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Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agricult Vol. XVII. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1881. No. 25. .THE HERALC IS PUBLISHED g yRR -W.Kj)ELMAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. BY Ffl09. F. G~RHNFKcR, Editor and Proprietor. T~ernes, $2.00 per Jru Invariably in Advance. r.-The Paer is stopped at the expiration Of limefor hichit is paid. -r? The 4 mark denotes expiration of sub CLASICHALR& B fC4LAQRE t I SEIZMON! 'a "A D DRESSES, &e. NEWERRY COLLEGE!I FR0FHHITY HIGH HOOL1t -NEWBERRY FEMALE ACADEMY! _YOUTH AND BEAUTY ON THE STAGE: A Feast of' Reason? ~VHE' INSPIRED ROAD TO .SUCCESS" A11D THE 11 EVI" -'ABLE. DOOM OF WRONG -PUPOSE. gaining the victory promised hin by his Master ; he has, as his great Leader and ( pt,in, th- Eternal God, the Son. Should h.i, May becone dark for want of Gospel trut%, tritsl discourage him on his onward pwi . ek,uds of doubt and de-pondency v.-rea.t his mental sky ; he ha:s for his comurfort the enlightening, encouraging and convincing influences of the E:ernal God, the Spirit. The Father, Son and Hioly Ghost will dissipate those clouds of glom, will give him strength to war a good war f.rwill incre.se his faith, his hope, ad hi- love. and will lead hint onward, upward, Heavenward, until he enters the g-ttes of eternity, and then Godward along th.e never endi: corridors of the bright Beyond. I. Whe are the successiul in time and for eternal bliss ? Mankind is divided into two classes by the word of God, the just and the u:.just, the righteous and the wicked. Paul men tions two distinct classes, those who n .L not after the flesh, and those who wa'k af ter the flesh. Every son of Adam belongs to one of these classes. Now those who walk after the flesh, are guilty of "adube ry, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolttry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emu lations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murder, drunkenness, r.-velings, and such like," and cannot and dare not hope to have God with them. "But the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." These are they who need not fear. who can joyfully out ride every billow of sin, and who will even tually obtain the rewards promised the wor thy in all ages. "No man can come unto me except the Father draw him", is the language of the Son of God. God works in us both to w ill and to do. He who has heard the winning voice of Heaven from the pulpit, froi the Bible, and from those providences that meet h!ni in his pilgrimage ; who listens to the whispers of the "still small voice", who treasures up the important truth3 conveyed and who permits these truths to exert their sanetifying influence on his soul, may be said to have God an his side. If he disbe lieve the regenerating doctrines of God's word, he will reject them ; if he disapprove of God's precepts he will cling to the flesh ; if the plan of salvation do not meet his ap probation he will not embrace it. To have God with him he must hear the importunate call of truth, must embrace it as his first duty, must determine to obey it as God gives him strength. He will then be as sured that his affections and life are govern ed by the truth. Then and then only can he claim the security promised in the text. SThat man will be successful who employs his talents, mproves )is time, and expends his means, not only for self-improyement, or for benefitting those around him, but for building up the waste places of Zion. He feels an insult against his Maker as sensibly as against himself. Though he is faint hearted, easily discouraged, an'i mourns 1 over the little accomplished, yet you will find him moving onward by his prayers, in fluence, and efforts,-the cause of education, the civilization of the human race, and the evange'iz ation of the world. Agai,, God is for him who sincerely pro tesses Christ before the world. Christiani iv was naevr titended. t9 be concealed arnd disre nat be The traue christian is thn salt of the earth, and must preserve and keep pure the trueC faith once delivered to the sainats. lie is a lhght, and must direct along the authorzed path those groping in the dark. Be is a living epistle, and others can road in hiipi the blessed doctrines of the Son of God. Wherear Christianity does not thus manifest itself it does not exist. That man who-says he is .a christian, and you find no difference between his maxims and the maxims of the world, between his walk and conduct, and the walk and con duet of' other men, he has denied his words by his conduat, and is guilty before G~od of falsehood, He who will ultimately be supeessful in accomplishing the great moral task of life, must resist all evil influences opposing him. He has equipped himself for the