veiled. 
SEPT. 5. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
$>jf* jputakr. 
WHAT BHKAK3 DOWN YOUN3 MEN ? 
Professor Pierce contributes to the Boston 
Courier some interesting tables of the mortality of 
the alumni of Harvard College, as computed from 
the last triennial catalogue. They show a very 
steady rate of mortality throughout the whole ex¬ 
istence of the College, and a very gratifying lon¬ 
gevity when compared with the authentic Prussian 
tables. This result will surprise many who have 
associated a collegiate education with broken 
down health and early death. But it must be ad¬ 
mitted that the confinement, and much more the 
customary incidents of the four years’course, prove 
a Bevere trial to the bodily system, bo that for the 
next dozen years the rate of mortality rises some¬ 
what above the average. With many this is a pe¬ 
riod of struggle between the effects of had habits 
acquired in college and the restorative influences 
of better self-control and healthful employment— 
When the victory is gained it is apt to he perma¬ 
nent, for in addition to the usually favorable con¬ 
ditions of active manhood, the graduate has the 
warnings of experience continually before him, 
and a more refreshing diversity of mental activity. 
That the latter is an item in the conditions of 
longevity is also shown by Professor Pierce’s ta¬ 
bles; for it is demonstrated that the excess of 
mortality for the Grst. ten years after graduation is 
found ftmoug those who had no Commencement 
parts—that is, the portion of each class inferior in 
scholarship. This destroys at once the notion that 
bard study is the unhealthy element of college life. 
Every student knows this well enough, if he 
chooses to confess it. He knows that every young 
' man of fair preparatory training and fair abilities, 
can take a handsome rank in college, without the 
necessity of a single headache as the fruits of mere 
study. He knows that where Greek and meta¬ 
physics injure one, laziDess and late hours, (to say 
nothing more.) are using up a dozen; and that the 
two liitie fingers of Morpheus is heavier than the 
loius 01 Euclid. But it is fashiouable for the stu¬ 
dent to charge all the ills of his flesh to the text 
book and teachers; and it is sometimes very con¬ 
venient as a mode of dispensing with troublesome 
questions. We once heard of an undergraduate 
who pursued something of a similar course in pat¬ 
ting his restaurant expenses into his private 
account book under the head of ••boots.” His 
father was rather astonished, and wanted to know 
what kind of a Boil it was around college that was 
so destructive to leather; to which the young 
genius replied that it was very " porous.” 
But the subject has a wider application than our 
colleges. Every once in a while a sort of a panic 
is got up, encouraged especially by fond mothers, 
that there iB great danger of having the brains of 
our primary school children injured by over-exer¬ 
tion, and a feeling is sometimes actually aroused 
against many a worthy teacher on this thing. The 
brain was made for activity—made for work. But 
it cannot be stirred into extreme activity unless 
by voluntary enthusiasm, sml when this is the case 
the very excitement neutralizes the tax upon the 
powers, and, so to speak, lubricates the mental 
machinery. You may send the child to school in 
the morning when he has not been properly re¬ 
freshed by sleep; yon may give him a dinner at 
noon that would injure a fireman, and you may be 
entirely regardless of his having proper exercise 
through the day or retiring seasonably at night, 
and in this way his school confinement and exer¬ 
cises may contribute to his fast weakening system; 
but the idea that the whole trouble is to be charg¬ 
ed to the account, of bard study, Isridiculous. We 
trust parents will think of these things. The ac¬ 
tually preservative effect of steady and indefatiga¬ 
ble mental employment has been proved by too 
many illustrious instances to be overlooked either 
by interest or affection. 
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ANTIOCH COLLEGE. 
This Institution, located at Yellow Springs, 0., 
will he opened for the ensuing year on Wednesday, 
the 9th inst As some important changes have 
been made, the Committee of Arrangements issued 
a Circular from which we learn that the services 
of the President, (Mr. Mann,) of Mrs. Dean, Trof. 
Wahrinbr and Prof. Caret, will he retained. In 
the Departments of Rhetoric, Logic and Belles 
Letters, and of Mathematics, there will bo a change. 
