The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-01

THIS clearer Stlll, SalO dis ldCneT, ny uS- |
ing what we call another figure. Do you
remember, then, our going to the top OF, |
that fine church in London, called st.
Pauls2"
"Oh! yes, indeed I d." said Edward,
"Oh, what charming prospect from the
golden gallery! Why, you remember,
we could see all London, and great 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 proposed that we should
the following week go there on foot to
dinner"
"Well, father, and did I not walk the
whole long journey like man?"
Eyes, l hid no reason to find fault with
your performance: but remember, took
care, at every milestone, 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"
I'm this" remarked Mr.. Vesey, "you
have yourself explained the advantages
which arise from our dividing life into
those equal portions that we call years:
for every year is something like mile
stone in the road of life"
II understand YOU" said Edward, ''and
the seasons are perhaps so many quarter
miles, which tell us that we shall very
soon arrive at the next stcne.'
II am glad" said Mr., Vesey, 'that this
little journey is still fresh in your re-
membrance. If you take it In proper
point of view, it will exhibit a true pic
ture of life. Remember, if you can, the
different circumstances that took place
while you were posting on to Greenwich;
tell them in the order in which they hap
pened. as we'll as you are able, and we
will make the application"
II should scarcely remember the whole
business better, had it happened yester-
day. At first, as I was full of spirits, and
desired to let you see it, I set out upon
trot, and made number Of trips; I do
not we'll know how many. You advised
me to 20 slowly, as the journey would be
rather long. Upon the way, I asked for
information about everything of which 7
did not know the meaning, and you. gave
| it to me. When we happened to go by a
bit of grass, we sat down on it, and you
read a 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,
and once halls storm to encounter, we
arrived at Greenwich, I remember, very
fresh and hearty"
every faithfully related" said Mr..
Vesey, shut for some few circumstances,
which, however, am glad you have not
introduced; as fer example, your atten-
ton to poor blind man, whom you
caught by the arm, if you remember, to
prevent him from falling upon heap OF
stones that lay before him, and on which
he might have broken his limbs; the as
sistance that you afforded a 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"
do you think, then, father,' said Ed
ward, stthat forgot them? I know that
we should not boast Of any good that we
have had the opportunity of doing. But
let me have the application that you just
mentioned"
"The look, then, which you cast round
you from the golden gallery, all over
London, and a great deal, as you men
toned, of the country, is expressive O
the first reflections of a child upon the
multitude about him. The long walk
which you chose to Greenwich, is the
journey which we propose to ourselves
through life. The eagerness 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
which would excite US to the worst ex
cesses if a faithful and experienced frient
were not to moderate it. The instruction
that you have derived, as we were walk
, ing on, from reading and conversing will
me, and the actions of good will ant
) charity that you performed, took off from
the fatigue of such a journey; and yo'
. finished it thereby with satisfaction t.
, yourself though there had fallen mucl
rain, and even hail.
These circumstances, too, convey ia
struction; for in life there are no othe
: means than The performance Of our dut
; to keep off disquiet, and to cherish peac
within us, Notwithstanding those vicissi
tudes Of fortune which would otherwis
' perhaps 20 near to overwhelm u.s."
:, YES yes, father, all this suits wonder
/; fully we'll, and shall have much hap
. piness, I see beforehand, in the year tina
: IS now begun"
c "Itrests with you alone,'' said Mr.. We
/, sey, ito make the year quite happy; bu
, once more let ue return to our excursion
# DO you recollect, when, in gu'ng rounc
Y that we might see little of the Park. "
came upon Blackheath9 the heavens wer
h then serene, and we could see behind U
7; all the way that we had been walking"
Il "Yes, indeed" answered Edward