that
-you - see, that is not a rich-and mysterious Objeet,'for study-=the
air yolibreathe'conipOSed of its ,different. parts, - -the : light 'that
you-burn--rain, snow, hail,--!the treei\of the forest- - -the Spear
- of corn, the blushing,rose; the li tie modest. violet. peeping up
through the cross by the Waysidir.i Go iiito your gardens ' and
behold the-endless - variety of plants andlloWers growing there ;
lookat the little spear of grass,
thebloisoms upon the 'trecs. - L-
Woelt. _ them from • day •to , day, as they' progress; examine
•theirenghly their
,beautiful-and ittiysterions teXturesi; can -: you
tell, how -they ; grove,, and by- , what skillful: machinist' they are
formed ?
,I' And_ yet perhaps :some of you. never reflected for"otte
. utoranot upon: these things,tandhave always-been.sitis-lied with:
the thought that they, grew because. it was naturql for Ahern m
-1.40 tom.:lfy friett46, theic is - uotbing, nothing. God's 'Univero
0 - D] - MED. RawA=7„ . - O . A[R,l,Olr . giLxVln_V::,p:Oti:.--zu_Rdimar399
IiONTROSE,, TifURSIiAT:AOVATj*R:):ok-,.
sense is entirely too much
have come here " to finish
often hear it said that such
ition, and--that he - is 'now
that such ti y,onng - lady
uch a boarding school."—:-
!Ilse? What do they mean
'that for a certain number
liber -of months or years,
c contents of - certain books,
.ould upon a piece of putty,
of life or action,—anti this
education
RTC edueatim; 'themselves
others fur the poor rnd the
i isexable i'ligrants; wretched
riends, arid a ilttrse to the
they lire ho\i•here—they
better for their ever hay•
an that dissipates and el
ean pbssittly be -employed
ind in this way than the
Vash;"that for the last few
I• with a flood. It educates
ens instead of strengthen.
nue, to misery; and not to
tion is desirabre and pleas-
Acn the Stream, but may re
ttrrent..
widely from 'these in its ae
pver. upwatd, mid in that
1)s on Alps arise ;"
/al his journey, that gets dis
ould, `does he not, as he
aes the pure and invigorat=
ore vigor pre=s on to the
igher does he not enjoy still
crc into which he has come?
him above and below ?
bin him for still higher as
on is nee.e::sible to a 7.1, hr
to ho privileged class: The
self with it—nod the poor
its luxuries. No monopo
lTpriates it. It is a God.giv
m never weary,--never be
niverse of God be explored.
1 . food be furnished for it to
becime a mighty_ strmin,
t Unlit and without r. shore.
It, brings o// up -to -the
I or, rather, it helps the man
i n books alone; everything
is laden with it—lt is
Lind;
Lt and sound. • -
spreademit bcf..re us, as
thought, how wonderful do,
grand, tind un :
their contemplation, tho
wonder and amazement, and
!Iciepst for these things?" As
cur soul., our very beious
If at; were to at
'
~asses. o.ur lives would be
and what' can we thin do
In thti clear Light we go out
behold .the firtnainent - , stud-
I:: We look upon it as a
cent. Soon our eye rests
We see Arcturus
ME
en Joh looked 'upon
.them
pon Venus, son.etimes the
t , liarbinger of day, and then
ncl a , : our eyes,*asldQr trotn
'et, as 'they- seem to float at
ur . minds seem to take wings
difLulty that we again re•
that does not display It is wondrous4ovier and wii,dorn, and that
is not full of instruction.' to us. The: lamented Hugh Miller
Spent a lifetime armost, upeit a subject that perliaps you never
But above alt-theseo believe with Pope, that " the proper
study of mankind-Is Man because ho is the most , mysterious
in his formation.and the most important in his destiny: The'
sun, moon, and stars may, fade and pass away—the heavens
tie rolled up Its a scroll—the sea- dry bp—the firmament
may melt irltlefervent beat, and the earthand . ell its `beautiful
-things may be burned up,. but Mon cannot die. Ithmortality is_
impressed upon him by the flyer of Grid, and Ile ,aloriti_ . can
take that impress off. • alone - ean destroy that imtbortality.
