The Arkansas banner., 1848-06-13
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EDIiCATION OF THB HEART.

.s.s,.s FRom AN ADDnxss By Bao. STACY c. POTTS.
 This should be the great object of oar restitution --te ssach the prRdics of virtue. It Is thus that tue hsat is edacatedtsus thai the springs of moF- ai aciioh are pafi6cd-thas that we made better men-<bettef citizens. For after all, men are gov eFned more by their feelings than their faith.
 How admirably tsst insitatioR is adaPted 10 promote titis object need not gay tD you who are ae familiar win Us in,tsations sfAdis da'Ies. But may sppsai to yoo by all the obligat,ons into which you have entered to di,eharge with ie'i y your duty to your God to your coubiry--,o your fellow man. Rest not in the mere theory of your ofdsfthat s the stopping place oi thousands. ' he world would be des Ft If the clouds for- ever tarried in the sky; and man would remain un- blest forever if benevolcbce fingered forever the tongue. We want the irais of deeds to prove tie valas sf our fsih.
 Cherish them, with the culture of good deeds this broad green tree. which, planted in other ands and other countries has flied up ifs foliage galh- CT the dew above, only to scatter it upon the soil 5 beneath.
 Let the unoff- -ndiug tenor of your daily walk; {; the kindness of your daily demeanor; the cardor and franknes your social intercourse; your scr- puious and anbending honesty; your open hearted and open handed charity; be worn the badges and distiactiea of yoar Order Isese your 0p- yropriGte regalia And then when the donbting, hesttating locker shall ask the question, "W hat do ye more than o,hprsp' You may point them 10 that bond of brothsrly affection unchanged tbro' all the vlcsitudes oi yeafsto misfortune alleyia- ted--to the destitute suceored--to the bands of or Phans gathered from the grasp of the worlds cold charity and nuttnred in your boson--and say hess are our cifsesses.
 All that is valuable of moral teachings Tn for nulares we borrow from tie Bible. All that is ef iecttve 0g moral influence IS derived from the same source. And theie-and there aone--in that won desfa dispensation of Divine Philosophy The mysle- " is solsed--ihe question answesed-how man can be rescued from tie grasp of error how inc strange h rP of many strings. So out of tun,, may b. re- stored to harmony; how this fl st decisive step may be taken in the path of virtue.
 The theories which, based on human reason, dfassing ihe.s sanctions from the past experience their motives from the future hopes of mrn appeal to hts interest or his fears in bchaf of virtue have all been tried for centuries.
 The igiage they pr scented, in their most saceess- ful etforis 10 the world, indeed beantfa in is proportions and fautess in its design. IL sood out the Personifcaton of moral beauty. But like s'thc Statute that enchants the world" 1t stood--motiou- ss--heariless --lifeless a cold though classic thoaghty ehss lied on the colder marble. Nor could . power less tban Onnipotcnt, breathe into it the Premeihean fire, give # vitality; and bic nd in soul and being with our And so the image of yir- tue. we silti chiel by education the human heart requires the torch of the Omnipotent hand to give it thie--sad, living. to ciothe it with undecay Ing energy.
 IT Bat, with the Bible as our daily guide our first great duy. reverepcc, fidelity and obedience to the King oi kings, rehsiously performed; our second, 10 our Reighbor faithfully discharged; our last to ourselves observfd when life shail terminate and the bright chain of Fiandstip. Truth and Love IS broken here the earh its links shall at be gath cred and reunited in that better land where the education oi the heart is perfected.