Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-31
A WORD WITH THE ASSEMBLY.

In . day or two the Assembly. IN
Committee OF the Whole, will be called
on to consider the bill whose object u
Is to provide . means and meth"u
whereby the unfortunate children aud
youth OF this State who have been Led
into ways Of vice depravity, neglect
idleuess and crime, may he restrained
OF their evil inciinatiors, protested
arainst themselves, and directed into
the paths Of honesty. virtue and use
fitness. Underneath this measure,
estimating 1t in the spirit itself pro-
fesses, lie the germs OF movement,
which, If perfected, will be one deci-
sive Stop ir the direction of securing
for our young State social foundation
strengthened by good beginnings and
fortified by the ou,castins of the most
pernicious of evil habits and evil in
6uences,-tbe depravities OF neglect,
perversity and wrong inclinings, III
the outset Of lifa. We carEo. 80 better,
in this connection than to quote the
concluding words oil an address on
Popular Culture, delivered by Mr..
John Morley, at the openi..,. # the
Midland Institute. Birmingham, Eng
la.d, in October last. Said this learned
and gifted scholar: "What We Sc"
every day with increasing clearness
Is that not only the well-being OF the
usny, be. the chances Of exceptional
genius, moral or intellectual, in the
gifted few, are highest in society
where the average interest, curiosity,
CAPACITY, are all highest. The moral
Of this for you and for ME IS plain.
We cannot, like Beethoven or Handel,
lift the soul by the magic OF divine
melody into the seventh heaven of in
effable vision and hope :Icomme"s:-
rable; we cannot, like Newton, weigh
the far-oE stars in a balance, and
measure the beavings of the eternal
flood; we cannot, like Voltaire, sccrcb
ND what is cruel and false by word
as fam., nor like Milton or Burke.
awaken mems hearts with the note OF
an organ-trumret; we cannot, like the
great saints of the churches and the
great sages of the schools, add to those
acquisitions of spiritual beauty and IN
telIectual mastery which have, one by
one, and little by little, raised men
from being no higher than the brute
to be only little lower than the an
gels. But what we can do-the hum
blest of us all in this great halls by
using our own minds and diligently
seeking 20 extend our own opportuni-
ties to others, to help to swell that
common tide, on the force and the set
of whose currents depends the pros
porous voyaging of humanity. Vine n
our names are blotteG out, and on!
place knows us no more, the energy
of each social service viii remain, and
80 too, let US not forget, will each So
cial dis.service remain, like the I'M
ending stream of one of natures for
ces. The Thought that this is so may
vel, tighten the poor perpieAities OF
our daily life, and even soothe the
pars of its calamities; it lifts us from
our feet as on wings, opening larger
meaning to our private toll and
higher purpose to our public en-
deavor: it makes the morning as we
awake to it welcome, and the evening
like 3 soft garment As 1t wraps us
about it nerves our arm with bold
ness agains: oppression and injustice,
and strengthens our voice with deeper
accents against falschcod, while we
are yet in the full noon of our days
YES, and perhaps it will shed some ray
of consclation when our eyes are grow
ing dim to i: all, and We go down into
the Valley of Darkness"