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V NEWBERRY COLLEGE! PROSPERITY HIGH SGHOOL I ti NEWBERRY FEMALE ACADEMY! YOUTH AND BEAUTY r ii ON THE STAGE: A. Feast or Reason! THE INSPIRED ROAD TO SUCCESS AND THE INEVI. r TAlBLE DOOM OF i WRONG PURPOSE. .- F Baccalaurete Sermon Before Newberry Col ;eg fanday, June 19, 1881, by Bev. y. ~. Smeltser, D.D., of Walhalla, S. C. Invited by the President of Newberry t College to address you upon this'intereating occasion, I consented to perform the duty, S and I am here to redeem that promise. The s subject I shall prescnt for your consideration is an important one, and I trust you will 0 bear me patiently and prayerfully. Stand- if 'ing on the threshold of an active life, it P would be well if you would listen to the ad monitions of truth. While my subject is d more particularly intended for you who will g soon be clothed with academical honors, it s may not be amiss for this large audience, b each and every one, to treasure up and ap ply to their consciences the same solemn h truths. My text is found in Romans, 8th chapter, and 31st verse. It reads thus: "If God be f( for us, who can be against us?" I might a discuss this theme: The certain road to success; for who can fail if God is on his side. Or I might take the converse, and fl discuss The doom of wrong purpose; for ti who can succeed, if God is against him. e All the energy, zeal; and determination must eventually fail, if tiey are exercised .in opposition to God's will and his moral d law. I will combine both ideas in this dis- 0 cussion, and to the question of the text, give an inspired answer: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" "Neither d death, nor life, nor angels, nor principali- c ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor n things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor T any other ceeature." y The true soul-ennobling prine'ple of pie- a ty is supreme love to God, obedience to his commands, and a holy zeal in the pro- b motion of his cause. This principle is not fC impaired. but strengthened, by discovering a that the service of God is accompanied ~ with amazing privileges and benefits. The I true and successful, he, whom God assists E opens the book of inspiration. On one page is a promise which he contemplates with delight ; on another a precept which s he finds precious to his soul. Here is a e truth that inspires him with holy fear, cheers him in his earthly pilgrimage, and makes his path to the tomb pleasant ande full of hope; and there a promise that hids tl l.im look bey ond this veil of tears, inspires himt with the hope of Heaven,, and assures v him of eternal life. By one writer he is promised God's protective power, and by another the crown of glory that never fades. Paul urges hinm to lay hold ont eter nal life by a living faith ; and John influen- a c him to centre his best affe'ctions u;on 'I the God of his salvation. Thus in mind C and morals, the Bible becomes his bright sttn to dispel the mists of gloom and doubt; his pillar of cloud by day and fire by night; hia pole-star in crossing the ocean ot life, to guide him to that eternal rest, promised c in the great hereafter. E if the mind, that immortal spark of Di .vinity, thrown back upon itself, be consult ed, the same principle cheers him, the same e hopes console him, the same privileges and o benefits are peace to his soul. He has em braced the promises, he enjoys the consola tions of God's Holy Law, and by faith has, applied to himself the atoning merits of Christ. He has the assurance that all things work together for his good, that victory is promised him through the Savior, and that, he will finally wear a crown of glory anda robe of righteousness, for God was with him, and who could be against him? Let us contemplate fora short time the inspired roadc - to success, and the inevitable doom of wrongi purpose. "If God be for us, wh'o can be* against us"? This scripture is' true in *worldly affairs, and in high mental attairn ments, but it is emphatically true in morals, r in securing those treasures, valuable in time but. most valuable in eternity ; treasures which the possessor will never reject, nor can he ever lose; treasures whtch eye has never scen, nor the ear heard, nor the heat t conceived ; blessings dimly seen through metaphors in the inspired word, but worthy the gift of the great God of the universe. The Triune Go<l has given man the assur ance, in tbe covenant He made withb him, . that He will defend him, grant him grace, and give him the victory. Should influen ces arise to weaken his faith in the plan of salvation, to destroy his hopes of Heaven and Glory, to diminish'his love for holiness and truth ; he has promised for his securi-1 t' the Omnipotent protection.of God, the F.ther. Should influences arise, dissuading him from enlisting- earnestly under thee banner of the cross, oppolsing him in the 1 good fight o' faith, and preventing him from r ainmg the victory pronised him by his [aster; he has, as his great Leader aid pr.tin, ii- E:ernIal God, the Son. ShOLd111 i, -ay b,-comrre dark for want of Gospel -u1h, ti i ts discourage him o:i hi! onward : i. cliauds of doubt and de--pondency .-reast his nental sky ; he l.ss for his i1m1fort the enli-hteningr encouraging aind ativiacinig inrfluienc.--, of die Eernal God, ie Spirit. The Father, Sot and lily host will dissipate those clouds of gl-oo, ill give him strength to war a good war. rN, will iqcre ,se his faith, his hope, and i4 love. and will lead iiu onward, up---.ard, earvnward, until he enters the g-tes of iernity, and then Goilward along the never r.dc corridors of the bright Beyond. 