The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1847-01-07

has deprived US. We feel that the past Is
1.-THE creator ofthe future, and eagerly do we
look back into it TO gather some prophecy Of
the course of coming time, We know how
past relations have affected US, and as the
future is, owing TO our sameness OF social lille
but slightly varied repetition of The past,
we submit ourselves hopefully to the mont
tory and inductiye influence of memory
Theseus is guided through the Cretan Lady
rnth by the thread.
And is not this memory most Beautiful
| gift 10 man? As God man woke Lazarus
into a warm and lovely life from The midst
of the corruption of the tomb, SO does He yet
permit us toraise, by The power of memory,
from the entombing past into ben
eficial and beautiful life, things which have
lperished for ages, All that is valuable or
beautiful in the mind of man; the labors OF
| the good and great and the fruits of those of
labors; the virtues of nations and individ-
uals; the affections Of common blood; The
gathered experience of time and the wealth
of noble and beautiful thought, live aud die
not forever. They are crystalized by time,
and remain in theirperfect beauty and orig
inal FORM. No one Thing has given an I'M
proving and permanent gladness to a nation
or an individual or frightened them with the
loneliness of new appreciation of truth,
which has persisted, or can perish from The
minds of men. ,s... ss..,r-.-
So true it is, that
ga thing of beauty is a JOY forever,
Its loviness increases; il will never
Pass into nothingness but still will keep
A bower qniet for US. and sleep ~
Full of sweet dreams, and health and qni-
ct breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreath
70 ing - s'a -'sa
A fowery band to bind US to the earth"
30 Beautiful truths most beautifully syllabled
into the purest poetry of speech The
memories of the past TO him, whose life has
not been one Of defiant sin, are indeed a
quiet bower oil fresh and clustering flowers,
into which wearied and saddened Thought
may retire fromtoo much contest and bitter
ness ofspirit.s Lovely and undeceitful past!
in thy solemn lessons and beautiful memoir
les we find the very essence ofelevated and
chastened delight. osg . Ala .lant
tbs day, however, belongs rather 10 hope
than to memory 1t is the first day of new
year, OF a yet undeveloped course of lime.
To the future are committed our prosperity
and happiness. The pasuis fixed Wishing
cannot alter il. Neither coed. 1hnnnA.it-rpag
future isyef Uniformed, dnexistent. We are
10 mould its events ifio. form and stature.
We are evendo make those events. Won
derfully great is the influence which they
are 10 exercise over us. All things, thought,
happiness, prosperity, and social and public
relations are qufvering in the balance I'LL
these have decided. Hence the man Crea-
tor, at the same lime that he wills certain
things into existence, cannot but feel an ex-
IRENE anxiety for his future. Therefore, as
regards those things over which he has not
absolute control, he hopes. There ire voices
in the future which incite him to action; and
he dreams that, in their call, be hears an un-
realized triumph and an unspoken eulogy
In the future there are golden rewards 10 be
won, and hope places them within his grasp
In the future, he dreams, all Joys cluster
around his hearth and every hope of his hear
is more than realized. In, the unravelleC
darkness of the future he seeks the idols o
his hearts desire. Telemachus goes init
the dark and unknown Hades in search 9th
much loved and long-sought Ulysses So
dreaming the sweet visions of hope, nov
! realising them aud now seeing them fad'
j away in dim and knocking illusion, man goe
; on from year to year.
! lis we'll that ii should be So Ii is we
4 that man keeps within him this perennla
a fountain, yelling up in the darkest hour c
, sorrow and disappointment, that he may, as
r were, hear the glad music of an everllvin
current in his soul. Around this hope nobl
e and graceful purposes will arise as lott
J, palm trees around the desert fountain. Eve
e forming views more splendid Than those h
= realises, il is well that new visions, as beau
C tiful and bright, should come TO give newe
I! purposes TO his soul, If hope we're nor {
a enduring as life, surviving shame, povert
]. and disease, then were the handspring of til
e soul shattered into pieces. But while the'
e is life there is hope; while there is hope, a.
If ton Upon hope and memory, as upon ii
n two wings of an eagle, is the soul born
If aloft in strife of life.
n Hope hardened by the governing infuent
is ofreason, is resolution, will, destiny. Hen'
re its magnificence, its overriding and greatly
- power. What wonders will il not achiev
il All adverse things sink before it. Hope owe
er turned the wide and deep foundations OF L
in gansm, established Christianity, built Rom
as made Corsican subaltern Emperor of Fran
is and won liberty for America. These a
lie magnificent examples of its power. The
a shine as with the light of suns and not
rs with the light OF STARS. There are hutnbl
g, things in which the influence of hope has
IS purer and seftened beauty. I'm every hum