,
ire I enter this field, my Courag6 fails me. So vast and so .
varied is it that I aill-loat and bewildered nptarmy first approach
to it. all hen we sneak of the human reality; in gtoss i we - ,think
but litffe of it. -When we contemplate. mankind ate
can dolt composedly; but when vaie come to classify and indi-
Vidualize, we, find Our thoughts 'shooting back like lightning
through the long vista of time, and: all nations, tribes, and class-.
ca . of men tiovy extinct and dead; and those That now exist, stand'
- before us, for'Our study s and contemplation: Although all were
descended from one common phrentage,.yet how vast the differ
ence. Letting the past go,let y.our thoughti tea upon the differ
ent nations as they now exist—the RuSsian, the Turk, the Greek;
the French, the English, the Scotch, the Irish, the Afrieati, and
all the other nations, tribes,. and people now upon the earth.—
How ling would it take you, my friends, to study out and learn
their aeculiar characteristics, their governnierits a their-telialong,
their customs ; their languages, and their laws—their heroes
their statesmen, their philosophers,. and their poets, because
through these you learn their minds, their education, and their
tastes. Whin you-have contemplated men in classes, take them
us individua4 Go into the RoYal.Pi.laces of earth,. and study
their inmate -% Come alougyiewn thr'stugh all The different ranks
and grades, till you reach the lowest dens of infamy, poverty,
and wretchedness. Go to those upon wboM earth has bestowed
all her luxuries with unsparing hand, Go where sickness, suffer:
ing, and death ,pre*ailin every shape ; go to the palaces and
prisons of earth, and study all their habits andCiretniviances of
life ; study, man in every department, rank, dnik circumstance,
and then laarp thyself, for thou art but a man.
But es mild makes the man, our special reference should be to
that. Ages, lights have sprung up whose rays have been
'shed over the world and are Maw, enjoyed by us. The great
men of the world have he and ate; as a gpneratkule, selfmade
men. Born'ima hovel, of ,low , „„pareatage, • raised ir. obieuriiy
and want, without friends,' with 13itt few books, and. no kind hand
to aid and encourage them, they have risen by their own strength
to the highest pinnacles of wealth. and human greatness. This
-is no theory, no extravagant assertion, buta world known fact.
How did they do its Simply by having an object in view, and
by a fixed, eapzest, and determined purMe of soul to. reach that
object. They turned their minds intolutte channel, end kept
thorn th , -re. ;They did nik.t permit their thoughts to scatter, but
they-concentrated them upon the one object: Tlia midnight oil,
the pine .litio;and the early dawn, lighted-them onward and up
ward in theirlay.ourse. The immortal-Locke searched deep into the
dark recesses t and chambers of the human mind, and brought to
li g ht what wits there ; Aristotle and Plato, the philosophy of the
human soul and its ruture destinY, without the aid of revelation ;
Shakes'pezre, ° the character' f all men under every circumstance
of life'and - in every grade of virtue and of vice; he seemed to
think and speak for every kind of- matt,. ,and woman that ever
lived ;•Bacon could fully contemplate - mankind in their col
lective as well as their individual capacities.; Columbus,
was not sAtistied till he fund a new world ;. Mobre,i Scott, By
ron, .ried_. Coleridge, and hundreds of• others, have tOudied
every chord of the human heart:;, Demosthenes ; Cicero, Pitt;
Tjarke, FAurnet,'Patriek Henta.;.l,Sejaityr,. Clay„,.and :Cahoon
and statesmen without effort 13 Let the biography of De-
ittasthenes answer, -
Did not. Benjamin Franklin crime up froth a poor and un
known boy-1 Who invented the riming pre',, which is now
shedding its refulgent rays over ,eh• broad earth.? 'Who.
