Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-17

priceless than that which he lost at Waterloo.
The star of Austerlitz had declined; but in
its place there rose another which had first
greeted the watching Shepherds on Judea's
plain, and hovered lovingly over the manger
cradle of the "Babe of Bethlehem" IL know
men, Gen. Bertrand" said Napoleon, "but
tell you Jesus Christ was not man. Can
you imagine dead man making conquestss
Alexander and Cesar and Charlemagne and
myself founded empires, but upon what did
we rear the product Of our genius9 Upon
force. The Carthaginian army forgot Han
nibal even while he was living, just as my ar
mics have forgotten me. Christ alone found
ed his empire upon loue, and to-day there are
millions who would die in His defense"
"Well, General Lee" said General Cor.
don, the morning after the surrender-and
who that followed the fortunes Of that Great
Commander, and followed them to the last,
can forget the gloom of that hour-"Well,
Ganeral I.sa.nn said Gen. Gordon, "what shall
we do p II repeat to you. General Gordon"
said General Lee, "what wrote to Mrs. Lee
this morning we must cultivate and strength
en- our virtue. Human virtue ought at least
to be equal to human calamity" 1t was q
noble answer; but nowhere in all the range
of earthly possibilities, nowhere save in life
of obedience to Gods blessed Word, are We
promised that our strength shall be sufficient
to our day. "I have had rank and wealth
and honors," said the dying husband of Eng
lands greatest queen, "but if these were all
had, how poor should be now:
Let me hide myself in thee -
and thus Prince Albert died. |aa@ ~ -
I have no means Of telling you what is
promised as the reward Of life of faith and
trust in God. The human mind fruitlessly
exhausts its powers in its efforts to grasp the
infinite. We see the soft, sweet smile playing
upon the face of the sleeping babe, and feel
that it is type of heavenly beauty. We
gaze upon the rainbow as it spans the arching
sky and paints its blended hues upon the bo-
som of the retiring cloud, and feel that it lisa
reflection of that which encircles the throne
of the Eternal. We listen to the melting
tones Of the human voice as it pours "the
thoughts that burst their channels into
song, and imagine that its notes are akin to
seraphic strains. We mediate upon the Wis
ions of the apocalyptic seer, as he describes
the descending city with its beautiful river,
its tree of life, its pearly gates, its jasper
walls, and it's golden streets; but just when
the mind is full of enraptured conceptions,
voice whispers, eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered the heart Of man,
the things that God has prepared for them
that love Him."
I might borrow a term, my dear young
friends, and tell you that the reward of virtue
was eternal Glory" But, then, should
use an expression which l cannot compre-
hend, the words of which even / could not
define. Oh the meaning of the word Glory!
ers, and no dictionary affords satisfactory
de6nition-it belongs to the mysterious vo.
cabulary of the soul. / can simply, then,
beg you to profit by the lessons here impart-
ed. Remember your Creator in the days Of
your youth" and thus secure at last, title
to that Inheritance (which is incorruptible,
undefiIed and that fadeth not away" Live
and lay up treasure for that land "where the
rainbow never fades, where the stars will be
spread out before us as the islands that slum-
ber on the ocean, and where the beautiful be.
iDgs that here pass before Us like visions, will
stay in our presence forever"