Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-05

Of life; and let the man who wins your heart,
| feel that you will be TO him blessing, not
burden:
"Wedded love Is founded on esteem.
Which the fair merits Of the mind engage
Eorthcse are charms which never can decay;
Improves their Iustro."
2. The Sabbath SehO0t hasassumedm magnitude
and Importance enough to engage the attention
Of the patriot. In spite of parental neglect, and
destitute of the patronage of the State, this Ln-
stitution, silent as the mighty river, but us re.
Sstless, is destined TO impress its influence upon
the scores of millions who are vet to dwell in
this happy land. (The speaker here dwelt some
what at large upon this point.) But it is sad to
think, that the Family should not only not en-
courage, but frequently place itself in antago-
nism TO the School That part of our commu
nifty whose interests are most involved, and
whose responsibilities herein are tie most tre-
mendOus, are the greatest obstacle to complete
success allude TO the fathers and mothers of
the children. The true vitality of the enterprise
| is demonstrated in the presence of so much in
difference The teacher encounters it, and the
little child battles against it; but God be praised
! He is with us. Indifference is opposition, in
1.-The same sense that it would be, if you mani
| tested it while some imminent danger threaten.
ed the life of your child. Why, what glory,
like halo, surrounds this institution Here
the scholar learns obedience to God, and submits
! sion to LAWS taught to frown upon every vice,
| and to cherish every virtue; attunes his young
heart to the melody of grateful song in alteration
of the Author of his being; gradually turns his
| tender feet away from the wickedness of earth :
and if he dies in his childhood, not only braves
the grim monster, and dareS his power, but
| fortitieS and comforts his parents by showing
them the foundation upon which his feet so
iriumphantly rests-and lie gIides away to glory,
while the school is left to fit others for angelic
lcompanionship. o Parents, accompany your
a..
little hands, and lead the way, and how merrily
viii they trip along, now that they have your
sanction and your presence:
Hot theltle hands in prayer teach the knees their
speaking thy God he will not forge. it
When old and gray, viii he tecngy remember PARENTS
And the touching recollection Of their prayers shall arrest
| the strong man in his sim"
| When our children become old men, this con.
| tinent will contain more than a hundred million
of people speaking one language, animated by
kindred sentiments, worshiping at the same
shrine and perneating the world with the en-.
nObling sentiments of Christianity. The cities
Of the Pacific will send their ships to the re.
hottest waters, and the whole earth will be
interlaced with railway tracks. In onr hands
is the beginning of these wonders, the direction
and control of this mighty march. II faithful,
we may look down from our bright thrones
above, and witness the grand issue Of our earth
ly toll.
Crhe reverend gentleman then introduced
several topics, such as that the Bible only points
out the way--no man can invent moral prin-
ciple-that S. Schools are the only schools in
the world whose direct object is moral culture
that our Savior loved children the iInpor-
lance to the church of their conversion, &C., &c
| When the politician triumphs with his candi-
date, he cries out, "Glory enough for one day! y
| But here is glory enough for Etera5ty! Your
Sabbath scholars, having fought the battle OF
| life, lie down in distant chimes to die, their
4 graves ilIumed with the brilliant promises their
childhood learned. This is glory. And when
the Judge shall come. !" wreathed in rainbow
and ROBBED in Storm" these saved ones will smile
upon you RS their deliverer. This is glory
And when you walk with them through the
palaces OF gold, and stretch your bright pinions
for those illiInitable heights of bliss beyond the
ken of fancy, this, this is glory-and all eterni-
| ty shall perpetuate 1t, and prove Gods Truthful
! Word, ''Happy art thou, U Israel; yea, happy
| is that people whose God is the Lord"
| But there is higher form of liberty which
| the most democratic constitution can mover be
stow. mean, liberty from SIM When Christ
enunciated that Divine principle, '' If the Son
shall make you free, We shall be free indeed, y
the Jews replied, We were never i'll bondage
to any man. But they misunderstood him
| He alluded to chains more CALLING yoke more
Illuminating, than nation ever imposed upon
nation. Liberty of person and enjoyment of
property freedom of thought and locomotion
Ia conscience free to worship God as it may
tPease, untramelled by higotry and unthreaten.
i ed by man, is the birth-right of our common
manhood; aud paIsied be the cowardly arm that
! would tarnish these sacred investitures, or i'm
lpose single chain-link upon mind that should
be no less restrained than that of an angel
But all these may be enjoyed in their fullest
latitude yet the soul be the willing slave of the
yeriest tyranny, on the full stretch for the
prisons of perdition and the wailiDgs of the
damned. Fear is bDndage-and yet many of
you are gtiuid to obey the convictions Of you4'
oUn minds! You will acknowledge that the
requirements of Christianity are reasonable and
Ijust, but the tyrant who controls you, forbids
iyour compliance with them. You may stand
un6lanched at the-cannon's Numbering mouth,
! plunge into the thickest of the fight for country
and for home, plant our waving ensign on the
enemy's wall, aud defy the rain of bullets and
bristling bayonets; and yet the voice of maid,
las in Peters case, will fill your quaking heart
with terror and treachery. There are no drawer
soldiers in the world than the English and the
American; and yet but few of them can wage
a successful war against the lusts of the mind
and the pride of life, I do not wonder that you
i will, tomorrow, wake every echo with your
lshout, and make these hills proiong the sound
IwOnder not; that your orators kindle with an
enthusiasm and an honest patriotism, MS they
recall the past and predict the fnture-I shall