The Rev. Austin Craig, D. I)., will be a member 
of the Faculty. The Preparatory Department will 
be under a now head. 
The old scholarship system being abolished, a 
Tuition Fee will be substituted for it, which, for 
the College Classes, will be §24 a year, or $8 a 
term; ami for the Preparatory Department $18 a 
year, or $0 a term. This is exclusive of the usual 
incidental expenses. The Room rent will be $7 
per term for each room. Each room is capable of 
accommodating two students, so that, as between 
themselves, the rent will be $3 60 each. 
The friends of the Institution have subscribed 
sic thousand dollars to meet in part, the expenses 
for the ensuing year. It is believed that the Col¬ 
lege will open under better auspices than ever 
before. 
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Very Good and Truk. —How great the mistake 
of parents who labor all their lives to render their 
children independent, and either neglect their 
moral and intellectual trainiug„or commit it en¬ 
tirely to others. Keep children in their proper 
place. Stimulate them to exertion. Limit spar¬ 
ingly to pocket money. Deny yourselves many 
social pleasures for their sake. Enter with them 
into amusements which minister to physical and 
intellectual health; and welcome associates who 
will enlighten their minds and improve their mor¬ 
als, Let no engagements whatever interfere with 
school preparations. Regard their teachers as the 
noblest of beings; and set a higher value upon 
the progress which they make under their tuition, 
than upon siver and gold.— Peterson's Ladies 
Magazine, 
■ -- 
Knowledge. —That is, indeed, a two-fold knowl¬ 
edge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish 
and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield 
and a sword; it borrows its security from the dark¬ 
ness and its confidence from the light. 
PATIENCE. 
In whatever business of life we may engage, this 
quality ot' mind is absolutely essential, but espe¬ 
cially those who assume the office of an instructor 
will need a large share of it. Without patient and 
continued labor in imparting instruction, correct¬ 
ing errors, and administering reproof, you may 
look in vain for any desirable fruit resulting from 
your labors. 
Affairs out of the school-room will often require 
the presence of thiB quality. By hasty action the 
teacher may do much to weaken his influence, and 
perhaps plnnge himself into gross errors, thereby 
diminishing the confidence of his employers in 
him. lie may be thrown into the midst of per¬ 
plexing circumstances, which threaten him ill, but 
which often by a little patience may be disposed 
of easily. 
Numberless are the ways, in which this virtue 
will find full and appropriate exercise. This boy 
may have been told a hundred timeB in regard to 
the correct pronuciation of certain words, and yet 
he adheres to his accostomed manner. Shall yon 
give over yonr efforts and consider his case as 
hopeless? I answer no; continue yonr faithful 
labors, and yon will see at some time the desired 
change. 
It will be so in deportment, attendance, and reci¬ 
tation. If, in your teaching, you unite patience 
and perseverance, you cannot but see, at some 
day, that improvement which your heart desires, 
and be cheered by that progress which yon have 
so loDg expected. 
Faithfully sow the seed, and patiently wait for 
its growth. Cold storms und other destroying in¬ 
fluences, may retard its growth, and for a time it 
may seem dead in the cold earth, but genial suns 
and gentle showers will raise it to life, and sum¬ 
mer heats perfect it, and in harvest time, yon may 
reap the golden grain, a reward of yonr labors.— 
Conn, Common School Journal. 
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THE SCHOOLMASTER. 
_ 
Really, now, the Schoolmaster is abroad in the 
best sense of the word. Like the lamp-lighters of 
old, the Schoolmaster is out and about with his 
ladder and torch, running up one street and down 
another, diverging into narow lanes, plunging into 
blind alleys and obscure courts, and intramural 
tortuosities and labyrinths for which it would be 
difficult to find a specific name, and leaving first a 
hare glimmer, and at length streams of radiance 
behind him—much of the radiance depending, of 
course, on the quality of the oil and cotton he has 
to bring his torch in contact with. The School¬ 
master is truly, now, one of the lights of the world 
—a light shining in dark places; and that no 
longer through horn-sheathing or punctured tin¬ 
plate. hut through great achromatic lenses, which 
scatter the beams so widely and profusely, that 
ignorance cannot behold them without blinking. 