conflict. Hie has declared open war against all oppo eing forces. Hlis is an unceasing rebellion. if he grounds his weapons, if he do nQt like Hosea, "hew them by the prophets, and slay thenm by the words of his mouth," his enemies will gain the vantage ground, and achieve the victory over him. He is clad in the christiau's armor, the whole panoply of the Gospel, and goes on from conquering to conquest. He has enlisted in the a, my of1 the Lord, and he resists the enemies of his soul, until his Captain calls him from his conflict on earth, to his inheritance in Hea ven. These are they whom God has said in his covenant that he wot!d protect ; declared ~by the prophets and apostles that he would sustain under every trial; and given them the assurance by his inspired word that they should come >ff* more than conquerors. These ate they whom God is for and who can be against them. These are they al-1 though sometimes lightly estet med by the supose noleand great, frequently tramp le nfrself- aggrandisement, and often rjected and spurned as an unclean thing, yet they can carry their treasures down on Jordan's strand by them, hope and confi-. dence will dheer the soul while passing through its chilling waves, and in the world beyond they will enjoy these blessings, while the ceaseless cycles of eternity roll round and round. These are they who will encircle the- throne of bliss, sing the story of the cross, cast their crowr.s at the Re deemer's feet, and wave palms of victory along the streets of the new Jerusalem; while the angels, seraphims, arid cherubims will stand, gaze and wonder ; for God was with them, and who could be against tbem. II. The Secucitv Promised. "Who can be against us ?" "It must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh." Enemies have arisen, and will arise, against God's own blood-bought, dear and peculiar people enemies mighty, and fearful in their charac ter--detet mined and resolute in their endeav ors; but the believer has the glorious prom ise that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against his church. If God be for us, who can be against us ? if ever Paul rode in a triumphal chariot on this side of Heaven here it was: with such a holy height and brave Iry of spirit ; with such a fluency and copi, ousness of expression ; with such an assur anee and confident rejoicing does he in this epistle comfort himself, his brethren at Rome and all thc people of God. If Zion's watch men on sacred walls should meet foe after foe, see the enemy aim the deadly blow, and tremble when they behold his fearful ad vances, they are comforted in the Savior's words :-"Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world '. If the true Christian meet with bitter and inveterate enemies, unable to answer atheistic argu ment, too weak to ward off temptation's fie ry darts, or grapple with Apolyon in the vale of humiliation, he has the su re promise that God, his Savior, will never leave him nor forsake him. History assures the believer that many enemies have arisen against the Church, hos tile in their character, determinate in their -e-ol,m ;-m and dadly in their aim; buht still the church stands, though rent. by one and caviled at by another ; receiving in one age the deadly darts of infidelity, and feeling in another the poisonous fangs of hypoctisy. She has prayed for her enemies without, and wept over her enemies within. She has re ceived fearful wounds from deadly foes and deceitful friends, and healed them with the consoling balm of the Gospel. She has been bartered for a life of pleasure, torn by schism and sect, trampled on for power and do minion ; still she has conquert d her ene mies, and will continue to march onward in her glorious career until she encircles the globe and ushers in the dawn of her thous and years Jubilee Who can be against the christian ? Has not the "law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus made him free from the law of sin and death ?" Is not the "righteousness of the law fulfilled in him who walks not after the flesh, but after the Spirit ?" "Does not the Spirit bear witness with his spirit that he is a child of God ?" Will not the Spirit make intercessions for him with groanings? And does he not know that all things work together for good to them who love God, and are called according to his purpose? Who can be against the christian? He bas many fearful enemies-enemies, who, f it were possible, would ruin him in time and in eternity. "The devil goeth about like a roaring ion, seeking whom he may devour," aim ng at the destruction of God's moral go !rnmeut, and intent on the ruin of immor al soui>. He assails the christian where de is weakest and least guarded. He ap proaches him as an angel of light. He empts him to violate God's holy laws. If here be no personal devil, there