St. Mary's beacon., 1858-03-11

his t sad nsbIcst Efforts for his fslee, begins
10 Co weary in the struggle and 70 despair
OF iexing anything great or even good, ~
him eensiEier lD=- sssrnly the great soul O.
xhlsz sl,at statue speaks was tried, and with
WIZ polarage and faith it passed tiaSotgh the
fres s. consuming strise, mil every difficulty
was AFns4nna@i and Il. stpoa purife8 and alt-
neal - enc fierce nrsisaz q nlich i Ind secss
expss N &iso Ass#,n-sk o. ALL might NO .
ther E0la has ineditations, in this csim pres
ences precious lessons for the guidance aud di
rectleaE Of his future cGsduct Here, then, is
tie ie..ius loriT which should invite the yni-
versaz pilgrimage of man, for all It's influences
are arred to the great cause of humanity itself.
.Togehed by the Inspired hand of human geni4
up, thai mute bronze poslrs forth it's full tide of
hylls8 associations which. like water from the
roek uf Horcb, may refresh the soul of him
wlso4a hopes aud strengths are falling under the
toisanie and, 1t may be, the sad experience Of
has devious journey through life. aG q
]. This statute is not merely o monument to
Washington, bat an altar erected TO Heroic MIR
tue ibself, before which the human heart may
purifg its own aspirations under the Christening
influenees of the great example of the Father
of his Country, and upon which il may sacri-
fice every wild or mad desire that may he adj
Verse %. the eOnntry's good
And yet this monument itself will pass away
whels timesswith slow corroding tooth, shall
hayeaissipated. atom by atom, It's cs,rssecrascd
dust But when all its particles, fugitive ON
the Winds, sllail have disappeared from human
yiews there will .iStill survive the monument
which Nashing gtoiIis own genius has erected for
itseif. for there is a promise in which we all
oon6sie, that the good which men do shall live
after them. How much Of all that we admire
i'm hufnan achievement must loose its influence
in the end, because it is founded in i'll. The
very process of its progress issipates il at last
for The circles of It's impulse grow. fainter as
they arow broader, until they finally disappear
altogether on the face of the great ocean oflife
But the good which men do in this life, and
especially such as Washington achieve d, shall
live always as am efficient cause and perma-
aneuk .nffueaee in the progress of human affairs.
I he Ib@t Of ofthespeiler may t.aml L. down for
while what is b &C in the garden of life but hea-
ven scn or late;HSill send its rains to wash out
all tE3ees OF the step. It's tempered airs will
visit e&erminating seed. its genial light will
guide the upaar5 grpwth, until hysa full de
IaeloRssent 0f leaf and flower and sfsait and
sef' - net eply completed the oeufse, 81
for the Ee-appearanee Of another. The work
of him who planted the good seeds shall live
long afteE. all traces the destroyer shall have
been lost and forgotten. If, then, the good
which men do be the charmed seed Of life, which
must Increase and multiply in the successive
processes, of a continued reproduction, who
shall affix limits to the growth or existence. .o
that which Washington planted as deep as ths
foundations of human society itself? Who doe
MT bnIiara khaf ha GOOD which ha Soxva1 ,.ii
continue to bear the rich fruits of human. hap
kpiness and social progress until man shall havs
completed his destiny. upon earth ?'-~-l.sss