The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-07-19
No. 80.

LII oiiS SiOSd, III GAC OLii1 W -SASiiVL
year of his age! Robert Pollok,
whose lofty muse sang in such sol.
emn strain, 'Ihe course of time, .
finished his course on earth at the
; age of twenty-nine! Henry Kirke
White, who wrote creditable poetry
when boy, and immortalized him.
self at twenty, paid the penalty of
overtaxed endurance at the age OF
twenty-one! Robert Murray Nc.
Cheyne, one of Scotland's most
brilliant oivines, exchanged the
militant for the triumphant church
at the age Of thirty! Fancis Beau.
ment, the second Shakespeare of
the English drama, passed from the
stage and play Of life at thirty,
Lord Byron at the age of thirty six,
and Robert Burns at thirty-seven.
It would be presumption to pro-
nounce all these illustrious charac.
tiers the victims Of neglected physi-
cal education; but it would be untrue
to affirm Of most of them that they
took proper care Of their bodies.
And it is true now, that, in the
culture ofthe mind. the body is too
much overlooked. The aim and
ambition is brilliant scholarship,
forgetting that brilliant scholarship,
like certain kind of light, may
shine most brightly when the ves-
sci that holds it is just ready to
break in pieces. God never meant
that we should educate the mind at
the expense of the body, or the
body at the expense of the mind,
or the moral nature upon the ruins
of both. It is better to make slow
progress in mental culture, and
maintain bodily vigor, than rapid
progress to end in premature
death. The plodding student will
accomplish more in long life than
the brilliant one in short life.
The body, no less than the mind, is
Gods workmanship. Take care Of
it, guarding especially the more
vital organs. You have but one
pair oflungs. Keep disease out of
them, and strengthen them by
breathing freely OF Gods pure air,
and they will be likely to serve you
to good old age. You have but one
heart. Keep it beating with steady
stroke, and sending in lively glow
the life currents in their rounds, and
that heart will be likely to beat on in
health long after the eye has become
dim, and the frost that never melts,
has silvered over the locks. Peo-
pie cannot replace worn out vital
organs as they can amputated
limbs. by artificial ones. A vital
organ dead the whole body dies
with it. Like the injured Samson
in Dagon's temple, it pulls down
and lays the whole fabric in ruins.
Since so much depends upon the
body, fortify it against disease, by
exercise, temperance in eating and
drinking, and most scrupulous OBJ
seryance of all the laws of health.
1t will save you from untold suffer
ing, add cheer to the whole round
Of life, and contribute immeasurably
to your usefulness and success.
Young ladies, your possibilities
and prospects are most cheering.
Your sphere of labor may yet be un-
determined in your minds, but it is
safe to predict that it will not be
on the rostrum, at the bar, in the
pulpit or in the halls Of legislation.
It will be in less conspicuous places,
but not in less important ones. In
the natural world, the most efficient
workers are the quiet workers. The
sun works quietly. The coral In
sect works quietly. Yet these
quiet workers effect wonders. The
sun melts down mountains of ice,
lifts the vapor from the sea, forms
the rain cloud and the wind cloud,
and makes the rains descend and
the foods come, and the winds blow
and beat in the tornado and cyclone.
The coral insect lifts up great is
lands in the sea, and the evidence
of its earth building power is seen
on the tops ofthe tallest mountains.
The noisy worker is not the most
powerful, nor the most useful
worker. Niagara plunges and roars
and makes the earth tremble, and
the civilized world gaze in wonder,
but it does little good in compari-
son with the hundred quiet riyulets
that run down the mountain side,
and are so narrow that children
may step over them, and so still
that no one hears them, and 60
on laughing into other streams, en-
riching the vallies and carpeting
the earth with living green, inter
spersed with flowers of every hue
and making the corn and the wheat
wave in the luxury of abundance
for hundreds Of miles. So is it
with woman in her sphere. Though
less public it is no less important
than mans, and requires no less
talent to fill it well. And as
we near the sunrise of a bet
ter day coming, this sphere is
enlarging. There is an increas-
ing demand for female teachers.
In many places they occupy
three-fourths of the positions in
the public schools, and there is a
time coming when they will CON-
mand equally with men the chairs
in academies and colleges. The
fold IF literature Is q broad one.