is no per ional God, for the same principle of Bibli ;al exigesis that proves the personal exis :nce of the one, proves the personal exis ence of the other. Against this enemy the sbristian has the Omn:potence of Jehovah. xod will give him strength to resist his ma ohinations, Christ has assured him that the emptations of the evil one can be resisted, tnd the Bible urges him to resist the devil. The world is in one sense an enemy to he believer. Those false maxims contrary o the word of God, those evil influences ,enerated by an ungodly race, and that gall ng yoke and dreadrgl chain-the power of aiabit--by which mankind areenslaved ; rise )efore the Christian in his pathway like im 3assable mountains; meet him in his flight Af faith as unconquerable enemies, and dash beir foaming billows against his frail barge )n the ocean of life. Against this enemy .he Christian has the constraining power of ruth. Truth meets his approbation, influ nces him to reject the false, and urges him o embrace the pure doctrines of the Son >f God. Infidelity is an enemy to the child of God. [afidelity presented itself in the age of per ;ecution as charitable, be&evolent, and the riend of man. This enemy has ever held ip Freedotr, Liberty and Natural rights, and nsinuates that the believer is enslaved. In lays gone by infidelity could daringly pre ent a bold front to the Christian ; but in the resent age it assumes the mild forms of r ourierism, Free-lovism, Clairvoyance and spiritual rappings, aiming at the overthrow > the Sabbath law, and the marriage tie. the illogical arguments of Volney's Ruins and Paine's Age of Reason, with influ mnpes that have flowed down fr. "ibbon, Voltaire, D41inbert, Solirggbroge and Blume, ris'e against the child of God, and >ppose him in his christian course. For this enemy he wields a weapon sure and effect ve. History assures the Christian that the irrath of man is made to praise God. Eve *y effort put forth by the infidel world in dl ages has been a failure. The Reign of rerror ip jgnlappy F'rance was a weapon ~hat stabbed the heart of him who bore it. MIore than this, Infidelity has never Liven to be world a single idea on which a sorrow :ul, sinful,'dying world could test its hopes, ~alm its troubled conscience, or lift the veil ~hat hides an unending future. The unfaithfulness of many disciples op >oses the believer and weak-ens his faith. rhe -influence of one professed christian would lead him to love the world and ac ,umulate wealth, and the example of an:> hler to treasure up its glittering show and ~njoy its worldly pleasures. How often I6es the walk of one christia; brother cast i hade of gloom over the mind of another, iot only wounding the consciences of his arethren, but crucifying his Lord afresh ? Eis living in known sin, his cold indiffer ~noe to the subject of religion, his want of nterest in the cause of Christ, are influences ~alculated to wsaken~ his faith. lie sees >ne '.rother plucking the fruit from thc for aidden tree, and another entangling him self in the, net of the enemy. Ag.ainst this ~nemy lie has a weapon. Christ Jesus is als great exemplar. While he looks to his ~avior for grace, follows the examp:e of his yreat Capt.iin and .studies the character of uis dear Red'eemer, he has strength to re ist, and is able to overcome all other influ unces. The depravity of the human heart is an >ther enemy against which the christian :ns to contend. hs heart would lead him after the things of this world, entice him in the ways of sin, overwhehn him in the loods of corruption. Natural depravity, like the tornado of Southern climes, sweeps iver the moral nature of man and leaves in ts pathway moral desolation, destruction atd death. By this sinful disposition lie inds himself in the deep vale of humiliation, hard by the bitter waters of Marah. He iees others sailing round and round the awful vortex of corruption, becoming un :onsciously more and more under its fear ul influence, drawing nearer and nearer its rightful whirl, and goIng at last thunder ig down its sinking centre, submerged be eath the waves of black despair. Without [sod's assistance this enemy would be too strong for his strength. But he has a seapon given him, the enlightening, con soling and strengthening influences of the Eoly Spirit. Be will teach him all things necessary, will pour into his soul the oil of bis grace and will give him power to over >ome this deceitful enemy of the flesh. Who can be against the true Christian ? rhoughi the Devil set his sniarea, though his hristian brother be unfaithful, though his iepraved heart would lead himi into sin, bough the world, Infidelity or any other ~nemy assail him, he has a weapon for each, nd by its faithful use he will come off' vie. ~orous. This security is doubly consoling when we are 4usured from