The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-06-29
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! and made the agency.Sof nuns couis
fort and happlness-
.'Be not ilishsss. s.sned then, nor tlodd those
Tint wont To- be cheerful and serene,
Than When fair morning lifst smiles on thu
And let us our fresh emplOy1lenls rise
Among the groscsl the fountains and the
flowers II. -
That open asEstlcir choicest 6oscm'd
Reserved HON night and kept for thce in'
store. .
The world Is sci .fnlEsnk gr6ft pos
sibilities lyi'ng: ! in tiie wide tisuroigh-
fare leading. .to.nlafi!s earthly .fnalitY,s
Ial nf which must belifted,up from the.
Edustofignortnce beneath, ishirh they
I.are now hidden and presented tpthe'
human family in all their usefulness
land beaqta.. aiid The sweeping away.
lQf thif d0s I i ssb0@ the onward l6af9R|
lof the worlds progress the s;iniatoty
stops Of which have j,!st been taken.
compared Ssit ii - b. & 4 viii be ishen'
| the history Of mans work on earth
shall be read a few centuries hence
And here the words Of the illustrious
Newton may give you cheer andfresh
impetus when he uttered this lam
,guage: ~ seem to myself TO have
been picking up few shells upon
the beach, while the great ocean Of
truth lay all undiscovered before
me-"
And says an able writer, speaking
to the point upon which We are now
dwelling, "we do not yet resist the
swiftapproaches Of disease and death;
we do not control pestilences and eP-
idemics; we do not yet educate men
into virtue; we have not yet success
fully grappled with the problems Of
pauperism; we have not relieved man
kind from cruel despotisms; we have
not yet mastered the problems of
government and international law,so
as to put an end to the infernaIism of
the war.
Even in physically .[science-and its
industrial application, which is our
most advanced form Of knowledge,,
we have not yet learned to utilize
more than one-tenth Of the great me.
'chanical power evolved by the fire
and utilized through the steam, which,
is the worlds great working power"
See, then, how much there is yet
to complete the great history Of, the
worlds progress in developing life's
possibilities And young men nofour
University, you must help to write
this history if you would truly live
and nobly die, for as Coleridge says;
''if man is not rising upward to be
an angel, depend upon il, he is sink
ing downward to be a devil. He
cannot stop.at.the beast. ~ = Progress
and developmsHt are one Of natures
grandest laws, and are seen and watch
ed with interest in all of her three
great kingdoms which abound in apt
and beautiful illustrations, of the
truth Of the existence Of such law.-
But man cannot travel through the
unexplored.felds of thought in day,
but it takes countless ages to search
them through and husband the great
and wonderful resources which they
yield, and it is well.tbat all Treasures
of philosophy cannot be opened at
once, to one and the same generation,
for there would be lost to us that Iau-
dable spirit of inquiry which marks
the intellect Of civilized and refined
humanity.
Then in surveying with your
minds eye the dim future and ma
turing and fixing upon your plans of
life, do not attempt too much, for it
is not that which you attempt, but
what you accomplish that enures to
your credit in the;morld, not forget
ting the old adage, "Non omnia pos
Sltnllls onInGs."
The student in his long years of
devotion and toll, given toward the
attainment Of some possible end
which he decries in the distance,
will often become thirsty to sip from
all the wells Of thought whose CRATE
full waters swell up around him and
offer themselves to cook the burning
fever he long has felt in drinking
from his own deep spring, but he
must not quit his own, to dip into
the waters Of another lest his ardor
for his favorite end become cooled,
his pace slackened and that which
he might have accomplished lost for
ages to the world.
He must linger around his own
well-spring, where the oracle of his
own genius shall commune with him
in the shadows which his own
thought shall cast, where he shall
taste the sweetest consolation drawn
from the whispers Of hope which
shall there fall upon his ear as soft
and gentle as the zephyrs that come
like lovers sighs at dewy eve, telling
him, in accents mild and low, Of q
time when he shall look upon crea-