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

love, fame, and that he should soon greatly and
acceptably serve his counxy. His love-no
matter His patriotism had called down upon
him the reproach of treason to his country. HE
eloquehce had already become famous; but il
effects were accounted his tiffany |. and harsad
each Of its successive triomphs chiefly q the
ayerted eyes and deeper dafkening royindf him
of old familiar faces. If his brother and s;st er
could have guessed half Of the almost eirlieh
suffering en- these occasione of the still too soft
and sensitive heart, which the disappointed,
wronged, and slandered Young lover and patriot
hid 80 bravely under his composed and COM
handing exterior, they would have spared him,
and entreated him to spASe himself. It was
quite as we'll for him, therefore, that they could
not. i
Let no one ask for GREATNESS, who ia not ready
to endure great agonies. Grosns, self stified,
are the native air of haroism and manhood !:
barsh, but wholesome, like the biting, bracing,
northwest wind. When the wind sets in that
quarter, oh man, if you he man, and If the
errand which calls you out TO face it be q, GOOD
one, set your teeth, bresst It, and hseaahs &. II
you were puny, cold blooded, and sluggish, II
might chill you, and kill 700; but, being strong
and active, it will make you only the stronger.
BY and bk it will cease, and you viii glow after
II, as with generous fire in your veins. Let
this smooth round world betimes show Won the
hollow side fit. You will be the less likely to at
tribute too much weight to it hereafter. 1t is an
ugly sight, and you may feel for years afterwards
as If the ground was mined beneath your feet
What of that, if it leads you to make the great
er haste To plant them firmly on the Rock of
Agesf For years afterwards, you may feel as
IT there was no earthly stay that might not in q
moment, without a moments warning, give way
and crumble from you. Your insecurity will
be your safety, if it drives you to cling to the
Gross.
Further: average undi4ciplned human ns.
ture is looking glass for average undisciplired
human nature. Just as your neighbors are
treating you, you, in their place, notifying as
Is to acknowledge it, you'd probably have
treated them in yours. Unless you are very
disinterested. or very s1Amefully 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, bnt as, after this lesson, you never can
henceforward treat ans honest man. After
this lesson, you can never assist in laying under
the ban any person wko may, for aught you
know, be acting faithfu ly aud uprightly upon
perfectly conscientious convictions, however
they may differ from your own convictions,
conscientiously and cautiously arrived at, or
your opinions hastily AID ignorantly taken up.
Furthermore, my res,ier, if you are old, you
may know the truth Of .vhat am about to saw
even better than do if you are young, and
your youth is Innocent Joyous, you should re
joice in your youth, Ard thank God that Won
can and if it is troubled, and it's troubles are
of your own foolish n sking, the best counsel
that can be given you -, to unmake them again
as fast as yen may. But if it 10 not so-if
honestly desiring to b., happy, you cannot End
the way-f you are .lready discovering, like
Herman, that your 20 tb, which your childhood
falsely fancied to be . pleasure-ground, is in
reality doomed to be school, and harder one
than your childhood yer entered-if You feel It
as bitter irony when ,hose who are old enough
to know better congt ,tulate you in poetry or
prose upon your yout, as such, and inform you
that, by reason of it, fou must needs be myste-
riousiy and incompai ably happy. and see every.
thing about you fuaoed with the magic rosy
hues of joy and hop,-if, while your contem.
poraries seem to prove such sapient sayings
true, by reioicings which you can hardly under.
stand, and know nc: how to share, you feel
yourself lonely and 1T out-if the world can.
not satisfy you Will. you do not yet find in
yourself the strength to reach heaven, then
take heed to yourself Much is given to you
iuuCn uisciplnc, mu IN opportunity OF winning
through that discipline much good to yourself,
perhaps to your fell w.beings much is proba.
bly, to be requiree Of you. Take courage.
Watch and pray. Have patience and faith.
Earthen-ware and & ass are handled gingerly.
Gold and diamonds are rubbed hard. and cut.
to make them shine Neither the glass nor the
diamond knows VIII He who has you in hand
knows best how yt j ought to be treated, in
order to make the most of you. A youth of
struggles is the MT uncommon prelude to q
manhood of power Wrestle with the adversary
in what form soeve he comes, in the name Of
the Lord. Conqus peace. Wrestling will
make you strong. From your fasts and vigils,
and seemingly -unh ard prayers, you may yet
be led forth at le 9Th, mighty and thrice
blessed champion efore God and man, with q
voice as of an q gel saying, in your ears,
When first thy p. aver went forth, was sent
to thee" or if it e not before God and man
that you are led f 5h, but before God and His
angels only, TO soi,e service that, like the king
dom of God, cotseth not with observation"
does the soldier w;o fights VIGOROUSLY before
the King and his BIRDS, afflict himself because
there are no peast ats to look on?