history, biy friend a,nd roe, that God has beeni with his church and people. The church was in her infancy when th'e Apostles boldly led her on to victory, 'Subduing kingdoms, obtaiuing promises, :uenching the violence of fie, escaping the edge of the sword and turning to flight the armies of the aliens." Soon a Christian Prince sat upon the throne of the Ciesars. Christian ministers took the place of hea hen priests. The word of God was heard and heeded instead of responses from hea then oracles. Though near.'y lost in Romish sperstition during the Medieval ages, .yetI a light was kindled in Germany, it. was seeni and acknowledged in France, England, and these Western Wilds, and will continue to hi-se more hrig-htly to the end of time. Now, turning over the historic page of the church, we are convinced that God was with her, protecting her from her deadly focs, giving ner strength to resist all the machinations of her enemies, and with power and grace moving her on to victory. Another consolation found in her history is, that God was with the martyrs. "He that embraced the stake and said: 'Welcome the cross of Christ, welcome everlasting life'-He that dated his letter from the 'delectable orchard of th, Leon tine prison'. He that said : 'In these flsmes I feel no more pain than if 1 was on a bed of down'. She, a little before her martyrdom, being asked how she did, said: 'Well and merry, and going to Heaven.'" Those who have gone smiling to the stake, stood singing in the flames, preaching Jesus to their murderers, and as was the case with Lambert, lilting the stumps of his burning arms towards Heaven, crying, "none but Jesus! none but Jesus! !" were more than conquerors, and they greatly encourage us in our conflicts And trials. What gave them that boldness to die for their Savior? What lit up their countenances with a heavenly smile in death ? W bat inspired them with a glorious immortality ? God was them, Jehovah Jesus and his truth governed them in the dying strife, and who could be against them. Another consolation, cheering the chris tian, is found in the fact, that God was with the Reformers. When Charles the V. would have crushed the rising Reformation, and unsheathed his sword to accomplish his object, Luther could say: "Though our enemies have around!them, beside them, with them, not on ly that puissant Roman Emperor Charles, but still more, the Emperor of the Turks, and his Mahomet; they could not intimidate me, they could not frighten me; it is I, who, in the strength of God, am resolved to frighten them. They shall yield to me they shall fall-and I shall remain upright and firm. My life shall be their headsman, and my death their Hell." Like his great prototype on Mar's Hill, Luther could point a dying worla to the Lamb of God, and he knew that God was with him, when in the presence of crowned heads and high officials, cardinals and interested clergy-dis tinguished men of church and State-he conld utter that thrilling sentence, which comes sounding down the ages: "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders, Gott helfe mir." God alone must have strengthened the hands and warugd the heart of him, who was striving to divest the church of the rub bish of the mediaeval ages, and to gain the vietory over those, who arraigned them selves against the truth, as developed in tite Lutheran Reformation. The history of the last 1800 years, proves conclusively, that Christ is with his people that He will never leave nor forsake those who humbly bow at the foot of the cross that He will carry them, like lambs in His bosom even down to gray old age-that He will guide them across the iver of death and that He will give them the Rest, that remaineth for the people of God-for God was with them, and who can be against them. Young gentlemen: You have completed the curriculum of your Alma Mater. In contemplating human knowledge, you have been innpressed with the littleness of our planet, and the insignificance of man upon it; and you have admired the God-like pow ers of the mied, which exhibit a grandeur and a greatness unknown to the world of matter. Without is illimitable space. and man but a single point in it; within is a power that continually approaches omnis cience. You are about to leave these acade mie halls, tq go forth on the stage of active life. I wish to impress your mind, yea, in delibly engrave on your memory, never to be erased, the sure road to success, and the doom of wrong purpose. To succeed, you must have one aim, and make that aim your life work, An Ameri can Essayist says: The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation. It makes no difference wlhether our dissipa tions are course or fine-property or its cares, friends and a social habit, politics, music, or feasting. Every thing is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us