Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-15
sThe Inside Track

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the following is brief synopsis, as re-
ported in the Chicago Iri5u7ae:: 35
The lecturer said he intended to say
something about the everlasting life on
earth-as good thing in its degree as the
everlasting life in heaven-the life on earth
and how to get at it. -
1t was stated that in New England the
old life is dying out, and that the country
eventually is to depend on race to be i'm
ported from other lands. He hoped that
this was not true; but if it was, the race
only needed to be warned of its danger in
order that it might be ayerted. So
Aman once said to DR.. johnson, in re-
ply to rebuke for stealing something to
eat, Sir, must live" and DR.. Johnson
replied, II don't know as that is necessa-
ry." So everything here seemed to have
to give way to the necessity of living
The speaker had visited the British Mu-
scum, and spoke of some of the interest
ing antiquities there. 1t was new era in
the life of any man to see such an exhibit
| ton. It was like turning back the hours
of time, and standing face to face with the
men of old. And it was wonderful to see
the capital of a mighty nation that did not
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through these halls with the roar of Lon
don about you, and wonder if London or
Chicago will ever pass away as these cities
of antiquity have done. ar rs 83 e..
| He had visited an old English homestead
! that had stood since the middle ages The
church near by was fall of the memorials
1 of the representatives of the family who
slunbered there. He stood in the garden
| musing over the decay of the old mansion
and the family which has mouldered away,
| leaving nothing but the tombstones in the
churchyard and wondered if this law of
decay is universal and inevitable, Every
man must ask himself the question, Will
| the nation Of which am part endure,
| moving on with the stream Of time and be-
coming illustrious, or will it, after a time,
pass away, leaving only q few old ruins TO
mark itself?p This is a. question W hich
the American asks himself, and he probal
bly, answers that, very likely, lifetime will
come when it will pass away and give
| place to a new country. Nations die like
men, and families like nations, and we have
no reason to hopepto escape the common
| lot, But, if we live as some of those of old
| did, we shall not have lived in vain, and,
| when the time comes, we, may be- willing
| to pass out aof existence, leaving good
name for the future. But the speaker did
not believe that this nation was to die.
| The belief among the people that we are
to be perpetual would do much to keepu
alive. The true American should no more
| believe that his country is to die than that
the sun should stop in his course. Tits
true Of life as of liberty, that eternal vigi-
lance is its price and it will befound that
when nation has died it was through the
fault of the people. The nations nothing
| if the man is nothing; and as the man
| and woman and child are, SO is the coun-
| try The speaker related instances of the
continuance of peculiar traits in families
| for many generations. In one family, five
hundred years ago, child was born with
| an enormously large mouth, and ia nearly
every generation sinceth there had been one
| child with such mouth. -
| The question of continued national life
could be reduced to two generalities-the
| right home and the right training. Too
much stresscould not be placed upon the
importance of right home. , The place
thatcou reach over fortyrfiye hundred
miles of-space and forty years of age, and
touch his heart more than anything else,
was little cottage in Scotland. Were we
aware how the home life of the children
was to cast its influence over all subse-
quent years?S If the home is tosbe the
foundation of the State, what man could
do in the first seven years of his children's
lives, and the first seven years before they
were born, was the most important of all.
In the welded life soul should blend with
soul as two drops OF. dew in one. The
speaker drew q vivid picture of the home
of an uncongenial pair, and of a true home
made happy and sacred by affection. / ~
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both the nation and her family everlasting,
was a life suited TO such boon as he had
described. First of all, we must stick to
the thing we have to do, and do it with all
our might. No man can go so low
towards hell as by neglecting his duty-un-
less it is to go to w ashingt ton and hunt Office.
| Many q man becomes butterfly, instead
| Of bee. Show him a man who had no
settled purpose, and he would show you a
imam who could not be trusted. Some men
Eare like an engine that Will work beauti-
fully alone, and is polished to perfection
Especially about the brass ornaments, bu'
is good for nothing when it ia attached to
something to be moved-itI cannot move
| except alone. A life, by and for ITSELF, is
ON the outside track. What one is, doing
ne must do the very best that he can
| whether 1t amounts to anything or not
| When man does that he is on the inside
track, though he does not earn more than
g. dollar day. a91) aaFy0 =
There is the secret, too, of making work
not only a duty, but pride and joy
learning to love ones work. Mere pleas
ure,, of itself, always has the. outside track
I Ones enjoyment can come in connection
with his duty as it can come in no other
way. AS the man stands steadily at bis
duty, comes his happiness. Not at Sara
toga or New York is happiness, but In the
work where he earns his daily bread. The
manstfat marries a woman because he love:
her, and does not daily about it, and builds
a up y true and happy home, car. be SURE
that he sdoing what he can to lay deer
and strong foundations for his country. 3
y He was struck, in visiting his old home
in seeing men plodding along with tn,
same odd implements, and in the same oil
way, believing that nothing better was t,
be found. One of his own early desire
was to come to this country, because h
knew that here men and things were no
standing still, but moving along toward
better things. AS he looked at those mel
opposed to any new fangled notions, b
was thankful that he was citizen of Amer
, lea. A good old motto was, Be sur
!, you are rigbt-and then go ahead"
, In all history there never was SO fair
, promise as this that is breaking owe
America, if her men and women 60 on il
, the path Of duty. He believed that som
, time we should read q chapter of our ow
, history as nation as reverently and prof
, itably as the Bible histories of the olde
times.
) The great principle that he would urg
: was to maintain that what we live and di
| for shall be the best We can do for man Q