The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-04-19
NUMBER 13.


by li'lls word, then less hnt--bu, lead
ing it most without word or Hint, by what,
in common parlance, we call the aair,''
but what in reality is the strange mysterious
sympathy Of mind? Watch how the dark
poison drop By drop works lis way into the
deepest and boliest recesses of the heart, and
so tringes, colors, and finally blackens and
conupts the purest soul until heaven can no
more. find its own. The victim sees not how
the path OF the new seductive prompter de.
va:es from recttuds lor the variance is so
small and gradual that the charmer seems
not materially wrong, and SO follows on,
s'raying little by little only, until the ioibe
ripens into crime, and a, once the gulf OF
shame and sin yawos beneath the fiightful
preeipice.
The spirit OF remorse in The mind Of evil is
more powerful end fearful than that which
makes strange noises and moves dumb mat.
ter The phanioms that visit The shor, sleep
OF crlme-that come unbidden to <3htract
and torture by their chding and reproof-
the vision OF sin that cannot be dspeed-
the scheme of evil that comes back again
and again, and will not be bid to go-un.il
very rest and sleep are fearful and dreaded
things these spirits are stronger and more
real Than any you can voluntarily call from
the grave.
If you study Alright the book of life, you
can tind many cases more like spriluraIism
than those the rappers furnish you. If you
will watch poor child OF adversely and sor.
row, struggling and ,oiling against an inexo-
rable fate 10 which mayhap Ills lied like the
convict OF old 10 body Of dea.h--sufsring
ia sadness and sllence--iriendless and hope
lees, SO far as human ken can see-no faint
ray OF earthly hope ever dawning into the
lifelong night of grief-and yet amid all
this, patient resigned and strong under the
sweet and holy consciousness of reclilude--
elate and cheerful under the consolation OF
the better spirit that whispers comfort from
another sphere-happy in the companion
ship Of the guardian angel whom The world
of guile has never seen, except family per.
haps in the bright beaming eye and sweet
smile of the pale, patient Christian.
If the popular doctrine of higher state
of existence be correct that sphere Is one
where there shall be exalted sensativeness
and intelligence, and there is nothing unna.
tural in the supposillon that the purest and
best minds on earth in their transition state
approximate little toward their future oou-
dition. Health is the natural gift of correct
physical department. Contenlment and
cheerfulness are the rewards OF proper and
prudent government Of our passions and de-
stree. Wisdom comes 10 him who woos her
with diligence, devotion aud sef.denial=
And when all these unite in one person may
we not look for some endowment and an or
ganization that shall seem exalted 10 the
narrowed mind of infirmity aud guiIes
In view like this there can be no tenden-
cy to evil. The faith that teaches US we
shall become wiser and happier as we de-
velope the better part of our nature-lhat
would wean us from tfifes, and ,nrn our
minds TO higher aud holier things and
though, is worthy Of our study.
And when the brillIancy of reasons sum
set yieldsto the advancing gloom there is an
indescribable beauty haunting the old man
still, If in youth aud vigor his soul was truth
full. And even when the chill of night is
upon him, his eye seems 10 rest Upon the
glories for while departed, or looks off into
the stars and reads In them his destiny with
gIadness as quiet and as holy as their fight.
When his little day is folded up in shadows,
the darkness must be deep indeed which
does not reveal eternity by the rays of light
that reach him from afar. But the soul that
can rise above the clouds Of earth, can al
ways behold the infnity of Heaven, and per-
haps every rightly taught man, before God
takes HIM ascends 10 Pisgah Of his own,
from whence 10 look farewell TO The wilder
ness he has passed, and 10 caich elimps of
the promised land lying in the everlasting
orient before him.