1. Whe are the successful in tinre and for ternal bliss ? Mankind is divided into two classes by ic word of God, the just and the a:-just, i righteous and the wicked. Paul iren ons two distinct classes, those who walk ot after the flesh, and those who wak .f .r tire flesh. Every son of Adam belongs one of these classes. Now those who 'lk after the flesh, are guilty of "ziddile 7, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousues, lolttry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, einu Ltions, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, nvvicgs, murder, drunkenness, r.-velings, id such like," and cannot and dare not ope to have God with rthem. "But the -11i:s of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, r1g suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, .eekness, temperance." These are they 'ho need not fear. who can joyfully out de every billow of sin, -nd who will even ially obtain the rewards promised the wDr y in all ages. "No wan can come unto me except the ather draw him", is the language of the on of God. God works in us both to nill rid to do. He who has heard the winning oice of Heaven from the pulpit, from the ible, and from those providences that reeL him in his pilgrimage ; who list,-rs to e whispers of the "still small voice", who reasures up the important truth conveyed nd who permits these truths to exert their natifying influence o2 his soul, may be Lid to have God an his side. If he disbe eve the regenerating doctrinus Qf God's rord, he will reject them ; if he disapprove f God's precepts he will cling to the flesh ; ithe plan of salvation do not meet his ap. robation he nill not embrace it. To have od with hin; he ;pust hear the importunate all of truth, roust embrace it as his first uty, must determine to obey it as God ives him strength. He will then be as red that his affections and life are govern d by the truth. Then and then only can .e claim the security promised in the text. Tha, :an will be successful who employs is talerts, Impeowes 'is time, and expends is means, not only for self-imprpyement, r for benefitting those around him, but for uilding up the waste places of Zion. He els an insult against his Maker ars sensibly s against himself. Though he is faint carted, easily di.ouraged, an,l mourns er the Uttle accomplished, yet you will nd him moving onward by his prayers, in uence, and efforts,-the cause of education, ie civilization of the human race, and the vange'iz,tion of the world. .gait., God is for him who sincerely pro. es Christ before the world. Christiani r wa A 1nVra jteaded t2 be concealed and -tre not be The true chrirtian is tha salt Sth,- earth, and must preserve and keep ure the tre fairh once delivered to the in,ts. lie is a tght, and mist directalong e utIhorized path thote groping in the ark. He is a livinrg epistle, and others n read ip hipt the blessed doctrines of the on of God. Wherever Christianity does Ot thuR manifest itself It does not exist. hat man who-says ht is a christian, and ou find no difference between his maxims id the maxims of the world, between his alk and conduct, and the walk and con uet of other men, he has denied his words y his conduAt, and is guilty beore God of Ll5ehood, He who will ultimately bc supcessfuli in ecomplishittg the great moral task of life, ust resist all evil influences opposinrg him. [e has equipped himself for tihe conflict. le tas declared open war against all oppo ing forces. flis is an unceasing rebellion. f he grounds his weapons, rf he do ngt ke Hosea, "hew them by the prophets, and bry thenm by the words of his mouth," his nenmies will gain the vantage ground, and chiere the victory over htimn. He is clad the christiau5 armor, the whole panoply f the Gospel, and goes on from conquering to onquest. He has enlisted in the a,.my of te Lord. anrd he resists the enemies of his aul, until his Carptainr calls him from his ozrfict on eartih, to his intheritance in Hea en. These are they whom God has said in his ovenant tat Ire would protect; declared y the prophrets and apostles that ihe would, rstairn under every trial; and given them re assurance by his inrsoired word thra't th'.y hould come off mrore titan conquerors. hese ate threy whom God is for and who art be against them. The.<e are they ail tough sometimes lightly ester med by thre rpposed noble and great, frequently tramip id on for self-aggrandisemrent, arnd often njected and spurned as an unclean thing ; et they can carry their treasures down on ordat.'s stra.nd by threrm, hope and confi ence will dhteer the soul while passing [rough its chilling waves, and in the world eyond they will enjoy these blesaings, rhile the ceaseless cycles of eternity roll ound and round. These are they who will nircle the. throne of bliss, sing the story f the cross, cast their crowr.s at the Re eemer's feet, and wave palms of victory long the streets of the new Jerusalem; rhie the angels, seraphims, arnd cherubims till stand, gaze and wonder ; for God was rith them, and who could be against them. II. Tire Security Promised. "Who can e against us ?" "It must needs be that &ffnces come, but woe to that man by rhom the offence cometh." Enemies have risen, and will arise, against God's own lood-ought, dear and peculiar people neismighty, and fearful in their charac er--deter mined and resolute in their endeav ra; but the believer has the glorious prom se that the gates of Hell shall not prevaril gaist his church. If God be for us, who an be agairrst us ? If~ ever Paul rode in a rium phal chariot on this side of Heavert here twas: with such a holy height arid brave y of spirit ; withr such a fluency anrd copi usness of expression ; with such an assur ne and confident rejoicing does he itt this pistle comfort himself,hIis brethren at Rome d all the people of God. If Zion's watch. en