The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-07-08
PENCILLED PASSAGES.
PROM HAGAR.

No life is utterly joyless that is subject
to great purpose. The Will has something
Of that power the Master said belonged to
Faith, 70 which it is related so nearly as Of
ten TO be distinguished from it only with great
difficulty. The schoolmen have debated of
! 1t much, and many hold that it must bend to
other forces; but from all that have read in
histories, or seen in life about me, Will is
sovereign over everything bat God, whose own
most fit description is the HIGHEST WILL.
better for our peace that the souls
melody be hushed in silence by the hand of
death than that it waken to the touches Of
another. This thought, that we are spared
the hardest agony Of all to bear, is some mi
tigation OF our wo. II is the dead to whom
we are isithless. Wailing 10 ourselves, and
with feeble and faltering steps, we follow ths
smile that is our hearts star, across all the
wild mountains and waste deserts Of life.
II; may lie indeed that the highest hapr-
ness Of life is always touched with sadness.
Love and Faith dwell ever in the haunted
house Of Fear. The lights Of the birth cham
Der stream across the narrow bed where the
pleasant morning touches the eyeiids of the
sleepers no more, where the white hands Of
the little children are never unlocked for the
fiowers that hang over their dark unrockipg
cradles.
How quickly the world recognizes the
creative powers Of him who has been nursed
in the lap o! ease! how many hand. reach out
to aid the climbing laurel toward his brows,
that never have been brJwned with the hot
sun as he has toiled in fields, nor furrowed
with any slow shaping care, or the quick mas
terry Of suddeh sorrcw. But the untitled
poor too often struggle for bays that are heap.
ed up on the Undeservng rich; they grope
through obscure ways, hungry, Ike
Blind Orion, for the morn,
with but the cloud and dread presentiment of
greatness on their souls. The soil of poverty
smothcrs the flowers of inspiration from the
worlds discovery, or tribes songs that if un-
loosei might ill with melody thyusand years.
-There may be circumstances in which
wc fiod sort OF pleasure in cxqggerating the
wrongs and aiIliclions we have suffered, but
this Is in the crescent phase of sorrow, not
" hen it is at the lu.I, iOr there be no ex-
u ggeration, ind the recounting of evils is Ike
crownng the aching and bleeding forehead
with thorns.
with woman ambition is never a dis
connected and single aim; she finds sometimes
along the sleeps to which it leads bitter COM
pensation for dear hopes, and sometimes with
its flames she points the arrows of revenge;
ii is only when her heart is closed against all
symputhies that her ambition dies; she can
not silt clear purposes and distinct aims frcm
the impulses cI feeling; she cannot think pa
t!cEtIy down to the bottom Of things, and sep
arate and anyIize and collect and build that
which shall be only immortal; in the store
house Of her imagery there is no beauty un-
less associated with love; in ,he council cham
Der Of her thoughts there is no absolute pow-
er; her IDEAS Ink themselves ir one train,
beginning in love and ending in death. she
may press her way through wells of thorns or
OF fire; aud the shadow oi the laurel NAV sweep
through her hair. but the triumph is cor loves
suke in one way or another. In mans nature
a!it cIion Is as the ivy to the oak-in woman's
il Is the oak 10 the Ky.
, To live a martyr, with no supporting
phienzy; 10 sCe days rise and set, summers
bloom und fade, the vigorous year break his
letters ot lce sleep again under a shroud of
.no", and through all changes fold the hands
ipon an empty, aching breast. knowing there
: no peace thrs side the grave, and fearing
o look beyond; no voice in all the world 10
ay, love you more and more for the hate or
corn Of otiIers.-to live thus, with al unfalt-
ring will-ah it is very hard.