Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-10-26

sat- tasC Ao&SSSisnsssUs thS Psss1H anu SsHs-
iple gasb contrasting strongly with the
Irichness and luxury around him. He
Twas apparently quite young, and Of a
tall and commanding figure. His
jcountenancc was Calm and benevolent;
lit bore no traces Of passion; care had
not marked it there was holy seren-
,ity in its expression, which seemed a
Tjtoken Of that inward speace which
passe.h all understanding"
/ sand this is thy friend. Eleonoraf
said tho stranger, as he offered his hand
to Ernest. Il hear" he said, address
sing the latter, s'thou hast been hard
student and a lover Of philosophy"
| II am but an humble inquirer after
Truth" replied Ernest.
"From Whence hast thou sought
ii.y'
'sFrom the sacred volume-from the
lore of the old fathers-from the foun-
,tains Of philosophy, and from my own
briefexperienee Of human iife."
| "Alas--po?" replied the student;
II have thus far toiled in vain"
"Ah! thus must the children Of the
world ever toil--wearily-wearily--
but in vain. We grasp at shadows
we grapple with the fathomless air
we walk in the blindness Of our own
vain imaginations-we compass heaven
and earth for our object, and marvel
that we find it not. The truth which
is Of God, the crown Of wisdom, the
pearl ofexceediDg price, demands not
this vain glorious research; easily to
he entreated, il lieth within the reach
Iof all. The eye of the humblcst spirit
may discern it. For He who res
|Pecteth not the person Of His children,
hath notset it afar of, unapproachabie
save to the road and lofty; but hath
made its refreshing fountains to muir
mur, as it were, at the very door of
our hearts. But in the encumbering
hurry Of the world, we perceive it not;
in the noise Of our daily ,anities, we
hear not the waters of Shiloab, which
go SOFTLY. We look WILDLY abroad
we lose ourselves IN vain speculation;
we wander in the crooked paths of
those who have gone before us, yea, in
the language Of one OF the old fathers,
We ask the earth, and it replieth not
we question the sea and its inllabi-
tants,--we turn to the sun and the
moon, and the stars OF hea. en-, and
they may not satisfy Us; We ask our
eyes, and they cannot see, and our
cars, and they cannot hear; we turn to
the books, and they delude US: we seek
ard no response cometh
from IT'S dead aud silent learning. 1t
is not in the SKY above, nor in the air
around, nor in the earth beneath; il
is in our own spirits-it lives within US.
and if we would find it. like the lost
silver Of the woman Of the parable,
we must look at homc,--to the inward
Temple, which the inward eye discov-
areth, and wherein the spirit Of all
truth is manifested. The voice ofthat
spirit is still and small, aud the light
about it shiEcth in darkness. But
faith is there, and five seek in low
humiiity-in a patient waiting upon
its author-w,th a giving up Of our
pride Of knowledge seduc-
ing Of self-a quiet from all outward
endeavor, it will assuredlv be revealed
and fully made known. For as the
angel rose Of old from the altar Of
Manoah, even so shall truth arise from
the humbling sacrifice Of selfknown-
ledge and human vanity, in all its .
eternal and ineffable beauty. $
s'Seekest thou, like Plate, aftert1
ruth? Look thou within. The holy ,
principle is there; that in whose light
he pure hearts Of all time have re-
DICED. 1t is the s.great light Of ages
# which Pythagoras speaks-the, $
good spirit" Of Socrates; the "div,ne
Mid" Of Anaxagoras; the 'Perfect
Of Plato; the " infalliblc and I.
immortal law, and divine power os {
Of Philo. 1t IS the sunbegot- ,
on principle and source Of all light L
| ;meus tcsti6etb the interior |
guide of the soul and everlasting foun- ,
iation ofvirtue, spoken BY Plutarch.i
Yea-it was the hope and the guide /,
ii those yirtuous Gcntiles, who, doing t
~ nature the things contained in the 3
as. became law unto themselves. S
"Lcok to thyself. Turn thine eye l
inward. Heed not the opinion Of the 5
world. Lean not upon the broken 3
-eed Of thy phi!osophy--thy verbal cr-l
hodoxy--thy skill in tongues--thy
knowledge OF the fathers. Remem- Is