Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-17
From the New York Independent.
MEN OF ONE D E
BY REV. THEODORE L. cUYLER.

II am often laughed at by Professor A" said
an eminent man of science once to us, because |
have but one idea. lie reads everything; and
talks about everything; but | have learned that il
| ever make a breach, | must aim my guns con-
tinually at one point" And his guunery was
successful. He gained his reward. Instead of
G%rittering away his powers on a score Of diverse
pursuits, he gave his days and nights to physical
science. When he was an obscure common
school teacher, be pored over Silliman's journal
by the light Of a p~ine-knot FIRE in q log cabin. A
few years later he was rohearsing his experiments
in electro-magnetism to English dukes and earls,
and was one Of the lions at the soirees Of the
British Association. To-day he is at the head
OF a great scientific institution, and his name is a
part Of our national jewelry.
His history is substantially the history of near
y every person who has made his mark on the
times in which he has lived. Those who have
filled the largest space in the eyes of the world,
and who have achieved the most signal results,
have been actuated by some maSIer-paSsion.-
Their souls were occupied with one great purpose,
which subordinated everything else to ITSELF
They we're. in q certain sense, men "Ot one idea.
For although their capacious souls contained many
ideas, yet a single aim directed, controlled, and
animated the whole inner man = welding on the
heart-throne an undisputed scepter.
Thus, in orr day, Kossuth and Garibaldi are
men Of one idea. The frst-named hero-oratOr
lives, dreams, thinks, prays, and plans for poor,
~despoiled Hungary. The lost crown of Maria
Theresa fills his waking thoughts, and haunts the
troubled visions Of his ~sleepless nights. In that
800 ox. -! r L. zel l. A. -
cret of his unparalleled eloquence. A mighty ma
ton spake through his lips, and tho voice awoke
the world. Garibaldi is simply an embodied Haly.
The man whose intellectual powers attracted no
attention to him when @ humble ship-mas.er, or
when a traficker on Staten Island, becomes the
exposure of the age, when his heart is fred by o
transcendant purpose to redeem his native land
from bondage.
Human biography is, in the main, the record
book of master-passions. The one idea with New
TON, prince of christian philosophers, was science.
The most colossal intellect of that age was given
u" to charts, to diagrams, and to telescopes and
the trophies thus hardly won were humbly laid at
the foot of his Redeemer's cross. So absorbing
was his passion that he often stopped, when half
dressed in the morning, to solve some problem
'hob "ao uBltutluP III nllnu, anu nus servant was
obliged to rouse him from his reverie in order to
partake of his meals. For him TO live was sci
Once. He glorifed God with his telescope.
Philanthropy was the ruling thought of Will.
BERFoRCE. This unified his whole existence
The laws Of love ran through it like q golden
chain, binding with its shining links every thought
and word and action into purpose of heavenly be-
nifcence. One day writing his practical Views"
OF religion for the upper classes-,he next day
closeted with William Allen and Clarkson on the
abominable slave-trade the next day addressing
u Bible meeting 10 Exeter Hill; and then cropping
with Elizabeth Fry through the horrors of New
gate Prison, his life was like The long clear sun
shine of a summer day, warming and gladdening
all beneath its genial influence.
We have a beautiful illustration Of the power
of one mind when directed to a single object in
the achievement Of MARY LYoN-frst of Ameri.
can heroines. New England has produced a host
Of noble women many Of her daughters have
done virtuously but, bravo-hearttd teacher of
Mount Holyoke, Chou excellest them all !" OH.
er women have written tasteful poems, aud grace
fol sketches, and useful essays, but Mary LYONS
life tcds an epic. A woman who studied eighteen
hours out OF the twenty-four, in order TO ft herself
for the exalted station Of teacher-who gave her
whole self to the grand enterprise Of founding an
institution equal to the educational wants of her
sex-who begged for that institution from door ia
dnor--who wrapped herself in a buffalo-robe and
rode through freezing winter nights to consul, dis
tant friends in regard to it-who refused all
tempting offers of marriage in order to live s,oo1y
for her great work-and who at lass nodded and
controlled with consummate wisdom tho long
t~oiled-ior Seminary-that woman was a heroine (,
What pastor in New England has trained more
souls for eternity than she? Who of them has
more spiritual children in heavenP
Now in the very place where Newton nut bis
love of science and Napoleon his love of pover-
where Elves put his thirst for gold, and WiIber.
force his thirst for s~ouls-where Neal Dow prt0
his love OF the drunkard, and Sumner his love If
the bondman, in that very place the penn;no
Christian puts his love to the crucifed .Jesus
And be keeps it there. lie makes Cbristiar;,r
the sovereign, predominating purpose of his lco
go a little deeper" said a wounded soldie, If
Napoleon to the surgeon who was probing his lef,
side Tor the bullet-"go a little deeper, and Won
will find the Emperor! So the entbosio.,i,
Christian can say-go deeper-go to the verv oo.o
OF my h'art, and you will find my beloved Savior
Other affections lie on the surface, but this mas
ter-feeling lives and Turks in the Utmost deD,bs
other feelings am possessed of, but this one nos
sesses me- 1t is the blessed one idea of NV IiGo
Let the wording toll for his r~usting pell: nv boIr
aVarlce is for the hid treasures of Cbrist,s ,oro
Let the othee-seeker wranglo for promotion 49,
holy ambition is for a celestial crown. Le, ~,
naturalist explore the seas and shores of ea,,b g.
ouriouo things and rare; my passion is to seoL ~,
and save lost souls. "For me to live is Cbris,
This one filing do--forgetting those thing, vhioh
are behind and reaching forth unto those Viii
are before, I press toward the mark for Tho n.;~
OF the high calling of God in Christ jesus
The SHORTCOMINGS OF THE PULPir.-Mrs. s,ove
says, But the gospel has not died cut of Amo,;as