.first.
discovered the-power of steafa, and applied it to, .dfiving ma
chinery by which- we ride at the rate of sixty miles an hour ?
Who 'discovered the'process of impressing the exact flee Upon
tire - polished metal, by the aid of light ? Who by experiments
in Philosophy and Chemistry have found out the - hidden princi-:
ples f nature and applied - them to the most practical and use
-fat purrises of life? Who ascertained the niotions of the-plan
ets, -aid ilt4 revolutions of the earth 1 Who studied -out the
:telenee of figures, and of geoniettieatproportions, and - reduced
theta to rules so that you can tinderStan.d . them 1. 'Yho tamed
the lightiatig - and made it malt's obedlent, messenger from land
to laud': Who have been the herocilfrom age to age? The
Ca•sars, the Napo!entis,tee Washing,tons Who. the princely
merchants, the great InVemors, and the - great machinists of '•
warldl Who are and hake been the 'great men- who have di
all these things ? Who are they that held high - -rank
position-among the. nations of the earth? I tell you the ti
and Ilia not,- tiat ttioy are tlfeions and the daughters •Of fat
ers; - of merchants, day laborers, of shoethakers, of bl
smiths, of masons, of tallow chandlers and soap makers, of
tiers, sailors, vagrants, ,and beggars:7-s. Not only were
and daughters of such persons„-but many ',of them • were,
brought up as apprentices in those very trades and occupations.
-Think of Dihe Burritt, who understands more languages, per
haps, than any other , living man. What . was he? .-.A.
_black
smith. Where did
and
7 At the bellows and' forge.—,
Think of the noble and gifted Hugh Miller, the greatest geolo-,
gist of the age. What was he A poor Scotch boy-appren- -
ticed VI a mason—a dark shanty orhavel to stayin—porridge
his food front day to day—and his Only time to read, at. early
dawn and at twilight; fJr, during the day such hours of work and
labor you never knew and never will know, in this country, and
no light at night except the glimmering of the 'slightly,:. burning
peat. Poor ft:ll°W, his daily tasks were hard, his coMpanioris
coarse and ignorant, his commencement in life hard and -discour
aging:, but as the little acorn that has lain, for a long time:in the
,cold, dark earth, begins to fe.il the gentle influences of the sun
and lain, bursts its Shell, and crowds and pushes itself odtaof the
ground, and raises itself lip into the rtght; of heaven till-it becomes
a mighty oak so was it with• the noble' Hugh/Miller, •and
Ile
went to the grave honored and Moved by thousands, and a halo
of glory surrounds hi name that Shall never perish.: •
Benjamin Franklin wa.s.a poor end-friendless boy; - eating. his
roll of .bread, through the streets of Philadelphia, for ',which he
had paid his last farthing; and half Of Which he gave away- to a
poor woman ; and from that poSition by his own effort arose to ,
a World-wide distinction. Multitudes of such men conid.l name,'
but the few, must illustrate., How, Locke determine the' op
, eyatioas of the human' min ?,.13y studying his
,own - . How did
Shakespeare learn the. vdrious charaeters of men? By observa
tion and study. Why. is it. that Henry -Ward Beecher culls
flowers along his way, and scatters them in his path'
it that he gathers Life:thonghte," from everythingaround him?
gecause his mind is upon nature, and he stildies it in all its de: -
tails. „., .