But there was a time, as many of us may remem¬ 
ber, when a Schoolmaster wi\3 abroad in another 
sense of the word. Those were the days of birches, 
ferrules, canes and fool’s-caps; when it was thought 
that the inlet of knowledge was antipodal to the 
head; when the halt, the lame and the lazy, con¬ 
ceived that physical disqualifications were their 
best introductions to the office of pedagogue; and 
when even learned men fancied that their learning 
qualified them to be teachers. We have lived to 
learn that not many lame nor many learned are 
called to the sacrod office of educating theyoung.— 
London Critic. 
-- 
Tub IIbabt Goes to School.— Think not that 
yonr work is done and your contract fulfilled when 
you have made your pupils expert arithmeticians 
and skillful grammarians; the heart has come to 
school to you as well as the head, and takes les¬ 
sons as regular, and often far more imposing and 
abiding than those you assign to the intellect— 
You yourself feel the conviction daily stealing 
over you. 
Why is it that you almost involuntarily suppress 
the careless jest, the look o! levity, or the scur¬ 
rility, you, alas, may elsewhere indulge in, and pnt 
on the air, at least, of caudor and virtue in the 
presence of those little children? 1$ it not that 
you feel that eyes bright with faith and affection 
are scanning every moment yonr actions, aud imi¬ 
tative and impressible hearts are continually 
drinking in the manifestations of your mind and 
spirit; that your breath, if laden with profanity, 
would stain their souls with quick and indelible 
pollution. 
-- »- »- 
No Advantages for Education. — It is often 
said by those who have risen from poverty to com¬ 
fortable property, when speaking of their chil¬ 
dren, that they hadn’t the advantages of education. 
This is a poor plea. Culture comes to any one 
who desires it enough to get it. No one can help 
being educated who opens his eyes and ears and 
keeps them open in this world. The conversation 
of the intelligent, the reading for the million, the 
lecture system, and ten thousand things become 
the teachers of the willing heart and progressive 
mind.— Tribune. 
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Have yon ever thought of what that man is who 
teaches children? Yon go into the workshop of 
a wheel wright; ho is making wheels and shafts, 
and you say he is a useful man. You visit the shop 
of the blacksmith, and you find him busy making 
pick-axes, hammers and plowshares, and you say 
that this man is essential; you salute these skillful 
laborers. You cuter the house of a schoolmaster, 
salute him more profoundly. Do yon know what 
he is doing? He is a manufacturer of miuds. 
--- 
Education is a companion which no misfortune 
can depress —no crime can destroy —no enemy 
can alienate—no despotism can enslave. At home 
a friend — abroad au introduction — in solitude a 
solace—in society an ornament. It chastens vice* 
it guides virtue; it gives at once grace and gov¬ 
ernment to genius. Without it what is man? A 
Bpleudid slave; a reasoning savage! 
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1’gi'ular Education in England. —It is an 
nounced in England that a flew movement is in 
contemplation for the purpose of organizing a 
better system of education for the people. A con¬ 
ference is to be held the present month, in Lon¬ 
don, and Prlueo Albert is to take the chair on the 
occasion. 
flic. 
OHIGHN AND 8EALS OF THE STATES. -- NO. xttt 
VIRGINIA. 
The State of Virginia lies between 36° 33' and 
110° 43' North latitude, and between 75° 25' and 
83° 40' West longitude. It is 370 miles in length 
and about 200 broad at its widest part, containing 
61,352 square miles. The State iB divided into 137 
counties, and, in 1850, contained 1,421,661 inhabi¬ 
tants. The population was divided as follows:— 
Whites, 894,800; Free Colored, 54,333; Slaves, 
472,528. Total number of dwellings, 165,815; of 
farms, 77,013; of manufacturing establishments, 
4,433. 
