Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-09


s1a-iust by way of variety and to stimulate
inquiry in a new direction For example, why
0H;sat not these following words Of Longfel-
'ats I've quoted as suggesting discourse upon
%iz,e duty Of promoting useful and bene6cent
~sE.atl sities:
Trust no Future, howeer pleasant
Let the dea1 Past bury its dead
Act-ac. in the living Present
Heart within and God DER head
Esho1y will dispute with the poet the ex-
<soIieE.e and pertinence of his exhortation.
fko duty of the present hour Is what most
srSy cans us and most demands our energetic
saad earnest endeavour. But we are not 50
,aars Of what we are to regard as the Future
Ky cshich we are thus reminded. The Pres
essst IL 30 merely documentary, the Future is so
z eSr! De Quincy in his "Sequel to the Con-
se4Sinyas of an English Opium Eater, reminds
= o. the intangible and tleeting nature of the
pgafsnt, in these impressive words: Put
xi.c Roman clepsydra one hundred drops of
water; let these run out as the sands in all
asa glass every drop measuring the han
x-sr5ea part uf a second, that each shall rep
r--agut but the three hundred and sixty thous-
4,,3 part of an hour Now, count the drops
So t1ey race along; and, when the iftieth Of
4hs, isandred is passing, behold forty-nine
=Azs rot, because already they have persisted;
IzaG fly are not, because they are vet to come.
Fou see, therefore, how narrow, how incalcu-
ssulv narrow, is the true and actual present.
, - Gtst time which We call the present, hardly
l. hGEire It'll part but belongs either to past
which has Bed, or to future which is still on
as wing, 1t has persisted, or it is not born
81 w&s, or it is not Yet even this approx
nation 20 the truth is infnitely false. For
tea>r subdvide that solitary drop, which only
a,as found to represent the present, into
,l-@. series OF similar fractions, AMI the &C
al ;esent which you arrest measures now
mt tha thirty six .millionth of an hour; and
81 ~ ufnite ueclensions the true and very
arc4,pt. in which only We live and enjoy, will
zsnisI att a mote OF mote, distinguishable
..r!y bg heavenly vision. Therefore, the
8 rase1t, which only man possesses, offers less
aaPacity fer his footing than the slenderest
fai.u that ever spider twisted from her womb.
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rant de marrow est pencil OF moonlightis more
.-anaitory than geometry can measure, or
thought Of angel can overtake. The time
- 2ich IS contracts into mathematc point
aeIu oven that point perishes q Thousand times
hei0rU We can utter its birth.
Ionctimes Gail Hamilton breaches to us in
= very Impressive, yea a very pertinent, timely
aud Welcome vein. She talks to lis as per
q RPS VIZ need talking to i'll the following lines.
'Sho hes been looking upon two portraits. She
t5nds for us, in some sort, the words we would
ta,ak. Says she;
"lt was the face of a young man smitten
&axt. lis his opening manhood to sudden and
srccl Death No disease mastered him, no
srlprudonce OF ignorance of his own overlook
A,n,, 70 sacred cause demanded the sacrifice |
u lis young years. But an incredible and |
,sIest guilty cayelessness ON the part of another
IT8A tl.a swift bullet, and in moment, in the
dwiRGling of an eye, before love could even
t3oE upon him, he was torn away from sweet
sic. All the pleasure and the pains lavished
'2u hia two-snd-tweuty years-mothers woe
3ad mothers love, the culture of school and
;eome, paternal pride and trust, social joys,
E:Ga,eries and hopes of tireside happiness
crushed beneath one bitter blow, all buried
III ono uutimely grave
Opposite hangs another picture. 1t is the
SEre of a man one hundred and two years old.
: S. features are sharp, the eyes sunken, and
$ish s sort of wistful, eager, submissive sad
Hosd, as of eyes that have looked in vain.
Gac whole face is plOwed with burrows, the
ssrai is Shrunken, thin, and bent 1t is
-z1Hdred aud tive years old.
And look back upon the sunny, sweet face
,Tposite, immortal in its youth, and cannot
Ezk which is Che better fate! Instinctively
'aal through all my shuddering soul that life
NAY DO more tragic than death.
ltistrue-it is terribly ,hopelessly true-that
''Hot all the preaching since Adam I
CsR make death other than death" ;
4 he AearthstOne is cold every night, and the !
-&ose newly vacant each morning. and the ST.
.sgcs freshly and forever vital with loss while .
IS long with unspeakable longing and cease
ass patn.nOt for the conclusions Of philosophy
sct--ahl Heaven be kind not for the con- h
.saatiuns of religion; but for the very face
VE.ich Vo shall never see, for the ringing, d
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