The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-24

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Yhat you say. We are spirit as well as
BODY. And the objects We have IN view
here Tonight belong mainly to the realm
Of spirit. Your interested attention to a {.
lecture like tAisis evidence that You do
not intend to neglect the mind, the i'm
mortal part Of Jcur natures.
In cultivsting this then let me remind
you in parting, you have great duty,
priceless privilege, a glorious reward be !
fore You But let me be well understood.
[ used to think that mental cultare was
every thing; that the intellect, the intci-
ligence Of mankind was all; that this was
sufficient That if reason and mind, the
understanding alone was only we'll and
sufficiently developed, elucated-drawn
out, rs tie word education means, that
this was enough that all yartancc-all
s.ritcs, discords, vices and errors among
men would, when the intelIGot IN man
was only well trained and cultivated, cease.
| used to think that this was ali that So
ciety and the World needed. | do not
think 50 nov. ] know it is not enough
this intellectual culture is not enough.
Nineyeh, and Memphis, Athens, and Cor
inth, Antioch and Rome, and to degree
tacir Inhabitants, had high intellectual
culture and refinement; but they all fell,
sunk in lust and sin t. rise 10 more.
! Man has heart, as we'll as a head, and
tae heart needs cultiyating, renewing,
~anctifying; for out of the heart are the
issues of life It is this which governs
US, and not our heads. We follow what
we love. We seek after that we hold dear
and desirable. Keep then thy heart with
all diligence, "Thoush | speak with the
tongues ofmen and Of angels; and though
| have the gift Of prophecy, and unde- :
stand all mysteries, and all knowi 4igc-
aud have not charity, | az. aothing--a
sounding brass, ora tinkring symbol" It
is in the heart, an not the Lead, in which
divine love ar,l grace IS found, if at al 20
be found within as Cultivate then this.
The 'J4ginr,ng may be weak and small.
= \ since word ftly spoken in feeble lee
, arc like the present, orin asermon; or met
! with in your silent reading and refeGtion,
may be sufficient to enkindle that divine
: spark Of holy, heavenly love within your
: hearts. Faint and fickering it may be
indeed within thy soul at the first; but
the end will be glorious. With the saints
a in light, at last-with the glory and hon
OF of the nations aud the general assembly
/ and church of the trst-born, whose names
;. are written in the Lambs Book of Life,
5 and whose record is Oh high-will you all
c be found erclong, if, with the heart De
t ooted to God now aud always, you
d - Shall by due steps aspire
!. To lay hold upon that Golden Key,
- Which opcs the palace of Eternity.
: Now at best we soc through glass
darkly but then face to face now | know
o in part but then shall | know even as al
! 50 | am known"
y al Il Us then be up and doing
. With q heart for any fate;
Still attempting. still pursuing,
Learn 10 labor and to wait
When I stand, as | stood six month:
II ago, upon the shores of the mighty Paci
&c, covering, as it does, nearly half th'
= globe, and think Of its vast coasts a4(
y countless islands; and Of tho dark anC
y barbarous lands and their innumerablc in
+ habitants, which on every side environ i
=. excepting the small portions Of it
shores II, California and Oregon, and Aus
!. tralia-and now eve; these are full OF Vi
olcnce aud deceit, lust and rune; wheI
r | see how Ignorance, superstition, pest
i craft, and Incidence, like "darkness cover
e the earth and gross darkness the people,
, and then turn, in thought, as | do sc
? often, to my own dear native land, an ort
:, of brightness on the distant sky, and
; think Of ameeting perhaps like this, and
like those which weekly take place in this
. I[all-for Moral Culture and Human I'm.
: proyemcut, for the Restoration of the lost
> and undone-my heart leaps up within
: me for JOY, as Wordsworth's did at the
, sight Of rainbow | think that there is
yet hopc for the world. There are some
=. tokens forgood These ladtidings-this
: gospel enjoyed in the United States-may
extend, may spread and will spread and
one day, perhaps not so very distant eth
! err the salvation Of the Lord will fill the
{ whole earth as the waters fill the sea. To
( you, Ladies and Gentlemen of this Asso-
: ciation, and to such as you, are committed
E high and important trusts bearing on the
a veal or woe not only of this village, this
q county, and our own land, but Of Human
f ity. And from this secluded spot in the
! AIlcghanies, may 60 forth influences, which
; shall like your own rivers fertilize distant
? and diverse regions ofthe earth, and make
; glad forever the City of our God above.
: NorEs. Dec. "a 1851.
|. When this Lecture was prepared, the / ST
OF NovemheE last, we had not received any
definite adYiceS from Europe as to the effect
of the panic there. But were the writer to
c to express himself now upon the same subject,
, he coald hardly haye chosen more appropriate