horne to add one stroke of faithful work.' The Bible says; "The double minded man is unstable in all his ways." You will find your true work in your desires and capabilities. Love of ease, vanity, or ambition have led many in the wvrong path, but your "fondness for any pursuit creates a very strong probability that you were made for it, and it will ensure your devotion to it, and your success in it, Again, you must not only have one aim, but it should be a trre one in order to be suc cessful. It matters not w#het her your choice will be in the pulpit, at the bar, behind the counter, or in the field. All work is hou orable, from the humble mechanic to 'the ling upon his throne. A man may disgrace his work, but the work will never disgrace him. The doonm of failqre will sooner or later follow every pursuit, not in accordance with the laws of nature or the will of the moral Governor. A modern writer savs: "Gravitation secnres the stability of the universe, but he who leaps from the preci pice forces his own destruction. Thirst was given for man's benefit, but stimulating drinks pnfit h$m for his work. Conscience is a guide to true tmanhbood, but the transgressor changes it into a scource of remorse." If this be true in man 's personal experience, it is also true, in his life work. No amount of energy, no determination, no resolution can push any purpose to- ultimate success, in the face of Omnipotence. Once more, your aim should be the noblest possible. In choosing your life work, per, mit me to quote an ethical wvriter: "Some think that respectability is found only in the three learned professions-Law, Medicine, and Divinity. It is robbing the other lhon st employments of noble workmen, to add to the legions of dishones~t lawyers, blunder ing doctors, and stupid and inefficient'minis ters." Young gentlemen, study the character of the pure and noble, avoid, as you would the leprosy, the power of an evil imagina tion, eschew with a firm determination, all debasing ideals of poetry, and reject with firmness, that yellow covered literature, that weakens th~e intellect, destroys the taste for rational study, and stains the soul with sin. You tnus will be assisted in the choice of your life work. To impress this on your mind, we will quote one example from the same ethical writer. "Look at the character of Satan, as presented in Taradise Lost, Faust, Cain, A Drama of Exile, and the ible. The Miltonic Satan has exalted virtues, but vices which would repel more, so that the ambitious wvould sooner reign in Hell, than serve in Hleaven, The Mephis topheles of Goethe, appeals to all the baser instincts, so that the wicked long to be such a devil. The Byronic Lucifer attracts more than the Byronic God. The Lucifer of Mrs. Browning is one, the highest and the lowest say: "Go from us, we have no need of thee," and the Satan of the Bible is a terror to every human being, base or other wise." In conclusion, listen to the admonitions of truth. You have been taught in the scienes. Now bathe continually in the pure streams that flow from the pure, the good, and the true. Let your life work be a single aim, a true one, the noblest possible, au:1 he who has promised will he with you, and you will succeed. Iseason and F'aith are twin sisters, Doth have the same parentage. They walk arm in arm along the upward, onward path towards Omniscience. When Reason tired and faint, can go no farther, Faith says, in the language of another, "Art thou tired Siser, rest thou here, while I essay this boundless gulf." Then standing on the last ground of thought, she spreads her an gel wings, she flies into the bosom of the Eternal One. She sees that which eye has never seen, she comprehends the incompre henible, she understands the unknowable. Happy! yea happy, thrice happy is the man, who has God on his side, for who can be aanstne him. INNOVATION AND RJEFOR MATION. BY PROF. G. B. CROMER:. Before the Alumni Association of Newberry College Tuesday Morning, June 21st, 1881. Gentlemen of the Alumni Associa tion :' One of the most (fficult and most important things for a young man to learn is-that he knows nothing; another, that he is noth ing, and is not likely to become of very great importance. The sooner we realize that we are ciphers; that while we are the darlings of our mothers, we are not and are not destined to be the world's darlings, the better will it be for our future comfort and happiness. It is not difficult for most of us to remember when we left home glowing with enthusiasm, and in cited by an unfaltering faith that we were born to distinguish our selves and our country ; never doubting that, when we die, the great heart of humanity will throb with quicker pulsations; the mad racing world, pause to shed bitter tears over our graves; and the chisel, trace