Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-06-07

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ing. Yet how is this once happy land
like one vast field of strife and carnage,
each man contending with HI, fellow, not
for the mastery of the achievement of
deeds Of usefulness; not for the victory of
raising man to his native level, and crown.
ing him with glory and honor,-n that
the prosperity of the land Of his birth be
enhanced and her sacred institutions per-
petuatcd, but that SELF may be e1ohed.-
Sad, sad, indeed, would be the fate Of our
much loved country, were there not many,
very many illustrious exceptions; yet, lea-
wing out of the question the vast prepond-
erance of the vicious and degraded, how
large a majority of the remainder pass sci.
fishly down the stream of life in pursuit
of their own aggrandzcment, or settle
down in imbocilo supinencss and fail to
act their part.
How often does the professional and
public man lose sight Of the noble, mag.
unanimous deeds, which alone constit ute
true greatness! How often is he unmind-
full of the healthful influence he may bring
to bear in forming and sustaining the in
tellectual and moral character of his coun.
try, and in his mad chase along the great
high. road, whittier his ambitious aspirings
lead him, if he does not override and
trample under foot those who may chance
to stand in his way, he forgets the word of
kindness and encour agemcnt, which may
gladden. the heart and tighten the burthen
of an humble traveller, and neglects to
pluck from the way-side the imperishable
flowers Of benevolence and good will, (which
alone may prove the true glory of that
crown for which he is contending.
How often the man Of ofcommerce, though
priding himself on being the violator of no
law, blinded by his desire for gain, passes
on to the accomplishment Of his purposes.
even at the sacrifice of his own comfort,
and rises in the scale of wealth, letting
pass, unimproved, ten thousand golden
opportunities Of dispensing good to others,
who sustained by his timely aid, or even
by his forbearance-might have risen the
monument of his bencfcence-.thus reaching
his goal-then dies and leaves not one
trace behind to show that the world was
one whit the better or wiser from his hav.
ing lived in it, or performed upon its stage.
How often does the artizan Oh the Ia
borer, because in the eye of pride and
scorn, his honorable calling may seem of
no repute, make no effort to render it
more worthy Of respect, and discouraged
/ because he may not WELD the lever of
ARCHIMEDEs puts not forth the strength
of his own, and suffers his own talent to
, lie buried and unimproved in the earth,
4 because peradventure, for starting capi.
c tai, the necessary means at first may have
0 been denied him.
G Behold the Son of the Soil-TnE FAR.
), MER. He who above all others, stands
t near his Maker, living as he does, amid
r the very footprints of the Almighty
/. hourly witnessing the wonders of his hand
t with everything "around, above, below,
a to draw his soul forth in grateful, pleasing
- contemplation, ard raise his thoughts from
e Nature up to Natures God" How does
c he, too, often'times forget his noble birth
his heaven-born inheritance-his true dig,
il nifty, his rightful destiny.
i He refuses to look upward, much less tc
!. soar, and "walks with earth-bent eye."-
y Like the grovellng worm or the burrowns
!, mole, which his plow share turns up tc
1 the light of day, he hides himself from thu
: glories revealed to him and leeks in sordic
: earth his prison.house of ignorance and o
!, gloom. With the book of nature evcl
d open before his eye, he reads not its glori
o Gus page, but lives and dies and is forgot
d ten.
;, The lives of all such are but blank
8 Their existence, as far as the human ey
can discern, is failure. They, too
r "quench the light on the inner shrine o
= the human SOUL" They too, forget tina
= they are mortal.
Enough of this dark vision. We turn
70 with pleasure, to review the brighter pag
+ of human history.
l. How dissimilar the life and labors G
j. the TRUE MAN Impeled by incentives t
1t action--havng motives and emotions, a
r far above those which direct the sord
c earth.worm, as the heavens are high abov
,. the earth, his burthen may be as heavy
T. but it is not as wcarisome his toll is a
5, severe, but it brings with it its own swce
D. reward, for he bears with him the cor
Il sciousness of being actuated by no mea