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( new series rulers do rais am liberty < „ __, gen'l harrison ( number 32 op volume h salisbury n c december 6 1845 are especially applicable to those whom we now particular ly address if there is a class upon earth whom it behoves to be diligent and persevering that class are young men — the world is before them with its vicissitudes its conflicts and its rewards every man is to a great extent fiber for tunae the builder of his own fortune and although thedis pensations of an overruling providence often seem adverse and overthrow the wisest schemes of men the saying may nevertheless be esteemed as true though one effort may prove abortive another may be attended with success — though the dark cloud of misfortune may lower for a while it will eventually break away and the sunshine of prosperity will appear and if we examine into the history of those who have been denominated unfortunate we shall find their want of success to have been the result of unskillfulness in dolence or a want of perseverance to overcome the obstacles thrown in their way if constant dropping will wear away the hardest rocks surely the assiduous persevering efforts of a rational and experienced creature may overcome the diffi culties of an adverse fortune there is a regular and na tural connexion between cause and result and though there may be many intervening links in the chain that binds them together the chain is never entirely broken one man rides into a throne of power in an almost bloodless triumph while another experiences repeated defeat and disaster and is at last completely overthrown but were the same means used in the one case as the other ? one was a more skilful gen eral marshalled better troops and selected his time and laid his plans with more wisdom than the other and where strength and numbers were wanting prudence has supplied their place and enabled one to chase a thousand and two to put ten thousand to flight we venture then to lay if down as a truth that diligence andperst verance will overcome all difficulties this is clearly deducible from tbe injunction of our text and well attested by our own experience in considering this subject as applicable to young men we are taught 1 that they should engage diligently and perseveringly in some useful avocation in life sacred writ tells us elsewhere that the man that provides not for his own household is worse than the infidel and has denied the faith man was not made to be a mere cipher iu society a blank in the creation of clod nor is it his appropriate part to while away his pre cious time in a perpetual whirl of folly and amusement nor tt prostitute his noble powers of soul and body to a life of re bellion against his god imbecility and inaction are the very reverse of human nature in its primitive excellence the first man that was created by far more noble and highly ex alted iri privilege than any of his descendants was a work ing man the lovely eden was given him as an earthly in heritance but he was commanded to dress and to keep it with his own hands and ihere is no greater mistake lobe made than that which supposes that if man had retained his innocence he would net have been required to labor and to labor diligently and perseveringly and the difference be tween lhe performance of his duties in the days of his inno cence nnd since the fall exists in the change of his disposi tion and his powers and the success that attends his efforts then every duly was performed with a hallowed delight and every expectation was fulfilled no cares then pervaded an anxious breast and no disappointments vexed a troubled spi rit it was truly and emphatically his meat and his drink to do the will of his creator in both spiritual and temporal du ties lint now the whole order of nature is reversed la bor has become a drudgery and a pain ; and the highest and noblest efforts of man are often met with the most signal dis appointments the ground is cursed that it may not bring forth its fruits in due season but the divine command still stands in its full force " in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread till thou return unto the ground and why in reason should man form an exception to all the rest of crea tion animate and inanimate by proving a useless appendage and a scourge to all others from the heaviest planet that rolls through the heavens to the smallest insect that grovels in obscurity all have their appropriate use in the vast uni verse of god no one is lost sight of by the eye of omnis cence the same omnipotent power that brought them into being at first will not sutler them to fall to the ground with out his permission they are all engaged in performing his will though unknown jo us or despised and trampled under foot as unworthy of our notice and shall man with all his noble powers of soul and body — man who was placed in the scale of creation only a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor — man who was made upright in the image of god himself with capacities susceptible of the highest enjoyments and a soul that must live and expand forever — man who shall survive this wreck of matter and this crush of worlds shall he stoop down from his high estate and sink himself below even the most insignificant of god's creatures proving himself a vile and useless thing man is never so noble never feels so much complacency and inde pendence as when engaged in some honorable and useful calling and although his vocation may be an humble one in the eyes of the world though it may add no garlands to his brow it will afford him both the reward of a portion of earthly comforts and the answer ofa good conscience the man who devotes himself to the humble duties of training the youthful mind cannot expect to