The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-03


to put any obstruotions in the way of
separate white volunteer organizations
We regard it the duty of the whites to
form volunteer military companies. It
is their right SO to do, and if SO disposed,
they are entitled to be received. What
ever of distaste thore is connected with
the subject, it is the duty of the good
citizen to make sacrifices for the public
good. The tactics now 'uaed is the new
one, ,of. Upton. We advise this organi-
zation, becauae We deem it promoti9e of
peace. order and security.
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Duties Isel,gso ass.srhunBht for To-day
iReiiaioua Feeling lin Youth.
Upon this Sabbath morning we may
we'll make some renlhrks upon the beau
ty OF religious feeling in the young. 1t
is a beautiful thing to see the young lny-
ing their early fruits upon the altar of
their God. It is not. unusual to find
religion and service to God associated
only with the mature and the aged; but
who does not deem that there is an ad-
when we find piety illustrated in the
language and conduct of the young?
Men generally reach the last analysis of
Gfe's problem at a late period, and some
are they who see clearly at once where
the path of safety and peace lies. 1t
may be said that there are three distinct
eras in mans career in life. First,
there comes with youth and early man
hood the era of poetic thought and roman
tic feeling. This is the auroral period.
Then the soul is impressed with all
chat pertains to beauty in nature, in art,
and in womanhood. But the deep glow
of feeling assumes a mellower tint, and
the mind feels unsatisfed. Nert comes
the era of ambition. Military fame-in-
tellectual eminence, the pride of
place, the thirst for power-these enlist
the young mans earnest energies. He
seeks 'bubble reputation at the cannon s
mouth, or stands ''unappalled in the
imminent deadly BREACH" or lie tolls
for "the philosophers stone," or he
trims the midnight lamp in literary eff
forts, or seeks the laurels of poet or ora
tor, or aspires to the honors Of the bar,
or seeks the ermine, or tolls for the
guerdon of craftsmanship, or labors for
the applause of listening Senates. p"
This is the second era in mans expe-
rience, but this, too, proves unsatisfying,
and he remains restless. Meat comes
bhe cooler and more calculating era of
reason, and not unlikely self-interest ths
''wavering balance" holds. This is the
era of dparice. Man now seeks his sub
stantial interests, and the acquisition of
riches becomes the absorbing passion.
This is the period of "the spoils," this
the time of ''the loaves and fishes. +"
But let it be supposed that his dearest
wishes have been realized. Still will it
be found that his soul is unsatisfied.
There is still m 'aching void" Now it
Is that, having passed through the three
eras of feeling and aspiration, he at last
seeks that peace which the world cannot
give nor take away-the peace that
'passeth understanding" rest that
exists for tthe people of God" The
proposition, then, that we seek to present
is simply the duty and atility Of early
pietY-the obligations of religious feel
ing and practice. AS to those consider
ations which pertain to the HEREAFTER,
we leave them to the pulpit and the
minister. But it is we'll to consider that
even so far as this life is concerned, the
Christians course is the best, and the
Christian, the highest style of man. The
clear mind, the honest heart, the sound
body, the satisfactory life-all these
spring from those high thoughts, those
lofty aspirations, those temperate,
chaste and steady habits that form part
and parcel of the ethics of the Bible. It
has been we'll said that the excellence of
she Bible consists in this, that agree
ably to it's teachings, man may equally