Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-07-05

his euual-hs likeness in finer mould. But we
must have strength above our own, to enable us to
occupy position so truly belonging to woman
Without the aid of that grace which imparts addi-
tiona ustre to every virtue, VIC attempt 1t in vain
The mind over which re gon holds no sway, how
ever much it may have explored the pathway OIL
science-however deeply it may have drank at the
fountain of earthly knowledge, lacks charm
which no accomplishment can supply. On the
other hand, christianity invests the female charac-
ter with sacred loveliness-an inward beauty
that, ever and anon, shining out about her path,
finds her place in every heart. On this point,
how many err. While they seek by personal, and
sometimes mental attractions, an exalted rank,
they neglect the hidden principle of the heart, for
getting that earth has no abiding joy, and earthly
spirits no enduring hope. Selfshness-hat ee-
mental of depraved nature, reigns predominant
over the youthful mind, and is the chief incentive
to every practiced virtue. The SOUL in its unsat-
isfcd longngs is left to feed on husks and loses,
in its communion with earth, its heaven-born as
pirings after truth. The angel of love cannot
dwell with such. They have leaned on the world
and 10! it is IL broken reed. The remembrance OF
youth shall be to them but Il sigh. If we would
not be second in the scale of created belngs-lt we
would arise above the stigma too deServedly at
tached TO our name, of mental imbecility and fash
onable folly, and occupy our own intended places
let us seek first the purity Of purpose and strength
of determination derived alone from the grace 0
God. Let love of admiration and display Civ
I;,tI, nd IF tho ~
ages of the day, but to active desire to correc
them, by peryerting no longer our oaUn nature an
gifts. Individually, we exert responsible lnfiu
y cnce-how responsible, eternity will tell.
u wrongfully exercised, hitter will be the remem
brance of youth!
Poetry, in its dreamings, has given US pictur
: of youth, as a bissiul succession of bright hope
: lovely visions, and careless, thoughtless, hapr
hours, not to- be couded by knowledge of reality
= or troubled by anxiety for the future. CIoudIe
~ and careless, truly, is, comparatively, the sprn
u tide of life The flowers which bloom in its patl
t way arc tinged with the freshness Of innocen
IL and love, and the caIIous touch of time has n
- bluned the sensibiIity of the young and joyo
~ heart. But there is a future. Time pauscs Il
u to (roic with youth. The drama of life must
y acted, prepared or unprcpared; and, conseque
upon this action, eternal happiness gained or lo
y Are the sweets Of the gilded cup Of pleasure sui
~ cient to induce the immortal mind to forget the
~ important truths? Shall we live as if unconsclo
of The great end Of our being, till. tired of van
S' we find we are provided with no other suppo
~ and to augment our unavang regret, consclen
10 Whispers eye knew your duty, but ye did it not
Intelligent and virtuous females suffer no su
% snare to entangle you in your straghttorw'
''0 course Let the discipline of mind and heart b.
"o pleasure, not a task. Then shall mature age bri
""' satisfaction and peace, and the remembrance
youth shall not be sigh.
tY Montpelier, Jan. 1914.