The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-06-19


Mesws. Reneau, Shelton and Others !
| GESrLEMEx, Yours of this date,
asking for a copy Of the address Of
welcome, delivered by mysclfon last
Saturday, before the Sabbath schools
OF Charleston, Oakland and Pine
Hill, during their visitation to the
sabbath schools Of Pamela and this
place, has been handed me, and Twill
cheerfully put the address at your
disposal. The short notice given Of
the intended visitation, necessarily
embarrassed the composition of such
an address, and 1t is submitted with
a knowledge Of your indulgence in
the premises.
Respectfully, &c.
N. G. TAYLOR.
Fnends aud Fsiiow- Ghsens Of Tailahalehe,
Yaiabusha and Panoia counter;
There are some occasions when
language is not needed to ex-
press emotion, and often instances
occur where the harmony of deep
thoughted appreciationis is perplexed,
even where attempt is made to par
aphrase the alert inspirations of the
heart-holy communications too
complete for the incompleteness Of
words--too musical for the discor-
dancy Of the best minstrelsy Of
speech.
The human heart, my friends,
by some strange, mysterious law,
regulates its own tide of feeling,
and skeptic philosophy, drifting on
speculative bark, feels, but fails to
explain the "ebb and aow' of that
mystic current which shifts obedient
to capricious impulse through every
zone of passion--shirking at one
moment with reefed sail, the chilly
regions of the iceberg and Polar
winds, illustrating hopes, then
freezing in the wintry gloom and the
heart Is frozen and almost lifeless.
The next moment the helm is turned
and our sprite craft is filling its
joyous sails with the spice breezes Of
the tropics, and tapping its glad
pennant amid the summer isles Of
eternal fruits and aowers-type of
fruition complete, and life symbolized
to that existence which heaven
hereafter apportions to the just.
May the cruise Of each of us be
among those "glad isles, and may
the budsof a thousand realized hopes
flower in our hearts, and bear the
ripe fruit Of individual and national
happiness-securing to each Of us
the commepdation of approving
conscience, and the appreciation Of
heaven. These reflections are q
beftting introduction to the duties
| here assume.
On behalf then Of the sabbath
schools Of the County Of Panola,
represented here to-day, II has fallen
to my lot, under their kind selection,
to extendto our visitors, the Sabbath |
schools of Charleston, Pine Hill and
Oakland, the cordial hospitality Of
this interesting occasion, greeting |
full Of earnest sincerity, and gushing |
like pure water from the bosom Of
some sacred fountain which nature
has hid deep in the earth-removed
from all impurities, filtrated Of
every stain, and presided over by
the worshiped nymph whose mis-
sion Il love. Fe...ow.citizens, a new
era has this day dawned upon US,
8 new note has been struck upon
angel lharpsinheaven, whose re-echo-
ing melody can be heard upon earth.
and will continue tothrill the hearts
Of the watchfnl, until the visible
and tangible fruits Of this beginning
shall endin the happy contamination
Of peace on earth and good will to-
wards men, 20 ardently prayed for
By the good Of all ages. Thers isin
thisre.union Of these Sabbath school
agencies, . power and influence but
little appreciated now, winch the
history Of the worlds progress win
clearly vindicstc Il mean shc nor
al, united moral effect, Of the joint
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