Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-09-15

: domestic and social relations, and oul
deliverance from the heathenish gloom o
Ignorance, superstition, tyranny, anC
corruption, by the principles of genuine
philosophy, and the glorious truth.
To improve time to advantage is to la
Dor industrieusly. Our education is
oar oacn cork. Although friends may
cheer us on, and books and teachers
may aid US, yet no one can afford us the
fulfllment of our aims and motives in
this respect, or lay up for us stores Of
knowledge, but ourselves. We mus
recollect that education is the trial Of
mental powers, as the trial of gold by
the fire, to remove its base properties,
and render it pure, strong and vigorous.
! We too must bear in mind that the
discipline of the mind and heart is not
the work of few short hours or days,
but of life; we are not to stop our exer-
tions in search of truth when we leave
the little common school house where so
many pleasant hours have been passed
away, or when we leave the halls of the
college, for all that we learn from books
only fits us to enter the great field of
learning, or in other words, the great
school of experience.
We must learn as we grow old; we
must reflect that the whole of life is
but barely sufficient for the great work
before us, that we must get wisdom from
every source, and hence the necessity of
an agreeable, social, and teachable spirit,
instead of disposition of self-willed in
dependence, which, we have to lament,
characterizes the action of so many of
our race. There IS mobility in labor. 1t
is true that man meets with opposition
in every pursuit of life which has ten
dency to elevate his nature. 1t is GER
tainly evident that the true nobility of
man is the result of application, and
springs alone from enduring or suffering
in a good cause, from which good eff
feet is finally wrought by great industry
and patient toll. "And nothing in this
world is of any worth, which has not la
Dor and toll as its price" In an indus
trious improvement of time, those who
have aimed high, have been firmly re-
solved to overcome every opposing OBJ
stacle to their progress, to labor amid
difficulties with an unwavering purpose,
and unremitting toll, such have attained
to true eminence in life, and have rem
dered their fame imperishable. They
are the true geniuses.
Demosthenes was such genius-the
greatest orator the world ever produced;
Sir Isaac Newton was another who en-
tered the bewildering mazes of philoso-
ply, and demonstrated greater truths to
the world than any philosopher before
or since his day. Then reflect that it is
your duty to improve your time dill
gently, and a fearful responsibility rest
ing upon you, that you cannot shake of,
urges its necessity.
"What moment granted man without account?
What years are squandered, wisdom's debt un-
paidl
Insidious Death should his strong hand ar
rest,
No composition sets the prisoner free
Who murders time; he crushes in the birth
A power ethereal, only not adOred."
"Seize, mortalsl seize the trancient hour,
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer-man fow'r,
He dies-alas-how soon he dies"
Progress is slow. If we seek high
position or standing in any pursuit of
life we must ascend gradually. That
giant oak did not spring up from the
little acorn and receive its great magni-
tude, with its pendant branching boughs
arrayed in rich, green foliage, all in the
space of single hour or one short day.
Those beautiful islands which elegantly !
adorn the Pacific, were all piled up by
the little coral in the construction of its
habitation, depositing a single grain of
sand at time, until rising above the
surface of the briny deep they have be-
come the pleasant habitation of men.
Just so it is with our exertions; we
must learn to make haste slowly. All
things great and good in themselves are
accomplished pen ct pen, "little by lit
tle." In whatever you do, making use
of common expression, be sure you
are right and go ahead, but aim not to
advance too rapidly lest you fall into
error. 1t is progression in knowledge,
virtue and truth, and their general diff
fusion, which makes us useful, good and
great, and it alone can make us truly
blest and happy.
1t banishes the evil and corrupt part
of our nature, and nourishes the pure
and good as the dews of heaven nour-
ish the tender plant. 1t is that which |
exalts us in the scale of being, brings
us, as it were, into new existence, far
more like life of heaven, where minis
tering angels attend our wants and
make us truly blest. WHO'S so blinded
through corruption and infatuation, so
regardless of mental and moral obliga-
ton as to feel no duty resting upon him,
to prompt the cultivation of the mind
and more especially the heart? Who is
so dead to the great object of life, as
not to seek a higher and nobler sphere
OF action and enjoyment than that af-
forded by degrading ignorance and con-
temptable selfshness?
Besides self obligations, there are
your charitable and social duties which
must be performed, if happiness is your
aim. Our words shall be few on this
point. Look with loathing and disgust