on sacred walls should tmeet foe after oe, see the enem) aim the deadly blow, and reble when they behold his fearful ad ances, they are comforted in the Savior's rords:-"Lo, I am with you always, even mto the enrd of the world '. If the true bristian meet withr bitter and inveterate nemies, unable to answer atheistic argu nent, too weak to ward off temptation's fie y darts, or grapple withr Apolyon in the ale of humiliation, he has the sure promise hat God. his Savior, will never leave him or forsake him. History assures the believer that many nemies have arisen against the Church, hos ile in their character, determinate in their -sti, tn .adly31 in thei,..im; but sill the church stands, though rent by one and No caviled at by another ; receiving in one age clit the deadly darts of infidelity, and feeling in wit another the poisonous fangs of hypocrisy. fot She has prayed for her enemies without, and ina wept over her enemies with in. She has re- po ceived fearful wounds from deadly foes and deceitful friends, and healed them with the is, conAoling balm of the Gospel. She has been bartered for a life of pleasure, torn by schism 'W and sect, trampled on for power and do- eve minion ; still she has conquert d her ene- fro mies, and will continue to march onward in tin her glorious career until she encircles the flaii globe and ushers in the dawn of her thous. a and years Jubilee ma Who can be against the christian ? Has 'W not the "law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Th Jesus made him free from the law of sin sto and death ?" Is not the "righteousness of to the law fulfilled in him who walks not after La the flesh, but after the Spirit ?" "Does not art the Spirit bear witness with his spirit that Jet lie is a child of God ?" Will not the Spirit cor make intercessions for him with groanings? in And does he not know that all things work the together for good to them who love God, WI and are called according to his purpose ? het Who can be against the christian ? He the has many fearful enemies-enemies, who, wa if it were possible, would ruin him in time go and in eternity. cot "The devil goeth about like a roaring .J lion, seeking whom he may devour," aim- tial ing at the destruction of God's moral gov- the ernment, and intent on the ruin of immor- the tal souls. He assails the christian where swc he is weakest and least guarded. He ap- cot proaches him as an angel of light. He arc tempts him to yiolate God's holy laws. If ly 1 there be no personal davil, there is no per- stil sonal God, for the same prnciple of Bibli his cal exigesis that proves the personal exis- te, in tonce of the one, proves the personal exis- fri tence of the other. Against this enemy the the christian has the Omn:potence of Jehovah. an God will give him strength to resist his ma- an< chinations, Christ has assured him that the pro temptations of the evil one can be resisted, a and the Bible urges him to resist the devil. he The world is in one sense an enemy to the believer. Those false maxims contrary tinj to the word of God, those evil influences coD generated by an ungodly race, and that gall. cot ing yoke and dreadfql chain-the power of ste habit--by which mankind areenslaved ; rise mix before the Christian in his pathway like im- hai passable mountains; meet him in his flight ".a of faith as unconquerable enemies, and dash bis vicl their foaming billows against his frail barge sel on the ocean of life. Against this enemy Lu the Christian has the constraining power of I truth. Truth meets his approbation, influ- Cot ences him to reject the false, and urges him the to embrace the pure doctrines of the Son Wh te of God. . th Infidelity is an enemy to the child of God. Wil Infidelity presented itself in the age of per- and secution as charitable, be4evolen t, and the ren friend of man. This enemy has eve~r held wa up Freedom, Liberty and Natural rights, and the insinuates that the believer is enslaved. in I days gone by infidelity could daringly pre- the 0. coil sent a bold front to the Christian ; but in the present age it assumes the mild forms ofp Fourierism, Free-lovism, Clairvoyance and it; Spiritual rappings, aiming at the overthrow ers of the Sabbath iaw, and the marriage tie. ant The illogical arguments of Volney's Ruins ma and Paine's Age of Reason, with influ- ma enpes that have flowed down from Gibbon, p* Voltaire, DW4linbert, Solir.gbroke and Hume, risb against the child of God, and life oppose him in his christian course. For this del enemy he wields a weapon sure and effect- be ive. History assures the Christian that the do< wrath of man is made to praise God. Eve- I ry effort put forth by the infidel world in ma ct all ages has been a failure. The Reign of ia Terror in pnhappy France was a weapon It r that stabbed the heart of him who bore it. tio More than this, Infidelity has never given to car the world a single idea on which a sorrow- m ful, sinful,'dying world could rest its hopes, tak calm its troubled conscience, or lift the veil mO that hides an unending future. fai The unfaithfulness of many disciples op- yo poses the believes and weakenis his faith- an< The -influence of one professed christian am would lead him to love the world and ac-- bu cumulate wealth, and the example of ana- vet ther to treasure up its glittering show and ton enjoy its worldly pleasures. How often ant do-es the walk of one christiat brother cast b a shade of gloom over the mind of ano'her, ces not only wounding the consciences of his wil brethren, but crucifying his Lord afresh ? cot His living in known sin, his cold indiffer- ore ence to the subject of religion, his want of .i' iterest in the cause of Christ, are in fluences his calculated to wsalken his faith. Hie seesIn one