The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-10-31
A Mothers Love.
''The spiders most attenuated thread,
Is cord, is cabls, TO mans tender tie

.'The spiders most attenuated thread.
| Is cord, is cablS, TO mans tender tie
| On earthly bliss."- Young.
| George Seymour was the son Of ;
piOuS clergyman in the north of Eng
land. His father married early in life
when only an humble cuTate, lady
not less conspicuous for her persona
charms, than for that lofty virtue anC
deep piety which wins us by its active
beneYolence and practical charity
Hers was not merely the charity which
lOOsens the purse strings To the want:
of the wretched, but in all her inter
course with society, she was tolerant
both to the religious opinions of 9th
ers, and in her judgment of theiI
faults. She was a companion, as vel
as wife, and smOOthed the care, and
the rugged steps of her husbands eXiS
tence 10y that bland and happy dispO
sitiOn which adds such lustre to WO
mans lOYliness, and is YOuchSafed tC
so few who sustain the endeared re.
lationship of wife
| George was the only fruit of this
really cOngenial marriage. A mOder.
ate patrimOny, which his father inheri-
ted, gave a comfort and elegance to his
home, more worthy of his own person
al merit than young clergymen often
| possess, and enabled him to render his
wife more at home at the parsonage
for she had been tenderly nurtured-
than he could have been enabled 10
do, relying merely ON his moderate sal
ary.
The thoughts-the hOpes-of both
| were centered in this son, and there
arose no questions upon the paramount
duty, with which both were duly inn
pressed, of so educating him that, OiI
attaining the age of manhood, he
should step forth in the ranks Of so
ciety, and perform his part in the
grand drama of life, as a Christian ge71-
tleMdR.
The educatiOn-nOt always the case
was accompanied with example.
Daily were set before him, not pre-
cepts merely; but he witnessed in the
| lives of both parents, that living evil
dence of the bliss and purity which
virtue and religion yield to those who
cultivate so rich a soil, and are true to
themselves. 1t would seem a strange
perYeTsion of ObserVatiOn-Of practical
good sense-that a son So educated,
basking in the full sunshine of such
examples, could so well thus
"KnOw the right
And thus the wrong pursue
And yet the subject of this sketch
was one added to the thousands of
those who had preceded him, who
amid the perfume of the orange tree,
eOllate on the solitary branch, the
dread malignity of the "upas" With
a fine intellect, and desire to acquire
| knowledge, his advancement in his
studies while a boy, made him con-
spicuOus among his fellOws-not for
genius, that "ignis fatuus" of the stu
dent, but for diligent application in
his studies, and determination to an
derStdnd what he was instructed in.
Instead of aspiring after a reputation
for GENIUS,
That spreads its motley wings in th eye
To sport their. season. and be seen no
more,
he preferred that knowledge which is
only the legitimate offspring of dill
gent study and profound ratiOcinatiOn,
and enables its YOtary to rise above
the Sun-lit summit of 1CiSfOm He was
taught that
Philosophy, baptized
In the pure fountain Of eternal love,
Has eyes indeed; and views all she sees,
As meant TO indicate a God TO man"
Severe as may be the labors of the
student-tOil though he may, and con
sumo the midnight oil" until his health
flicker like its dying thrOes-he is but
half-learned, who has not taken as the
groundwork of his studies, those lofty
and ennObling maXimS as the rule of
life, which are so clearly prOpOunded in
that volume (which has God for its
authOr-salyatiOn for its end-md
truth, without admiXture Of error, for
its matter" Thus happily did this
youth, painting on the rugged path be-
fore him, toll on TO his studies, with
no thought of declensiOn in his virtue.
and strong in his youthful confidence
of good desires. But the volume 1
have alluded to, bids "him not to boast
who putteth the armOr on, like him
VINO taketh it Off"
From the hands of his tutor. George
was transferred to Oxford; and there.
with bright hOnOrs, matIiculated, and
received the degree of a. B. This step.
in the labOriOus path of knowledge, af-
fOrded him a resting-place in
mounting the sinuOuS and rugged
steps, and his vacation was to be passed
in the gay metropolis of England
LOndOn-With all its greatness, and all
its Yastness, its vices and its kaleidO-
scOpicscenes of pleasure OryOuth-was
now his temporary home, and no Young
graduate ever entered it with purer in
tentiOnS than did George Seymour.
Recreation from stUdy-tO seek re-
Taxation for the mind, and amusement
for the physical sense-waS the plea
urged, and to which his parents, with
only parents misgiyings, consented
Here George met older and less intel
lectual youths. who had been his class
mates, and those who We're the hQ5itUs
Of London, and although Young in
years. were 6laSe in its allurements,
and what to them was first a novelty
and 4 recreation, Cfor truly does -ap-
petite grow on what it feeds on was
now 10 them, necessity. These were. !
indeed, mwisely chosen cOmpanions
Tor one so pure-minded. The film of
long habit and Familiarity with vice |
prevented them from seeing the SER /
pent's fang, and if they ever feIt its |
sting, they cOnsOled themselves with |
the aeluSiye idea, that it was their ma
ture. a thing which was to happen. and
moulded themselves as a necessity to
usage. The oerdaRcy Of their class
mate was at first a subject of daily ban
ter, until at last the first rivet in his
armOr gave way.
Cards had ever been his parents de-
testatiOn, and had never been permit /
ted within the home of his childhood: !
not because cards in themselves were
not innocent, like every other mere
amusement, when kept within proper |
and reasonable bounds; but they We're |
the horror OF their ripper Judgment. be- ]
cause of the evils they lead to. and the
temptation they offer to induce. in un-I
guarded youth, (and how often. alasl in !
those Of mature age, tOo,) a disposition /
to that vice which is the most hellisb |
of all that black catalogue which sinks J
men to hopeless perdition; which is |
the nrnlific parent of the 1arl-n-+ |