Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-07

brotherhood agitate the nations and neither the
pope with his cardinals nor the Car with hi.
Cossacks can repress them.
Were these thoughts imprisoned in the center
of the earth, they would burst its granite folds
speed onward in their career, and fulfil their
destiny. They are imbued with a deathess
vlgor. They must prevail, or the idea of a
Moral Governor of the universe is an imposture
and the divine truths of the Gospel fable
Here, then, is opened new and noble caree,
Tor the ambition of emulous youth; not the am.
bition for subduing men into slaves, but the holy
ambition OF elevating them into peers; not for
usurping principality or kingdom, but for build
ing himself up into principality and kingdom
not merely for gathering lenown, as it were
star by star, to be wove into glittering robe for
his person, or to make crown of glory for his
! head; but to expand his own soul into grander
proportions, to give it angelic and archanqelic
loftiness of statue, and to fill it perpetualy with
that song of Joy which even the morning stars
could not but sing when they beheld the splen-
dor of the Godhead reflected from the new Gre
alton.
Here are opportunities, means indictments,
through which the young man may build him
self up more and more into likeness of the
universe in which he dwells, and configure him
self more and more to the Infinite Perfection
that governs it.
In physical and spiritual sense, the uni
verse around US is full and, as we cannot 90
beyond the circumference of present physical
discoveries without discovering new theaters of
being, so we cannot 90 beyond the circumter-
ence OF existing spiritual relations without find
ing new spiritual relation.
Columbus was devoted to the study of geog-
-nrIavr A. "a. r. 1
there was a continent to be discovered and he
discovered it. The mind Of Newton pondersd
on astronomical truths. His CONCENTRATIONS en-
gendered the belief that some cohesive principle
bound together the worlds on high and he de-
monstrated the law of gravitatiou. Washing
ton was patriot. He yearned for liberty; and
by his valor and his wisdom our republic was
established.
So new moral blessings and beauties are GER
tain to reward the efforts of new moral power.
whatever direction that power may take. Grand
er discoveries than any which have vet been
made, revelations that lay beyond the ken of
Bacon's tar-seeing vision, and beauties that
shone outside the Imagination of the vast-mind-
ed Shakespeare, await the evoking power Of
PmIanthroplc genius.
Benevolence is a world of itself-a world
which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to ex-
plore We have, as it were, only skirted along
It's coasts for few leagues, without penetrating
Inc recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast
interior. Hostile nations and repugnant races
OF men are hayward and devious orbs, yet to be
brought into system of brotherhood by the at
fractions of love. Justice, honor, love, and
truth, are the corner-stones of the holy govern
ment which is yet to be organized upon earth.
For all true-hearted adventures into these
new realms OF enterprise. there are moral Edens
10 be planted, such as Milton with his celestial
verse could never describe; and there are heights
OF moral subIimity to be attained, such as Rosse
with his telescope could never descry.
Glowing with a vivid conception CT these
truths, so wonderful and indisputable, let me
ask whether, among all the spoo taclos which
earth presents, and which angels might look
down upon with an ecstacy too deep for utter
ance, is there one fairer and more enrapturing
to the sight than that of a young man, Just fresh
from the Creators hands, and with the unspent
energies OF a coming eternity wrapped up in his
BOSOM, surveying and recounting in the solitude
OF his closet or IN the darkness of midnight the
mighty gifts with which he has been endowed,
and the magnificent career of usefulness or of
oIeSsedness which has been opened before him.
and resolving, with one all-concentratng and
aLl-hal.owing vow, that he will live. true to the
nobIest capacities Of his being, and in obedience
to the highest law of his nature!
Ii aGght can be nobler or sublimer than this,
1t IS the life that fulils the vow Such young
man reverences the divine skill and wisdom by
which his physical frame has been so fearfullv
and wonderfully made; and he keeps it pure
and clean, as fit temple for the living God.
For every Indulgence of appetite that would en-
ervate the body, or dull the keen sense, or cloud
the luminous brain, he has Get thee behind
me-! so stern and deep, that the baked satans
OF temptation stink from before him in shame
and despair
Hypocrisy and phaEasaica pride are loath-
some to young man of true heart; vet he
relolces TO be known, at all times and every
where, as religious man: for, not less in the
marts of business and the harities of social in
terconrse, than in the sanctuary or on the death
bed, he feels how infinitely unmanly it is to be
ashamed of the noblest and dvnest attribute in
ell his nature.
And when, in the fullness of patriarchal years,
crowned with clustering honors, and covered
with the bealitudes. as with a garment, he brings
his heroic life to triumphant close, the celestial
light that bursts from the opened and welcoming
gates OF heaven, breaking upon bis upturned
countenance, is reflected into the paths of all
surviving men; and the wings of his spirit, as
It asc ends, fan the eaIth with olors from the
UPPER PARADISE.