Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-04-08
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MoRAL BEAurY.-Whati is beauty Of hi
nature but a beauty clothed with moral as
sociations? What is the highest beauty of
literature, poetry. fiction and the fine arts,
Int amora! beauty which genius has bodied
forth Tor the admiration of the world! And
what are those qualities of the human char
acter which are treasured up in the memory
and heart Of nations-thc AFFECTS OF uniycr-
sal reverence and exultation>, the themes Of
celebration, OF eloqucnce, and the irsial song,
the enshrined idols Of admiration and love?
Are they not patriotism. hcroism, phi!an-
thropy, disintcrcstcdncsS, magnanimty,
martyrdom?
A LAST LooK.-Therc i, 4 feeling lhut
resembles death in the last glance we are
ever to bestow on loved object The girl
you haze treasured in your secret heart, as
She passes by on her weddiug-day, it may
be happy and blissful, lifts Up her laughing
eyes, the symbol OF her own light heart and
leaves in that look darkness and desolation
oyou Tor ever. The boy your iathcr-spir-
i has chung to, like the very light of your
existence, waves lis hand from the quarter
deck, as the gigantic ship bends over the
breeze; the wind is playing through the
locks Your hand 50 oitCntimcs have smooth
Sd; the tears have dimed his eyes, for mark.
he moves his fingers over them-and this
is a last look.
The EvIA or BAD TIurLR.-A had
temper is curse TO the posscssor, and its
influence is most deadly wherever it is found
1t is allied to nartyrdom to be obliged to live
with one Of a complaining temper. To hear
one eternal round of complaint and murmur-
ing, to have every pleasant thought scared
away by their evil spirit, is sore trial. 1t
ls like the sting of a Scorpion perpetual
ncttle, destroying your peace, rendering life
q burden. Its influence is most deadly; and
the purest and sweetest atmosphere is con-
lamnated into n deadly masma wherever
this evil genius prevails: 1t has been said
truly, that while we ought not TO let the bad
temper Of others influence us, it would be
as unreasonable to spread plaster OF Span
ISL flies upon the skin, and not suffer be-
cause Of the bad temper Of any of its in
mates. One string out Of tune will destroy
the music ofan instrument otherwise perfect:
so, if all the members of church, neighbour
hood, and family, do not cultivate kind and
aifcctionate temper there will be discord
and evil work
THI REALITIES OF LovE.-Thc seeds OF
great empires, like the germs OF all true
greatness, are imperccptibly sown. The
acorn is blown about for months, the sport Of
every breeze, before it finally takes root il
lie soil; and season must follow season, al
fashions cbb and flow for many years, bcfor,
the matured oak spreads It's branches 10 thc
skies, and bids defiance TO the wiutry blast
Myriads OF little shell-fsh die, and fo
centuries the waters roll above them before
the coral reef is formed, and slowly, We
surely, raises its head above the waves.
THE PREsIHr MoMEsr.--1 There is n
moment Ike the present. Not only SC
moreover, there is no moment at al!--that is
no instant force and energy, bu. in the pres
ent. The man who will not execute hi
resolutions when they are fresh upon hin
can have no hope from them afterwards
hey will be dissipated, lost, and perish i
he hurry and skurry of the world, or sun
IN the slough Of Incidence,