The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-06

aloft, but the tones of the lookout come to
the rocking deck, like light from the solemn
stars.
Consecrated and devoted in their elo-
ouence and power to the general interests
of the country. they rose above the limit ot
sectional prejudice and party lines and bent
their whole energies in maintaining reclproc-
ity of feeling and union OF action. These
are the spirits now demanded, who would
not stoop to a mean act to crafty person
al piuue. or subvert the dignity of true
humanity to cultivate luminosity and hate
Men may honestly and conscientiously differ
in their religion and politics, without cult
waiting exclusiveness, and shutting out the
kindlier properties of heart and mind
"Great God when the spirit offreedom shall fail,
And the sons of the pilgrims in sorrow bewail,
Their religion and liberty gone;
Oh send back the forms, that shall stand MS they
stood,
Unsubdued by the tempest, unmoved by the
flood
And to Thee be the glory alone"
The true and false intermingle in society
like clouds skrting a cleaT sky, and the
selfish often become spots on the feast OF
charity. With such, the best motives are
impugned, and the purest objects which can
ennoble and dignity humanity, are treated
with scorn and contempt. Wherever this
t1uence is disastrous, and fatal to the best
interests of society. There is no better max
i'm for the practical purposes of life, than
that uttered centuries since,-"A soft answer
turneth away wrath" He that ruleth his
spirit is better than he that taketh city"
"There are six things doth the Lord hate;
YEA seven are an abonination unto him: A
proud look, lying tongue and hands that
shed innocent blood heart that deslreth
wicked imaginations feet that be swift in
running to mischief; false witness that
speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord
among brethren" In moulding our
spirits after this model, and in yielding our
selves to its teaching, our influence will be-
come reformatory in checking the turbulency
and restlessness of misguided passion and
the gold of the retner will not be purer
than its effect upon the public mind.
1t was dark night. A storm was on the
deep. Dark clouds hung thick athwart the
sky" and settled with increasing gloom where
lone and cold, the brave hearts of centuries
were entnombcd. A vessel had long been
struggling to gain place of safety. The
starboard and larboard tack had been made
without success. Weary and worn the &C.
cupants of that rceling craft were about
yielding to the inevitable doom to which
their helplessncss consigned them Hope
had we'll nigh yielded to despair, and
there seemed nothing left to that exhausted
band, but to throw aside all thoughts of
human safety, of home and friends. and pre-
pare for that long dreaded moment. Il grare.
The waves were opening for them, the storm
cloud for their mantel, the winds for their
vigils, and seek for their fainting spirits, far
starward, a home in the great Pacific of God.
BY one of those strange interpretations by
which the divine mind provides for the ex-
tremes OF human weakness, cry from the
look out brought hope and joy to the faint
ing crew. They We're saved 1t was the
hight reflected upon the ioaming surge. from
the tower erected on that dark and treach-
erous coast warning the unwary and point
ing to place of safety. On Blended knee
and with grateful hearts, on thai night of
storm, the crew blessed God for the light so
opportunely sent to meet the crisis, if not to
quell the power of the storm.
" hat the lighthouse is to the sailor amid
the perils of his outward and homeward
bound, humanity is to man in the exercise of
its sympathetic and social properties 1t is
this which conduces to smooth the rough
ness OF the way we tread, and straighten the
crookedncss OF human paths. Thepressure of
the storm is lessened by the sympathy accor-
ded us in passing through it. The social
properties of the heart, like oil cast upon
the angry waves, breaks the power of the
lite-struggle to the tempted and tried. There
is power and majesty in the sympathy of
well-discipllned humanity in bunting the
keenness of disappointed hope, and in allevi-
ting human wretchedness and sorrow: tam
ing the rage and thunder of human passions
and in quelling the spirit and power of an
archy and dcspotism. Human sympathy
we'll regulated and properly directed consti-
tutes for society and the country,
g Natures storm proof fortresses,
BY freedoms children trod,
Mans invulnerable walls,
The Masonry OF God"
1t is pleasant to the eye and grateful to
the heart, to behold the light of single
star, on a dark and stormy night. 1t is
the promise Of Hope, but Hope bursts into
a reality, when the rainbow spans the
heavens, reflected from the dregs of the pass
ing storm. So does the Great Architect of
the universe make the wrath of man con-
tribute to his praise, causing truth to
sparkle and brighten under the prcjudices
that bound 1t. and break forth into noontide
splendor and meridian glory. Truth gathers
strength from the pressure, rs love YARNS
into life, and the social and domestic re-
latlons tighten under the impediments which
environ it,
Inc intrinsic value OF Faith IS IN the |
trial, and being well-toundcd, fears no
danger" The country has had her days of
darkness. Clouds have settled upon her
her progress has been retarded
her very existence threatened, yet above the |
din of conflict she rose, and the spirit and
power heart Of the Republic sought refuge in
Il purer atmosphere. Faith assembled with
the violence of the storm. Hope nerved the
heart to breast the conflict, while charity
SPAWNED the Heavens in robes dipped in |
sunlight.
The rolling cloud, the sulphurous glare,
the bowling storm are past, and the capitol |
of the nation stands forth in its strength |
and beauty, bright and glittering, with dome
of the morning sun, while the truth and |
principles of her foundation is marching
step by step to the eternal skies.
" Long may it live and every blast defy,
Till Times last whirlwind sweeps the vaulted |
sky"
A ROYAL SCANDAL.-The true cause of
the refusal of King Louis H. of Bavaria, to
marry his cousin, the Princess Sophia, for
which he was ridiculed and censured so |
scvarely last fall has leaked out, and it is a
truly scandalous one. 1t appears that the
lively and good looking Princess, the
youngest sister of the Empress of Austria,
had love affair with handsome artist of
Munich, named Hanistengel, whom she adj