t.rother plucking the fruit from the for bidden tree, and another entangling him- mc self in the net of the enemy. Against this "G enemy lie has a weapon. Christ Jesus is un his great exemplar. While lie looks to his piC &avior for grane, follows the examp:e of h1is wa great Captain and studies the character of dit his dear Redeemer, he has streingth to re sist, and is able to overcome all other influ- thi ences. iti The depravity of the human heart is an- of other enomy against which the christian cai ha:s to contend. hs heart wothld lead him the after the things of this world, entice him in ( the ways of sin, overwhelm him in the po. floods of corr'tption. Natural depravity, "" like the tornade of Southern climes, sweepsth over the moral nature of man and leaves in an its pathway nmoral desolation, destruction es and death. By this sinful disposition lie to finds himself in the deep vale of humiliation, ing hard by the bitter waters of Marah. He ter sees others sailhng round and round the of awful vortex of corruption, becoming un- the consciously more and miore under its fear-de ful influence, drawing nearer and nearer its fn frightful whir!, and going at last thunder? we ing down its sinking centre, submerged be- rat tneath the waves of black despair. Without Ye God's assistance this enemy would be too VO; strong for his strength. But he has a sat weapon given him, the enlightening, con- sat soling and strengthening influences of the fa Holy Spirit. lie will teach himn all things F;a necessary, will pour into his soul the oil of vir his grace and will give him power to over- so come this deceitful enemy of the flesh. He Who can be against the true Christian?v toi Though the Devil set his snares, though his tn Christian brother be unfaithful, though his a depraved heart would lead hint into sin, 2 though the world, Infidelity or any other loi enemy asail him, he has a weapon for each, of and byv its faithful use he will come off vic- ter :orious. wi; This security is doubly consolinig when ] we are 4ssured from history, hiy friend and tret foe, that God has been with his church and Nt people.tr The church was in her infancy when the trt Apostles boldly led ber on to victory, ha "Subduing kingdoms, obtaining promises, siW quenching the violence of fire, escaping the I B edge of the sword and turning to fiight diear armies of the aliens." Soon a Christian Prinice sat upon the throne of the Cesars- tht Christian ministers took the place of hea- Si, then Pt iests. The word of God was heard bo and heeded instead of responses from hea- hat then oracles. Though nearly lost in Romish Ee superstition during the Medisaval ages, yet Et a light was kindled in Germany, it was seen he and acknowledged in France, England, and these Western Wilds, and will continue to wi w, turning over the historic page of the I irch, we are convinced that God wa,s i her, protecting her from her deadly s, giving her strength to resist all the chimations of her enemies, and with ver and grace nving her on to victory. iother consolation found in her history that God was with the martyrs. 'lie that embraced the stake and said: e!come the cross of Christ, welcome rlasting life'-He that dated his letter M the 'delectable orchard of th-! Leon- 4 prison'. He that said : 'In these aes I feel no riore pain than if 1 wai on ied of down'. She, a little before her rLyrdom, being asktu how she did, said : ell and merry, and going to Heaven.'" >se who have gone smiling to the stake, ad singing in the flames, preaching Jesus heir murderers, and as was the case with ubert, lifting the stumps of his burning is towards Heaven, crying, "none but v us! none but Jesus! !" were more than querors, and they greatly encourage us our confiicts snd trials. What gave m that boldness to die for their Savior? ' iat lit up their countenances with a d venly smile in death ? 1 hat inspired 0 m with a glorious immortality ? God them, Jehovah Jesus and 'is truth ,erned them in the dying strife, and who r Id be against them. nother consolation, cheering the chris- C i, is found in the fact, that God was with Reformers. hen Charles the V. would have crushed S rising Reformation, and unsheathed his Prd to accomplish his object, Luther Id say: "Though our enemies have e and!tbem, beside them, with them, not on- V hat puissant Roman Emperor Charles, but I more, the Empror of the Turks, and Mahomet; they could not intimidate me, t y could not frighten me; it is I, who, the strength of God, am resolved to hten them. They shall yield to me y shall fall-and I shall remain upright firm. My life shall be their headsman, t my death their Hell." Like his great totype on Mar's Hill, Luther could point r lying world to the Lamb of God, and I knew that God was with him, when he presence of crowned heads and high Dials, cardinals and interested clergy-dis- v 'uished men of church and State-he Id utter that thrilling sentence, which aes sounding down the ages: "Hier ie ich, ich kanD nicht anders, Gott helfe t God alone must have strengthened the ids and waraled the heart of him, who striving to divest the church of the rub i of the medisval ages, and to gain the tory over those, who arraigned them res Pgainst the truth, as developed in t4e beran Reformation. 