The Arkansas banner., 1849-06-05


 earthly and eternal happiness Like the ever spreading, get invisible wsreets of soand that bear The whispers from our lips 10 the ears of the listeners. let the soft influences of the great soul love that should unite us, spread wider and wider. hoiseiessy and unseen, entering and penetaing the chambers of every human soul til the mingng spirit of friendship Lnd truth shall be one atmos- phere of love.
 Such may be the power of association for good Such has 1t beeo. A iotceiui undertaking. onward energy, has the association of determined hearts Mighty IS Il for good and evil With a fearful devastating power, when superstition fired the passions oi men, swept ,he united avalanche of ruin over the freedom of the world Witha dull heavy, yet onward and paralyzEg stride, moved the iron footsteps ot despotism over the necks of men, when me un'ted ehaIn-orgers and scourge- wieders kept an unoroken iront. And united, firm, wedge-like too. came ihe phalaHx ot Reform-and conquered. Bound and knit together in an adamantine chain of iiga', pressed on the glorious union of the spedge. sighets' Stronger and stronger grew they. and ihArched on, wavelike and unDfokr,s 0,.. ts pros tfate hosts of Intemperanee. And they conquered -nobly. bravely mightify conquered. The kind word went down, deep, into the drunkards heart It was 90 strange 10 him. The gentle look of pity sunk 10 the inebriate's soul. He remembered that he was man, for he had forgotten that in the mis,s and clouds Of drunkenness. Then he arose--up up he was awake; he shook off his sloh, his lehargy he moved--enWaTd
 blight, radiant path through the mazes oI human misery, is the beautiful path ot true human sympa- thy. It IS paved with blessings-she blessings of the widow and the iatherIess-the boiy prayers that rise, incense like, to the throne of God yet cast their perfume around and about the world It is a glorious privilege to relieve and there is TO prerosa i live so high as that of mercy. Bit mistaken and selfish IS he who supposes that generosity and mercy are but to succor the distressed and relieve the miserable.
 1 Art thou an Odd Fellow Uns,fsh and gener- ons as the world hath it, dost thou find pleasure in the besowal ot thy substance and ibe offer of thy 1 sympathy Thou hast indeed achieved much over the selhshness and hardness of the world But wilt thou check the angry word tbat is falling troin thy hps, 10 reach thy brothers ear vii thou spare tha
 -timed jest wilt thou hare mercy ,pon thy brother who hast offended thee hath the plan ord oi truth and that alone, fallen from thy tdbgue this day Then thou art in ruihsa san Old FeIlov-a Cod ov ed noble, workman of the good and rue thon hast broken forever one rvet Of the chal of misery and crme that boweth the world down; tiou art fellow faborer with the good This is he que. the abiding and eternal spirit of Odd Feiluwshb-to do good. l Q, that It could be irlt known, appreciated Q, ] that The boly flame Of sympathy vond unite the souls Of Inc great Brotherhood 1T surely no illu- l sion, the hope that this may be- Tie IT Dorado of human happiness may be attained, must be: and the elements oi its foundation are in eYsy mans heart Dormant they are, and passive Hut the clay is l fitted for the poiter's hand and cath may be his l brother fashioner. Sympathetcalf will hand and i heart work and heaye 10 the mi,htv object oi erecting the structure of happiness. The progress ot one ls the destiny of the other; here can be no Babel, for there will be no dspate rogetherin the love-work, will each and ail labor and achieve On ] ihen,ye united, unbfokentanks d Old Fellowship l on, in the glorious bond ot Frindship, Love and l Truth. Your influence will not De sudden, imOe. diate Years may roll on, and ys be still. quietly nose!essly al work. But ye wlfktIl be achieving and ye will have achieved. On, steadily. over the erlInlna hasriA"s ~f ~i~-sry, asd seIishness, and i iasrhoed. The stream of your existence may be no wider at its mouth, il may be no broader ,on us surface than 1t tnow Bat 0, how deep it will have worked m the chann, of tho world. sweep ing out the quicksands and scattering them tearing up 'he rocks and the breakes, and al noiselessiy 1 quietly below the surface-TArk.