The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-07-07

III pTecmlnent degree, with capacity to
discern beauty, the power to create it and
sensibility to be deeply moved and agreoa-
bly, affected by it. Open the works Of
Shakespeare and see what an eye he had for
thobeautifu in man and nature, in charac-
ter and action, and what inimitablo formsof
lOyoliness his magic genius called into be-
ing
The poets eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth from Garth to
L.. heaven; .-
And, as Imagination bodies forth
The forms Of things unknown, the poets pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing,
a local habitation and name.
a third class of persons, who derive the
highest, purest, most exquisite pleasure
| from beauty, is composed Of those who
arc under the clcyating, refining, sanctify-
ing power Of religion. Piety enoblos all
the faculties of our nature and hciglIcns
all our onjoyments. lie that is accustomed
to intimate communion with God, and the
contemplation of his word and works, will
have his mind and senses so exercised and
improved, and bis feelings and alIectionS
so spiritualizod and refined, that he will
b3quick to detoct beauty every where; be
capable of ofapproeiatiug and fitted t, de-
rive the keenest delight from it. iIence
Cowper, describing the Ghristion as he
looks abroad among the scenes Of nature,
represents that he is thrilled by the sight
Of her beauties beyond ordinary mortals,
or even souls of poetic temperament
"liis are the mountains, and theyalloys his,
And the resplendent rivers. His t'cnjoy
With proprety that none can feel
But who, with filial confidence inspired.
| Canlift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, my father made them ALL"
propose, in the last place, to urge al
| persons to cultivate love Of the beauti-
ful, both as a matter of taste and of prac-
tice.
First, cherish and indulge a taste for
beauty, irrespective of all practical consd-
eratlons, ends and uses. Love it for its
own sake. Delight in it on account Of its
intrinsic excellence, charms and loveliness.
10 do this will require that you observe
beauty wherever it may be found that
you admire it in every sphere; that you en-
Joy it in all It's varieties, forms and degfees;
| As the universe is cosmos, structure
formed by regular disposition and arrang-
ment, system of being marked by order,
law and harmony, and adorned with pre-
yalhpg loyeIlness or generalappearance Of
divine glory, let tho mind perpetually ly con-
template this admirable ana extensive
scene, feast ON its wonders and delights, be
satiated with its spleAdor and beauty
Roam, wander, eXpatiate with free and
wide range, through every sphere of ex-
istence, natural, mental, moral and divine,
through earth aud leaven--the visible
and invisible-the human and superhu-
man, through the past, present and future,
through time aud eternity. And in these
excursions gaze, with enraptured vision,
on tue lovely aud the beautiful, whose Gu
chanting presence is every where.
Secondly, carry the love of the beouti.
full into practical operation, use and effect
That is, seek to beautify everything with
which you have to do. DIR. johnson said Of
Goldsmith, she touched nothing which he
did not adom." He had power to embel-
lish, to execute in a finished style of art,
to present any literary subject hc attempted
to handle, either in prose or verse, in a
costume of beauty to combine with
strength Of thought and diction, the light
er graces and ornament of sentiment, Ian
guage and imagery. Adopt, as princi-
pie Of action, that, whatever you under
take, you will strive to do it we'll; that
you will labor to excel; and that, if the
matter in hand will admit Of it, you will
ondeavor to make your work beautiful and
pleasing. This general principle may be
applied in various directions, and in end
lessly diversified forms.
AS your first and highest aim, aspire af-
ter beauty of moral character and conduct,
soul beauty, spiritual excellence and love
illness, conformity to the model and stand
ard of perfect beauty, which is the divine
image seen in Jesus Christ There is no
influence equal to that of religion for
moulding the mind of man into form of
celestial grace and beauty, and ondowing
it with power to create aud fashion shapes
of loveliness, both in the material and intel
lectual world. See an illustration of this
in } ohm Bunyan. lie was, i'll early life,
ignorant, rude, vicious and dcbased by evil
habits and associations, aud he followed
the calling of q travelling tinker. How
unlikely that such man should ever be-
come star Of the first magnitude in the
armament of literature and religion. But,
under the effective work of christianity,
this rough hspecimeu Of humanity was trans
figured into q being of heavenly spirit,
grace and loveliness, and made to shine
with n lustre of angelic brightness. His
intellect burned with the fires Of genius;
his heart glowed with affections of sora-
phic ardor; his imagination teemed with
shapes of surprising beauty, as well as
forms that were hideous and horrible. IN
the production of his great masterpiece,
a great critic ailirms that he wrought the
highest miracle o. genius. Macaulay says
that Sin England, during the latter half