Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-15
Tnnnshts Of Lmersnn.

We are TO know that we are never
without e pilot. When we know not
how to steer, and dare not hoist q sal,
W. can dit. The current knows the
W V. though we do not, the stars
ana -uu appear; when we have COW r.
ed with nayigatois who know the cJ2st,
We may begin to put out an oar or trim q
sail. The snip OF heaven guides i,sell,
aud will not accept a wooden rulder,
The credenc. o, men il is tina
molds then, and creates AZ will one or
another surface. The mind as it opens
trans els very fast its choice from the
circumstances to the cause; nom COur
te-y to love, from invention to science,
fr IN London or Washington law, Or
public opinion, to tue SIT revealing idea;
II, m all thai talent execute. to the sn-
timent that fills the heart and dictate,
the utuTe OF nations.
The man of this age must be matricu-
lated in the univeI siJy OF sciences and
tendencies flowing rom all past peripi,.
He must not be one who can be surprised
and shipwrecked by every bold and
subtle word which malignant an,
acute men may utter in his hearing, hu,
should be taught all s,eptici-ms and
unbeiiels, and made the destroyer of all
card houses and paper walls, and the
sitter of all OPINIONS, by being pnt t o
to face from h infancy VITA reality.
A man who has accustomed h mseIf t
look at all his circumstances as very
mutabIe, to carry his possessions, hi
relations to persons, and even his opin
ions, in his hand, and in all these tt
to pierce to the principle and moral law
and everywhere to find that, has pu
himself out of the reach Of all scepticism
aud il seems as if whatever is mos
affecting and sublime in our intercourse
10 u happiness, and in our losscl
tended steadily to upliit us to a life 81
extraordinary, and one might say, super
human.
How came this creation 50 magical
woven that nothing can do me mischit
but myself-that an invisible fence SUI
rounds my being which screens me froI
harm that | will to resist? II | wi
/ stand upright, the creation can not ben
!, me. But IT, violate myself, il ] comm
a crime, the lightning loiters by III
/ speed of retribution, and every act isnc
hereafter but instantaneously rewarde
: according to its quality, Virtue is Il
: adoplinI OF this dictate ofthe unive
sal mind by the individual wi
Character il the habit
this obedience, and religion is the a.
:. companying emotion, the emotion
T., reverence which the presence of Il
: univers ! mind ever excites in the j
dividual.
:, The mystic or thei.t is never scar,
: by any startling materiaIism. He knO,
L the laws of gravitation and of repulsi,
are deaf to French takers, be they nev
20 witty. II Theology shows that OPT
J ions are fast changing, it is not So wi
the convictions of men with regard
u conduct. These remain. The nc
! daring heroism, the most accomplish
culture or Iapt holiness, never exhaust
y the claim OF these lOwly duties, new
y penetrated TO their origin, or WAS able
look behind their source. We can u
a di.enchant, we can not impoverish ou
d selves, by obedience; but by humili
y we rise, by OBJ di nee We command,
poverty we are rich, by dying we Ii,
lg Man does not live by bread alone, b
u by faith, by admiration, by. sympatt
Tis very shallow TO say that cotton
iron, or silver or gold, are kings of t
10 world there are rulers that will at a
}; moment make these forgotten. FL
1t will love will character will. NJ
a live by credence. Governments sta
8 by it, by the faith that people sha
ID whether it comes from the religion
!; which they were bred, or from an origil
e conscience in themselves, which t
popular religion echoes. If governme
of could only stand by force, if the inslir
1t OF the people was to resist the Cover
ment, it is plain that the governme
must be two TO one, in order to be secu
4 and then it would not be safe from d
N perate individuals But no; the {
lg commandment, "Thou shalt not xii
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