Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-09-02

You will, at times, be at loss to dc
tcrmine the usefulness Of an undertaking
and your recourse must then be to tho
question, what is right? question whicl
the Word of God will enable US to decide
in cases where it is not possible for finite
, man to determine what would on the who'll
be useful. When the abstract question Of
right proves difficult of solution, we have
the biography Of Jesus for our intelligible
and safe expositor. What, but Divine
mind would have thought of sending, with
the revelation of perfect code of life, a
perfect excmplifcation of it, in living and
acting person!
Strange, that Heavens great teaching,
through the life of Christ, should be uni,
versally regarded as a mere exhibition,
and not requirement The life of Christ
was a disclosure of the life of God, so far
as humanity could cmbody it; and he who
initiates it, partakes, to that extent, of the
Divine Nature. His is the constant joy
business Of being a bcuefactor to his race,
and an arpendage to his God. He shares
in the mission Of Christ, and by an infal-
lible process is "changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the
spirit of the Lord" The man whose SIN
gle aim is usefulness, has, prevailing in
his heart, the delicious singleness of love
love to God and love to man; and then
in the sublime language of John, Good
dwelleth in US"
To bring these remarks to close, let
me just glance at the moral influence you
will exert after death. Incalulable as
must be the influence of our life, as VIC
60 along, it as sand to globe in com
parison with the influence We leave behind
to spread, like leaven, till time shall be
no longer. 0, my young friends, remom-
Der the tolling bell will not be the last
notice men will take of you; nor will the
harsh-sounding clod on your coffin bury up
your power for good or evil on the earth.
Not Of Abel only can it be said that "being
dead he yet speakcth one leaves
mper'shaJleinfucnces-you will-you are
every hour finging them from you, as the
great Stagyrite thought we did phantoms
of ourselves. Who can compute the in
fuence of one life? Related, as is every
event, to a complicated maze Of other
events, the myriad movements produced
or modified by it, reach on to endless ages. /
A casual remark often gives a turn to the
whole career of the youthful listener,
whose presence We had not even noticed.
But this thought of posthumous inhu-
cnce is not useful only for caution, it is a
ground of glorious consolation. You may
seem to 70 little for God, and your retired
positions may have no apparent -potentiali-
ties for good. The stone that marks your
grave may have no labored epitaph, and
the mourners that place you there may be
the lowly ones of earth. No institution
may call you its founder-no biography
may perpetuate your name in librarics-
no science may have grown in your hands
no children may rise up and call you
blessed. But only keep right on, obscure
and feeble though you may be, and de-
pend upon it you shall rejoice with exceed
ing JOY when you rest from your labors,
and your works do follow you. Never
yet did obscurity of position keep from
the world the Influence of goodness, though
full oft has the blaze Of publicity over
powered virtue.
Go then, beloved and respected pupils,
to your lifelong work-prompt in action,
expansive in purpose, and single in aim.
Our eyes and our affections will follow you
rs you proceed along successive years.
Our personal happiness and gratitude will
be augmented by your well doing, and
your alma mater, already honorcd by your
diligence and love Of order as students,
will be advantaged by your attainmcnts in
science, or successes in office.
Be assured you will find in the support
FRS and teachers of this College, fast
friends, and that the love you have won as
students, will not fade, though mountains
Dr. oceans may keep you from our sight
Praying that you may live long-shine 4
much-reap abundantly,
md in the world to como, all meet again
n peace, l bid you affectionatcly, though !
farewell!
A Big Tent at the North!
The State Committee of the ProhibitOry j