The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-06-26

purpose. Young ladies who graduate with
distinction usually pass through college as
the victorious Phocian women passed
through the battle, thinking less Of their
apparel than Of their work.
Mrs. Browning accepted no first offer Of
marriage but waited until she could en-
trust hand, fortune and heart to her social,
intellectual and moral peer.
She did not speed into nuptial relations
as lightning express train dashed into a
tunnel. At college she was no love sick
damsel, nursing the romantic theory that
an early marriage is the chief aim Of fe-
male existence. She was forty-one when
she laid her hand in that of Robert
Browning. She felt that II was solemn
thing to lash her bark, freighted with an
immortal cargo, to another bark, Of whose
timbers aud freight she knew less, aud
thus bound together for success or ship
wreck, to launch out for an eternal port.
When Robert Browning received her
marital promise she did not stand like the
lovely Helen beside the gay and worthless
Paris; but like the Immaculate Penelope
beside the noble Ulysses. To her marriage
she was matched as well as mated. Let
not marriage be unwisely precipitate. An
expeditions union does not always put in
woman's hand that silver key that opens
the door Of the temple of happiness.
Marry uo man with whose antecedents
you have not made yourselves familiar
Stand beneath the floral bell beside nc
man whose habits or mental or moral
characteristics foreshadow connubial dis.
appointment. Let no unworthy man lead
you into that "Dismal Swamp" from
which you can fud extricatiou but By tive
paths, divorce or death. Whether you
marry early or late, like Elizabeth Barrett
wed only your social, mental and mora
peer.
DR.. Leeeh closed with the following pc
roration:
"Young ladies and gentlemen The
plume in the glory Of these great person:
was tho devotion TO their study Of tn,
Scriptures combined with a public confes
sion Of Christ as a personal Saviour
Few treasured tributes to the worth Of th,
Bible are more powerful than those tina
fell from the lips Of the immortal Webster
Early in life Irving and Mrs. Browning
turned their affections towards the Son oI
righteousness as the sunfower turns L
the sun to drink in warmth and brightness
These gifted ones felt with the humbl,
Baptist unworthy to unloose the latchet
of the sandals Of the Redeemer. Lon
they sat with Mary at the feet of tina
teacher at whose words the literati Of Pal
cstino marveled They realized that thei
brightness was lost in His eifulgence VIII
was ''the brightest of the Fathers glory
and the slight Of the world" The flower
Of their genius bloomed in proximity t
the "Roso Of Sharon" In the edi6ce Q
hope they made the child Of Gallilee tn
chief corner stone. In their recognitio
Of the superlative value Of christianit
they have only been representatives Of th
worlds noblest intellect. In the zenith c
their fame as jurists, Blackstone, Hal,
Mansfield, Marshall, Kent and Story wer
the modest disciples Of Him who Is I
judge the judges Of the earth. Pitt an
Burke, Selden aud Grotius, have b.
walked at the front of long line Of statei
men who have piled their laurels on ca
vary Harvey, Cooper and Rush, wearin
the greenest chaplets among modern ph,
sicians, have knelt in humility, suuounde
BY vast congress Of their profession, b
fore the great physician Of Palestine, :
their sheaves bending to the divine eel
trail sheaf as those Of the eleven bowed I
the sheaf Of Joseph, Jones and Davy,-
Hershell aud Kepler. Bacon and Lock,
Newton and La Place, leading Ii
van Of philosopher and scientists, hay
only been the delegates Of a gret
company Of dissoverors who have take
for their guile the star Of Bethlehem
Spencer aud Tasso, Young aud Cowpe
| Wordsworth and Coleridge, Pollock an
Milton have only been eight of as man
hundreds of the sons Of song, who hay
sunk their verses as gems in the settin
of his crown who is the Prince of Peac
and King Of Glory. The most imposin
splendors Of culture still rise around Ii
cross. They who have worn the richie,
diadems among the kings and queens {
scholarship have rejoiced most in giyin
the central place to "the pearl of gres
price" Emperors have felt what III
the greatest Of Roman monarchs Theod
us wrote above his throne, "Malo meu
brum csse ecelesie guam caput imperii.
The greatest authors, and poets of moder
times have bowed lowest before that ORA
tor who spake as man never spake, eve
as the tallcst and heaviest stalks 10 you
golden fields are bowing lowest of all I
the summer sun.
Young ladies and gentlemen, pursue
worthy reputation; strive for success i
the professions you may select; track rC
nown in oratory, prose, eompos ition an
poetry; seek deserved houors from III
world; but with intenser ardor, earnestnei
aud eonstancy, "Seek ye first the Kingdol
Of God and His righteousness and all the.
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