Year: 1862

ure on single ieaf--Who, with the span
gled Heavens spread out before him, and
the vast machinery of the revolving spheres
ever fresh in view


.sThe dnwearied sun that day by day


Doth his creators power display"


the moon


THAT nightly TO the listening earth,


Repeats the story of her birth"


and


.sThe stars that roun her burn,


And all the planets in their turn"


The stuRendous system at the contempla-
ton of whose glories the mind quails and
faints into dizzy blindness, the ten thous-
and millions of radient orbs that in eter-
nal space trace and re-trace their blazing
way, until the whole universe is woven
into one vast web Of glory and yet have
never failed in their destiny nor come into
collision is it man, we say, that with the
proofs of creative and over-ruling power,
that SO constantly and wildly spread out
before him, that he cannot escape their
contemplation, will so idiotically, so dis
gustingly raise his puny voice and assert
that all these, are but "the workings of
blind charce;' and that sSthere is no God.'
Blush Blush !! oh humanity, and hide
thy head for very shame, for all these are
thy fellows-fhey are men.


/ Nor are these alone they, who forgetful
OF their true dignity, of their nature and
OF their exalted calling, fail in the. accom-
plIshment of their high destiny. MANY
there are who stand fair with their fellows,
sternly honest, contending for the rigid
iul hilmcnt of every letter in the bond
whose tar name not one breath of dishon-
or may ever stain; VINO yet with daily, yea,
hourly opportunities OF achieving great and
giorlous things, appreciate them not-who
with the harvest held of the world and
their own minds ever open for their labor,
never put in the sickle to gather in the
fruits OF love and self sacrifice and kind
acts done to others; OF never garner for
themselves single sheaf into the store
house of moral and intellectual entertain-
ment


We need look no further for evidence
( OF the truth OF this position, than to our
/ own land-a land blessed above all 9TH
ers In everything which may render peo-
pie happy and useful. A land pregnant
/ with the destinies OF the world and OF our
race-favored with facilities for the
achievement of everything great and no
/ bic; crowned with blessiags, physical, in
( tellectual, political, moral and religious,
above any other which the sun shines up
on-a land OF free institutions, of natural
resources beyond computation, of noun
tains aud valleys, OF fertile fields and ex-
haustless mines, a land of rivers and of
lakes, OF prairies and of forests, land
extending from Ocean to Ocean; from the
Arlstook to the hio Gande, and to which
the giver of all things has denied moth
/ ing. Yet how is this once happy land
IKE one vast field OF strife and carnage,
each man coutending with his fellow, not
tor the mastery OF the achievement of
! deeds OF usefulness; not for the victory of
raising man to his native level, and crown
ing him with glory and hoaor, not that
the prosperity of the land of his birth be
enhanced and her sacred institutions per-.
petuated, but thu set may be ezahed.-
sad, sad, indeed, would be the fate of our
much loved country, were there not many,
very many illustriods exceptions; yet, lea
wing out of the question the vast prepond
erauce Of the vicious and degraded, how
! large majority of the remainder pass sell
tishiy down the stream OF life in pursuit
OF their own aggrandizement, or settle
down in imbecile supineness and fail to
act their part.


How often does the professional and
public man lose sight of the noble, mag
unanimous deeds, which alone constitute
true greatness! How often is he unmind
ful OF the healthful influence he may bring
to bear in forming and sustaining the in-
tellectual and moral character OF bis coun-
try, and In his mad chase along the great
high road, whittier his ambitious aspirings
lead him, if he does not override and
trample under foot those who may chance
to stand in his way, he forgets the word of
kindness and encour agement, which may
gladden. the heart and tighten the buEthen
of an humble traveller, and neglects to
pluck from the way-side the imperishable
flowers of benevolence and good will, which
alone may prove the true glory of that
crown for which he is contending


How often the man ofcommerce, though
priding himself on being the violator of no
law, blinded by his desire for gain, passes
on to the accomplishment of bis purposes.
even at the sacrifice of his own comfort,
and rises in the scale of wealth, letting
pass, unimproved, ten thousand golden
opportunities of dispensing good to others,
who sustained by his timely aid, or even
by his orbearance-might have risen the
monument of his bene6cence--thus reaching
his goal--then dies and leaves not one
trace behind to show that the world was
one whit the better or wiser from his hav-
ing lived in it, or performed upon its stage.


How often does the artizan or the la
borer, because in the eye of pride and
scorn, his honorable calling may seem of
no repute, make no effort to render it
more worthy of respect, and discouraged
because he may not WELD the lever Of
ARoHIMEDEs puts not forth the strength