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clo.le him with royal robes.
When once the honest and SINGER
student begins to pull at the latcl
strings of hidden truth, and to ride il
the garnished chariots of thought t.
the uttermost ends of the earth, and t.
walk with uncovered head amid th,
supernal glories Of Gods magnificen
handiwork, and to link to the painting
engine eofsanctifed ambition by theiror
couples of fconsecrated will, the richly Ia
den coaches Of the best thought of anti
guilty, viewing them under the foot, sidt
and headlights of history, then the
kingdoms of darkness will tremble
under the thunders of his progress, and
the devotees Of ignorance and inertness
will be ponderous weight of his ever
revolving chariot wheels, and he will
reign as a king in the realm of thought.
Let US eagerly then press toward the
throne designed for all true men, for
greater names are yet to be made than
have been made.
Did I say eagerlys What volumes
of force and energy are pent up in that
term? There is a kind of back water or
eddying swirl that frequently occurs in
the waters of the river Trent, very dan
gerous to bargemen. At Nottingham,
when these destructive sWirls begin to
trouble the waters one may hear the
bagemen cry out-"Have care, there
is the eager coming" "Curious," says
Carlyle, "that word surviving like the
peak of a submerged world" In an
cient Morse mythology Aegir was sea
god. These Nottingham bargeman
are the descendants of the Northmen,
hence their ancestors believed in Aegir,
therefore the survival of the term as
applied to the angry boiling waters.
Aegir spoke to the hardy Norsemen
through the troubled, stormlashed bill
lows of the restless North seas. These
old Danes and Norwegians listened to
his angry howls, felt his spray-bur-
dened breath, looked upon the foam
and froth spit from his devouring
mouth, read his ambition and uncon-
trolable spirit in the waves that thun-
dered against their rock-bound coast
and leaped heavenward when their
course was thus impeded: and they
saw lis resistless power in the merci-
less way in which he toyed with their
boats-grasping them in their frothy
lips they creaked and groaned, raising
them skywark on tongues end, they
tottered and trembled, splitting them,
insphered in a volume of frothy spray,
against the jutting rocks they were
crushed, or opening his cayern-like
mouth, he swallowed them without
mastication! Aegir! Who can compute
his power, or stay his stormy tread!
Victory is written on every fold of his
ensign, and the earth trembles when
he walks! Eagerly then let US press
toward the throne of power, eagerly
search for the pure gold of thought,
eagerly urge forward the steeds of pro-
gress, and garnish daily the royal char
riot of wisdom! Let US ride with kings
and walk with princes. Talk with the
philosophers of the past, and sit at the
feet of Him who "spake as never man
spakew Sing with poets and speak
with orators! Listen to the messages
of prophets and heed admonitions of
apostles! Reason with logicans, and
keep company with his historians and
thus make for ourselves kingly names,
or die t7.yiaQ.