The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-23

love, fame, and that b should soon greatly and
| acceptably serve his country His love-uo
matter His patriot N had called down upon
him the reproach of L Jason to his country. His
eloquehce had alreads become lannon's, but Is
effects were accounte< his infamy; and hefsad
each of its successisl triumphs chiefyin the
ayerted eyes and deefr darkening round Min
of old familiar faces II his brother and sister
could have guessed off of the almost girlieh
suffering on these ocN sions of the still too soft
and sensitive heart, which the disappointed,
wronged, and slanderca young lover and patriot
hid so bravely under .his composed and com.
handing exterior, they would have spared him,
and entreated him to spare himself. 1t was
quite as we'll for him, therefore, that they could
not.
Let no one ask for greatness, who is not ready
to endure great agosjes. Groans, self stiffed,
are the native air of heroism and manhood :
Marsh, bat wholesome like the biting, bracing,
northwest wind. Whsn the wind sets in that
quarter, oh man, if y,u be q man, and if the
errand which calls yot out to face it be o GOOD
one set your teeth br ,ast it, and hseaahe t. n
you were puny, cold .,looded, and sluggish, it
might chill you, and III you; but, being strong
and active, it will maze you only the stronger.
BY and 81 it will cease, and you will glow after
il, as with generous FIRE in your veins Let
w.
hollow side oft. You sl be the less likely to at
tribute too much well ht to it hereafter 1t is an
ugly sight, and you meg feel for years afterwards
as if the ground was mined beneath your feet.
What of that, if it leafs you to make the great
er haste to plant the>a firmly on the Rock of
Ages? For years az srwards, you may feel as
if there was no earthlt stay that might not in a
moment, without q me- meut's warning, give way
and cfnmble from y6u. Your insecurity will
be your safety, if it r.ives you to cling to the
Further average Undisciplined human na.
ture is looking glass for average undisciplired
human nature. Just as your neighbors are
treating you, you, in their place, Notifying as
1t is to acknowledge it, would probably have
treated them in you-s. Unless you are very
disinterested. or very shanefully selfish, You
would rather, OF the two, that they should show
you how such conduct looks in them, than that
they should see how it looked in you. They
are treating you as you in their place would
probably have treated them, without this les.
son, but as, after this lesson, you never can
henceforward treat any honest man. After
this lesson, You can hever assist in laying under
the ban any person who may, for aught you
know, be acting faithfully aud uprightly upon
perfectly conscientious convictions, however
they may differ from your own convictions,
conscientiously and cautiously arrived at or
your opinions hastily and ignorantly taken up.
Furthermore, my reader, if you are old, you
may know the truth of what am about to ssy
even better than do; If You are young, and
your youth is innocently joyous, You should re
joice in your youth, and thank God that you
can |; and if it is troubled, and it's troubles are
of your own foolish making, the best counsel
that can be given you is, to unmake them again
as fast as you may. But if it il not so-if,
honestly desiring to he happy, you cannot find
the way-if you are already discovering, like
Herman, that your yoatb, which your childhood
falsely fancied to be pleasure-ground,i is in
reality doomed to be school, and q harder one
than your childhood ever entered-if Won feel il
as bitter irony when those who are old enough
to know better congratulate You in poetry or
prose upon your youth as such, and inform you
that, by reason of it, You must needle be myste.
riousiy and incomparsbiy happy. and see every
thing about you flushed with the magic rosy
hues of joy and hope-if while your contem.
poraries seem to prove such sapient sayings
true, by reioicings which you can hardly under.
stand, and know no. how to share, you feel
yourself lonely and left out-if the world can.
not satisfy you while you do not yet find in
yourself the strength to reach heaven, then
take heed to yourself. Much is given to you
much ulSclpnne, mucn opportunity OF winning
through that discipline much good to yourself,
perhaps to your fellow. beings; much is proba.
bly, to be required of you. Take courage
Watch and pray. Have patience and faith.
Earthen ware and glass are handled gingerly.
Gold and diamonds .re rubbed hard. and cut,
to make them shine. Neither the glass nor the
diamond knows why, he who has you in hand
knows best how you ought to be treated, in
order to make the most of you. A youth of
struggles 10 the not uncommon prelude to q
manhood of power. Nrestle with the adversary
IL what form soever he comes, in the name Of
the Lord. Conquer q peace. Wrestling will
make you strong. From your fasts and vigils,
and seemingly-unhesrd prayers, you may yet
be led forth at length, mighty and thrice.
blessed champion before God and man, with
voice as of an angel saying, in your ears,
When first thy prayer went forth, was sent
to thee; or if it be not before God and man
that you are led forth, but before God and His
angels only, TO some service that, like the king
dom OF God, "cometh not with observation"
does the soldier who fights VIGOROUSLY before
the King and his lords, af1ict himself because
there are no peasants to look on