As regards surface and soil this State may be 
divided into four sections. The eastern includes 
a tract of about 100 to 120 miles in width, and is 
generally Io w and level, and in some places marshy. 
It has a light sandy soil, mostly covered w i th pines. 
West of the line of the head of tide-water the 
country becomes undulating and hilly until it at¬ 
tains one continuous mountain elevatiou known as 
the Bine Ridge, crossing the entire width of the 
State. The alluvial lands in this tract are for the 
most part very fertile, those of James river espe¬ 
cially being unusually productive. The third sec¬ 
tion includes the valley between the Blue Ridge 
and the Alleghany Mountains. This tract, though 
in part broken by mountains, is generally the most 
fertile and healthy part of the State. The fourth 
Bection includes the country between the Allegha¬ 
ny chain and the Ohio. This portion, though in 
many places wild and broken, has a great deal of 
fine fertile land, ahd vast deposits of coal, iron, 
salt, Ac. Gold is found in Fluvanna and Bucking¬ 
ham counties and vicinity; and many valuable 
mineral springs exist. 
In 1850 Virginia had in farms 10,360,135 acres of 
land improved, and 15,802.176 unimproved, of 
which the cash value was $216,401,543. Value of 
implements and machinery connected therewith, 
$7,021,772; of live stock, $33,656,659. At the 
same period there was invested in manufactures 
$18,108,793; value of manufactured articles, $20,- 
000,000. 
Virginia has ten Colleges, three Theological 
Universities, two Medical and two Law Schools, 
and a Military Institute. In addition to these she 
has 303 Academies with 8,983 pupils; 2,937 schools 
with 67,138 scholars; 54 Libraries with an aggre¬ 
gate of 88,462 volumes. 
The executive power is vested in a Governor 
chosen for four years by a plurality of votes, who 
is ineligible for the next term. He most be thirty 
years of age, a native of the United States, and a 
citizen of the State five years next preceding his 
election; a Lieutenant Governor, with like qualifi¬ 
cations, is similarly chosen. The Senators, 50 in 
number, are elected for four years, one-halt bien¬ 
nially. The delegates, 152 members, are chosen 
every two years. The Judges of the Supreme 
Court ot Appeals consist of five, elected for twelve 
years, from the five sections of the State, any three 
of whom may hold a court; and there are district 
courts and circuit courts. The right of suffrage 
is extended to every resident white male citizen, 
21 years of age, a resident ot the State two years, 
and of the district one year next preceding the 
election. Votes are given openly or vista voce, and 
the general election is held on the 4th Thursday in 
October. 
Virginia is sometimes called the Ancient Do¬ 
minion, having been settled in April, 1607, at 
Jamestown, on James river, which, was the first 
white settlement in the United StateB. In Conven¬ 
tion, June 25tb, 1788, the Constitution of the 
United States was adopted,—yeas 89, naya 79. 
The State Seal represents Liberty with drawn 
sword standing over a prostrate foe—broken 
weapons and manacles in the foreground. Above 
is the State motto, which reads, “ Thus always with 
Tyrants.” 
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WHY MOUNTAINS ARE COLD. 
It is a curious scientific fact that the atoms of 
air, as we ascend, are at greater distances from 
each other. If the distauce between any two 
atoms is diminished, they give out heat, or render 
it sensible; whereas if the distance between them 
be increased, they store it away. The upper strata 
are sensibly colder than the lower, not because the 
atoms have less heat, out because the heat is dif¬ 
fused through a larger space when the atoms are 
further apart. One ponnd of air at the level of 
the sea, within the tropics, may be said to contain 
no more heat than the »,iu:e weight at the top of 
the highest mountain, perpetually covered with 
snow. It is for this reason that the same wind 
which is warm in the valley, becomes colder as it 
ascends the sides of the mountains. Tim dimin¬ 
ishing pressure allows the air to expand and store 
away its hear. It is, therefore, not the snow on 
the top of the mountains which cools the air, but 
it is the rarity of the air which keeps the snow 
itself from melting. As a general law, the de 
crease of temperature amounts to one degree* 
Fahrenheit, for every three hundred feet in per¬ 
pendicular height 
-<»■«-»■■- 
Galileo, when under twenty years of age, was 
standing oue day in the metropolitan church of 
Pisa, when he observed a lamp, which was sus¬ 
pended from the ceiling, and which had been dis¬ 
turbed hyaccident, swing backwards and forwards. 