Who are the enterprising - and conspicuous men of the
,pres
ent day ? - The railroad
-.men, the- . professional . men,. the raer
'chants, the business inen,of - every kind- ; of-the.preSent - ..rige. - 7
From what ranks .do they,eome? .1 tell.yon. - frodr - the raged
boy' regime*, Stephen Gerard, the late •Inillionare •of Phllit
.delphia'was a`pooi-,cabin boy.' ' john Jacob Astor was poor
boy in 'New York, and-while,he .was making his millions, his
name Was known through the landi.while the:paena 'of William
13. Astor,' who inherited his - , father's fortune; is •scatelly • -.knoarn -
beyond the:city. Who •tieas. : the ?ate i'Abhoti Lawrence:V....A ,
poor boy id Boston,
~..Beatl- his-life, and pursue his steps.. Whit
was Ilorace-Greeley A pont' bay and Very,gree,n-at that.—
Ilead his life,-and learn w•ladoin •.-
They Were,all • yininVii,eiyand boys once: as arc:' Alijr•
7...kd.the,y the. ad vantages - 44 you have 3. very fae-frOm'itie
• .9od. forces ,rothing, upon us.,- D4rything.: - .,that-is - ;..*orth;
1 having costs.. an", -improvements;_ and, Aleyieloto r ..
inents•in the,A.rts iuni•ScieoCes_havc,all. been made by study MA.
by thought.. tit will ever be se., What,part.do you late:idle:
act iiilthe great drama - of Jitinian Wet:. What rank do you-in=.
Mud lf you. think "--yarthaValgenida and. talent; direet • ritlt
upon theirt..,-,Preencions boys ,and fast .young . men nee apt - to :run!
a slow.racu, at•tlielast, and)ike, theiitabbit, they maylind theta
- selves far
. .outstripped by, the Tortoise. • Genius is gOad
in its,
phice,.hot„ it has .destroyed, its thousauds: With the talents of
nn Arigelainattmny become # "
There tine tioret than Oka- lAutalke4 4f- you -
day, just entering upon the 'l+o6l of life. Some of you will rise
to eminence and ,wealth,_ and others:will die unknown beyond
your immediate neighborhOod.: And why I Not; because you
must,but because you will. !Affirm what I know, that there is
not one . Of you here, that . cannot rise OVen, beyond your own 'ex,-
peetatiOna or. hopes, if ;you *ill. But you must not rely
upon your geitius to do If. you do you will fail. I knew a
man in the State of:New York some years since by the name of
King, Lawyer, by profession, and a man . of,gifted intellectual
powers, but indolent in his habits, and greatly fascinated with the
reatling'of. novels. He had an: important - suit one day, a finv
miles from his home. He started to go, stopped at a,tavern,
took up n noire!, commenced reading, forgot-his suit, t_was called,
nn and lost, and he awOkt to eimseiousness when it Was too late.
This indOlenec and indecision marked his life, and With the tal,
.alts of an Angel he became a poor, inefficient old Man.
My friends; mark out for:yourselves the course you intend to
pursue,and. when you . have once chnien it, pursut it with an
carnal," devoted and .Id/denying, dekiinination and purpose to
succeed, and you Wit do' it just so sure" as drat folloWs cause.--
Set your mark high and keep ybur eye steadily upon' t. If
teaching suits your tastes, prepareyotirselves tokit. If Law, or
Merchandise, or , 'Farming, or the Mechanic Arts, .or General
Sciences, or whatever it may .be, prepare yourselves for success
in them,
.and when •yOtt have
. made tip your Minds, regard not
the opinions of 'others. ;: Many are retarded from doing what
they 3 beileve in themselVes. to-be right, because some bne: ma
snake:a - Sneering remark to them. I heard a rich farmer; year
since, say to a boy - Who, was using all. hit efforts and scanty
means to get -what education could,
.." : Yeu are going away, to
school, are you ?: Well, it will anSwer• well enough (said he
sneeringly) for those boys whose. fathers are poor and have not
got their land paid for to go to school." That boy probably ex- •
pended his little means full as well for himself as.:.he would have
done by staying at home and paying if on the land. There are
tWo kinds of men in the. world. One kind'for thought and plans,
another for action ; one . kind for counsel,. another for war.
