Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-21

that home whose radiance shines far for
ward into the dark places of life. We have
all known young men and young women
who have been long away from home,
who were still living in spirit under the
roCf, and who upon revisiting the spot
were anxious to go back into the beauty
Of character that would harmonic with
the beauty OF the dear old place. Home
remains the God and the Bible Of their
wanderings.
| But beside this moral office of child
| hood, that division Of life has magniti-
cent part to play in the intellectual theory
| OF man. Life is only stream of power
| pouring along through strange world.
A large part of this power is made up of
| the development of the imaginative, the
creative and the hoping faculties. The
| ideal is morepowerful than the real. Man,
to be full of force, must be able to see
more worlds than those Jumps of dirt at
| his feet. He must behold the future of
his country if he would become student,
the future of the soul if he would be re-
lig,Ous. 1t is the first requisite, therefore,
| in manhood, that it should be full of en-
thusiasm and of the fancy that bears the
soul in flaming chariot far above the
dust of the street and the low lands Of
daily toll. The early years of life, begin
ming even in the infancy that plucks wild
ly at the gaudy flower or blazing lamp,
ii were designed to be a school-time in
which should be trained up an magma
ton which might at last see the destiny of
man and the glory of God lying beyond
the hills of the present. The same heart
which at first grasps at flower will reach
out after a time for the flowers of useful
ness or learning or an honorable ambi
ton. The heart which thrilled with de-
light when spring brought in the morning
and evening bird is in its early years
to develop a taste which at last nothing
will satisfy except the hymns of the soul
sung to its God. Thus in the theory of
Nan as he was announced in Genesis we
behold childhood coming not as mere
physical necessity, but as a great moral
and intellectual prelude to the greater
| song of his life. 1t is the first step in a
career. Let us move onward from this
portal and pause moment at the altar of
HIS MARRIAGE.
This is the resumption and further eX-
altation of the idea of home. Home is
the prime condition of happiness and sue
cess. 1t is the fertilization against every
enemy, and the store house of all supplies
for the body and SOUL the sanctuary, not
of the Sunday, but of ali the days of the
week and of the year. Excluded by years
and by mental growth from the home of
the father and mother, man must fly to a
home of his own. 1t is while passing be-
tween these two castes-the one of his
mother and the later one Of himself-man
is exposed to the foes of the great open
country. The most of young men and
young women find the worlds sin and
danger while they are marching across
the open country between these two forts
The savages are along every path, lying
in ambush in each valley and behind each
rock. The passage between the two
stockades should be made as quickly as
possible, and by hearts we'll on guard
Over this second fortress waves the ban
ner of love. Here two mortals, having
outgrown the first condition of life, and
knowing that father and mother will soon
pass away, give themselves each to the
other, and by a devotion that SURPRISES
language, and by love that has taxed
the poets and painters of all times with
the vain attempt to portray it, carry the
home idea forward from beauty to blessed
ness AS the Son of Man passed from a
manger to TRANSPORTATION, so the home
of youth is TRANSPORTED in the home of
this final affection. Out of this earthly
paradise come ambition, industry, unself-
ishness, modification of every passion,
higher morality. This union is of one
with one. The great motto written all
over nature is, Gone Mother, One Hus-
band or Wife, One God" This is the
unity of mans soul In the grand theory
Of man this immense friendship shines
down upon all of earth that succeeds the
Joining Of hands at the altar. 1t yields to
death only, and then because it hopes
Immortality to carry forward the unpar-
alleled companionship. In its highest
form marriage asks to be carried from
time to eternity.
"Ohi baud ye leal and true, John,
Your day is wearin' thro', John,
And I'll welcome you
To the land o the leal.
'Now fare we weel, my ain John,
This worlds cares are vain, } ohm,
Wen meet and we i be fain,
In the land o the leal. y
From the building up of this second
home, designed to endure forever, pass on
in this study of man to
HIS PURSUIT.
As the mind of this Being from whom
this gifted creation proceeded revealed in
the universe a wonderful love of variety,
and shows us world containing countless
objects, from mountain to daisy, the
one sublime, the other lovely, objects from
an ocean to drop, objects from the
voice of the thunder to the song OF night
ingale, so man, issuing from this Creator
as His image, sends forth from his mind
marvellous collection Of the products of
his industry. He has covered the earth
with the variations of his thought and
love. The variations which the musician
builds up around his central theme, the
shifting shapes of the clouds upon the
sky are only poor emblems of the forms
sublime or useful or wonderful or lovely