Galileo, struck with the regularity with which it 
moved backwards and forwards, reflected upon it 
and perfected the method now in use of measuring 
time by means of a pendulum. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
OLD EYES ON YOUNG HEADS: 
INTERESTING CASE.— BEMBDY. 
By old eyes is understood that state of this or¬ 
gan in older persons which usually renders the 
nse of glasses, plain or convex, necessary to dis¬ 
tinct vision. When we see a person of forty-five 
or fifty years begin to put on these glasses, we say 
that he is becomiag old, meaning that his vision 
ia defective from age. 
The caaae of this change is not very obvious, 
though we know the distinct image must be form¬ 
ed too far back. We remedy this in two ways, 
either by removing the object more distant from 
the eye, or by using the glasses which will form 
the image in the right, place. 
That the image may be carried back by age, is a 
familiar fact; and it may be caused by shortening 
the diameter of the eye, by flattening the eye, by 
the convex ot crystalline lens being too far back 
or becoming less dense, or being less convex. The 
first two changes have not been ascertained, but 
are possible; the other three are plausible, and 
especially the removing of the lens a little back 
of its normal position. 
The eyes of most persona, at forty-five, need con¬ 
vex lenses of thirty inch focus; at sixty, of twenty; 
at seventy, of fourteen to sixteen inches, in order 
to see distinctly, small objects at a moderate dis¬ 
tance. Yet theBe eyes see remote objects clearly 
without glasses, These are said to be longsighted, 
or lar-sighted, in opposition to those which require 
The object to be brought inconveniently near, and 
are called near, or short-sighted. These were the 
two kinds of defective vision usually distinguished. 
A few years ago I found a young man, of twenty- 
two perhaps, who, in order to see the objects far 
off or near with any distinct ness, used convex 
glasses which were adapted to the eyes of sixty or 
sixty-five ye srs. His vision bad always been im¬ 
perfect; hut no one suspecte.d the cause or the 
remedy. Accidentally putting the glasses of his 
grandfather, an old mau, upon his head, he saw all 
objects with a distinctness that made the world 
seem new and splendid to him. He was then a 
large boy of sixteen, and soon obtained similar 
glasses fitted for old age of ordinary eyes, and 
wore them, us if they were a part of his life, with 
great advantage and pleasure. The roundness and 
size of his eyes appeared the same as found in 
men of his years. The appearance was that the 
convex lens of the eye was a little too far back.— 
When the old glasses were used by him, the eye 
adapted itself to the different distances of objects 
like ordinary good eyes. He had no weakness of 
the eyes. 
Since that time I have found more than fifty 
cases of similar eyes, so that the vision had been 
very imperfect from childhood. They occur in 
both sexes, among rich and poor, in all the North¬ 
ern States, and a decided case at Beirut, in Syria. 
To-day another has occurred to me from the South. 
This abnormal sight is probably not rare over 
the world. 
In this city is a lad, fifteen years of age, who 
has for five years used convex glasses of only seven 
inch focus, far too convex for my eyes of above 
seventy years. Yet he cannot see without these 
glasses, and has clear and distinct vision with 
them. No one could tell what ailed his eyes, but 
he was advised to try spectacles and ascertain their 
fitness or unfitness. The merchant gave him a 
dozen pairs perhaps, among which was this one 
pair of seven inch focus. To the astonishment of 
all, and the delight of himself and friends, he had 
found an invaluable treasure, for none he could see, 
and did see all things in their beauty. 