'he history of the last 1800 years, proves elusively, that Christ is with his people t He will never leave nor forsake those S o humbly bow at the foot of the cross t He will carry them, like lambs in His om even down to gray old age-that He I guide them across the river of death- C [ that He will give them the Rest, that kaineth for the people of God-for God with them, and who can le agaibst I m. oung gentlemen: You have completed curriculum of your Alma -Mater. an templating human knowledge, you have n impressed with the littleness of our net, and the insignificance of man upon and you have admired the God-like pow of the mind, which exhibit a grandeur I a greatness unknown to the world of tter. Without is illimitable space. and a but a single point in it; within is a rer that continually approaches omnis ice. You are about to leave these acade- . hallc, to go forth on the stage of active I I wish to impress your mind, yea, in- t bl.y engrave on your memory, never to erased, the sure road to success, and the m of wrong purpose. 'o succeed, you must have one aim, and ke that aim your life work. An Ameri . Essayist says: The one prudence in life concentration; the one evil is dissipation. e nakes no difference whethpr our dissipa is are course or fine-property or its es, friends and a social habit, politics, L sic, or feastiog. Everything is good which r es away one pl.ything and delusion re, and drives us home LO add one stroke of hful work.' The Bible says; "The doubleC ided man is unstable in all his ways." :a will find your true work in your desires I capabilities. Love of ease, vanity, or I bition have led many in the wrong path, ,your "fondness for any pursuit creates a y strong probability that you were made it, apd it will ensure your devotion to it, lyour success in it, gain, you must not only haye one aim, it should be a true one, in order to be sac- I sful. [t matters not whether your choice t I be in the pulpit, at the bar, behind the ater, or in the field. All work is hon bic, from the humble mechanic to he r ig upon his throne. A man may disgrace work, but the work will never disgrace 1. The doorg of failqre will sooner or tr follow every pursoir, not in accordance h the laws of nature or the will of the ral Governor. A modern writer says : ravitation secures the stability of the I, verse, but he who leaps from the preci a forces his own destruction. Thirst Sgiven for man's benefit, but stimulating rks pnfit him fQr his wyork. Conscience is aide to true man hood, but the transgressor rges it into a scource of remorse." If sbe true in man's personal experience, i s also true, in his life work. No amount energy, no determination, no resolution push any purpose to- ultimate success, in face of Omnipotence. . ance more, your aim should be the noblest sible. In choosing your life work, per,. me to quote an ethical writer: "Some ok that respectability is found only in the I ee learned professions-Law, Medicine, . I Divinity. It is robbing the other hon employments of noble wrorkmen, to add the legions of dishonest lawyers, blunder- 4 doctors, and stupid and ineffRcient'minls t." Young gentlemen, study the character the pare and noble, avoid, as you would I leprosy, the power of an evil imagina- 1 r, eschew with a firm determination, all tasing ideals of poetry, and reject with naess, that yellow covered literature, that I akens thie intellect, destroys the taste for ional study, and stains the soul with sin. a thus will be assisted in the choice of ir life work. To impress this on your ad, we will quote one example from the ne ethical writer. "Look at the character. Satan, as presented in P.sradise Lost. ust, Cain, A Drama of Exile, and the 1 >Ie. The Miltonic Satan has exalted. rues, hat vices which would repel more, that the ambitious would sooner reign int 11, than serve in Hleaven. The Mephis heles of Goethe, appeals to all the baser tincts, so that the wicked long to be such2 evil- The Byronic Lucifer attracts more rn the Byronic God. The Lucifer of s. Browning is one, the highest and the rest say: "Go from us, we have no needC thee," and the Satan of the Bible is a ror to every human being, base or other e." n conclusion, listen to the admonitions of th. You have been taught in the sciences. w bathe continually in the pure streams it flow from the pure, the good, and the e. Let your life work be a single aim, a e one, the noblest possible, andi he who Spromised will be With you, and yon will :ced. season and f'aith are twin sisters, th have the same parentage. They walk n in arm along the upward, onward path rards Omniscience. When Reason tired i faint, can go no farther, Faith says, in Slanguage of another, "Art thou tired] ter, rest thou here, while I essay this1 :andless gulf'." Then standing on the tground of thought, she spreads her an wings, she flies into the bosom of the ~rnal One. She sees that which eye has rer seen, she comprehends the incompre a'ible, she understands the unknowable. ppy! yea happy, thrice happy is the man,] o baa God on his side, for who can be tinst him. NNOVATION AND REFOR M &TION.. BY PROF. G. B. CROMER. efore the Alumni Association of Newberr3 College Tuesday Morning, June 21st, 188L ientlemen of the Alumni Associa tion : One of the most (:flicult anc nost important tiings for a younc oan to learn is-that he knowr othing ; another, that he is noth rig, and is not likely to become of 'ery great importance. The soonei ve realize that we are ciphers hat while we are the darlings oj ar mothers, we are not and at ot destined to be the world'i arlings, the better will it be foi ur future comfort and happiness t is not difficult for most of us tc emember when we left home ;lowing with enthusiasm, and in ited by an unfaltering faith thal ve were born to distinguish our elves and our country; .nevei oubting that, when we die, thE ;reat heart of humanity will throl vitb quicker pulsations; the mad, acing world, pause to shed bitter ears over our graves; and tht bisel, trace on our tombs--noi vhat we were, but what we ex iected to be. The collegian, when a Sopho nore, feels that they who arc viser than he, have some know edge not worth the knowing; af Junior, if a faithful student, hE iegins to realize that his know edge does not