The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-06-25
Original.
Life's Aims.
Life should have higher. nobler aims,
Than mirth, and son9 and dnnce ,,


Every human soul bears within it. a yearning
for something higher, purer and hotter than the
giddy round of pleasures which end In "dissp.
pointment, shame and tears" It's sacred voice.
though too oft unheard amid the iarring music
OF life, cannot be wholly hushed 1t comes to
gay and buoyant childhood amid his frolic play:
whispering in his sunny dreams Of all brightand
beautiful things,--it comes to the young, as with
bounding hearts they go out into the great world,
telling of brilliant future interviewer with
many noble deed y il comes TO the worn and
weary, exhausted by the unceasng toll of hand
or brain, cheering them on to still higher efforts,
1T comes cen to the disspatcd the trifler, the
wretched criminal To one ond all its sweet
Fefran,--ts low, pleading burden is ever. "look
npward-thence comos all that is true, good and
beautiful !"
The earth is but vast, barren clol until
warmed and viviied by the cheering rays Of the
sun aud nourished by the soft dews from out the
pure heaven $50 the mind, unlsSs animated and
guided by noble and snerous principles, is but
an arid desert, or Wilderness o'ergrown with
tangled wildwood amid whUsj green and glossy
foliage creeps the vsnomed ivy, whose twining
tendrls leave painful impress upon the hand
outstretched to its embrace and there, too, play
those turgid fountains whose bitter waters fall
the dark dew of death upon the fair, the noble
brows of SO many of esrth's gentle children.
Miss Landon beautifully says" One true,
deep feeling purilles the heart anl we hslieve
1t is so. One strong, fearless, Independent will,
hath power to sway The minds of the multitude,
and all questionless and free, they follow as the
sursing waves of ocean, the pToud ships naughty
keel. One heroic, trusting spirit infuses new
life. hope and courage in the minds of the weak
the fearful, the tmid one ray of morning light
dispels the phantom hosts which fit like wierd
spirits around the sable garments of the night"
one flashing sunbeam glorifas the darkest
storm cloud and SO may one deep. earnest pur-
pose for good or i'll, make or mar the brightest
name.
How important then, that noble thoughts
should stir the soul to noble deeds, and thus
arouse in the minds of all, echoes of ttue nobii-
ty which will sound an fo.evcr. There are none
SO wholly lost but that. away down in some
hidden corner of the heart, there lies the germ of
beautiful fowerst, kept green by the Loly dews
of some sweet thought and somewhere on LIES
troubled sea, is one who alone hold, the key to
unlock the depths and bring il forth TO blossom
in the sunlight, and dispsI the clouds which
now gather so darkly DER it thee.
Let the mind be earnestly, zealously fixed upon
a Iandabe and worthy purpose, and the false
pleasures, the gay psgeanis. the foolish vanities
of the world, viii pass like the meleor's glare,
harmless and UNDECIDED by. Bear with thee
ever this truth, that thou hast no right to die.
until thou hast done sOmGLhigg 1Corfiy 10 haze
!iycd-then thou wilt find no time for idle ness,
no taste for follies. no incentives to vice and
crime,-and life's true aim be nobly sttainedr
Baldwinsville, Mich. CHIP.