Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-11


quiet home-thaI it has preserved you from the mise
~ Ola broken heart If it has done all this, it proves
my theory, for all this has been accomplished
of the smallest ords in the English Ianauage. But
has it effected this for you When you lie dow to
rest tonight, ask your heart that question: n it
will give, in sadder and piainIive tone, the
same answer that the lady gave YOU No."
"THE RULE OF LIFE 4" What rule of life shall
we follow 10 insure happiness 90 What is the
rule
Il belongs profession in particular; the mon
arch upon his throne secure it; the captive in
his loathsome cell may retain it. There is station,
there Is condition, where il is TO be found ;
and is This: II is the faithful and conscientious
discharge OF every duty which may be allotted to
you, matter how minute for if the little things Of
life the terrible, they also the beauGH-the
unwaVerIng attention 10 the suggestions OF the non-
tor within your breast. No man, though surrounded
by fame, By wealth, by SCIENCE by love- be hap
Ply, who feels that he has turned deaf to his own
bosom's lord. No, one, however degraded, trodden
down, athIrSt, hungry, wounded, can be miserable,
who knows that he has been his search
ter truth, and unfaterng in his devotion principles:
- Honor and shame from condition rise;
Act we'll your part, there all the honor lies ~
1t is the memory of the past to which must al
ways look for comfUrt for reProach; the present
we are too busy. with; the future has too much Of
Hopes brightest hues II is the stern reality of the
past, that must be treasure-house of grateful
collection, charneihouse OF persisted Joys and
perverted hours. Memory is the most prominent al
tribute of the mind, it is the golden thread that
meets the jewels together and If break, the gems
will fall to the ground and lie Scattered in useless
profusion Ii is said, and hive doubt Of it, that
what We have once learned we never forget. The
trifing incident of boyhooGs years, the passing
event, which seemed to float by upon the Stream of
Time, almost unobseIved will, in more mature life,
flash back upon our mental vision, with startling
vIvdness 1t may be true, thai apparently forget
much that we have witnessed; it may be, that We
cannot recall each scene at pleasure bu. in the
Iod gments of the brain they hidden, and memory
when We least expect it, will reproduce them, and
times make cheek grow pale, our brow Grim
son. a; the Ished for recollection And time. like
the skillful workman, who is about to take down
some ancient mansion he beg Rms with The roof, and
after he has demolished that then he takes down the
higher story. and in inverse order TO their
erection, until he reaches The foundation which, last
of all he removes; and such is Times attack upon
the memory. He begins upon the last event, the top
stone OF decaying tabernacle. The old man,
ering in his second childhood, will forget the scene
that he has just witnessed-and yet remember well
the incident OF score of years ago; and as he ad-
vances nearer and nearer the grave of all his ia
culties, and loom more horrible than death is
settling upon his WORKOUT mind. whilst the present
is dark before him, his garroulous tongue will still
prate to you of his chnood's visions, and tell you
truly, the events of his early life. What warning
does this give us; We are now laying up for
selves bIIssul dreams, or We are heapng up layers
of wrath each deed commit, each thought
now harbor, whether it be of evil or Of good,
putting up in store for the retrospective of LIES
last nouIS On lei US see 10 That when We draw
nigh TO our final rest-when the damps of death are
gathering upon our brow, and the hand of the des-
lroyer Is uplied strike down, that may look
back upon the long avenues of years through which
We have trodden and see there the smiling counten-
ances of those whose hearts have gIaddened,
whose lives We have cheered, beaming upon their
gratitude; and that we may look forward with Joy,
and humble hope TO those bright and beautiful man
sons prepared for in Heaven, whose maker and
builder is God
l have recently met with beautiful little poem,
the author of which l am ignorant of, which gives
the rule in few practical words and with the reci-
talon Of which will conclude this lecture.
80 There are three lessons would write
Three words-as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men.
Hare Hope! Tho clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face with scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy BROW
No night but hath its morn.
Haze Faith where'er thy bark is DRIVEN
The calm's disPort-the tenpests mirth-
Know ths-God rules the hosts of Heaven
TIL inhabitants of earth.
Hare Lone! Not love alone for one,
But man, as man, thy BROKER call,
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these lessons thy Soul
Hope, Faith. and Love-and thout shalt find,
Strength, when life's surges widest roll
Light, when thou else vert blind 20
HOH