exceed the com cined intelligence of tho Sever ages ; when a Senior, he is per lexed to know on what he car est ar clims to excellence ; and fter graduation, lie finds that b( s not a little child picking up v iebble here and there on th< hore of the great ocean of truth uta wayward boy whose faintesl ;limpse of the limitless expans( f the ocean of knowledge, is in ercepted by towering mountainE hose rugged heigbts can bc caled only by the unflagging dili ,ence of a lifetime. To the studen vho stumbles over Greek roott ,nd frowns amidst Latin moods rHo, with faltering trust, attempt o steer between the Scylla ant "harybdis of Physics, and Meta bysic, who glides along the nar ows of Differential Calculus, anc s fain to regard Bishop Butler ai be natural enemy of the humar ace ;-to the student whose pre ent is so discouraging, the f'utur( s singularly inviting. The futur( f our college days was sunlit and nehanting; it lay along way. nade happy by trilling songster hat poured out their little souls ir ausic; it was not unattended witt omewhat of the golden gleaml, f the poetic fancy. But now t begins to dawn upon ur hat 'the best-laid schemes o: nice and men gang aft agley, ohnnie bas~ become plain Jack nd the world does not applaud irn and lovingly pat him on th< cead. The flowers of hope thal loomed for the school.boy are ar ead unfragrant weeds; -th oseate beauty was only at dreast ~f the imagination ,-and thu ternally springing hope is stil veaving fantastic visions, aiic uring us onward, ever onward o what? T[he college student, lisplacing a p)unctu;ation mark >elieves, 'Trfs~& a D)ivinity thal bapes our ends rough: bien hem how we will.' Arid are wt dIways ready, looking at th< vorld, anid not above the world o acknowledge that 'There's )ivinity that shapes our ends ough-hew them how we will ? rare we not rather inclined tc egard man as only a sigh-a sot -a pulsebeat-a beart-pang >laything of chance? Pausing to lay on the summit of the ages; and bssuming tbat we know something f what has been done, let us givi ,bought to -the present, and in restigate some of the influences ,bat affect us as we stand witi ,be jostling throng- in the vesti >cle of the great hereafter. W< tre in the world ; not only so, wi tre of t4e world ; and it is becom ng that we seek to know whai he world is doing. One lessot s well learned: that life is full o: nysteries; or rather, that life ii .be great mystery of mysteries ind when unaided human judg nent tries to go to the hiddet treana of life and unveil the se :ret principles that control th< iuman heart, it must acknow. edge the insignificance of th< mnown and tremble On the verge o ,b'e infinite unknown. Th'le poel f many sided genius-the grea eader of bumnan unture-puts in ,o the mouth of a man who i dangerous because he thinks to( nuch,' these words: kien, at some times, are masters of thei fates ; ['he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars 3ut in ourselves, that we are underlings. This sentiment is dear to even ndependent, manly nature ; ever' sature that does not seek to ex suse its own weakness and.irresc rUtion by trusting to a : blini -hance. A nd yet it is diMErint i - the application. Marie AntoinCttC pure and fair as the lilies o France, left Austria amid the a( clamations of a devoted'people glittered above the horizon like morning star,-and knelt to tb leaming blade of a French gu'i lotine. Was she mistress of he fate ? 'Three roses, wan as moonlight and weighe down Each with its loveliness as with a crown, Drooped in a florist's widow in a town, The first a lover bought. It lay at rest. Like snow on snow, that might, on beauty breast, The second as virginal and fair, Shrunk in the tangles of a harlots's hair, The third, a window with new grief mad wild, Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.' There is your mysterious some thing that we call destiny, and o which we are sometimes masters A garden was created and mar was told to keep and dress it The manner in which re dis icharged the high trust, leads ui seriously to think that creation u easier than conservation. Nov that divine creation has ceased now that life is a fact., we mus accept the conditions it imposes and try to guide it safely througi the changes that make up its des stiny. Acknowledging t h a t - There's a Divinity that shape our ends-and yet feeling tba our destiny is the result of num berless changes, and that w create the changes that MOSL SC riously affect us, let us notice thi control!ing influence of chang which in its best application w ca!l REFORM. Emerson savs -The castle that conservatibmin set to defend is tbe actual state o things-good and bad. Conservu tism goes for comfort-Reform for truth.' Whether you accep this definition as a true standar of measurement or not you mus admit that Emerson has a right t be heard on this subject. Our pre ferences and our babits of though are strongly influenced by educa tion. We oftenest incline to con ventional usages that were formei we know not when-and prefe systems of government to wbic] we have been accustomed fron earliest childhood. We often vieli to the imperious sway of cusLon because of a want of independenei of thought., or bec.-ase of an Orien tal indolence-or because, like tb toad that was emubedded in sand stone, we are too well satisfle with our present condition to tak, much thought of the future. Re form touches the rigid body o conventionalism and imprisone< principles, noble but blighted spring into figures of living beauty Conservatism says, whatever i, is right,-Reform advocates n, such miserable precept, but sayt whatever is right, should & Conservatism asks-what is th custom ?