Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-08
THE REGISTER.
Jefferson County, Va.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1850.
The Flight of Time.

Every passing year should dIsconnect
our hearts more and more with this world,
and place a wider space between them,
and the things of time and sense. No
matter what the decisions Of " the things
that are seen," what the imaginations of
the foolish hearts of men, the end of our
being is ever and surely nearing US. Be-
fore another year shall have been added to
the dead past, some of those who read
these lines will have gone TO their final
earthly home, and leave their future desti-
ny beyond the possibility of change.
The lusts of the flesh, the lust Of the eyes,
and the pride of life, will have been min
gled in undistinguished dust.
The suggestions of reason, the voice of
Nature, the teaching Of the revolving Sea
sons, no less than the Revealed Word,
unite in pointing our minds to the inevlta'
BILE fact that to each and all of us, the end
of all things must come. And why! Be-
cause the present scene is but d field for the
growth and perfection Of that divine germ
and essence which the Great Mechanician
has implanted in every human Soul. The
world we inhabit, the society we live in,
the body which clothes US, are but parts Of
temporary scalfolding within which it is
given us to erect an edifce of perennial
endurance, and celestial glory. That is
the very reason why the Mighty Architect
of this outer and grosser world expended
so much skill and power in its creation,
and bears the burden of its sins and lollies
now, with so much long suffering patience.
Shall we, then, be adding pole to pole,
plank to plank, tie to tie to this temporary,
nay, uusightly framework, which must be
soon removed! Shall we engage these
lofty, immortal faculties,-faculties that
might flourish when Suns and Stars shall
have been burnt out upon their last flicker
ing embers,-shall we engage ourselves
upon the poor belongings" of unsighhi-
ness aud decay? Shall estates, and lands,
and farms, and houses and money, delude
US away from those possessions in heart
and spirit that will fit us for the society
and friendship Of those glorious beings,
whose only change is a progressive i'm
provement in all moral, mental, and spirit
ual excellence, continued approximation
TO the Central Essence of Ineffable Per-
fiction!
There is one branch of our human fami-
lv upon which Heaven has especially
showered taste, refinement, delieacy; an in
nate love Of the pure and the good, and a
deep sympathy with that Heart of Mercy
and tenderness which dwells so richly in
the Divine Mind. lis Woman. Oh
Woman, great are thy gifts, great are thy
responsibilities Be faithful to thy Ma
ture and thyself. Let not the deceits of
this outer crust of things deceive thee.
Let not thy heart lead astray thy concience,
for that is transcript Of His heart who
made and sustains thee. Resist, to the
utmost Of thy moral power, all tempta-
tions to stray from the path of conscience
and of duty. Drown in disgust and re-
sentiment all indictments to indulgence in
those weaknesses--that will become sins
which are most usually feminine. Shun
malice; evil-speaking; vanity; scandal;
hard, harsh and inhuman pride, that spe-
cial vice of Satan be pure but pluful