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give him a name among men, and
clothe him with royal robes.

clothe him with royal robes.
When once the honest and sincere
student begins to pull at the latch
strings of hidden truth, and to ride in
the garnished chariots Of thought tc
the uttermost ends of the earth, and to
walk with uncovered head amid the
supernal glories Of Gods magnificent
handiwork, and to link to the painting
engine ofsanctified ambition by the iron
couples of consecrated will, the richly Ia.
den coaches of the best thought of anti
guilty, viewing them under the foot, side
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 ponderons weight of his ever
revolving chariot wheels, and he will
reign as king in the realm ofthought.
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 say edgerly' What volumes
of force and energy are pent up in that
term? There is 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 submerged world"' In an
cient Morse mythology Aegir was a 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 bis ambition and uncon-
trolable spirit in the waves that thun-
dered against their rock-oound coast
and leaped heavenward when their
course was thus impeded: and they
saw his 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 iutting rocks they were
crushed, Q. 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 vi "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 trying.