New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-21
NEW ORLEANS:
rURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY
Sunday in Baton Rouge.

parties for lake rides no hunting after good lunches
and preparing the stomach for dinner with wine and
btters'
The morning gde away so silently that even the great
river seems to have quoted its boiling current into calm
majesty that writes upon your heart--tlere is a God,
Meditation comes over you-there is machinery of
temptation to lure you from the reading Of your own
heart Boyhood mothers prayer the tear that stood
upon her cheek when she placed her hand upon your
head, so full Of innocent thought
And then, your school days and your first deception
the long gone college days and the growing on you of
bitter feelings and the mighty change that has hardened
you into the man of the wordall pass before you with
the lights and shadows the tears and smiles long years
You remember the friend over whose grave you have
wept and the friend whose bridal you have rejoiced
and all the bright plans Of your existence back to
you in contrast with the hearess receptions
gable fahlessness of whom you have trusted with
too pure confidence. What change! The path
Of childhood to have grown up with hstles and
thorns since you left it, and imagine the tears the
children you see around not like yours We're
fall from real grief that be laughed away as YOU
have done,
Duty What is it? No man liveth to HIMSELF was
the text tonight 1t chimes with the thoughts Of the
morning You rise up the toll the church bell with
your feelings mellowed by thought and wend your way
to the sanctuary.
entered the Episcopal Church The choir were sing
ing the 122d Psalm. Every voice was good and sweled
itself sweey and feelingly into the music have never
heard within church melody than there was in
that one air There full attendance among whom
recognized Treasurer the Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, and many members The sermon was
mastery illustration of the truth that the mind the
spirit is immortal Ta closed, and the organ pesls into
anthem air until the last foot leaves the holy IRE.
cincs Every returns home feeling hoer and bet.
ter Sad that such impressions should be swept awav
with the passing day
snpls he apf+l
Perchance the clear ringing laugh two ladies who
walked just in advance Of you from church had some
thing to DO in bringing you back into worldly mood
What would you not have given to have helped those
other two into the carriage That married man should
have interercd has provoked you into humor char
table and you wonder why is that with wives are
very oficous. No matter that foot beautiful
with it, fawn-like tread and smile and heart
searching eye fell full upon you you raised your hat
and sinful it is you take another Interpretation of the
passage" No man liveth to himself
The afternoon comes The clear sky is above and
the green earth beneath you The atmosphere like the
genial breath Of the young spring counting the pretty
flowers to open their lips and receive her kiss
ladies premenading everywhere There no resist
You and your friend must join those two ladies'
and you wander with them around the Barracks and look
at the long cannon looking darkly savage that you
understand how nation lift its hand against
nation with such huge instruments of death, and you
SIC thosn who mako the quarrel,
BE the only who fight"
And then you unconsciously-who where be walks
with pretty woman wander into the gloomy recepa-
re of the dead If you have grown rusty in your Latin
never permit lady to walk with you in cemetery for
will lie to ask you translate the Latin inscrp-
tiona the tombs The wonderful beauty of another
tomb close by Ia great relief such occasions
In one place marble slabs the resting place of
one young and prosperous in his worldly affairs who
lynfa
himself to splf-destruction, amid strangers
In another spot yepose the remains of who lived be-
You'd his three years and ten, and died full
lonors as years-the venerable soldier and statesman
Gen Philemon Thomas And here the maiden sleeps
whom the pesticnce has swept down the north wind
snites the flower when her foot almost at the
threshold of the bridal altar But this here is still
more touchng-a handsome railing surrounds simple
pedestal upon which is kueng in prayer the pure white
marble statue of beautiful boy. 1t is lingly melting
in simplicity and tells truly than
press it. that with George buried the cher,
ished affection of two fond parents.
We hear him blight with his eloquent scorn the cgotisn
of boarding together misery pies-he vindicates the
truth of the Bibho rebukes the exaeton that asks that
Christians should always be mourning and sombre--bc
euogzes the genius and patriotism of Paine. but de
his production an infdcyhc INDUCES in
charity the authorship and charges the clergy of
England with having instigated Paine to search out OBJ
Jectlohs 10 the hi-'e ehaseo theh WIN using thef
presty robes against the progress of liberty in America
that they tried to strange infant giant of freedom for
mankind in their clerical grasp; and that Paine had ex
erted his powerful genius to show them that they had
something to do at home--somchng to solve for the
safety of the priesthoodat there great mysteries
to removed from Biblical historyinstead of trying to
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