Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-01-14

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: influence lies upou the surface, and thousl
i his hankerings for popular favor be graft
t fed, yet this influence never goes down {.
the deeper feelings of the heart.
G We have run rapidly over large field
E and We must pause, to make some point 0
application before we 60 further. Thos'
e faculties used the most do not determine
the character The master of the house j.
not he who runs in and out the most fire.
, quently. 1t is not from activity alone
that We are to judge. Oftentimes the
strongest faculty is seen the least-just as
. in watch; it is not TIE pointer that pro.
J duces the motion; nor the dial-nor, il
you open it, the things which are apparent.
The cause of all the motion, is the little
blue spring, ceiled up out Of sight. So it
is in character; therefore you are not to
judge by what you see most plainly, but,
i Of that which is the cause of activity with
in. Our own sensibilities should not be
allowed to operate on mems characters A
man who makes US feel happy We think a
benevolent man; man who makes US
laugh We think a witty man; and man
who makes us contentcd with ourselves,
We think wise and good man. The re-
verse Of these, however, may be the case.
There are many faculties very apparent,
but they are not the pivots Of character
The most systcmatical characters are those
in which all the faculties are developed -
the intellectual, the moral, the physical,
and the animal. These may all harmon
ize, or it may be otherwise. A good band
Of music falls upon the car as but one in-
strumcnt; and good choir is heard, as it
we're but one voice. But the popular ear
looks for some sovereign voice, with head
and shoulders above its fellows; and an
individual who is the most quiet, is often
times the least appreciated. 1t may be
asked which character is the most profta-
bic in this life. 1t all depends upon what
d man wants to do with it.
If a man wants to make muck rake,
the most profitable is that which is the
most powerfully developed. But if man
wants character for deep and abiding ad-
vantage, the most perfect, though not SO
powerfully developed, is the best. The
less conscientious scruplc man has the ca
sier be will pass; for Of late great charac-
tcrs have contrived to get through very
small places. Also, a man may have a
far greater capacity to achieve than to en-
Joy the fruit of his achievements.
| Thus active men spend one half of their
lives in collecting materials for the misery
of the latter half. When men have dried
up the richest qualities of the soul in a
money-saving, of1ice-earuing life, when
they come to be so or 60 years Of age,
they find much to their grief and annoy
ancs, that there is no music in the ringing
Of gold and the chinking Of silver.
The second class, is that in which groups
of faculties control the mind. First, the
animal group is the strongest and allies
men most effectually to matter. This
group, together with the physical qualities
of nature, are very useful when properly
limited. These groups, however, not un-
frequently overrule all that is fine and no.
bic in the character, although some for the
lu1uries which these faculties procure them,
will not overstep the bounds which respcc-
liability prescribes; yet within the bounds
of rcspectability, there is vast range for
a man to be glutton.
Responsibility does not deny a man
drink, if he drinks the right brand. Some
live for the pleasures they enjoy while par
taking of the delicacies of French cookery
But such are these in whom the animal
propensities control.
On the first sight Of these men you wo'd
say Of them, that they are jovial and good
natured, to see their eyes puffed out with
fatness. They arc not absent, however,
from the sanctuary there they are found
deep plunged in consccratcd plush, and
their whole idea Of religion is, that the
preaching shall be eminently theatric, the
singing o7eratic, aud that it is a peculiar
mode Of producing pleasure for the sacred
nerves on Sunday, just as the pleasures of
the world produce it for the secular nerves
on Monday and Tuesday-[Laughtcr.]
There is another class, who have too
much nervousness and elasticity to be tame,
but not enough to be irritable. These are
the men whom We love and enjoy in times
Of quiet; they do not plant the grass and
the flowers, but they appreciate and value
them when they are matured, and We sho'd
not altogether blame. them. There are
some who are the heroes Of the day, and
who plongh and SOW that which causes the
grass to grow and the vcrdant flowers to
spring.
Another class may be called doers-not
that they alone act-but these are tbey In