The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-08-20

tfyilhlg tu us power Y mast us tllli-
dren happy--aiter filing lie world with
good things Cor their uac. and giving item
abandani facilities Cor enjoying them af-
teF cudowng beauty and sense Of that
which i bca0iitul--ii must DC sad 20 Him
20 SOS them wandering about IL strange
disguise, huggius @ theiF balf rebellious
heart The awful mistake thai, however
they may suffer they arc gaining favor
thereby in The sight Of their Maker. OF
course believe il self-lepial. and IN the
nobility Of selfdepial, tor the good Of 9TH
es but believe that all selfdelial that
paflakes Of The character 81 pcaancc, in
whatever form and under whatever cir
eumsianee. il may develop Itself, isalways
a thing Of mischief, and always thing Of
error, that has It's basis in the miserable
theory, that there is something in lhc pas
sions and appeiics With which God has
constituted man that is essentially bad--a
theory as impous as il is Injurious as IA
tai 10 all just conceptions Of The Divine
Being, and Of mans relations to him, a. to
all human happiness.
Everything which is truly admirable is
good, and is desirable il the degree by
Which il is admirable. A beautiful face
and form are admirable and just as good
as they are admirablc-just as good in
their clement of beauty. They are good
for that quality, and in that quality which
exeites our admiration. A beautiful bon
net, beautiful dress, beautiful brooch,
or necklace, all are admirable, and good
because they are admirable, and good be-
cause everything admirable is necessarily
good. A family over which the father
presides with tender dignity, and in Which
the mother moves with loves divinest
ministry--when faces of innocent children
are shining, while their vel es make mu-
sic sweclcr Than the morning songs Of
birds--is admirable, and il is good in all
those respects which make il admirable.
A well dressed man or woman is admira-
bic, and that thing is good in Itself which
makes them so. a man who carries his
heart in his hand, who deals both justly
and generously by men, who carries q
sunny face and pleasant words into soci-
ETY., whose cultured mind enrches freely
all with whom 1t Is brought into relation,
who has abundant charity ior the weak
and erring, and who takes LIE and what
it brings linn conienicdly, is an admirable
man, aud good in all tle points which
make him admirable. A house presenting
a harmonious and handsome front 10 the
eye of the passenger, and whose interior
combines equal convenience and elegance,
is admirable, and, by that token, good.
Now these very simple propositions
have tLeir correlatiye, which it is not nee
essary to set down in order any further
than fairly to illustrate my point. Things
that are not admirable are not good. II
the dress Of Shaker is not admirable il
is not good. If that sort of life which is
led in a cloister, by monks and nuns, is
not admirable, it is not good. If man
who processes 10 he Christian lives a
life out of which is shut all with which an
unsophisticated humanity sympatliizes-
a life barren of attractive fruits, life bare
in all its surroundings; life with no gen.
ial outflow and expression life of mig
gardly negative rather than Of generous
positive; then that life is not admirable
and if il be not admirable, il cannot be
good in those respects. A man may car
ry along with such a life as this spotless
conscience and a strict devotion TO appre-
bend duty, and these may lie admirable
and good, but the other characteristics
cannot be either; and however much God
may approve lis honest heart and honest
endeayor, He cannot admire the style o.
manhood in which they have til If dull
and difficult illustration. The idea that
wish definitely to convey is this; that
on the basis Of right heart God would
have US build up bright, generous, gen
ial, expressive Christian character, and use
gratefully, and gladly all those thingi
which He has prepared 10 make life cheer
ful and admirable. Ibelieye saint ought
TO have a better tailor than sinner, and
be in all ways a better fellow. ] believe 1
true Christian should be in every thing
that constitutes and belongs to a man ths
most admirable man 10 the world.
have an idea that God looks with tha