Accident has led those with such eyes to the use 
of the old glasses. Few men are aware that such 
eyes exist. It is not sixteen years since I even 
heard of them, by finding them. It is probable 
such defective vision is far more common than has 
been anticipated. There are several cases in onr 
city and its vicinity. 
There is no danger from the use of so convex 
glasses by even children who have eyes of this 
abnormal structure. I have not found one instance 
of injury done by the constant wear oi them. The 
uniform testimony has been of their utter unwill¬ 
ingness to abandon the use of them. This point 
has greatpraotical importance. The person should 
be permitted to select those glasses which give the 
best vision ana appear the most easy to the eye,— 
Said a young Indy, who had these defective eyes, 
to the merchant who objected to her using glasses 
fitted to seventy-five years, I will take the respon¬ 
sibility, sj^ce the glasses show me such a splendid 
world. c. d. 
Rochester, N. Y., August 25,1S57- 
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Astronomical Marvels. —In the recent works 
of complete astral catalogues, the number of stars 
visible to the naked eye in a single hemisphere, 
uamely, the northern, is stated to be less than three 
thousand—a result which will strike with aston¬ 
ishment, on account of the smallness of the num¬ 
ber, those who have only vaguely examined the 
sky on a beautiful winter night. The character of 
this astonishment, however, will change, when the 
number of stars revealed by the telescope is con¬ 
sidered. Carrying the enumeration to the stars of 
the fourteenth magnitude—the last that are seen 
by powerful telescopes—there is found a number 
superior to 40,000,000, and the d istance from the 
farthest of them is such that the light would take 
from three to fuur thousand years to traverse it.— 
A photometric experiment, of which the first in¬ 
dications exist in the Cosmotheories of Huygens 
—an experiment resumed by Wollaston a short 
time before his death, teaches us that 20,000 stars 
the same size as Sirius, the most brilliant of the 
turn ament, would need to be agglomerated to shed 
upon our globe a light equal to that of the sun! 
-- 
The laws of nature are just but terrible. There 
is no weak mercy in them. Cause and conse¬ 
quence are inseparable and inevitable. The fire 
burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the 
earth buries. And perhaps it would be as well for 
our race if the punishment of crimes against the 
laws of man were as inevitable as the punishment 
of crimes against the laws of nature—were man 
as unerring in his judgments as Nature.— Long¬ 
fellow. 
-♦—*■- 
The many are wiser than the few; the multitude 
than the philosopher; the race than the individual; 
| and each successive age than its predecessor. 
labktji 
GONE. 
List to the zaMnight lonet 
The church clock speaketh with a solemn tone. 
Doth it no more than tell the tune: 
Hark, from that belfry grey. 
In each deep booming clime which, slow and clear, 
Beats like a measured knell upon my ear, 
A stern voice seems to say. 
Gone—gone; 
The hour ia gone—the day is gone: 
Pray. 
The air is hushed again, 
But the mute datkoetm woos to sleep in vain. 
O, soul, we have Rlept too long. 
Yea, dreamed the inorn away, 
In visions false und feverish unrest 
Wasting the work-time God hath given and blest. 
Conscience grows pale to see 
How, like a haunting face. 
My youth stares at tne oat of gloom profound, 
With rayless eyes, black as the darkness round. 
And wailing lips, which say, 
Gone—gone; 
The morn is gone—the morn ia gone: 
Pray. 
Wo for the wasted years 
Born bright with smiles, but buried witKsad tearsl 
Their tombs have been prepared 
By Time, that graveman grey,— 
Sou), we may weep to count each mournful stone, 
And read the epitaph engTaved thereon 
By that Btern carver's hand. 
Yet weep not long, for Hope, 
Steadfast ami calm, beside each headstone stands 
Gazing on Time, with upward-pointing hands. 
Take we this happy sign. 
Up! let us work—and pray. 
Thou, in whose sight the hoary ages fly 
Swift as a summer's noon, yet whose stern eye 
Doth note each moment lost. 
So let me live that not one hour misspent 
May rise in judgment on me, penitent, 
But till the Bunset, Lord, 
So in Thy vineyard toil. 