on our tombs--not what we were, but what we ex pected to be. The collegian, when a Sopho more, feels that they who are wiser than he, have some know ledge not worth the knowing; as a Junior, if a faithful student, be begins to realize that his know ledge does not exceed the corn bined intelligence of the Seven Sages ; when a Senior, he is per plexed to know on what he can rest any cL.aims to excellence ; and, after graduation, he finds that be is not a little child picking up a pebble here and there on the shore of the great ocean of truth, but a wayward boy whose faintest glimpse of the limitless expanse of the ocean of knowledge, is in tercepted by towering mountains whose rugged heights can be scaled only by the unflagging dili gence of a lifetime. To the student who stumbles over Greek roots and frowns amidst Latin moods who, with faltering trust, attempts to steer between the Scylla and Charybdis of Physics, and Meta physic, who glides along the nar rows of Differential Calculus, and is fain to regardi Hishop Butler as the natur-al enemy of the rhuman race ;-to the student whose pre sent is so discouraging, the future is singularly inviting. The future of our college days was sunlit and enebanting; it lay along ways made bappy by trilling songsters that poured out their litt le souls in music; it was not unattended with somewhat of the golden gleams of the poetic fancy. 4But now it begins to dawn upon us that 'the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley,' Johnuic has become plain Jack, and the world does not applaud him and lovingly pat him on the head. The flowers of hope that bloomed for the sebool-boy are as dead unfragrant weeds; - the roseate beauty wasi only a dreamn of the imagination ,-~Land this eternally springing hope is still weaving fantastic visions, and lur-ing us on ward, ever onward to what? T[he college student, displacing a pun ctan~tion mnark, believes, 'There's a Divinity that shapes our ends rough: hew them how we will.' And are we always i-eady, looking at the world, and not aoove the wvorld, to ackndwledgze that 'Ther-e's at Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will ?' Or are we not raJher inclined to regard man as only a sigh -a sob -a pulsebeat-a heart-pang-a plaything of ebance? Pausing to day on thesummit of tbe ages; anid assuming that we know something of what has been djone, let us give thought to -the present, anid in vestigate some of the influences that affect us as we stand with the jostling throng- in the vesti beie of the great hereafter. We are in the world ;not only so, we are of tue world ; and it is becom. ing that we seek to know what the world is doing. One lesson is well learned: that life is full of! mysteries; or rather, that life is the great mystery of mysteries. And wvhen unaided human judg mernt tries to go to the hidden arcana of life and unveil the sie cret principles that control the human heart, it must acknow ledge the insignificance of the known and tremble on the verge of the infinite unk(nown. 'The poet of m:any sided genius-the great r-eader of bumnau unture-puts ini to the mouth of a man who is' 'dangerous because he thinks too much,' these words: Men, at some timzes, are masters of their fates ; The fault, dear Brt tus, is not in our stars, t But in ourselves, that we are underlings. This sentiment is dear to every g independent, manly nature ; every g nature that does n)ot seek to ex- - cuse its own weakness andi irreso-J I lution by trusting to a bLng I the application. Marie Antoinette, pure and fair as the lilies of France, left Austria amid the ac clamations of a devoted people 'glittered above the horizon like a morning star-and knelt to the gleaming blade of a French gtuil- I lotine. Was she mistress of her fate ? 'Three roses, wan as moonlight and weighed down Each with its loveliness as with a crown, Drooped in a fiorist's widow in a town, The first a lover bought. It lay at rest. Like snow on snow, that might, on beauty's breast, The second as virginal and fair, Shrunk in the tangles of a harlots's hair, The third, a window with new grief made wild, Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.' There is your mysterious some thing that we cail destiny. and of which we are sometimes raasters. A garden was created and man was told to keep and dress it. The manner in which he dis charged the high trust, leads us seriously to think that creation is easier than conservation. Now that divine creation has ceased now that life is a fact., we must accept the conditions it imposes, and try to guide it safely through the changes that make up its des stiny. Acknowledging t bi a t - There's a Divinity that shapes ur ends-and yet feeling that our destiny is the result of num berless changes, and that we reate the changes that most se riously affect