Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-10-24

from out the mitrky foods Evury breaking wave
every f6xfing breeze tells tale Of voe--of ma
Hons and people who stood where We now stand.
who hunted where we now plough. he goes
1hrough the mysty labyrintEs Of the meGiaeval
ages listen 70 the tramping OF millions Of chill
dren and gray haired sires seeking the holy city
of David, filling all Europe with dismay from
Scythira's frozen peaks to Canpainas sunny vine
hooting OF the Saracens, threatening to make an
other empire like Alexander's, with the fall of
the Western Enp,e, with the slow decay of the
Eastern He adnires and laments in the same
breath the Mogul Chief, the greatest conquerer
and murderer the world ever saw. The Saxons,
Danes and Mornans have already become ho
rnogcnors people. Her traces the wondrous tales
Of Aes7y Old Elglasd, her many bitter years of
conflict with the Gallo nation. New worlds
drawn around him from moment to moment.
The sishssand means Of oppressed humanity arc
ever heard The Bacrhanalian shouts Of the
Vandals. the Gstks. thesH uns, whom the deyout
.capuclines Of France, consid, red as the Cog and
Magog of Holy Writ, fall like whitening, deaden-
ing curses on his ear. He beholas all Europe and
Asia revelling like mad man for several thous-
ands Of years until all is cngulphed within the
second grand period of human civilizations.
Mingled with these the Student may take the
Italian Milton Dante by the hand and go through
| the gates which was written that terrible
warning to all who catered thereat, to see the
wondrous mysteries Of the lower world. With
Shakespeare, the greatest poet that ever lived, he
can vault through the realms of fancy-with poor
blind Milton take up his residence 'mong the stars
go with Bacon and Locke into the Elysian
fields of philosophy quaff the nectar Of
Byron's wild throbbings.
| !. Who through learning and through fancy took
his fight sublime
And on the loftiest top of flames dread moutian
go. sat. =
These are but drop to the ocean to the
mighty world of thought spread before his en-
| raptured gaze. Can we not say, then, the Stu-
dsnfs Life, the Students prospects, the Students
hopes are brighter than any ones on earth2
We then students, as pilgrims to the great
temples of Fame and Usefulness may graf this
nectar, eat this ambrosia spread before us.
The educated man viii rule the world. IT'S a
fat of fate as inexorabe as the laws of the mate
rial universe. Though physical force for a whils
prevail it must give way before the giant ,narcf
of mind. 'Tis Divine, and Divine mus; necessa
rly be superior to Mortal Intellectual powel
and moral energy depend chiefly upon strength
of mind. Ne should, therefore, press forward t,
the goal which judgement tells you, you ma,
attain. We now can be the causes, the oifccts Q
which, gradually developing through all time
will tell tale upon the world which will not b
finished throughout the countless cycles of eterni
ty. We may be the arbiters of the destinies c
unborn millions. The field is before Us Lowell
and inviting. Those who will, may enter. n
plea in this day will excuse rational being fo
not being there. VIII you enter2 Young men
!, do you wish to be ameng those who are to be tn
/ architects of new world. who are to catch til
!; glimmering lights Of the past and fern them int
, ,beaming orbs of glory7 If SO. come, let us 6
along together. T. d. l. S.
$ HIRAM, Ohio.