The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-22

higher, II not boiler, than We now
enjoy. You may shut up tho
heart in a Happy VaIIey-bat you
cannot satisfy it. This elastic as
piration will mount upward and
still upward till it dashes its wings
against the prison bars of the hn-
man soul. No, this is . world
Of change-that change should be
controIed-it SHOULD be leform =
search after truth which alone,
leads to the true cIysium OF the
soul. Now here is the irdepen-
deoce Of thought more strikingly
shown than in the modern school
of Philosophy. We are often
amazed at the audaciLy Of this
science that dares all things and
believes only what it can under
stand. And yet it may be design
ed to test the strength and prove
the goodness of the Christian
code. This may be the great con-
fict in which Apollyoa must 60
down by the strong arm of Chris
tian. After all, what are these
atneistic evolutionis's but over
grown boys, cutting holes in
drum-heads to Investigate the
source Of sound, shivering
watches to iud what makes the
wheels go round, and withering
the hopes of man to find what
gave them birth ?-I may here re-
mark that spirit of Reform IS one
thing and curiosity another of :
Il quite different kind. If the way
TO truth and right were as broad
and plain as the road that leads
to destruction, there are men who
would depart from it in pursuit of
novelties and oddities. Conser-
vatism erects splendid monu-
ments to the heroic dead whose
children ask for food to nonr-
ish the mind ; curiosity spends
hundred thousands Of dollars In
the quixotic attempt to penetrate
the icebound artie regions, while
miserable human beings live in
ignorance, hunger and dirt. we
are told tha5, when The world was
much younger, ministers preached
the gospel-now to crafty curiosi-
ty they announce snck charming
texts as George Eliot, or-Is there
a He'll? They raise doubts where
doubts should not exist that they
may rival the metaphysics Of
Hudibras, and show their ability to
Sever and divide
hair 'twxt north and northwest side
What simple, common place crea-
lures our ancestors must have
been! This inquisitives spirit IL
Iustrates the truth that no man IS
a hero to his valet. It has touch
ed public confidence and made us
extremely selfish. We read that
the old cynic who wanted to find
an honest 5man went TO the mar
ket place at noonday-!ight in
hand. Now when one wants to :
see an honest man, he goes not to
the market-place by daylight Or
Iamplight, but to-his looking
glass.
Reform has adopted a motto
named practical-tbat is, money
getting, Practical is the bed Of Pro-
cutes, and you must lie On it. If
you are too short, no matter, your
length must conform 10 that Of
the bed, and you can be stretched +;
If you are too long, you mast nn-
dergo a shortening process. We
are very earnest and practical IN
all things. The great Scotch seer
who was conservative only when
be stood on the brinSSofthe grave
the man Of 'clif:like brows' and
s!edgehammer torce-the great
sham exposer aud humbug de-
aouncer of the age-said : It is
one Of my constant regrets in tins
generation, that men to whom
God has given genius, will in
slst in such an earnest time as ours
nas grown, in bringing out their
divine gift in verse: which now no
man reads entirely in earnest
Many Of us agree with Carlyle
The same practical thought was
expressed by Mr. Weller in
counseIing bis sou--:Never let
yourself down TO talk poetry, my
BOY !, poetry's uunatral.' And
watts the good O. calIin' a young
oman a venus or a angel Sammy
The poetic temperament is too
delicate and finely strung Tor the
rude earnestness OF the times;
and our vocabulary is growing too
political for the sweetly sounding
Tyre. Reform should always be
guided by the noble aspiration
that seeks the true: worsbips the
good-and kneels to the beautiful
If worth and duty were the guides,
derision and contempt would not
so often be the fate ofreform move
ments. We have reason 10 believe
that in the very remote past were
public men who labored unselGsh-
ly for succeeding ages. Now.
public men are not so much con.
cerned about future worth as
present profit. All the future
generations may rise up and bless
you; only let the present genera
tion rise up and pat it's hand into
its pocket, and pay my salary
You may enjoy the concurrent
praise OF future circling years
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