us, let us notice this sontrolling influcnce of change which in its best. application we all REFORM. Ernerson savs -The castle that conservatism is set -to defend is the actual state of things-good and bad. Conserva tism goes for comfort-Reform, for trutb.' Whether you accept his definition as a true standard of measurement or not you must admit that Emerson bas a right to be heard on this subject. Our pre. Ferences and our habits of thought are strongly influenced by educa tion. We oftenest incline to con ventional usages that were formed we know not when-and prefer systems of government to which we have been accustomed from earliest childhood. We often yield to the imperious sway of custom because of a want of independence >f thought, r because of an Orien tal indolence-or because, like the toad that was embedded in sand stone, we are too well satisfied with our present condition to take rich thought of the future. Re orm touches the rigid body of onventionalism and im~prisoned piniples, noble but blighted, spring in to figures of living beauty. onservatism says, whatever is. s right, -Reform advocates no such miserable precept, but says, whatever is right, should bie. Donservatism asks-what is the ~ustom ?-Reforma asks-what is ~he truth ? .In its extreme ap lication, Reform becomes iRevolu ion. It remodels--Revolution, obile claiming to act on just con eptions of right, goes to the roots > existingr institutions ; it is es entially radical. because it is pop lar. In its beginning it aims at be redress of real or imaginary ~rievan ces ; but hurried on by its wn enthusiasm, it not unitr nen tly becomes fanaticism, and Ldvocates the dangecrous doctr-ine -whbatever is, is wrong. T'..e peopie know little and care ess about abstractions. Glitte g generalities may please them; ,he )arwiniiani theory may amuse .bem ; but to almost all purely ~peculative r-easaning they are in iferent. They may be listless vhile you reason with s'.rong ogic and stronger lungs about Iuties, and duties for- revenue on y ; but seek to inflict upon them o iniquitous system of taxation, nd they organize tea p)arties of .he most serious nature. They Lre lt ays restless, but not reo utionary till they feel the weight >f oppression's hand. The great cean he ives and sobs like a restless iing thing-it ebbs and it flows t follows the changes of' its ever :hanging mistress ;- but only, 'eben lashed by the fury of the vinds does it rise in majesty, roll oam-crested billows to the beach, tnd dash the pride of mighty armadas. No event of moderti uistory is more startling in its oc -rence and more interesting in ts results than the Fr-ench Revolution. 1ts aim was to up oot tares set by injustice and uarded by Conservatism ; but it vent to the wild extreme of de troying the wheat because it con ained tares. .It broke up the oundations of society, govern nent and religion. The hrenzied mation, without bread--without >reeches-and without wisdom vildly shouted Liber-ty, Equality nd Fraternity. Cl.ange set its imson seal on lbs :.-- of mon ~ry, and when QAe mewnger of e illfated Los apeared in the ;tates Genera!. Mira~ocau of shag ymane anti ilon-like port, electri led the nation as he thundered --'Go tell y one master thait we are1 here by it 9 HiU o|the people, and at nothing shall drive us hence ut t he force of bhynnets l' T his 1i revolution was more than Reform it was unwise because it was with out a head, and because multipli cation of ignorance never makes wisdom. Yet, that good was ac complished, Republican France to day attests. And, if the great Burke could see no other reason to felicitate France, he might have given her a word of congratula tion that she had rescued herself from the despousm of priest-craft and feudal customs. On an Oc tober afternoon of 1795, a young artilery officer stoori by a park of artilllerv about which surged a mob of dusty, ragged, hungry Frenchmen, and shrieking, dis heveled women who trampled in the dust the modesty of their sex. The artillerist was as steady as steel and quick as lightning. Sud denly his stern lips opened for the word 'Fire !'