New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-25
hhS,TAt CONTENTION or TRs 2
EPSILON FRATERNITY.
GRAFTON BY r. p. wgIPPLE-P0EM ny
john G. SAKE

Rev Dr. Asa d. SKINS Church, Sor-er Of sec I'D
syttue att Foussenis eGe,$
Tee church was filed viii ) large sri Intelligent
saoisrce The u,mbers Ct tie l'fs;efnt', Of wton
sbout che Ln dred aso fly wsre <'e't were se- ed
in The body Of TIE c,urob DOdrorlhS eA2d tdre.aeo
TIE Du-sc or tee occasion
Co-- II. l. BAKsAS preseoe. After 4 ie~ ir,rr-
drctoTy rsmsk Is BY tire Pres6eGt a Tr1ger wa
offered ty the Rev. HEsHY sARrIS ScvoosE CT
Acct, Ida.
TIE pRrsrDyYr theu Introduced BDwIS F. waP
Etf Boston asd srncr,ces &. dis subject, tonog
Men CT 6st1 ~" Toe oIaer said ,aa tie forces
does CO youth bed Seen the mOy1rg forces 400 i4e.s
q tie void. Youtt was alive, aoc progress va.
bu, Il feet Of li'e In age zee raptGres SsEe spt
"a be rdcGho as tee aGlisee LlEs'oGJ OF yo0'h. t.
ueeteis,Ig WARY Of you pre- vertso ;re cecsy q
tie xorc, Whch otnersiss vcs q ,rsult from tire lc
irerce OF see. II wss or'y when &c acted uodor ia
6sPIator It yoCth that Il ever c-oved 81. nN
etiDes black viii tempest, ard 10 * * 1p
& sIbjeot, lie wou!c look at "a ySuog
try vho Lao become oebssed ur6er ;he ihh1eace ct
sersushsn. Tske TIE Ioscy by. Sc they hsd
often seen, ard give bin 8 ttrpse. sud ne
became Csiguls DOulit,sn, or Serc. sad thea
lie euotc a 50 de wien To become iotol-rSble to
bMsef or assassination when he btcsr,e iotoersble
to the world. But thi, type not often seen.
There was sometimes geTids spst from wjsdo o,
vi ich wse Incorporated vith the ohSrAc Of which
Alcibisdes snd ByTon might be regarded IS typ>s.
The ore, tie pupil of Socrates, the darling Of the
AtLen.sn Den0oIeCY grscetul ara &C o nplShsr, vac
Yet 80 p,esrnptuous 10 repeuoce toe % soo Of the
greatest Statesman Of Greece to become uiokstsr.
He vas pelstn Ct msgulhceLt <. $, VII Gu wss be-
he'd lis becomirg the greatest cemsgogus toe eord
he'd ever seen. Byron, too, was an example Of
genius With peryeisty of morss, aud ~oo alter
biAis-t leaps, died at 20, worn ou'. Ia tiese tTO
we're Tot the true representatives. OF you h.
Compare Byron with tie Old egs Of Et-
urrd Buko' when yet animated with the srde It
chiyarous hie cf you'h. Byron was Old q. 30 Burke
was young g.. Tnus Intellectual pre- np lou be-
came toIrble in its malignant ,spects Wien as tue
nah ~ ait Nd inta
on into crime, and the examples of theee w.s
RobesIeIe snd st. Just. TIE real youog tGau Of that
Revo ution Lafsy cite. He was aaiG;a.ed By the
seue motives, but his character had been tempered
With goodness. snd herce bis different coursc. As
sLottr exam Pile akin to Lafayette the orator alluded
to Charles Sumner. The mltd Of youth when ion
yelled by enthusiasm, rapidly asemiIsted knowledgs
into power. Tie PEN d ct the arrest Of this feet
ing Couid only be measured BY ths exhbi
ton # tie uind-tte mind tnat seemed TO
be able to do anything, but cid nothing Experience,
tltD, detecbeo trtm active lie was bot zee nory Ut
pNcecents. The history # war exhibited the tr
uupts e yourg meu. Scip'o, Chsrles XII Conds,
AitxsIoef. Hantibal, Napoleon, aud many others.