-Reform asks-whati the truth ? In its extreme ar plication, Reform becomes Revolu tion. It remodels-Revolutior Iwhbile claiming to act o06 just con. ceptions of right, goes to the root of existing institutions ; it is e sentiailly radical. because it is pop ular. In its beginning it aims a the redress of real or imaginar: grievances ; but hurried on by' it own enthusiasm, it not untrc quiently becomes fatnaticismn, an advocates the danigerous doctrin -whbatever is, is Svrong. The people know little and ear less about abstractions. Glitter ing genieralities :iny please them the Darwinian theory may amus them ; but to almost all purel; speculative reasoning they are~ in~ different. They may be listles while you reason with s'.rong logic and stronger lungs abou duties, and duties for revenue on ly ; but seek to inflict upon then an iniquitous system of taxatior and they organize tea parties o the most serious nature. The' are alw ays restless, but not revc lutionary till they feel the wcigh of oppression's hand. The grea ocean be tves and sobs like a restles living thing-it ebbs and it flows it follows the changes of its ever changing mistress ;- but only when lashed by the fury of tb winds does it rise in majesty, rol foam-crested billows to the beach and dash the pride of might: ~Armadas. No event of moderi history is more startling in its oc c'irence and more interesting il its results than the Frencl Revolution. It aim was to up root tares set by injustice ani guarded by~ Conservatism ; but went to the wild extreme of d( stroying the wheat because it coc ~tained tares. It broke up th foundations of society, goverr mnent and religion. T he frenzie, niation, without bread-withou breeches-and without wisdom wildly shouted Liberty, Equalit: and Fraternity. Change set it crimson seal on th-e :ate of mot archy, and when the messenger c the illfated Louis appeared in th States General. Mirabeau of sbah gy mane and ito n-like port, electr fie '4e nation as he thundere - - oVa master tha't we ar . pill of the p~eo.ple, an ~t S hail drive us bene a aA hamynetsl' Thi , revolution was more than Reform : f it was unwise because it was with out a bead, and because multipli - cation of ignorance never makes wisdom. Yet, that good was ac cornplished, Republican France to day attests. And, if the great r Burke could see no other reason to felicitate France, be might have I given her a word of congratula- < tion that she L I rvscued herself < from the despotism of priest-craft 0 and feudal customs. On an Oc tober afternoon of 1795, a young artilery officer stood by a park of artillerv about which surged a. mob of dusty, ragged, hungry < D Frenchmen, and shrieking, dis- a hoveled women who trampled in s the dust the modesty of their sex. I The artillerist was as steady as s f steel and quick as lightning. Sad. - denly his stern lips opened for the t word 'Fire !'-there was a roar, a -rash, and the French Revolution had gone up in a whiff of smoke. C 3 That young artillerist was after t wards heard above the din ol a Leipsic ard Waterloo. He was by a nature revolutionary. Embittered < by iron fortune, his youthful cheek. fanned by the hot breath v of revolution, he never bowed to v custom, but treated existing in t - stitutions with kingly scorn. To 9 what was the popularity of this n little great man-this mysterious t mighty being due? He was a never caught listening at key t boles-but he was mean beyond E expression. He did not hesitate to cheat, steal, slander, poison or v a assassinate. He was intensely sel r - fish-he was treacherous-he was v s an unscrupulousgossip and liar--he I f intercepted letters, and cheated at c - cards-he interfered with the cut- i ting of women's dresses and I L never "Spoke a well-turned sen- t I tence to a lady. Whence his mar- t t velous influence ? Wh---e the I ) amazing magnetism of this-Scamp SJ upiter?' In the 'imminent dead t ly breach' he never fline.hed ; his . cheek never showed the white 1 - flag of fear-and soldiers applaud- t i ed. His code of morality was- 1 _Nothing succeeds like success; and Frenchmen blindly accom panied to the death. The essence r i of his mathematics was crystal ized in the axiom ; the shortest distance between two points is a - straight line; and brave men fo! lowed though he led through - blood. But when he mount,ed to t i the sublimest reacb of his rhe- I toric and proudly called himself - the Man of Destiny, the nation e f clapped its hands, and hailed him I as the great innovator and leader of the people. When reproached - lor spilling the precious blood of I duc d'Enghien, he pitched his re ply to the popular tone, and said , Neither is my blood ditch water. Slie was the embodiment of the popular will--he absorbed the very S genius of this leveling nation -above all he was never conserva -tive ; to this the surrender in to his ,hands of the popular judgment - was largely due. Innovation of whatever kind is - no ionger viewed with suspicion - and distrust. Our age is peculiar t ly one of disillusion, disenchant4 rument and disbelief. No change is s too radical to find supporters-no - r-eform too pur-e to meet bitter de I nunciation and opposition. We e are no iong-er sentimental ;this is a matter of regret, for senitimient elevates and refices the bear-t. The -earnest spirit that alters habits of thought on all subjects-political, social and r-eligious, is inconisistent with th e growth of sentiment.