The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-06-11

Nature up to Natures s God" How doe
he, too, often-times forget his noble BIRTH
his heaven-bern inheritance-his true q ig
nifty, his rightful destiny.
He refuses to look upward, much less t.
soar, and 'walks with earth bent eye. =
Like the grovelling worm or the burrowine
mole, which his plow share turns uT to
the light of day, he hides himself from The
glories revealed to him and seeks in sor lid
earth his prison-house of ignorance and o.
gloom. With the book of nature ever
open before his eye, he reads not its glori-
Gus page, but lives and dies and is fore OF
ten.
The lives of all such are but bla TX.
Their existence, as far as the human eye
can discern, is failure. They, t,o,
''quench the light on the inner shrine of
the human SOUL They too, forget that
they are mortal.
Enough of this dark vision. We turn,
with pleasure, to review the brighter pa ge
of human history.
How dissimilar the life and labors of
the TRUE MAN Impelled by incentives to
action-having motives and emotions as
far above those which direct the SORT
earth-worm. as the heavens are high ab I'VE
the earth, his burthen may be as heavy,
but 1t Is not as wearisome his toll is as
severe, but it brings with it its own sv Get
reward, for he bears with him the con-
sciousness of being actuated by no m,an
motive. He is better public man, for
his ambition is to be the benefactor of his
country and his kind He better wilds
the power of his wealth and his gains can
ker not, for they are hallowed by the de-
sire to dispense them in such way as
shall bring greater satisfaction to his pull,
than all the boarded possessions OF a
Cfcesus could bestow.
Through the work of his hand and the
nergies of bis mind, the arts and sciences
are brought to perfection-for he fal.ers
not when perplexities and difficulties ob
estruct his way and labors that the ,rld
may feel the influence of his life not
for the mere qualification of selfish Dur-
poses, but to edify and benefit his fel-
low man
He tills the soil, but goes not suIb,nly
and grudging gly to his work, like the
goaded galley slave, but feeling that his
ow-being has a demand upon him, and
that he owes to the world the record Of a
we'll spent life, he studiously aims to dis
charge the obligation He asks no soft
couch of luxury, for s'the rest of the labor
ing man is sweet" He envys rot the eat
their palaces, for with the cheerful spirit
and light step of conscious integrity, be
ewalks meath natures generous dome one
of her own noblemen." No artificial ex-
element is needed to relieve his soul from
the ea"ua of the slothful; for there is
music for him in every breeze and be luty
on every spray
1t has been truly and beautifully said (:
"The most sublime spectacle is great and
good man striving with adversely" He
quails at nothing Neither toll, nor pri-
vation, nor the laugh of scorn, of sthis
dread world, +" can appal him. Kno wing
and believing that TALENT is a gift o the
most High-of origin Divine-the n oral
man teaches him that he is but trustee of
the sacred charge, to improve, advance
and subserve the condition of his fe low
man, and imbued with this hi h and hol V
principle, he blenches at no obstacle, COW
ers at no adversely. His march il on
ward, proudly onward, knowing no goal
but consummation -
1.-The man whose mind is firmly bent
Upon some great and good intent.
Serene behods the angry cloud,
Nor can the tempest fierce and loud,
His stubborn virtue tame"
Asking and seeking for no sordid reward
walking erect in Gods own imag,t,"-
the consciousness of fulfilling mans true
destiny, the self-approving hour is dsarer
to him,
"-----Than brightest gold.
And gems from out the teeming mine
How pratjfvinO is tha tbourht III a. No