were examples and the history OF war gss iull Of
Instances Of ola generals berg outseneraled by young
generals Tie Old generals allowed leir eN perence
to become settled fof pedsttc msxns, Wide the
yourg saI the uee ut ~arto be tie instincts Of
Intelligence. The old general could easily prove sfer
& battle that According 10 the rules Of war he
LrCp6ry beaten but tie yCurg general fe rules Of
of nc Importance when be could obtain the victory
lie IcdeIL Il cCtlfg the 0Ofulan not by AeNancef,
when he could not uutis i, was true illustration OF
bis cbsracter and the pscuiarty Of youth VAS that 1t
moved Though hopeless perpt kites By cu;tiog Cor
clan knots. Mr. Calhoun had not the power 10 old
ege as in youth. Chatham too. Illustrated the same
uutb. Were not Adams aud Hamilton tie same at %
as et A. Though Hamilton hac net Stamped his ma
tufe IL Constitution yet tho power was there the
came as sen re had shown he sb the gre ,te,t
Ct American etaesu or, and cied at tue hands ct the
greatest OF American Iepro5a'ts Ootaviu, Cesar,
Maurice Ct Ssxopy tho second William of Orarge, sud
VIM. Pitt, Prime Minister of England, a. the age of
Il, were Other examples. Toe young men ID
fusod soul into pubic life Tney irtetfered with
tie prf i~cts Of old politicians TIE heart OF nation
might be eaten withou losing any elgos ofstrengh
bat tie nation was kept forward b, the purifying ID
iluerce of generous youth. IL his ory taught any.
tbrg, YVES that the impulses Ct tho heart rsnsioed
IL some, while tie reasonngs OF the head Sere over
changing. All Ubiquitous Gets 10 history we're wrong,
and held 10 be so from TO lack Of argu nen in
tLo favor. If wrongs have been swept tiom tue face
Of the cath it becsIse C INSTR ovs rcogcton
Ct truth kept esh 10 the hearts Of the youog. IL
might be asket weIe not tue greatest pee Is OF the
ycrldCtse Lad q II msr' TIE eis;ne S Gamedy
written in age The answer was, that these were the
concepvLs Of youth, pu, into form Wien the c0noep
tor WAS s frest with tie ecolleC.ions 81 yoGtc dc
greatest achievements OF Goethe, Newton, Bacon
Coluu bus and Watt we're conceived 10 their youth.
Bat the question arose, could not tLs youth be pre-
served, or at least renewed Would youth depart Il
the will ected on the same high levell The question
naryIs-by WHO had snown that tue
higher the life the distant the approach Ofage
Hsss th,Gs tho 9I%tor feecsea TIE German peassa
be had organized the stror ges reeest trd brostet
character that ever hurled the bolts Of the charch
militant Before 81 ne had hooted out Of Germany
the knevsh sgent Of O ceistical POle-ted naled to
the door of the church Of Wttenberg the protect and
put in the fire the decreta of the Pope, aud had de-
clsred OF OILY that he would not but could not re
can't Did not generations point 10 hin the central per-
Grr nj hn AZ yeara a ElrtO
him who would be the central person add power oil
the wtole future Of history To hi who came 10 the
form CT q young man, and whom youcg man had
announced, cIyipg in The wilderness TO him VINO
casped in his thought and in hi. love the whole com
munty-v hose .ToGtsd annals history recoGnted, and
who div!Dized the spirit Of youth when he assumed
this form
joins G.. SAKE, the Poet Of the occpon, then fol.
lowed
The theme of Mr.. Ss1e's poem ives "L,ve"-love
divine, eve material, love Of courtry, love OF the
rsce and especially the great engrossiLg, universal
love that " makes he worc 60 round as the Old
sopg says and as tie poet maintained by msoy Illus
trauoDs and emitent examples. He declared II 10 bs
the chief inspiration well the per petual theme of
the poets, and the great though. OF civilized society
and @ the rest Of mankind"
-Cgpid-EyO,' cell taee Whist va will
ssNon or Greek teou sr E monsca s;iLi
Ss y o ,tfoas .ss ioSss in prs
In tie introduction 10 this branch Of 10 eubec tue
poet gave fome Tenlnisctnces' Ct he sclocEboy
NOUS and, protesting ;hst lie ddn! like to 10 it,
rs'ter eey exposed
The eEerishod secrets Of bis boy hoods sue.
Grown douby aaered with tie Issse Ct line"
TIE picture Of his bouncing Gdy lave at the district
school was perhaps the most elabortey wrought pc
tuIe IN hr. Saxes gallery Of portraits We can give
but psrtsl sk.tcn Of the lspy who figures through
a, least fifty lines 10 the poem:
80 Alexander Pope ooc.Gs. taoc b,ye SEA
The dszt.irs costume Of my isncyr queen,
Tee vsialc .be sat sniorg tie Gssser sNs,
Radiant with rbbons AMI be~i dsiiss esil.