The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-07-20

| with Il tenderness which seemed to us
then so innocent, pure and happy; never
can we experience again the same happl
ness, "but tn tender grace Of day thai
is dad will never come back to me-
Every day is dead after its work is com.
pleted, but each one leaves a marked
effect upon us, and our works d. not
perish, for it is only by the trials and
experiences of yesterday that we are ena-
bed to surmount the difficulties Of to-
day.
When the beautiful spring has step
ped in and chased hoary winter to
his far northern home, then 1t is that
Nature throws off her robe of slumber,
and awakes again into existence. The
earth is full of brightness and beauty;
it echoes with Voices of music aud glad
ness. The grass shoots forth its little
blades, the birds chant their sweetest
songs, the clouds move in silent and
solitary grandeur along the deep blue
of the sky and even the little rivulet
rushes onward wi con'inuous 'augh-
ter and rejoices in its own being.
Soon the beautiful days of spring
tide must fade and hide in the depths
of the past, but her labors still live on,
| for the golden summer is but the out
growth of spring.
The exquisite tints Of dawn garnish
| the heavens and prepare for the coming
day, but when the mists fade slow y and
the dawn is past then day bursts over
the world, flooding it with light and
beauty.
| To-day is the product of yesterday.
| All our thoughts and ac ions, which we
experienced yesterday, gam for us such
knowledge that while it is to-day We
can by individual acts of duty and true
moral courage, which we have gained,
build up that beauty and symmetry of
character which is acknowledged and
felt by all men.
The true character Is moulded by "a
very gradual process and the essential
method is to strive to attain some def
mite standard and maintain it, for it is
the want of keeping this standard
steadily before them that SO many we'll
meaning persons waste 50 much time
and erergy and make so little progress.
The moralist tells us that conscience
is sovereign faculty, bearing upon its
brow the stamp of authority and inten-
ded to govern and control our actions,
hence our lives should be so ordered and
regulated that we will make the world
purer aud better by our acts, for ''we
live in deeds, not years; III thoughts, not
breaths; he lives mos, who thinks most,
feels the noblest, acts the bes'.'
So many persons in every stage of
humanity treat the duties of life with
such utter Indifference and carelessness,
scarcely realizing that the non-perfor-
nance of each duty detracts from their
moral strength and renders them un-
able for future work.
Although man is free moral agent,
| yet there are certain laws which govern
him, for IN all his actions he simply
uses his knowledge as the invention Of
his genius, and follows natural laws
which are supposed to be good and
virtuous.
If we consider the wonderful archl-
lecture of the universe and the skill
with which the great painter has deco
rated his handiwolk, we will discover
that everything was not crea'ed sorely
| for beauty and gran deur, but IN ac-
cordance with the laws of the material
world for some definite design and duty.
The little dew-drop falls during the
silent night, and when morning dawns
every green leaf, every live blade of
grass, whether carpe ing the forest,
| field or valley, receives the little dew
drop and sparkles with prismatic hues
in the glorious rays of the sunshine
But has the dew-drop any duty to
p,rform or was 1t created simply to
beautily the works Of nature? Without
it nature would be robbed of much of
her loveliness and would appear DOOM
ed to perpetual barrenness and desola-
ton, but the dew-drop covers every
, leaf of the giant oak and the mighty tree
sucks In the refreshing moisture to its
thirsty bosom and obtains life and sus-
tenance.
As the little dew drop performs its
duty so do all the creations Of the
physical world. Thus should not man,
an immoral being, whose psychical
nature rises far above the physical strive
to accomplish his duty, Will, he has
the opportunity, while it is yet to-day?
! We must work in the present as if
our horizon were bounded by sanrise
: and nightfall, for we scarcely realize
! that it is most solemn thing to live
- and that we must here in this terrestrial
0 sphere work out our own destiny with
high resolve and noble endeavor.
e The past il irrevocable, the future
e may nev.r be ours, we are masters only
i of the present. We must be earnest il