Demosthenes could plan a battle, and by his oratory excite the
courngq of every soldier that heard him, but at the first sight 2f
the enemy he would turn and run away. Bonaparte could both ;
plan campaigns and fight them. You may be - one or the other
of them, pertiaps,both.
. But to succeed in life, I again repeat you Must put yourselves
to the work, your souls, yeur minds,_ and your every
.energy.
You cannot sleep over it. 'You cannot spend the, hours that. God
Ys given to you for that purpose, in dissipation and idleness.
our success. Will he measured -by •the effort you make. Let
that effort be directed to one purpose and that alone—. It will
weaken - unless directed to sonic culminating point.'
Young Ladies and Gentlemen: beware of that indolence that
creeps over the mind, that witliers the. arm and paralyzes the
soul. "Shun it as you would the Bolton Upas. ft will rest like,
'a deadly incubus upon you. When once seated you may never_
shake it oft The chains of the giant Indolence, -grow stronger
and draw-closer every day you wear them. You kitow it, and
why Will you letthem.wind aroond you . ? If you do, you will
become like the terrible yet beautiful picture drawn by Cole
ridge MIAs "Ancient Mariner," of a calm at Sea :
• " Still as a Stare before his Lord,
• The Ocean bath uo blast ; ,
Ells great 'bright eye moseSilently •
•
Up to the Moon is -cast.
Day after day—day after dal,.
-
We stuck—nor breath nor motion ;
•
- As idle as a painted Ship
Upon a painted- ocean."
Swing off Better make aidozen failures than never to try.—
Better fall and half, break yoor - head_ than never to attempt to
walk. Suppose you try to speak-and break down,: try it again.
antimain—and_toly_ou. live you will succeed, Sumooseyen come
or suppose yfigneet; tog amicutnes•ftt
pathway in life. re gto give up and say, Ohl I can't
do it; I can't get over it? Shame on such irresolution and
backing down. Do it once, and you will be more. likely to do
it again: I have hears boys, and grown up ones, too,'say when
.they were called upin_the, morning, " 011! I can't get up, I am so
sleepy." Do theY . eler have that trouble on the 4th of Juts, or
when the stage is waiting for them at the door ? No such thing.
It is all n matter of will and effort. One young man geti up in
•the morning and takes his book and gives his mind to, it-through
the day, and in-the evening you will again,find him at it, and
the midnight taper still finds him at it.' l Does it require a pfbilt-'
et to foretell his success? Another lies in bed till after break
fast hour—gets up----g,ets his lesions mechanically, if at all—
spends his evening in'tdieness or dissigatiort. He reselves and
re-resolves, as he sees the advancement'of ethers, that hewill
mend his course, end yet he does the same.. Who at fault - for
the difference, God, or he ? One yOung man attends to bis bus
' • ---- his Money, another does not ; who is` responsible
; result ? Ymi know, and so do I. Be careful
your dress.aird deportment; theyare all a part
'lon. And 'beware that the passions,' fierce and
whirlwind, and terrible as thivfierce fires - that
Nwels of the earth, when 'unrestegined,•do not get
'au, and forever blast :your rising - hopes.
same path that others have trod, and you will
reach the same point. If Virtue'and Religion be your gU ide
God year trust, 'His works your study'; your. motto, " Omnin
Perseverentio," - you cannot fail, you will not fail to
reach that temple rip in the bright clouds, where happiness, joy
and fame forever dwell, and dispense their favors to those who
have gained'access there. Some may get a higher seat in that'
Temr : lo than others ; but I tell von .God has debarred it from
no one. He has reared Jiteob's:Ladder, to it, -- rind it you do not
ascend, the fault is your own ; and the-beauty-of the whole is
thatat each roan& as you ascend, _new dishes are presented to
You,ldifterent from any you have before tasted : more palatable,
more iuvigoratingi and the higher you
_go the richer and more
numerousthey are; and that ladder has no top, but goes on and
up away into the vast unexplored Eternity. Will you climb it, or.
will you rake coals out of the meg, forever.; and eat garbage, the
more of which you, eat, the viler and-more nauseous it becomes?
