The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-07-01

| ceived with cordial welcome and
parted with much regret. Whenever
aware OF your joys or sorrows, my
heart has always gone out TO YOU with
the tenderest sympathy. Your voca-
tion is an arduous one: 1t is no lane
Of velvet you have to walk on, or beds
OF roses to rest in no gondola voyage
over the surface of 4 placid lake, but
a pathway of toll, anxiety and care,
from which some have been called
away and laid to rest, and over their
graves are growing evergreens and
flowers planted 10y the hand of affection
over the remains of buried love. Some.
in listening with creduiity to the
whispers of fancy and pursuing with
eagerness the phantoms of hope, in
part, if not altogether, have laid aside
the duties of the schoolroom for an
other and happier sphere Of life
drawn away, it may have been, by the
talismanic power of Il vision in the shape
of mans hand. | trust that YOU,
and others who may follow in your
footsteps, have and may find it sweet
to bear each others burdens, when
heart meets heart with boundless con-
iidence.
Gentlemen, | have no doubt your
gallantry will shield me from the i'm
putation Of preference, which may be
patent to your diseernment from the
tenor of my address in leaning to the
side of the other sex. You have
strength to meet the difficulties and
fight the battle Of life, however rough
and rugged its devious paths may be !;
not so with them. Day after day for
a delicate women to teach a school
composed of the children of parents
who understand and practice the art
so easy, and, | may say, natural to us
ALL mean fault.fnding- g-and walk
it may he to her place OF habitation
through all kinds of weather and at
all seasons of the year, and over dusty,
muddy or icy roads, is, to my mind, a
hard life; especially SO if the needs
and necessities of lie demand it,
Blessed are they who can realize the
truth of the sentiment, Sweet are the
uses of adversely
AS was not present at your last
meeting, and may not be at the next,
| shall leave this hall with Il feeling of
dissatisfaction if | failed to make an
effort, however inadequate, to dis
charge duty which rests upon me
rather through your kindness than my
own deserts. This may be-probably
will bc-thc last time | shall look into
your assembled faces. The eyes and
voices of some whom | have met with
kindly greeting, are now closed and
hushed in the darkness and silence of
the grave; and some of you may be
filling their places. What piece of
work is man! Corporeally, How fear
fully and wonderfully made! But how
much more wonderful is that entity or
quality appertaining to humanity
which we denominate 'Mind'-that for
which everything was formed, and
without which everything is nothing.
1t is with this you have to do-to lead
out its faculties and store its receptacles
with vir' he and knowledge. Solemn,
indeed is your duty. May you have
grace and strength to perform it. May
you have grace and strength to per
form it, May the kindly light of the
sun of righteousness and the beams of
the Star of Bethlehem shine upon your
path of duty, and lead you on through
all the chances and changes of this
mortal life as calmly and unruflied as
the laws of human existence admit.
In life, the only certainty is death; in
death, the only hope is the Cross,
sealed with the atoning blood of our
precious Redeemer ON Calvary. TO
that haven of rest beyond the dark
valley and shadow of death, to which
our adorable and Divine Redeemer
has promised to conduct all who love
and trust in Him, may we all arrive
when life's pilgrimage is ended, and
enter the Mansions of the Fathers
House
"That home for up in the skies
Where hope never withers and love never
dies.
The home of the Christian, where pill
grims are blest,
And exiles of the earth forever shall rest"
''lIunger stones" were seen in the
Rhine last winter. They appear on
ly when the river is very low, and the
date of their appearance is then cut on
them. They are believed to forebode
Il year cf bad crops.
1t is claimed that the oyster and
strawberry has each done its share to-
wards evangelizing the world. They
have built and furnished more
churches, paid the alaries Of more
preachers and helped more heathen
than any other two natural agencies
in the world.
First Boy-My papa knows more
than your papa does.
Second Boy bet he doesn't. Did
vo,, ever see my papa? His forehead
reaches way down to the back Of his
head.