That every hour a priceless gem may be 
To crown the blind brow3 of Eternity. 
For Moore's Rnral New-Yorker. 
THE SPIRIT’S CONFLICT. 
The sombre shades of evening were fast ap¬ 
proaching, and twilight threw her sable mantle 
over the beautiful garden of Gethaemane. The 
branches of the olive waved majestically to and 
fro a3 the evening zephyrs gently played among 
the leafy bough?,—as it were a mournful prelude 
to that event which was so soon to transpire be¬ 
neath theirshado —while the Mount of OliveB,ris¬ 
ing far above the top of the tallest tree, never cast a 
deeper shadow over the surrounding scenery than 
on that eventful night. But listen. Footsteps are 
approaching, and soon three figures are seen 
emerging from the thick foliage beyond. Strange 
that any one should disturb the solemn stillness 
which here reigns supreme. Look again: one of 
the number separating himself from his com¬ 
panions, with silent step, aud bowed head, pur¬ 
sues his way alone till reaching a secluded spot he 
kneels in prayer, YTith eyes upturned toward 
heaven, his hands tightly clasped in the agony of 
his spirit, these mournfully pathetic but expressive 
words escape his lips,—“ Father, if thou be willing 
remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my 
will hut thine be done.” Long he lingers there, 
hut ere the morning 9nn again beams npon the in¬ 
habitants of earth, he has arisen, strong in his 
manliness, and with the words, “The enp that my 
Father hath given me to drink, shall I not drink 
it?”—he delivers himself into the hands of his ene¬ 
mies. None will fail to recognize the character 
here delineated, known then as "Jesus of Naza- 
reth, ,> a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; 
now as a risen Redeemer, an advocate with “God 
the Father,” for the sins of men. 
From the cradle to the grave man is taught that 
life is a battlefield in which each individual is an 
actor—ibat he is to prepare for great deeds and 
noble achievements—to go forth to conquer error, 
and suppress vice. Yet how varied the manner in 
which each one makes preparation for his share 
in the conflict. Perhaps thinking only of some 
outward struggle—some victory which shall ren¬ 
der him famous, as well as virtuous—heeding not 
the silent monitor which is ever pointing to the 
true standard of a noble man, one who firet sub¬ 
dues the evil which rankles in his own bosom and 
makes warfare with his own spirit ere he ventures 
to upbraid another. The warrior may fall beneath 
his plumed creBt up: a the battlefield; the states¬ 
man win for himself a name among the annals of 
the great; or the poet, like Byron, may build for 
himself a temple of Fame, each and all seems to 
forget the true object of existence. 
Life is indeed a never-ceasing straggle with the 
ever-thronging images of evil which continually 
throng our pathway, consisting not merely of some 
outward conflict but a continued watchful strife 
— a strife with our own unsubdued feelings which 
oft-times seem to war with Nature and with God. 
There are many who tread the humbler walks of 
life who are daily becoming more noble and good 
in the sight of their God by silencing those feelings 
of discontent which often arise; while others, in 
some higher station, despairing of acquiring both 
the conquest of their spirit and a sounding name, 
cling to the last as with the struggle of a drown¬ 
ing man, while they relinquish the former as of 
little valne, forgetting that “ he that ruleth his Bpirit 
is better than he that taketh a city,” and that in 
“ the roughest casket often glitters the brightest 
gem.” There are those, also, both of high and low 
degree, who in spirit follow the example of Him 
who in his conflict through the long night watches 
never faltered, though he “ sweat aa it were great 
drops of blood falling down to the ground.” So 
they, when the long night of life has passed, are 
guided to the celestial portals by the same hand 
which strengthened the Redeemer in his hour of 
agony. An entranoe is granted to these weary 
ones—to them Heaven’s first welcome is the dawn 
of an Eternal Morning. Carrie M. Lee. 
Obertin, Ohio, 1857. 
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The past is disclosed; the future concealed in 
doubt And yet human nature ia heedless of the 
past and fearful of the future, regarding not the 
science and experience that past ages have un- 