Will youleedloyr souls and minds and let them expand, or
will you Shut them up like• snails' in their shells I Will you
spend your precious moments in idleness, When life is so sheet,
and a world so full; of mysteries to be sought out and unraveled ?
While I write, my' Rout Is oppressed with the thought of talent
wasted-, of hours misspent teat can never be' recalled.,
If my voice could reach every youth, in the land, I would cry,
awake ! awake!! from your slumber and your dreams if, Lose
not, a moment! Arise and - assert your proper dignity litid . sta
tion as a mini , as a woman , the temple of humatiAreatness and
worth. Time rolls on and will ..riot wilt for y,ot4 or return to
you.; You You arkereated hut littre lower than the Angels. • Fall
not from your estate but rise, to theirs. Fight manfully the bat
tle of life, and reap its rewards when.over. Study the word, and
the works of God.- - Let,,them be r ip. companions by day and -
your meditation at:nighf;,.. Cultivate - the social, moral
-and re,
ligious affections 'of your heart: • See, that , you have an indiviclu,
ality of character,ancrOtpurpose, so that when the great drama
Of Life is played' ut, - atid the curtaia'shall sirori 'between.this
world aiulthe'nexti the part you acted shall snot he lost or for. -
gotten, in the general play, but like, the . incense of sweet flowera
and , noble deeds, it shall long be remembered, and it shall. be
said ,o 1 each ot you, " dine,Well. He has acted well the
part that God•gaie him to perform, and having acted it well on
this stage, he was prepared to take ,his part ort_that far more
glorious one beyond the grave."... ,
- .
• THE SZCRET OF LONG 1.41/3.."-Bilanl says : . -"
,To be free:mind
ed and cheerfully-disposed. at hours otmeat r atid'of Sleep, and of
exercise is one, of the, best precepts of long histing. As , fur
,the
passions and iiiidie'l•Of the mind; avoid
. envy, envious fears, an.
ger,, fretting In wards, - suktile and )criotty 4nquisitions, joys and ex
bilarittions .in 'excess, sadness hot _coin mui2deated.. Entertain,
s i
.11 pesi. mirth rather. than joy ; Variety pf delights; rather than.
rleit of them . ; vonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ;
dies that fill the' mind with splendid and ilitistrious objects—
as bistoriei, fabi&„tinit contemplations offiature." -. '
Naas Sannstattio--Daniel 'Webiter s , penned the folloWing
aeotiment - 'Mr we work upon marble; it ; if we,
:work uponPfass,limo eff:Aixt ;if' we rear temples,, they
Will,erumble into' 'dust ; 'but_wix, war* upon our iinmortal
oil imbue 'with . prinelpieto, with the , just kar. of
Vrod k ind of our fellow Men, we engrave int - Those tablets Same
thing,whickisill brighten to all otornitt." " •
•
al)led hero to
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DUMA, 15ft. Lebanon, Sept. 4;18o8.
.„ •
DEAR. Paitzterit-L--Your letter. of the lath Jute reached
us, at DGEI3II, the 23d of July. We can hardly realize that •
our Summer has so nearly passed, and that in levy weeks
we shall be again in mit Winter quarters at. Tripoli: ".
health during the Summer has been and contirmee to be
good. My,eyes aro better than they were during the
Winter and Spring ;-• still, however, I donot dar' to tax,
them more than is necessary.' But few'-incidents'have oc
curred during the past two months to break , upon - the
quietude of our Summer , retreat, and douhtlesi - Yon have, •
been kept well informed of all that relatei tO iis; - •through
Henry's frequent letters to his friends -at hem. - will'
however note down a few particulars - from.' my 'journal,'
commencing with the•lst off' August last, on' which day' I
was in Tripoli,; and it ,keing Sabbiith, prodded lo• a small
..
audience in the afternoon-. lir the, morning had --several
calls from - nutheisius friends, 'an&bad`- '
conversation 'and
discussion . with them on.religieut aubjects., - Inthe evening.
