Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-29
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should be pitched upon to publish them2''
g. ecause," replied his father, ''our life
is, as it were, ladder, every step of
which is represented by year. It is
natural that our friends should flock to-
has got III safety On the step next to that
which we lately trod, and to express
their wish that we should climb the rest
with equal safety. Do you understand
me2n
"Oh! yes, sir, perfectly"
ut is, however, in my power 10 make
this clearer stilI,'' said his father, By us
ing what VIC call another figure. Do you
remember, then, our going to the top Of
that fine church in London, called St.
Paul'ss'
'Oh! yes, indeed I do said Edward,
ooh, what charming prospect from the
golden gallery! Why, you remember,
we could see all London, and agreat deal
of the country from i'll"
"Greenwich Hospital particularly
struck your eye SAID his father, ''and
as you could not then have any notion of
the distance, you roposed that we should
the following week go there on foot to
dinner"
"WelI, father, and did I not walk the
whole long journey like a man2"
Yes, h4d no reason to find fault with
YOUR performance: but remember, took
care, at every mile stone. on the road, to
make you sit and rest little"
$50 you did; and it was, in my opinion,
no bad idea at the first, to put up those
figured stones beside the road. One
knows, at any time, what distance he has
walked, how much is still to come, and
SO regulate his pace accordingly"
SIN this remarked SIr. Vesey, 'syou
have yourself explained the advantages
which arise from our dividing life into
those equal portions that we call years: :
Tor every year is something like mile
stone in the road of life
II understand you,' said Edward, s'and
the seasons are perhaps many quarter
miles, which tell us that we shall very
soon arrive at the next stcne.'
II am glad" said MIR, Vesey, "that this
little journey is still fresh in your re-
membrance. If you take it in a proper
point of view, it will EXHIBIT true pic
ture Of life. Remember, if you can, the
different circumstances that took place
while you were posting on to CIR enwich;
tell them in the order in which they hap
pened, as well as you are able, and we
will make the appiication.'
81 SHOULD scarcely remember the whole
business better, had it happened yester-
day. At first, as was full of spirits, and
Il 10 1,,4
trot, and made number cf trips; | do
not well know how many You advised
me 10 60 slowly, as the journey would be
rather long. Upon the way, asked for
information about verything of which 1
did not know the meaning, and you gave
it to me. When we happened to go by
bit OF grass, we sat down On it, and you
read story book that YOU had brought
out in your pocket. Then we walked
again, and as We went along, you told
me many other things both useful and
diverting likewise. In this manner,
though the weather was not altogether
fine, although we had sometimes rain,
AID once hail storm to encounter, we
arrived at Greenwich, / remember, very
fresh and hearty"
Every faithfully related" said Mr..
Vesey, "but for some few circumstances,
which, however, l AM glad you have not
rs fer example, your atten-
ton to a poor blind man, whom you
caught by the arm, if you remember, to
prevent him from falling upon a heap of
stones that lay before him, and on which
he might have broken his limbs; the as
sistance that you afforded 8 poor washer
woman's boy, by picking up handker.
chief which had fallen out of his cart:
but particularly the aims that you gave
TO several people on the road"
s'Do you think, then, father said Ed
ward, ''that forgot them? l know that
we shou d not boast of any good that we
have had the opportunity OF doing But
let me have the application that you just
"yhe look, then, which you Cast round
you from the golden gallery, all over
London, and great deal, as you men
toned, of the country, is expressive of
the first reflections of q child upon the
multitude about him. The long walk
which you chose to Greenwich, is the
journey which VIC propose TO ourselves
through lite. The easerness with which
yon wish TO hurry on at setting out, with
out consulting your ability for running,
and which cost you such repeated trips,
is the natural impetuosity Of youth,
whica would excite us TO the worst ex-
cesses if & faithful and experienced friend
were not TO moderate it. The Instruction
that you have derived, as we we're walk
ing on, from reading and conversing with
me, and tie actions of good will and
charity that you performed, took off from
the fatigue OF such a journey; and you
finished it thereby with satisfaction to
yourself though there had fallen much
rain, and even hail.
''These circumstances, too, convey ia
struction; for in life there are no other
means than the performance of our duty
to keep Oft disqniet, and to cherish peace
within Us, Notwithstanding those vicissi-
tudes Of fortune which would otherwise
perhaps go near to overwhelm u.s.
Eyes, yes, father, all this suits wonder
fully well, and shall have much hap
piness, see beforehand, in the year that
IS now begun"
"Itrests with you alone" said Mr.. We
sey, S'to make the year quite happy; but
oace more let US return to our excursion.
Do you recollect, when, in guing round,
that We might see little of the Park. we
came upon Blackheath? the heavens were
then serene, and we could see behind us
all the way that we had been walking"
Yes, indeed" answered Edward,
land was proud of having walked so
far!"
"By proud" said Mr.. vesey, ssyou
mean rejoiced. Are you then equally re-
joiced at present, while your reason,
which now dawns within you, pauses and