Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-25

Percy Bygsie Shelly began by de9yIng the
Creator who had given him one Of the most
reason He emulated the fool who said in his
heart There is no God ,,
HE lived la a storm created by his own wild
imagination. and died in q storm cited by the
Never listen to wicked men who would sub
vert the loving beautiful faith Of childhood,
learned at your mothers knee and In the Sab
bath school In the written law Of Georgia it
is declared, 1.-THE Bible shall never be excluded
| from the public schools" Thank God! the
starless midnight of the middle ages can never
come again Let the light that descends from
heaven in the revelation of Divine truth illu-
inmate every mind and sanctify every heart
| flooding the whole intellectual and moral world
with its benefcent rays-as when in the begin
ming,
'Offspring of Heaven first born,
Or of the Eternal co Eternal BEAM"
it flashed upon the awakening universe at
| Gods command, Let there be lght'
The records of the past are too appalling;
the fires of human passion, blown into lurid
| fury by sectarian rancor and religious hate,
cast horrfd glare over the centuries; and as
we stand under the tree Of religious liberty
our fathers planted, whose branches have
been to all people like the shadow of great
rock in a weary land-whose leaves have been
for the healing of the nations-let every heart
rebel against It's slightest pruning, and cry
out with all the energy Of sheltering love:
'swoodmanl spare that tree!
Touch not single boughl
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now"
In addition to what has gone before, all of
which applies 70 every lover of knowledge.
want to say something especially to these
young lady graduates. Surely you appreciate,
more than can express, the tender interest
and love with which you are regarded. These
kindling eyes are iuTninant with the glowing
emotions that surcharge the hearts Of those
who have been watching your career with ten
derest solicitude-
"As the sweet moon on the horizons VERGE
You are upon the eve of womanhood."
The very word thrills our hearts like rich
harp string, for it contains the exquisite har-
mony of life To YOU it is given TO mould the
sweetest. tenderest. dearest relations. All
you have to do is to sound the key note, and
every social element must be attuned in har-
mony. It is woman's power, as it is her duty,
to fix the standard of manhood. NOW is the
time to ft yourselves to wear the regal crown
Cultivate your minds by earnest study before
the buster days come; not with those pursuits
cious heart, but with useful knowl-
| edge and culture-poetTy, history, biogra-
ply. Store up beautiful thoughts and images.
Learn to take the impress of noble lives. No
beautiful poem that you commit to memory
now but will bud and blossom all along the
path of life and I'LL its hours with fragrance.
No life is wholly free from roughness but the
heart that is full of Christian graceS, the mind
| ing and gathered and garnered up in the store
house of memory the rich treasures of litera-
ture, can never be lonely, and becomes the
| light and joy Of every circle. Good books
have living soul in them, they are the intimate
friends Of our inner life; they never prove
false.
1.-THE beings of the mind are not Of clay;
Essentially immortal, they create
And multiply in us a brighter ray
And more beloved existence"
Herbert Spencer says, speaking of the at
fractions of women:
The strongest emotions are those produced
by her physical attractions The next in or
der of strength are those produced by her
moral attra ctions. The last are those pro-
duced by her intellectual attractions
such philosophy bears legitimate fruit in the
transient reign of professional beauties and
the ''ae thetic craze which Punch is attack
ing and pursuing with caustic ri6icu'e 1 can
not accept the standard. 1t is not true. The
analysis is 100 cold. The trinity are too in
separately parts of the divine unity to be con-
templated as metaphysical distractions. The
mind and soul glorify physical beauty, and
make its attractions enduring. They spiritual
ize emotion, elevating passion to sentiment,
sentiment to sacrament and investing woman,
10 the eye of every true man, with heavenly
purity and chastity.
mind mind alone
The living fountains in itself contains
OF beauteous and sublime: there, hand in hand,
Sit paramount the Graces; there, sublime,
Celestial Venus, with divinest airs.
Invites the soul to never fading joy
A great painter once said when some one
expressed great surprise that he had been
busy six months in painting the portrait of a
lovely woman: ''Sir. it takes the great God
nineteen years to make perfect woman"
May you all become worthy examples OF the
divine haHdiwork, corner stones polished
after the similitude of palace"
At the close of these remarks, which were
received with applause, Captain Mercer
arose and stated that after the beautiful
and eloquent address they had just listened
to, it was not his purpose to make any ex-
tended remarks, but since the Board of
Education had been referred to in such
kind terms by several of the essay ists, he felt
constrained to express some appreciation
on behalf of the Board. After few more
well timed aud pertinent remarks, Captain
Mercer stated 1t was his duty to present the
diplomas, and the graduates were then
called and their coveted parchment was
presented them in the following order:
GIRL GRADUATES.
CARRIE MATILDA BUCKNER.
MARY BOURQUIN CANON.
HATTIE GERE CARSON.
MAGGIE ROSE BOWLING.
MINNIE ELLEN DOYLE.
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