claim the imme diate adulations of so large a portion of his race as many others lie cannot in his vocation rise like the orator and sweep awav his audience in the whirlwind of his eloquence but are his labors the less honorable because they attract the nol ice and receive the applause of a smaller portion of his fellow-men ' in there nothing momentous and big with importance in the still small voice of instruction that shapes the youthful mind and prepares it for the responsible duties of life and for the enjoyments ol eternity ? and is it no gratification to the instructor in literature and science to have scores and hundreds ofthe noblest spirits in the land to rise up and with gratitude hail him as their benefactor does it reflect no honor on the memories of caldwell and wadde , that manv ofthe carolinas most gifted sons rise up and call them blessed was it no honor to an aristotle that he trained an alexander though the powers ol his mighty mind were perverted to bloodshed and conquest and his youthful honors were lost in crime before he reached the meridian of life ' and where shall we place he followers of other useful and indispensable professions shall the husbandman the merchant and the mechanic be ranked below other callings because they may not ride so high as they on the wave of popularity . " are they not all engaged in pursuits sanctioned by god himself in ihose arts for which he destined them and in which thev can best promote their own interests and happiness of their fellow-men . all ether classes of men are dependent on these for the ordinary comforts ot lite ihe king himself is obliged to the humblest of his subjects for all the blessings that crown his board the gospel minister though he is in a great measure cut oil from the emoluments and the honors of this world syet not without his reward he lives in the affections of his people and in the favor of god so long as he is faithful to his diligence and perseverance i sermon ered i the chapel of davidson colle3e oct 26xn 1845 by j a wallace vouth is the most interesting and momentous period of hu iife the fortunes of later years and the destinies of . soul in eternity depend in a great measure on early train the mind of man commences ils existence destitute ingle idea an intellectual blank all its faculties exist i embryo and r quire age to expand and develope them >:] the time that the eye is first openedon the lijjit of rorld until the dissolution of the soul and the body in . the mind continues to receive impressions from the ob ind it ideas are poured in upon if from wiihout hi whole system ol mental machinery is active within ining planning and executing and that knowledge , is imparted to the mind in the first years of its exist will generally stamp its character for time and foreter early impressions take precedence of all others and ver may be the course of afier life the vicissitudes the hments and the pursuits lhe impressions of youth are never wholly obliterated amid all tin emblazonry of fash i honor and all the pomp ant circumstance of milita , ry the associations of cai ly liie rise up and hash upon ml like the occasional bursl of the vivid lightning on bosom id iln (';■;!. summer cloud the mind i.f thi aged man wanders back over a long life f toils and fluctuations and disappointments to the scenes of ful enjoyment the pleasures and amusements of child come up to him like the voice of the dead of other days ind all the e scenes though in some measure obliterated lhe mind by fir crowded events oi years of business will bave then bearing in a greater or less degree on after i \ life of prosperity and virtuous action will be review tli a high degree ol pleasure but the recollection of ci ish i fears realized tnd plans frustrated will pro luei • • io fill st soul wilh gloom and melancholy life is a stream that heads in infancy and tint waters that rise in lhe fountain will mingle with aud influence all ributaries that afterwards flow into it li the waters of lhat fountain be bitter like iln waters of marah they will tlieir bitterness ihrough the whole length and breadth stream or life may be compared to the little wave set in motion by the pernio breeze which rolls onward aud onward increasing in size anti strength until il becomes the iin billow and bears the man of war upon its bosom riii'il bow interesting and important a period is youth since f beginning oi lhal which shall never end the eause | , produces eon - quenci s lhal musl endure through life i ill etei nil \ ' 17 it i of iln young of the sterner sex thai i wiil presume | particularly to speak venture to address those who ere long he engaged in the active scenes of busy life h woman from lhe sphere in which shemovesand enl inllui nee which she wields may with propriety lie j i power behind the throne yet man is the throne l is his to plunge immediately into the vortex of a troublous life and engage in the ever varying scenes of a vexatious world il is his province lo till the soil and bear its products fo distant climes to raise up aud put down rul ers to sit on thrones of power to sway " listening senates eloquence and lo stand up as the minister ol reconcil iation lo a fallen world j lis is a life of energy activity aud enterprise the stormy agitations of life arc the elysium of ts his throne is tempest and his slate convulsion he rules nations by a word shakes kingdoms y his influence overturns governments a 1 his will and destroys his fellow man in the mere wantonness of power ih the shoulders nl those young men now just entering upon the threshold of busy life will soon fall the mantles of their fathers by them the ship of state uiu^t be steered the church upheld and all the institutions of our couniry religious literary and polit al controlled all the