The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-10

him from the encompassing necessity
when L see him, from some false precon-
ceived nation, doing the very reverse of
}fbat be intended, and then miserably
Let the active and able man ueseffvv
and expect:
From the great-grace;
From the powerful-favor;
From the good and active-help;
From the multitude-liking
From the individual-love.
Every one must think in his own way;
for he will always discover some sort of
truth or approximation to truth which
helps him through his life. But he must
not let himself drift along; he must ex-
ercise selfcontrol it bescems not man
to allow himself to be ruled by mere in
stiact.
Unlimited activity of whatever kind
must at last end in bankruptcy.
In the works of man, as in those of
nature, it is the intention which is chiefly
worth studying.
Men come to mistake themselves and
others because they treat the means as
an end, the consequence being that their
very activity prevent their accomplish
ing anything, or perhaps effect the re-
verse of what was designed.
What we plan, what we undertake
should already be 30 clearly mapped out
and SO beautiful in its proportions that
the world by interfering could only mar
it. We should thus be in an advantage
GUS position to adjust what might have
got out of joint, and to replace what had
been destroyed.
1t is extremely difficult to correct and
sift whole, half, and quarter errors, and
to put what truth they contain in its
proper place.
Truth need not always be embodied;
enough if it hover around like a spiritual
essence, which gives one peace and fills
the atmosphere with a solemn sweetness
like harmonious music of bells.
Blowing is not playing the flute you
must use your fingers
Concentrations and great selfconceit
are always preparing the most lamenta-
BILE mishaps.
Botanists have class of plants which
they name incomplete; we might in the
same sense speak of incomplete, imper-
feet men-those, namely. whose longing
and struggling are not in proportion to
their doing and performing.
The smallest man may be complete by
combining his actions within the limits of
his capacity and skill but even fine
gifts are obscured, ruined, and annihi-
lated if the indispensable proportion be
wanting. This mischief will often dis
play itself in this new time; for who can
hope to fulfill satisfactorily the claims Of
an age everyway full of cxaggeration and
also in rapidest movement?
Only persons of wise activity, who,
having guaged their powers, use them
with sense and moderation, may hope to
become proficients in their knowledge of
the universe.
A great mistake: to hold oneself too
high and rate oneself too cheap.
occasionally meet with young men
in whom see nothing l could wish al
tered or improved; nevertheless l feei
anxious when see them thoroughly able
to swim with the current of the times
and l am continually impelled in this
case to call their attention to the fact
that man, in his frail boat. had the rud-
der placed in his hands in order that he
might not allow himself to be swayed by
chance currents, but by the dictates Of
his judgment.
But how shall a young man by his UNI
aided efforts discover that which every
body does, approves, and promotes to be
hurtful and reprehensible How shall
he not let his nature and temperament
watt him in the same direction?
must regard it as the greatest mislor-
tune of our time, in which nothing is al,
lowed to attain, to maturity, that each
| moment is swallowed up by its successor
the day dissipatcd within the day, and
that people thus continually live from
hand to mouth, without in reality further
ing anything. DO we not already pos
sess newspapers for every hour OF the
day? A ready wit, certainly, might
still intercalate this, that and the other
Thus what everybody thinks, fancies
does, nay intends doing, is dragged into
publicity. Nobody must suffer and re
joice but as pastine for Others, the
news flying from house to house, IRON
city to city, from country to country an'
at last, from continent to continent, viii
incredible velocity.
But We can rs little hope to put dowr
the steam-engine rs these phenomena
showing themselves in the moral world
the animation of commerce, the swift
passage of paper-money, the accumula
ton of debt to pay debt, such are The
enormous complicated elements which
the young man is called upon to dea
with at present. 1t is well if he is en-
dawed by nature with quiet and moder
alton, making no exorbitant claims ol
the world oirthc one hand, nor allowin.
himself to be swayed by it on the other