Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-19
REFLECTIONS.
" Such as mclOrate the IA, art
Compose the passions and cxaIt the mind

Compose the passions and cxaI, the mind
The following is the closing para.
graph Of an editorial article in the
New England Review, its editor is J.
u. Wh'ltier, man of good sense,
exquisite feeling and most ielcitous ex-
preston:
The glory of the summer is gone
hy-the beautiful! greenness has be-
came withered and dead. We've this
all-wei there no associations of moral
desolltlon-of faded hopes--of hearts
whitening in the bospms of the liv
ing-cOnnected with the de3aying
scenery around us. we would not in.
dulge In moments melancholy .-The
season OF flowers will come agaiu-the
streams will flow gracefully and lightly
as beiore-thc trees will again toss
their cumbrous load Of greeTness TO the
sunlight by messy stone and
winding rivulet, the young blossoms
will start up, as at the bidding Of their
fairy guardians. But the human heart
has no change Ike that of Nature. II
has no second spring-time. Once
blghtcd in lis hour OF freshness. il
wears forever the mark of the sDoIler.
The dews OF affection may fall, and the
gentle rain Of sympathy be Iavished
upon it--but the sore root of hllghtei
feeling will never again wakcn into
life, nor the crushed flowers of hope
blossom with their wonted beauty"
Bishop Whto. Ii is right 10 hold good cx-
amples up to public gaze and every we'll
wsher of the community must be yratificd
ut tho sight OF tribute paid to real aud un-
questionable worth by one wb" himself mas
The claims of distinguished merit. Among
large collection oftoasls and speeches at the
late celebration Of tho anniversary of the
landing of William Penn, the following well
merited compliment is paid by William Rawc
of Philadelphia, to the venerable Bishop
White
MIR. Rawle said, on entering this
room | have been, although myself
guest, desired to read To you the letter
from the Right Rev. Bishop White,
declining the invitation sent 10 him
and transmitting toast.
This request was grateful, and the
compliance with it cheerful.
The presence OF this dignifed and
amiable man would have added to tn,
iustre which is shed upon the evening
10y the company OF so many distinguish
ed and valued strangers. Tney would
have seen IN him man of whom all
have heard, and whom all have heard
of only in the most kind and respectful
accents; one in whom heightened life
has been marked by heightened use.
fulness; one on whose mind time has
been unable to commit its usual ra-
wages; whose purity no temptations
have ever pretended to pollute; whose
character envy has never ycntured to
assail.
In an early stage ofour revolutionary
struggle, when peace, and comfort,
and property, and life itself were at
stake, to unite in any form and any OF
flee in sustaining the great conflict,
evInced the principle and the tirmnesS
Of those who hazardcd the issue. To
invoke the Divine assistance was felt
by Congress to be solemn duty; aud
he whose function excluded him from
the field, and untitled him for the cab
met, could but render his aid by the
daily and public applications 10 the
throne of grace. If resistance had
proved unavoIIDg, we may well suppose
that there would have been little dIScrI-
minatlon in punishment. But the
possible event was not ShIunk from.
No human considerations impeued the
PATRIOTISM, or impaired the picty Of this
excellent man. In the character OF
chaplain of the first Congress, his
duties were tearIessIy and failhlu ly
performed. The merit of these early
exettions ought not to be lost sight oil
In the fulIness of respect and affection
that now surrounds him
| have to present toast received
from him for the present occasion, re-
ferrlng not to political conduct or cha
racter OF the great founder OF the pro-
vince, bu; TO that feature of his early
and constant principles which naturally
attracted the mind and received the
appreciation ofone whose religious func-
ton rendered the subject peculiarly
interesting to him, and whose own
liberal views precisely accorded with
those here in Pennsylvania first intro
duceG and established While others