Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-11-22

nation OF the dtmighfy dollar, had we
time. Suffice it to say, that the peers
of this new order of nobility are men
of redoubtable force. Throned on
their money bags they hold sceptre
unto whose lifting and poising mul,
titude of dependencies bend the knee,
OF course, in their personal and indiI
vidual sphere, they carry about with
them something of the atmosphere of
this wide and potent influence. They
move with the tread Of solid men.
Their going out and coming in carries
a presence with it. Their forms and
faces, and even their words, are over
laid with gold.leaf. Their quarter is
the court end, their circle is good So
ciety. Their way of doing things is
I fashion. Aud yet let oue of those
gilded peers be narrow.soulcd miser,
how like great blot lie bis mansion
and surroundings on the smiling
landscape how men shiver as they
hurry past him out OF the cold shadow
into the sunshine. Let him be a
mean man, how everybody despises
him, even those who .awn. Let him
be sharp, hard man, and what low
ering looks follow him behind his
back Let him win and spend selfish.
lly how few bless him, or are wrought
upon by him, with any depth of i'm.
preston Let him be without person.
al characteristics, nero impersonal
incarnate wealth, how heeting the
reign Of his influence, how low the in.
terests he has touched and shaped In
the best Of his power, this man deals
so primarily and largely with material
and perishable investments, that as a
mere man of wealth, the secret Of
farthcst, most lasting influence is not
his.
A. A yet loftier type of personal
power than any we have named, is
tho Intellectual. As the soul is the
true man, intellectual stature is real
stature. When man comes in contact
with man, and strength is measured
against strength, intellectual preemi.
nence, more than all other advantag es
yet signalized, is real preemiaeH &C.
The force Of this power is far felt and
permanent. Its monuments are state
| ly and enduring A word, thought
pass out over the nations and wing
their fight down the ages. They
become seeds of thought, and condi
tions and stimulants OF mental activi.
ty to millions of minds and many
generations. They have the keys OIL
all souls in their keeping and open
and enter in and sit down with the ain
and welcome OF a niSstef They i've
as watchwords and rallying cries on
mems lips in personal sorrows and
great struggles. In them lives the
life of their author. His works are
not his mausoleum, but his iocarna.
ton, in which he still walks and taSLs
among his fellows and his disciples ,anC
snan never see ueatn. otni 10 sing:
in immortal verse, still his theses teach
in the schools of philosophy, still hC
stands before natures secret affairs
her high priest to all worshippers
Still he sways with burning periods
the popular assembly, decres judicia
decisions, guides statesmanship and
diplomacy, charms our evening hours
with sweet iancies, or guides along
the mighty gallaries of history, and
watches through midnight vigils with
the lono student, beguiled by such
companionsbip till the gray dawn
smilcs his eyelids and pales his faith
full lamp. This is a crODH to fire the
eye of ambition. 1t is height Ia
tempt adventurous feet. But thi:
power, in its distinctive inheritance
as lordship among mon, is for the
few 1t cannot be universal; its con
ditions are too exacting; il demand.
a life of devotion to itself; it asks foi
the young, fresh years and the full
strength Minerva is jealous di-
vinity. She will not divide the HON
age OF her votares with rival. In
tellectual pursuits, in such measures
as TO confer intellectual command
cannot be joined to the common every
day tolls of life by which men win
their daily bread. The teachers, the
intellectual quickeners of their age, in
every department of mind, must be
mainly single and professional in their
calling. Therefore, if prominence
here be lofty style of personal power
it is confined to its clauships, il is not
popular, it is not n boon for the mass.
es. 1t is crown like the light OF
setting sun for the tall peaks, leaving
the lower slopes and wales in the
shade And then us mere intellectual
force, until il is veined with another
life, it expends itself upon the intel
lect, or at farthest, upon the sensibli
ty. II works beneath cold sky.
If it comes into the warm region OF
the sensibilities, il does not go down
to the vitalities of character, and
breathe through all the channels OF
the heart the spirit of the daily life.
1t is not even n power to soothe and
bless its possessor. Its fruit turns to
ashes upon the lips, and many n disap.
pointed aspirant for intellectual great.
ness eonfesses at the last, in bitterness
of spirit. "7he tree of knowiedge is not
that Of iife." Let us look again, for
yet another type of personal power,
subject to none of these conditions,
while yet il shall gather to itself the
best life and meaning of all that have
preceded it.
5. We must call this truor and bet
ter kind, Moral PoUer. Its scat ia
the moral nature, the conscience and
the heart. Its life is tho central law
prescribed by the supreme moral
Governor. Tho law of his own being
tho force that S,pdyS omaipotence-the
law, the force Of love- II is ever ODE.
dent to the right, because il is love
For right is some beings due, and love
cannot withhold anything that is due
TO God or man, For the same reason
IL is just il is unsclfsh il goes forth
in beneficonce, whenever and wherever
it may, as full fountain flows down in