Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-12-01
From the New York Tribune.
A SERMON
On the Educational Wants OF the West.
PREAcnEp BY REv. HENRY wARD BEEcHER.

ISt. Matthew, Chap. N.-last clause OF verse =.
have showed you all things, how that so labor
ing We ought to support the weak, and to remember
the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, at is
more blessed to give than to receiye."-l Acts,
Chap. Xxx. Verse 3j.
These words contain at once the formula and
the philosophy Of human happiness. No man
can be happy who cOnfers no happiness. be-
neyolence alone is the faculty whose actien har-
monies with itself every other faculty OF the
mind. When the Imagination revels, the rest
of the mind-ts religious iervor, It's social Joys
-moy lie dormant. When tho Intellect alone
acts, nothing vegetables: the mind lies in a clear,
transparent atmosphere, through ghwhlch all shapes
and colors stand apparent, but nothing swells
and bursts into leaf and blossom-ior the intel
lect has light but not heat When Conscience
alone acis, the mind suffers; for in this life,
more ofen thsn otherwise, the pure action of
conscientousnessi painful; il gives rigor, de.
cision, rarely exquisite pleasure; often and usu-
aV pain; il is a censor, and crilicises; it is
schoo,master, and governs by the rod il is a
dictator. aud as mprriuus. When il harmoni-
zes all the faculties of the miud with itself and
leads the man with his fullest consent to rectl.
tude and Justice, yields, then, stern satisiac
lion: but when il pushes the will 10 duty through
insubordinate passions. it fills the soul with cls-
NOR and sadness. When, overpowersd, it pro-
tests and arouses against usurping emotions, It's
fang is poisonous, its stroke anguish.
TO everv faculty Of the mind there is linn
tied sway and an appropriate pleasure; but to
one faculty only is there given supremacy, q that
faculty is Benevoence; and as its rule is egit.
mate, its remuneralions are real joyous, bles.
sed. When it comes in full apparaI 10 the throne
"Upon her lightning brow Love proudly sitting
Flames out in power, shines out in majesty"-
then il is Summer in the soul-all ls passions
flow like sobered streams; all its nights are clad
in green and flowers; and It's Wales breathe O..
dors; its atmosphere is peace, its day is joy;
and, day or night, the heart that is governed by
ntrue bcnovolence is full Of deep delight.
Oh how long shall a mocking world stand a.
bove this golden mine and leave the vein untr-
edl Men are all agreed 10 search for happiness.
Ten thousand abandoned shafts tell where they
haye vainly dug; ten thousand broken cisterns
tell how their thirst has been Knocked.
We know what wrath and hate can do. The
whihwind Of excitement which they bring, if for
q moment they stimulate, as surely desolate the
mind; and Satan laughs to see revenge and
wrath 90 forth asking the way TO happiness
We know what lust can do; Tvs heavens glow
like brass; lis hour is like the raging Of the fur
mace; that hour passed, and life is but the EN-.
bers and the ashes of the spent furnace. We
know what Joy there is in mere avarice; all its
life is in expectation; in the prcscn, and in the
mast it has no Joy; what it means 10 Be is its life.
We know, too, what satisfaction there is in the
Measurable life of ailluerct lis joys have gone
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by night and haunted by day; its glow and gilt
ter arc remembered, but its eaaHj, its deep de-
iec,ions, its restless cravings these are not chro.
niclCd or published. We see the foam Of its
wine first poured out: the serpent that lies coll
ed in the bottom Of the cup they only see who
drink i, to the drcgs. Thank God Inc mind is
not made of sub stuff that it can be upholstered
into bliss; il is not silk or plush, il is not equpugC
or banquet. that can say: "PGace give unto
you." Pleasure gives revels, exharaiions
madness: but upon short leases, more difficult o
renewal every year. But it was ordained 10
crown the morning with peaceful dew, or wash
the sutry hours with his crystal rain, or send (
balmy breath through all the plains and wales o.
the soul or in steadfast elInIgence 10 shine upon
it. 1t can most earnestly fire the soul to desire
it never darcs to meet these desires; It cannot
give them the needed boon.
| would to Col statistics could be taken from
within men as we'll as from without. We can
count their myriad numbers, record their ages
mark down where they live, register ihcir stock!
and count their bales. We know what seas re
ceve their ships, and whilhor they send from
fertile shops the vast productions. But who ha
vet taken register of morning hopes and traceC
them to their evening exit! Who has nolicet
the minds distraction, the alert fear, the wrong
ed conscience, the chaled temper, the burning
stream Of avarice driving on the grinding ma
chinery? Who has shown the daily strokes by
which the inward gravor has traced those hero
plyphcs on the forehead which need no Cham
pollion 10 decpher! We know what Man is il
his outside-n his noise and bustIe and maj
whirI; but only God knows what is Man within
Six thousand annual suns have lighted the paIl
of human desire TO the eye of God. The reg
islraton Of six thousand years of trial after hap
piness lies in the recording books Of Heaven
On earth, history records and grossly touche
here and there feature Of the long landscape
but in Heaven we see the secret history; no
temples, but the vanity the builder and groan
Of the aborer; not the throne, but the heart O
the restless occupant; not ships and shops, bu
the rise and result Of those goading desires tina
employed them; not the palace and the mansion
but the dull plethora, waking to feverish desire
relapsing through craving, gnawing ennui, t
gloomy unrest. Looking upon the vast pa:
sage of the human heartthrough life, God break
forth and gives the secret of his own joy t
MaR-"Its more blessed togve Ihant receive.
All! the chronometer has hitherto been woun
up backward. No wonder it kept no lime! c
all beings in the Universe, none would be S
intensely wretched as God himself, should Il
be sbutup from doing good-should He live fc
himself and not for others; and in the variou
degrees down the long scale, all His creature
possess the same nature. The inevitable roa
10 misery is to live for yourselves; the unerrn
road to Joy is to live for others. God knows
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