The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-05-02
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COMMUNICATED.
FUTURE vIND1cATIoN OF CHARACTER.

FUTURE INDICATION OF CHARACTER.
Reserve your and your maedctons for prosper
Gus malefctos Misfortune has the sacred right OF pu-
fyng her victims from their offence and the man whom
Heaven has afflicted should become innocent in sight,
MARMoNTEL.
Amidst the various dispensations to which man is
Fable during his passage through this world, and III
the darkest hours of and calamity, none per
haps can affect sensitive mind keeny than to
be placed in situations where motives can be per-
yered by the malice of those whose ignorance en-
w prevents them from the exercise of candid judy
ment respecting the springs Of conduct. :" The
spirit of . man." says Solomon :. caA bear his mis-
fortunes but grounded spirit who can bear :" 1t
seemed even to his phllosophc eye to be clima1 of
calamity that other Affections might readily be sup
ported, by sumnonng to aid our sober reflections
tie common events OF life, and the vicisstudes TO
which all liable through the operation Of external
cantngonccs: but when the very character itself IS
indignantly assailed and best intentions not only
frustrated by causes beyond control, but absolute
y misreprescntcd and our very souls wounded in the
most vital part then it is indeed L" hard to hear"
But in the midst of these most serious evils there is
this great consolation--one indeed beyond the power
Of the world, with all its malice, to take away
"iod is our Judge And happily lis Judgment is
not deducfd from those principles which sway man.
10 mind which has preserved It's integrity invoiate
TINS Is one Of the greatest supports in the depths of
adverse circumstances Human life has many clouds
pared to fulfil It's duties, who has early habltuated his
mind to anticipate these dark hours, and in the Ian
gaage ot physic, :" to ,Spec the coming disease =
And IN the drkest time>hat can occur, the man OF
integrity knows there will come period to "malice
ana 1 uneharitabIeness,' and that virtue will one
day triumph in the sight of men and angels. The We
~ brightest reputation is liable to be for time tar
ns1ed--it is consistent with the designs of Heaven
l man should Suffer for the purposes of refinement,
ana s''tiar too in tie most tender parthat he may
PROV" the strength of his reliance superior pow
e'' ana that others seeing his fortitude amidst unde
served agoios. may have living example of patience
nH1re their eyes. And we may well imagine that
us truth was recognised by an eminent Christian
%rthy IN former days, when lie spoke of being bap
uSaJ Tor the iead'-punged in the wave Of mental
saleFlng for the sake of those in whom the life of
christianity had not yet arisen.
10 ono need therefore expect to be free at all times
T@n the aspersons Of malice envy, or ignorance
'hese, however black can infct consciousness
81 disgrace on the pure and upright mind. The darts
tH' h'rmess!y at the feet of innocence. And there
aFe nen-too many, alas! in the world, of that des
cuatlon, whose censre is real praise, and whose
p:otehe5 brighten oboquy into glorv-whose calum-
Hos are without point and ordinations without shame:
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