Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-02-15
Rev. E H Chaplin upon Practical Life.
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Rev. E H Chaplin upon Practical Life.
The following are some Of the 6ne pas
sagcs and quantity expressed Thoughts of
a recent lecture delivered by Mr. Chaplin.
in Boston.
Thee was a class OF men. he said, who
were merely living, at least wha, lie they
did realize was little more than the DIFF
fused life of nature, the life of the plant
and the she'll fish, the unconsidcrcd life of
the brute.-not that higher lifa, not that
seli-organized personality whose energies
are sindled By its own reflex conscious
ness There was another class composed
, of much better people who still apparent
" suppose that the end of life was getting
Il livl,,5.
1t was charged against US Americans es-
pecially that we have no quiet grasp of ex-
istenee, but are always in nervous hustle
"A nation in shirt sleeves, and CONT
men, Of chips. Laugh,er.) Now wuch
Of this was necessity, and much Of it was
not our reproach but glsry. Our hustle
was the instinct of intelligent enterprise
our activity in two centuries has planted
reaches of corn from Maine to Minnesota,
and given the preacher and schoomaster
q call from Sacramento to St. Anthony,
and if some were disposed to say that we
had achieved nothing higher for humanity,
because it appears in no literary or philo-
sophie type, he answered that We have
served those universal ends though with
types OF our own; from one great ocean
to another VIC had spread out Novum
Organum Of popular freedom. and trans
formed our forests into an IGad of ships !:
We should now and then find man
who had fairly electro.yped himself by
looking at his own gold. 1t was consid-
cred a feat Of penmanship to write the
Ten Commandments on dime. yet there
were some who crowd the Decalogue, the
Golden Rule. and the entire New Tesla
ment into ten cent piece.
If life, in any healthy mood Of the
mind was voluntarily surrendered, i,
must be for some equivalent that bank
and market could not furnish. 1t was
given up. as the final sign Of friendship
it was the martyrs testimony, and wheI
a hero lays it down for his country'i
cause, from the soil that blushed to re
ceive it, stony finger points mp in won
!, dcring gratitude and the private lif'
poured through the arteries Of the public
good ,hrobs in the pulses OF nation
. life forever!
Ask man to sell out his life for an,
material consideration, he would spur
the offer Yet he often sold it by his in
diligence, and paid it in ins,alments o
-, so much hear. so much brain. so man
+. years Of existence, I'll by and by VIA
A was left of him, the dilap. dated and burn
. ed-out shell of man, was pitched int
i, the grave and settles the balance.
He who would give all he has to b.
): rescued from shipwreck. is he not often
+. err in greater peril in his own Office an,
U warehouse? He was drifting anon
q shoals and breakers perils to conscience
: His heart was stranded on fifty buildin,
n lots and cargo of -four; his soul va
is sunk so plummct deep among stocks tina
t it could hardly wrestle out for resul
reciion. II he The lecturcr) was rigt
"A in his vic VS. Of practical life, based o
!. the richest qualities Of our being, it wa
!. more pcrilous to float around State stree
- and Wall street than to cross ,ho Altar
= tic.
Practical life does not consist esscr
IL tialiy even in what one does. Each lii
- is and mus. be force pressing upo
lgrcat lives. No man lives without dc
,y,isg so much - this. The infant who's
entire earthly course was compassionate