Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-26

As You Sow so SHALL You REAP Whatever cir
cumstances may surround one in life, no person can
enjoy it, as he should, without proper cultivation
of mind and morals, and the possession of fair de-
gree of health. A sound mind in sound body ought
to produce sound results AT any rate, they afford
a suitable foundation upon which to build that much
sought and ever aluring mental fabric, which call
happiness Our intellectual faculties given us
to guide amidst the darkness of our terrestrial
journey the tomb. Mind is light, in a state
of savage ignorance But without cultivation it is
an uncertain guide 1t may also be compared to
fruitful SOIL which will grow luxuriantly, whatever
may be planted in it. Ii you there the seeds of
affection, kindness, fidelity, purity amiablity and
virtue, you may expect crop of flowers of every
pleasing hue and fragrance. You can grow there the
purest principles and pleasures Of life Affections
fondest endearments will cluster upon it. Kindness
will flourish there with her golden fruits friendship
that knows change in joy sorrow, refined noble
and true, will do its work of high and holy love- and
purity and virtue will rear upon it their snowwhite
fragrant flowers, and other types of innocence, no
bity and Immortality
What beautiful mental garden is the soul, when
all these graces and virtues breathe upon their rich
perfumes, and spread DER it their genial glow of sun
ny light Through all the changing years of life, it
will glow with beauty, and be cheered with certain
consolation. Though the worm may be wasting the
body that affords it earthly temple, it will be
allied at last upon angel wings, to higher and
brighter temple reared by Deity and made incorrup
tibe by his power Who would not SOW, so to
reap these earthly blessings and immortal joys?
What dark picture is presented to contem-
plation, when behold this rich soil of the intel
lect covered with weeds brambles and thstes. What
else can be expected if there ignorance de-
ceit fasehood anger, ingratitude, malevolence and
SANDER. The garden of the soul is seen then in a
perpetual eclipse. 1t is covered over with dark
pail. 1t has no beautiful sky, no pleasant sun, no
fragrant flowers. A curse rests upon it. Its waters
bitter andits breezes baleu The hand is stretched
out, not to bless, but to strike. Honor is an idle
breath, and hope delusive The very atmos-
phere that surrounds it is loaded with dangers dis
eases and death. As you so shall you reap.
Time flaps its swift untiring wing over human life.
Its course is onward to some far distant goal Leaves
fall come and go, the sands OF life
ing away. What do SOW, and whatare we reap
ing? Life at best, has been compared to dreary
desert. If we plant the thorns and weeds of hate
full PASSIONS must not wonder if vice and pain,
disappointment and misfortune, shall mock us as we
pass along. We must not wonder if the ruthless
blasts of evil shall blow upon u.s. And how dreary
is the pathway of him whose fading eye rests upon
blighted hopes, upon the desert wlds of misguided
and guilty action.
1t is too late to remember nat we shall reap
SOW, but now specially valuable is this precept
to the young. We may lament its neglect in after
years, and though tears may not be frutlcss,
cannot erase the past 1t is only by studying its
truth and wisely followngt that life may be cheered
with hope and sustained by virtues protecting pres
ence from its morning to its close.
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