I wan•quite alone, and yet it provetr . to,-..me the most- de='.
lightful pert of the day, 'The sun - sank ie all his, glory in"`
the plabid waters of the Mediterranean:, painting the far-off
mountaintops le ith purple and gold. It •Wai at, just the -
time when the soul loves ,
To steal to white away 1.
From every cumb'ririg care,' '
,
And spend the hours of setting day ,
In, humble; grateful prayer."
I thought of you' and my other dear friends at home; and
I thought, too,of that other home, that " house • not made
with'hands,- eternal in the heavens," where , l trust We shall
all meet atlast, shall meet to peel no more; It was month-•
ly concert evening, and .while it was a great priiilege to
implere*d's blessing upon yon all, it also gave inerocich
encourageMent and joy to know that in a few hoers -you,'
too; would be unitedly praying fail‘us r and fur the • success •
of our work in this distant land,. And thus it •• •
" Though sundered far L by faith we tnnaS' `"-
• Around one common mercy-seat." •
AUGUST 2d.—Wrote a letter to you giving an account
of the disturbed state of affairs in this, country. 'Visited
our school in the Mena, (harber), found only seventeen'. •
scholars present, in consequence- of a strong prohibition
issued in the Greek church the day, previpus, forbidding•
the people to send their children to us for instrUction.—
This sort of persecution, however, does us little harm; on
the other hand, our cause is rather promoted by. it.; . ' -
Went up to Dame the afternoon. -Found"all-well.
_ Auliusr - sth.—Thia forenoon seeing ."a large crowd of
men assembled near our house to attend a funeral,' went
and took a seat among them, and talked with them at-some •
lengthaipon the necessity of -true faith in Christ, and true
love to God, and the necessity of preparation' for death " •
&c. There_ were some-ten or eleven priests present. One
-of them, au ignorant, snappish fellow by the' name- of Si- ,
- mon, got angry at me, saying that I had no ,busimess to .
preach to Christians- 1 1{ml ought to go to the Metawlis
and Moslems. 'I told - Y..ln I felt it to be 'my duty to preach - 1
wherever
. I mighthe, and among, whatever. Einev my lot
might be cast, but as our Savior preached first to .the lost
sheep pf the house of Israel, so I thought it quite proper
that I should preach first to the wandering so-called christ-,
inns. , In-the afternoon was present et • the, funeral in the
church, and saw then - i. bury the , body in a grave about two
'feet_deep, in which two persona - had been'previously in
',rad. The bones -were exhumed too make -room for the
by the aid ant tireueue -man-, tor -- mot
could not help exclaiming out against the heathenish prac.
tice.
Atronsr'27th.—Today arrived home.from a missionary -
tour through the northern part of Mt. Lebanon. I had no
companion but my muleteer.' Visited many villages, most- _
ly iihabited by Maronites, some . of them'by Moslems,and
a vt-..by- Greek Christians. Celled upon the - Maronite pa
triarch at his convent at Deeman near the cedars of-Leba
non. Spent the Sabbath with Yanni Enden:. Preached •
to 'a throng of people in the streets, thnsame people 'who, -
five or six years ago, forciby expelled Mr. Wilson.and•Mr.
Foot from their village. Visited the ancient cities of Ak-`
ka and Aika, now in.ruins. Of the latter Place very little
now remains, save an immense mound- and broken frag-
ments of granite colitmfis. A. portion of the:country which
I traversed had never before. so far as I know, bean 'visited -
by arty-missionary. Many little incidents occurred during-,
my tour which would no-doubt interest you had 1 time . ,
relate thein. Perhaps at some future time I will give you
a more , detailed account of my journey.
