Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-05
And this is the sermon

Ttniock, you all know, or should know, is a
big porpoyritic hill in Lanarkshire, standing
alone, and dominating Ike king over the Up
per Ward. Then ali understand what a
mis- il az d II is worth Temenbering that ss
it is more difficult to penetrate, 20 illuminate
and to see through mist than darkness, so il is
easier to enlishten and overcome ignorance,
than error, confusion and mental II ist. Then
q kist is Scotch for chest, and cap the same
for cup, and drap for drop. Well, then, draw
out OF these queer old lInes,-
FIRST, That TO gain real knowledge,t to get it
| at first-hand, you must 90 up the liill Difficult
ty,-some IIntock, something YOU from
afar-and you must otimb, you must energze,
as sir William Hamilton and DR.. Chalmers
said and did: YOU must turn your back upon
/ the plain, and you must mainly go alone, ard
on your own legs. Two boys may start to-
gether going up Unto, and meet at the top;
but the Journey separate, each taking MS
! own line
Secondly, You start for your Tintock top
with given object, to get into the mist and
get the Drop and you do this chiefly because
you have the truth-hintng instinct; you long
to know what ls hidden there, for there is a
wild and urgent charm in the unknown ; and
you want to realize for yourself what others, 1t
may have been ages ego, tel they have found
! there.
Thirdly, Tnere IS TO road up no omnibus
to the top Of Tnto you must zlgzIg it in
Your own way, and as | have already said,
most part OF It alone.
FouthIy, This climbing, this exultation, and
buckling OF the mind, Of itself does you good ;
1t is capital exelcise, and you fad out many g
shing by the WY. Your lungs play freely /;
YOUR mouth fills with the sweet waters of keen
action; the hill tres your wind and mettle,
supplies and hardens your joints and limbs !;
md
hearts.
Fifthiy, You have many fall, many q false
step you slip back, you tumble into moss
hagg YOU stumble over the bdNling stones;
YOU break your shins and loose your temper,
and the finding of It makes you keep it better
he next time you get more patient, and yet
more eager, and not unoften you come TO o
stand-stil run yourself up against, or to the
edge of some impossible precpce, some insol-
uble problem, and have 10 turn for your life
and you may fad yourself over head in a
treacherous welee, whose soft inviting cushion
Of green has decoyed many one before
yo'c
.Sirthly, You are 70. ever mistakrg the top
thinking you are at it, when, behold there i
is, AS if farther off than ever, aud you may have
to humble yourself in i hidden valley before
reascending and so on you 20, at times fling
ing yourself down on the elastic heather
|
gazing far away a,hwart the widening hori
Zon.
Seuenthty, As you get up, you may see nov
the world below lessons and reveals itself, come
up to you as a whole, with its just proportion
| and relations how small lhe village YOU livt
in looks, ana the house in which you wer
born how the plan of the place comes out
there is the quiet churchyard, and lamb
nibb.ing al that infants grave there, close 4
the little church, your mother rests till tt
great day; and there far off you may trac
the river winding through the plain. comn
like human hfe, from darkness 10 darkness
from lis source in some wild, upland solitud
to its eternity, the But you have reste
long enough, so up, and away take the hi
once again Every effort is victory and Joy
-new skill and new power and relish take
: you farther from the world below, uearer tn
cloud, and heavens ; and you may note tha
p the more you move up towards the pure blu
depths OF the sky,-the more lucid and tn
!, more unsearchable,- the farther off, the NOR
, withdrawn into their own clear infinity do the
y seem. Well, then, you get 10 the upper stor,
> ami you find it less difficult, less steep tina
: lower down often plain and level, that yo
q can run off in an ecstacy to the crowning cairI
. TO the sacred mist,-wiihin whose cloudy shrn
N rests the unknown secret some great truth
q God and of your own soul something that
8 not to be gotten for gold down on the pial
A bnt may be taken here; something that 4
>. man can give or take away something th'
- you must work for and learn yourself, an
:, which, once yours, is safe beyond the chance
: of time
= Eighthiy, You enter that luminous c.ou
= stoomns and as a little child AS, indeed, a
= The best kingdoms entered,-and pressir
8 on, you come in the shadowy light TO the lor
. idreamt-of-ark the chest. 1t is shut, 1t
!, locked but if you are the man take you
/ be, you have the key, pu, it gently in, steadll
!. and hgme But what the keyp 1t is u
/ love of truth neither more nor less no 9th
;. key opens it no false one, however cunnln