The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-04-20

'Spportupity whae il q. ia:isciiing along
sisoneh those years shichpainsal1 objects
incelprs 20 ticha otto be false but to
J5tirde. OH shat days are those titcn
Ebs Profession and the pursuits, aud: scon:
apcsts, and ac9pisitie;is possible htiii!All:
", are.dII. standing out in fslllb.ic siike
he tcgps irstnsligured sGn the, mount,
|and tic heat ili It's unrestrained
sapf ne saysi IT Is good ior ustb behssesse
those are the hours when the yotntlt sets
orthtogoIle Ileec with his alm0s, \ arIs
,hlng apa still more sSaHis pll y
|SDs fleli,ls; but WHEN ib III AID
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|Shens3 Atiis 500, Ne isslifted above his sor:
rows BY tho inspiration Of his heart. LII
those years tho foundations Of the. temple
Ge laid and all that maturity and age en-,
dos torarry forward tie plan Of the in
flames tl,architect.
STherewa OF rather there ii a style, q
literature called the romantic. 1t has'been
condemned by all prosaic minds; but in a
planet where the sun is wont to rise and
set in cprtains of gold, and where the sea
Sparklcs ind smiles and where the heav.
ens and the earth seem to vie with each
other in the splendor OF their pageantry,
We would better be slow to condemn such
decorations as We see in the prose OF this
school for what is it but the glow and
genius Of Shakespeare and his companions,
springlng up away from the bondage Of
verse. Cbateaubriand and DeStael, and
Lamartine; and Victor Hugo, and CASTELAR,,
snd. .some OF the modern great novelists,
are leadersfrthis form of letters, and If
they haye not revealed power, we shall
look for. it in vain along the paths trodden
by other feet. Take your stand at the
doorway Of a gallery of pictures, and mark
how the common people pass in and out,
or mark the effect upon populace when
a band OF music suddenly appears in the
street, or pass few hours in public Ii.
brary, and mark what books ofpoetry and
fiction, and eloquence are called for by the
young and The old, and you shall see
whether the human SOULS turning toward
all that is pictured and inspirational-
leaving in eternal neglect the metaphysics
and the philosophers. This is as it should
be, for life In all its.chapters is as impres.
siye drama as any penned by Greek or
Englishnan. In view of such facts it will
need 10 be confessed that those youthful
iearsare a Wonderful gift OF God, which
can so find and spread the colors Of life
that it becomes worth the living. Passing
through them each heart passes through
the very porches OF God.
Stronsi in body, in enthusiasm and in
romance, Youth is powerful in motives.
Action depends upon motive. It's law
olnatural philosophy that no body moves
until it is set in motion by some external
force, and that once in motion it will not
Stop until some other force has sprung up
to check its Progress. The mind and soul
also rest until they are moved from with
out. The lower orders OF man and Of the
brute creation spend much time in sleep,
because few are the motives for any form
OF movement. But before the young man
Of our century the motives Of being pull
hard and pull incessantly. All is before
him. lie is not in the decline Of any fac.
ulty, His heart is not chilled by the re-
fection that this or that comes too late.
1t is morning, and the day is to be long
and beautiful. All the objects found by
mankind to be desirable are not back Of
him, to be lamented or forgotten, but they
are before him to be won. He is power
iul in hope. A suicide is one in whose
bosom hope has wholly perished; but he
can be hero or toier who has a breast
fhll Of hope,
Hope with a good prospect feeds the eye;
Show? ,h. from the rising ground possession
shortens the distance, or o'erlooks it quite,
30 easy tis to travel with the sight"
Another poet says:
'Bc thou the rainbow to the storms Of life,
The evening e1. beam that smiles the clouds
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray"
The possibility Of scholarship, Of profess
iona1 skill or mercantile success, OF fame
as m inventor or designer or artist, the ea-
sy possibility Of home Of his own to be
planned by his taste and built by his own
money, little or much, home to be filed
to ovorfiowing with tho best love OF earth
all these impulses, and many more, meet
in the Young heart to urge it onward, and
gives it a Momentum never to be met with
again. Alter we pass the line of fifty
these possibilities begin to fade away, and
though the days and years are sweet, they
are no longer full OF that faith which can
remove mountain or toss sycamine tree
into tie sea.
The Young man strong in body, strong
in enthusiasm, strong in romance, strong
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