Szi:Tzuess 7th —Last night we bad considerable - rain,
which is quite unusual , in Syria at this. season Of - the year. .
My friend Saleh arrived about midnight from Tripoli, hav
ing come up, according to:an -arrangement which I had re
cently made with him to accOmP t ry me on my proposed
journey to Horns. We expect start to-morrow morn: •
.ing. Igo for the double purpose:of visiting Brother
Sou's, family, is their far-off, lonely station, and to bring
Sada hack to reopen her school •in Tripoli. A , part of the
country through which I am to travel is more or less
in -
fested with wandering bands of wild,. plundering Arabs;
but I shall take but little money with rne,and trust in God.
One may travel fearlessly and- even ,cheerfully,:howiiver
, dangerous his path may be, if he het- feel conscious that .
it is the path of duty. '
•
• ,Serrsarasa, 21st.—Yesterday Tarrived bonne- from • my :
Visit to s llcens, - I can only, at present, give you 'a brief out
line of my interesting journey..- Left Duma on,the -morn:
ing of the Bth inst., accompanied by-My- friend Sakti, and
crossing over, the higherregions of Lebanon, descended the ,
eastern slope of the-mountains, to the- great; the .
Buka, and pitched my teat for the first night - in full- view
of the famous ruins Baalbee. -*est day; (the. 96,) travel.;
ed all day norThertsterly; over a beautiful,' undulating coun
try, pe.ssing several villa g es hod fountains,' and encamped,
for the night-at the head waters- of the river - Orontes.--
There was no_village, Mar even .a house in sight; but in the
evening an old,. hard- looking Moslem '
came to seeus, whom
fevidays afterwards, we'learnedao be notorious as rho
chief of a band'of theives.' He treated ns very eourteoua
ly, brought, barley for our horsen and_ milk. for' otirielties,
.but told us such 'horrible stories about the' murders and
robberies tha(hrui ' been committed in the phice, that poor
Safelt was unable to get any , sleep, but sat' alf'night
.ing: out of the deor of the tent, 'grasping my hatchet firmly ,
in . hand, prepared fur any emergency , that miiht
'We were howeyer,undieturbed, and early in the
,morning •
the old sheikh came in,agnin to , see us, and I.'yeent with
hi, ni to visit his, place of abode. , • -
fizniur, Oct. 'lst.--1 had-proceeded_thusfar with my let
ter when being interrupted I laid it .. wiidei and did not, find -
'opportunity' to resume it.• I can only say- noir: v itt _regerd
to my journey, to Horns;, that .1 arrived there safely on Sat. 7
,urday, Sept. 11th. Spent: the : Sabbath with brother ,Wll
- for him - bailie afternoon, •and :aided him, 1 1
the administration Of the saerfune'nt._ On' the next Tues.
day; weitittillamath, a large_ ity north_pf
nesdity;retUrned to ,and on-Thursday, taking Sai
da with me, left lor Tripoli where we arrived the nettday,
(Iriday the'l7th.) - -- •Leaving Sande at. Tripell . to ,reopen
her school, I returned to Dnunt. Should'opportimity offer;
I mayyet 'sena yew e fuller mount of"thetourneYof which
I have given you brief in outline: iOn Monday, the
27th, - "moved my-flintily down 'to TripOli..- Wednesday •
evening took the Austrian •steanier,• reached Belrat, - next
morning,' Yesterday; counted eight steamers ' , ire the -bar
bOr—French, English, Austrian, and Russian. Called on
the new. Ameriean Contink(Mr. - .Tohnston,) at his hotetthis
evening . ; promised svithhim tomorrow. • He is i
very pleasant man, and althouglthelaurr been here
but„three months, he has already created adecided impres..
"ion up*the officials here, and iedoing honor to the Artier
lean name by his promptitude end etiergy inC!,the transac
tion of consirlar_husinesta. "
Ogroista 4 24.—HaYO just -receiVod iettetifoo l flf
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