New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-14

so Therefore remember that you are not to be
educated out from among your % o much as the
fned etecated and powerful For as mnch as Son sur ~
pljef among YOU let hun be me slave OF ALL saith the
Apfastle would fan urge you TO larger, PuleF,
sx eefer a nObler manhood, delivering yon from tne
Foundations that in the flesh, from the temptations
nat are in your own dispositions; from the temptauonS
sset inhere in the thrall of labor, in the bondage
~ bnsiness in e and from temptations which are the
special OF professions and tain would hee IN yo
minds higher conception OF manhood as 1t is IN Christ
Jesusespecally for you such indictments, because IN
some there is work given you as soldiers Una.
because your work vcarous labor for the Cow
ment you stand for the country IL Is for yon TO o the
YOUR land You need not be cruel because you
TlOrs,. for war may BE .1 but discipline In%
of liberty Itself We arc but Just passed through war
which, with all its atrocities and Its incidental cruees,
we have drfted far In perspective as
a sublime war for unity, liberty aud human happiness
a5s M 5Is viii Pass out Of View and no man
measure abundance Of that good which will spring up
Of the Government; it behOoves You to rep
resent man something better IMAM an eon, lnrn
to tell the world than any other nag NOW thank God'
il is clean Once there was blood on IT, Not drop
ground barbaric Slavery Now they are stars OF nope
the world over And those Stripes t ha are area
the light that plays upon them for as you
II aac means intelligence liberty 1t is blessed thing &c
Il be the guardian of IT, You belong to profession non
our land we have those-and those too, happily; nave
/ sprung from the Ions OF this venerable school
we have those whose name rests, clothed
in Immortality for their skill, for their endurance, f0l
their wisdom, yet for their humanity, for then
moderation aud for their unambitiOus patriotism. MOI
are the stories of battles selges and marches SO
sweet TO listen to- is the story that OF the hyt
chiefest men whom this war has launched into the
i present. there is not but what is as brother
10 the other without rivalry, firm casped in concord
i they stand TO show what American lnaI
II should be. While Napoleon could scarcely hold his
armies together from the conflicts with his enemies and
the eaousies Of his Marshals behold how twined
II together like cord by the firm friendships OF chief
est men that the has brought forth gOOdy exam
pie II is NY young friends beseech you To enlarge
your conceptions life Ask inspiration above the text
book above the teachers that God may give you con
/ manhood than you have hitherto followed. And
Il as you go forth, what can ask better Tor you
than EthGt your hopes may be larger your ambltlon
purer your aims truer than those you had when you
first started, and stood npOn the mountainIop
| May the blessings OF Almighty God 10 with you
| Whenever You IN burdens, in trials, In wounds
in sickness, in death, whether among friends, or III
| the wilderness far away among savage fOes, or de
parting amid the thunder Of earnest battle, may yol
never lack company May He who loved your father anC
your mother, may lie who has guided your steps all the
days your lives may He farsake you IN the hou
of trial and anguish From earthly manhood grow more
large and splendid. May there be reached out TO you m
manhood OF Christ Jesus which shall be perfected only
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