-there was a roar, a crash, and the French Revolution had gone up in a whiff of smoke. That young artillerist was after wards heard above the din of Leipsic ar'd Waterloo. He was by nature revolutionary. Embittered by iron fortune, his youthful cheek. fanned by the hot breath of revolution, he never bowed to custom, but treated existing in stitutions with kingly scorn. To what was the popularity of this little great man--this mysterious mighty being due? He was never caught listening at key boles--but he was mean beyond expression. lie did not hesitate to cheat, steal, slander, poison or assassinate. He was intensely sei fish-he was treacherous--he was an unscrupulous gossip and liar--lbe intercepted letters, and cheated at cards-he interfered with the cut ting of women's dresses and never spoke a well-turned sen tence to a lady. Whence his mar velous influence ? Whence the amazing magnetism of this'Scamp J upiter ?' In the 'imminent dead ly breach' he never flinched ; his cheek never showed the white flag of fear-and soldiers applaud ed. His code of morality was Nothing succeeds like success ; and Frenchmen blindly accom panied to the death. The essence of his mathematics was crystal ized in the axiom ; the shortest distance between two points is a straight line; and brave men fol. lowed though ie led through blood. But whea he mounted to the sublimest reach of his rhe toric and proudly called himself the Man of .Destiny, the nation clapped its bands, and hailed him as the great innovator and leader of the people. When reproached bor spilling the precious blood of due d'.Enghien, be pitched his re ply to the popular tone, and said: Neither is my blood ditch water. Hie was the embodiment of the popular will--he absorbed the very genius of this leveling nation above all he was never conserz.a tive: to this the surrender into his hands of thbe popular judgment was largely due. Innovation of whatever kind is no longer viewed with suspicion and distrust. Our age is peculiar lv one of disillusion, disenchant neeut and disbelief. Sio change is too radical to find supporters-no reformi toc pure to meet bitter de nunciation and opposition. We are no long'er sentimentai 'his is a matter of regret, for senltjiment elevates and rences thbe hear t. The earnest spirit that alters babits of thought on all subjects-politica, social and r-eligious, is ineousisten t with tie growth of sentiment. We are toid that the noble Ro man never said, 1 came, I saw I uonquer-ed, but that this is a scuton f Suetonius ;that the lrou Duke never spoke the nobie sentiment, 2ngland expects every man to do is duty. The sword of Wallace uust no longer gleam among the beachered hills of Scotland, and we must believe that the liberty vibrating v<>ice of Tell never float ad across the still waters of beauti ali Lucerne. For this sentiment . we ar-e too practical--we go to the< ruth of traditions. It is a ques- I ion, how far this spirit of investi fation-this search after truth, I should be encouraged. Conserva ~ism is commendable when it seeks i ~o insure the prevalence of wiise nid beneficent institutions; but t is contemptible when it advo 3ates usages that are plainly more aonored in the br-each than the bservancc.' We should study thbe: ast; we should honor our ances- I ors and r-espect the institutions es- I ablished by their wisdom ; but we were not put here to work mira- jI ~les with dead men's bones, it wasC .ever intended that we should I ive and die by precedent, we must ive in the preseut and for the . utur-e. Conservatism teaches con entmient, contentment means tagnation. We thirst and hun .er as do the birds and cattle ; but I. ,e birds quench their thirst, fly I iway to shady gzroves and waste! I bhe day in perpetual song. The C attle satisfy their hunger and ie down in seemingly perfect con ,entment. We satisfy our hunger S td thirst ; but we are least con ,ented when we have no felt want ,o gratify. There is a voiceless I AV ERTISING( I -tTE:. 4_1.00 per .quan.re ; 1c ic i: N , iiircrtlot]U I1)o!r','t" co!'It aU. I i e CtL t i:: tttn per ( Curt, ou above. \t,irees of ,crn . z:nte mitril ,,:(-S of respect, saine rates oer >quare as ordina:y advert isemnuts. perIi i1Ie. ALvertisl"ITwntS tlt tn iit : t ,7-C mm~ - her of in~"r:: I~ and c1,argt... itr:l i Special t.")'irac:;s tI t.: Iargc (ivcr tisers, i I '7 . a ;i(Il> Ci1' :i)o%.c JilJre . .10B3 Pit 14, lyfov*6 DONE ?1ITF1 NEATNESS .ANDj Di PAT( H TERMS CASH. yearning that dernands scmethin., higrher, if not h.lh.(:", than we now enjoy. You may; shut uip the heart in a Happy V'alley -lut y oa cannot sati.4 v it. This elastic as piration will mnounit upward and still upward till it dashes its wings a_ansLtheprison basof the hu mansol.No, this is a world ofchang(e-that change should be : controlled-it sLwuid be ieform a search after truth wvhich alone lads tothe truice113-sium of the soul. Now here is the ir.depcn d1c:ce of thoai ht more strikingly shoa n than in the modern school of Philosophy. We are often amazed at the audacity of this science that .dares all things and believes only what it can under stand. And yet is may be design ed tD test the strength and prove the goodness of the Christian Code. This may be the great con flict in which Apollyon must go down by the strong arm ot Chris tian. After all, wvhat are these atheistic evolutionists but over grown boys, cutting holes in lrum-heads to investigate the source of s o u n d, shivering watches to find what makes the wheels go round, and withering the hopes of man to find what