The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-06

any one snail necessarily go astray. 1t
is the prerogatlve of Intelligent beings
to examine, to weigh probabilities, to
elicit truth from duubt aud TO choose
the right where conflicting forces meet.
This is the high responsibility of
moral being. He is not the sport aud
expression IF his environment but the
shaping of his destiny is in his own
hands. The earnest and honest seekers
after truth alone shall fluid it. The
prudent, the wise, the patient, the
humble, are sure to succeed within
those limits which changeful aud
rudimentary state impose.
One chief thought, however, re-
mains. 1t is that in which the whole
to divine deliverance ID divine
Deliverer. The plan of the universe
is from God. 1t is progr .ssive uni
verse, notwithstanding its woes and
sorrows.
And the progress is giving to Chris
tian nations the power over the world.
That God is in history has beeu the
belief of all cultivated nations. The
scheme OF redemption implies aud
promises the presence of divine pow
err to carry it forward to completion.
Aud the sure word of prophecy speaks
in no unce. tain tones. 1t delinoates
the distant age when the animosiies of
science shall cease and knowledge shall
be The stability aud strength of the
times. The rumseller, the druDkard
and the pei jurer, the threeto!d cord of
evil, shall no longer bind and tori ure
their victims and fill the creation with
crime and grief and groans; tor "there
shall be none to nurt or destroy"
& ,vernments shall be just. Ambi-
ii IN, war, conquest, shall cease and the
implements of destruction shall be
changed to those of useful industry.
The tabernacle Of God shall be with
men, truth shall spring up from the
earth and righteousness shall look
down from heaven. The expectation
of the creature shall then be satisfied.
The scheme of redemption shall culmi-
nate in rest aud peace, and the crea-
ture now made subject to vanity "shall
be delivered from the bondage of cor
ruptiOn into the glorious liberty of tile
sons of Cod"
This divine deliverance is The only
hope of civilization which, from Baby
Ion, Egypt, Greece, Rome, to the pres
ent day, has, without one solitary ex-
ceptiop. when left to itself, gone down
TO corruption and death. The gospel
of Chris not "sociology," will save
modern society. 1t is divine and not
human deliverer for which the
creature waiteth in earnest eXpecta-
ton.
Gentlemen Of tie Senior Glass, who are
about to enter upon the activities and
mingle in the conflicts of this troubled
creation, the outlook is to you, / trust,
one of inspiration and hope.
n ne but pusillanimous souls fear
the strife that calls them into action.
Strength is obtained only through
effort, victory through warfare, skIltul
action by severe discipline in difficult
ties. The voice of the past and The
present. The voice of this whole groan-
ing creation, as with the voice of G d
SAYS to you, "Stand fast" "Qnit your
selves like men and be strong;" "Let
no man despise thy youth" Not only
Keep step with the moving century, but
lead it forward, each one in his own
sphere, to that which is higher and
better. Iou cannot live to yourselves
alone without losing life. Y n rannot
live in the true sense, to others, without
gaining it. Nav your hearts Always
beat in unison with the great throbs of
that creation that struggles for light
and freedom under the leadership of
its Redeemer.
Through all these conflicts, sorrows,
temptatI lis and dams ers lies the path
of progress. IL is the path of safety
also to those, and those alone, who
choose the worlds Rcdeemer AS the