New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-07-06
TRUTH.
BY BEVERLY.

BY BEVERLY.
We wonder how often man pauses to take
in the depth and breadth OF this little word
in all its bearings.
"God ia TRUTH Herein we find its ON
impotence; not that God is truthful, but
that He is truth; it is a part OF His being:
IL it ON nipotant as He; eternal as He. Oh.
is it not wonderful mercy that this GOd-ike
attribute should descend to man in his
fallen estate; should be so far attainable
by him as to make bright and glorious the
image of his Max er upon him! Truth be-
ing q part of God, g the source of all good
nay, is an essence of purity ditfusing itself
through all good; becoming its vital part;
infusing lite and strength into it. Take
away truth from any action, thought or
feeling, and it at once becomes evil. 1t may
by the subtle reasoning of man be made
appear specious; nay, almost positive
good; but let us disrobe it and look
ut it through the clear lens OF
truth, aud it is all unclean. filthy and
abominable. Here we pause to ask how
whatever party they be, can bear the all
powerful touchstOne of truth, applied to
their every public act! If one there be,
mark him well, for he is that rare thing, a
true patriot; be his views what they may,
il truth is an integral part OF his nature he
Will not far wrong his country, since hon
esty is simple and easily understood. Only
think of what mighty results rest, through
Gods ordination, in the hands of parents.
Honest men for homes, honest men for COM
munities, honest men for the great business
world, honest men fer national work. Oh,
parents, when will we take in all the re-
sponsibility intrusted to us in the rearing of
learn to do our great duty truly
and honestlyl Let truth be 1nwrought
into the child's entire being. Right is ever
m adherence to truth IN some form
wrong is ever q deviation from it. Truth
Is noble, il Godlike; falsehood is ignoble,
is satanic Let these facts be SO implanted
in the child that he will never dream of
doubling them, and then teach him to ap-
ply them to all things, even the smallest OF
life-fQr instance, he is Of quick, impas-
stoned nature-ask him if it be just to
others that they should be made suffer by
his angry words or deeds, and if he has
been carefully reared he will readily answer
'.no." Then your conduct is false to the
right, is a lie against the truth. Are you
willing to be 30 base thing as a liar, even
indirectly Ten to one that he recoil from
The thought, and thereafter guard himself
of course the judicious parent will enforce
truth in it's more intricate forms by de-
rrees, a. the child becomes grounded and
fixed in the principle; but, above all,
let the parent guard against the very ap-
pearance of falsehoOd until the child is old
enough to discern between irony and I'M
truth. This care taken in all things, and
We will rear child that can not lie, and
he will be found fit for all the relations OF
life, for incorporating truth hedges us
in from almost every sin, as no SIN can be
named but it is either lie, directly or in
directly. Oh! parents, let US take this
single text, truth, and ingram it into every
i.tricacy of our children's spirits, ever re-
nembering that while we work God only
can give the glorious contamination, !. O.,
man who can not lie. Well hath Holy
Writ said that God is truth and the devil
liar and the father of liars.
Ruskin says: mo false person can paint;
he NAV seize truth here or there, but the
relations of truth in all its perfectness he
can never perceive" Aye, and this is true
Of every good and perfect thing, and this is
the reason why 60 little of the highest order
is accomplished upon earth. Truth is want
ing in the worker.
The writer may create, be may elaborate
with his fancy until he charms us for an
hour with the novelty of his conceptions
and the bright tissue of flowing words in
which he clothes them, but if he be not
earnestly truthful it is as the tinkling sym
bal and the sounding brass-a pleasant
sound soon gone, and a sad want of some
thing better, truer and higher left in the
heart The sculptor may chlsel until beauty
touches the rounded form and the exqui-
sitely carved features, and We smile with
pleasure of q beauty, dead though it be- if
the spirit of truth be wanting to hallOw all
with the soul that breathes, even through
marble, but our inmost being, our higher,
nobler self, is still untouched.
The orator the same. He must by the
mower of mate truth within himself, present
truth if he would carry it home to his
hearers and implant it in their hearts. Oh,
truth thou glory of the All Gracious, how
art thou abused upon earth Man takes
thee and draws thee about falsehood and
wraps thee around her until her hldeous
proportion are made to appear as beautiful
rs myself, then pushes forth the lie in the
world and cares not after his purpose has
been accomplished if thou dost recoil from
the polluted contact and leave her an naked
Sefare man, the hideous monster she Is.
Acsin. he places thee under his feet,
~r;nSs thee into the dust, raises his shame
n 1.SS his lies through the mere power Of
might. Oh beauteous spirit Of ahs truth ~, 81
zine, where hast tho1 aoTn n 'n MAJ earn ahsn
should be 20 corrupt Mn Msn on and re;e.
wilt thou come to dwell WIN aasn ~''~ '''s-