The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-04-20
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lie and aay yeneampmentsofan angels besarIlss
the flood. T6e hearts OF John StIlaff Mix.
and oi oiFHarriet iartinea Neychtterlycihp.
", from Childhood. 81 All poetry a fact Z;
which must have helped them to hatslehins
"a unBeliei and iito an irpnlike sioIcisin
in the flee Of death. The relgious great
ghayealso teenip6esically great = tio@eser
l.truefhe general rlain oil pisty boy be,
\ Stis itself so much i inc \ + much Ike
bind Of music or tsechant from sninyis;
| ihie choir, that,itinpst Ne approached byA
tender heart as @esl lsslS 4 thoashti,if III /,
EteIlect Obscure as ithe reosons as5y he,
| tile faet remsins that aV clnrrse ate,i ires !
q6ehted BY young ihen. The mot AZ .
! appear IN God i h6pse, but their elAss Il
tbettep lted: than any other b tIle.s
,tspklpote eScd The vsaSds l.pttsvel
SinnsS Steanii Ppgssiits sttemnt, il i1ssiblef
10 spe1a SuiSiey AZ homo; ,anp % sbc. n y
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4 nlahhhls ssc,. d lscl .so Il n. 4 ssl...I l.
early shsnhaod slslsfelislplls sseItiD6 6at.
rs sdeeps That Imagination aud elthus.ss :
tiasp sand romance which dadst. tle,
fhis6. .eoiors OF friendsl.ipand propetiy.sna, !,
iame and lcme:iielpto ttnseil the spirits..s /,
ual beauty Of religion. Ftmntheoutpeiifs
ed glorysofearth seen allaround theta, and
heard in the sigbihg winds and in -tlptipst,
ping streams and in the deeper voice Of {
the thunder, all young souls pass easily to
the glory OF God.
Strong in the several particulars men
toned, the young man is strong in his..'al-
lowance oftimc. He alone has stage
large enough for great play. In such an
eraas the ono in which We all live, to be 4
only twenty-five or only thirty years old is
to be an object OF envy by all those who
are drawing near 10 the. end, What will
not sthdy and industry and economy and
reason and righteousness accomplish in
that long chtrcach? Allthe real good Of
earth is made out ot time. Time grows
the oak and builds the cathedrals and the
great railways, and the same commodity
makes the individual career The rain
and the soul and the sun make the har-
vest field, but not without the permission
OF time: In the farther north there areno
grains nor fruits, because the summers arc
tooshort. Itisthe young man only who
has before bim asummer time long enough
to warrant the. toll OF plosing and sowing.
lie will live onward fifty years, And in
this new dispensation Of universal educa.
tion and industry and applied science fifty
years have gathered up new import.
Not railway train was running on the
whole earth fifty years ago. Men were
pondering over the idea and were putting
down contemplate truck 10 reach ten
niles out of Baltimore. In the same fifty
years The Sirius and Great Western fyst.
crossed the Atlantic by steanif In the
same little groupo Of. fifty years has come i
the cylinder press which has made tthe ),
great daily papers and cheap books posi-
bic. In the same part Of one century have
come the telegraph and its speaking COM.
panion, the twin wonders OF the world
And these stupendous results in the mate
rial hemisphere are only emblems OF all
equal bulk OF achievement in the world
mentally and spiritually. To be young on
the border OF another half century that
will equal or surpass the one just gone isto
have an opportunity which should make
the heart beat with gratitude toward the
Author ofsuch world and such period
in its long history. Such an outlook makes
the young the pride and the envy OF the
old. When the venerable Saint John said
in his letter, 81 have written unto you,
young men, because you are strong" We
know there was that pathos in his hsart
which always riss when age compares its
trembling form with the fair and buoyant
frame OF youth.
In the recent biography OF an English
lawyer and statesman it is recorded that
the dying man asked his son to bring him
his iavorite Virgland read to him once
more the parting words Of King Evander
to his son thousands OF years ago. Upon
turning to the Eighth Book of Virgil you
will find that classic parting and you can
soc in it what warnings and regrets fill
the heart when it fibda it can enjoy no
longer the outlook OF youth, nor be filled
any longer with its romance and ambition
and hopes. Virgilsay "Eyander," grasp
ing the hand OF his son, clung to him and,
weeping beyond all reason, said "Oh, that
God could give back TO me the years that
ere gone, and make me to be again what !
was when led my army out in the valley
OF Praencste" Enough this Of that old
farewell to show us that not only John the
Saint addressed young men because they
were strong, but that all the saints of our
religion, and all the patriots of all the no.
bic States, and all the phiIanthropists who
have wept over the wrongs of society," and :.
all the fathers called to go away from du.
ties most sacred and homes most dear, for
bidden by nature from hoping to live past
years again, have, with many tears, taken