( WV- are told that the noble Roi man never said, I came, I saw I conquered, but that tbis is a tictuon Sof Suetonius ; that the irou Duke -never spoke the noble sentiment, England expects every mian to do his duty. The sword of Wallace fmust no longer gleam among the heat.hered bills of Scotland, and . we must believe that the ;iberty e vibr-ating voice of Tell never- float t ed across the still waters of beauti a ful Lucerne. For this sentiment - we are too practical-we go to the( - truth of traditions. It is a ques-r tion, how far this spirit of investi Sgation-this search after truth, I Ishould be encouraged. Conserva I tism is commendable when it seeks to insure the prevalence of iiise and beneficent institutions; but - it is contemptible when it advo cates usages that are plainly more honored in the breach than the . observance.' We should study the I past; we should honor our ances- I t tors and respect the institutions es- I .tablished by t4eir wisdom ; but we I . were not put here to work mira- I e eles with dead men's bones, it was 4 . n. g'er intended that we should I j live and die by precedent,, we must t live in the present and for the . i future. Conservatism teaches con r tentmecnt, contentment means ! a stagnation. We thirst and bun - ger as do the birds and cattle ; but f the birds quench their thirst, fly j e away to shady gr-oves and waste -the day in perpetual song. The< - cattle satisfy their h.un.ger and :i lie down in seecaing!y perfect con-i e tentment. We satisfy our hunger I and thirst ; but we are least con e tented when we have nO felt want i s to gratify. There ia a voicelea ( carning that demands something. iigber, if not holier, than we now mjoy. You may shut np th6 eart in a Happy Valley-but you ,annot satisfy it. This elafti-e as. )iration will mount upward and itill upward till it dashes its wingsra gainst the prison bars,of the.r nau soul. No, this is- a world if change-that change should be *ntrolled-it sjgnld be zeform search after truth which alone cads to the true elysium of the oul. Now here is the icdepen ence of thought more strikingly, bown than in the modern school f Philosophy. We are often mazed at thc aud ~ y of this cience that. dares al hings and ielieves only what it can under tand. And yet it may be design d t: test the strength and prove be goodness of the Christian ode. This may be the great con [ict in which Apollyon must go own by the strong arm of Chris ian. After all, what are these,. tneistic evolutionists but over -rown boys, cutting holes -in rum-heads to investigate the ource of s o.u n d- shivering.. -atches to find what makes thi vheels go round, and withering - le hopes of man to find. wha. ,ave them birth ?-I may here re aark that a spirit of Reform is-one hing and curiosity another of quite different kind. if the way o truth and right were as broad - nd plain' as the road that leads o destruction, there are men who," Pould depart from it in pursuit of. ovelties and odditfes. Conser ,atism erects splendid monu ients to the heroic dead whose *bildren ask for food to noor sb the mind ; -curiosity spees iundred thousandl of dollars i" he quixotic attempt to penebraie, he icebound artic regions, while niserable human beings live in gnorance, hunger Iand dirt. We 6re told thas- when the world was nuch younger, ministers preached - he gospel-now to gratify curiosil - y they announce snch cbarmiing exts as George Eliot, or-Is there Hell ? They raise doubts re loubts should not exist that't nay rival the metaphysics- of tudi bras, and show their abilityto 'Sever and divide Shair 'twixt north and northwest side. -. Vhat simple, common placte a ures our ancestors must have een! This inquisitiver.spirit'i ustrates the truth thalOna mav is hero to his valet. It hiAtoarh id public eonfidence and made "l !xtremely selfish. 'We read that he old cynic who wanted to find La honest sen went to the msr cet place at noonday-light in iand. Now when one wants to ee an honest man, be goes notto he market-place by daylight or amplight, but to-his looking glass.? Reform has adopted a motto iamed pi'actical--that is, money etting. Practical is thbe bed of Pro. utes, and you must lie on it. I ~ou are too short, no matter, you ength must conform to that' be bed, and you can be stretched, fyou are too long, you niust un iergo a shortening process. We re~ very car-nest and practical in 11 higs The getScotcfh se.er 'ho was conservat,ive on@ when ec stood on the bri@Betbe gi-ave -tbe man of 'cliff-hke br'owsMad ledgebammer force-the gredt ham exposer and bambugi do iouncler of the age-said : 'It is _ ne of my constant regrets in this ecnerationl, tbat men ,to whomi ~od has -given genius, ~will in 1st in such an car-nest time asours as grown, in bringing out thei livine gift in verse, which now no nan reads entirely in earnest. (any of us agree wvith~Carlfle. ne same practical thought was xpressed by Mr. Wellrda ounseling his son--'Never let *ourself down to talk poetry, my ~oy ,: poetry's unnat'raL.' And vaLs' the good o' callin' a young man a wen us or a angel Sammy ? be poetic temperament is too A eclicate and finely strung for the ude earnestness of the times; nd our vocabulary is growing toi. oliticai for the s weetly soundin.g :re. Reform should alwaysa be ;uided by the noble aspir-ation hat seeks the. true. worships thie cood-and kneels to the beautiful .t worth and duty were the guides, ersion and contempt would no& o often be the fate of reform move nents. We have reason to believe bat in the very remote past were ublic men who labored unselfish :' for succeeding a"gs. Now1 ,ublie men are not so much co,n erned about future worth as resent profit. All the faxtnre ~enerations may rise up and bless Tou; only let the present genera ion rise up and put its band into ts pocket, and pay my salary ! Tou may errjoy the conefurrent ,raise of fuiture circling years ; want a majority at the bat it-box .aw ! We often won Ler, with reason, whether publio eno. are no better than weather 'anes, established in high placea -. imply to show th~e direction 0t opular sentimaert. We are learn ng some things that were nre niamt of in our schootgphikoo