wealth the power and lhe learning lhe world will soon be in lhe hands of the present rising lion trust he bears a commission signed by tbe king of heaven as an embassador of peace to a lost and rebellious world and though he may not be allowed to deal in high-sounding words to gain the admiration of men he can catch inspira tion from the sublimity of his theme itself he deals not with sublunary things he rises into the glories of the up per sanctuary and descends into the dark regions ofthe pit his subject is eternity with its glories and its horrors the soul mounting up from one degree of happiness to another or sinking down to deeper abodes of misery throughout the endless ages of eternity but has not the minister a just and high claim on the affections of his fellow-men for his services although none should ever dare seek the sacred of fice from that motive 1 what class of men have ever proved more self-denying and more devoted to the great works of philanthropy and the alleviation of human woes than the ministers of jesus and who have ever done so much to keep alive the lamp of science and to uphold the tottering pillars of the state ? in the middle of ages when literature had fled from all other parts of the world it still retained a lingering hold on the asylums ofthe monks and it is a no torious and gratifying truth that the gospel missionaries have borne the lamp of science as well as the word of eternal truth back to the old world from this recent wilderness where lately none but savage roamed and wild beasts utter ed their fearful cry the light of learning and religion has gone to illumine the once most favored regions of the east the heralds of the cross now stand on mars hill where paul stood eighteen hundred years ago and preached the re surrection from the dead and a day of final judgment they are imparting knowledge scattering the mists of superstition and teaching gospel truth ; and doing niore for the honor of their country than any other class of men that have ever visited those regions of darkness can any then deny the usefulness ofthe minister of the cross even when his labors are confined within the limits of earthly things much too might be said of the other learned professions but we deem it unnecessary their excellencies and their advantages are obvious to all and may we not from a consideration of these truths as sign to each and all of these classes of men a high and hon orable station among mankind ? can we not with propriety place together in the highest niche in the temple of fame a newton and a bacon an arkwright and fulton a west and stuart a mansfield and a hale an abererombia and a rash a whitfield and a brainerd a howard and a washington ? these all lived not for themselves only not for the simple gratification of their pleasure and ambition but for the hap piness of their fellow-men the welfare ol their country and the glory of their god and can any young man now be at a loss in casting about him to find some honorable and useful calling adapted to his taste and his talents dots the wide field of which we have explored only a litlle part present no spot on which the eye may rest with pleasure ln the whole range of husbandry the mechanic arts and the learned professions is there no occupation to which each one may apply the powers which god has given him for usefulness and pleasure ? or has hu man nature so sadly degenerated as to furnish a class of be ings who may with propriety be termed good for nothing are the powers of the soul on which the image of the al mighty was once enstamped so deteriorated as to be no longer capable of high and noble achievments we deny the alle gation human nature is the same now that it ever was but it is sadly perverted in our day by imperfect and impro per modes of early training it is a lamentable truth that god's most perfect workmanship has been rudely marred there are multitudes of young men highly endowed by na ture and who might share largely in their country's honors with proper training and by a diligent application to some useful calling but whose education has been wrong or neg lected and who are sleeping away a life of inactivity and usefulness ; or what is worse indulging in the commission of crime and what is the cause of so much suffering and why are tliere so many disappointments and why do so many young men fall in the earlier part of their earthly career ? says a late writer one half sink into an early grave while the tears of disappointed affection the deep sighs of blasted love are the memorials of their fearful end crowds of our young men fall suicidal to the grave while others mere dying wrecks remain with pallid brows and wasted powers : the cold marble on which in characters of shame and blood their epitaph is written passing from this waste of life and blasted character we search for the result of others : we look for their success in life ; and a melancholy picture meets us here the country and the age present us with an almost unbroken his tory of failures severely trying to moral principle and fear fully disclosing moral delinquency p'or years past few of our\oung men have succeeded even in the laudable pursuits of life : while the failure is wholly unnecessary we take up the college catalogue only a few years after the classes have passed from the cloisters of their alma mater and with throbbing hearts we follow them out into the world some are in the enjoyment of comparative peace and happiness and a few are wending their arduous way to the heights of honor but the greater portion have sunk into obscurity or have become the inmates ofthe asylum and the tomb the source of the evil is obvious youthful training is not now as it was fifty years ago young men and young maidens are not now as were those who landed more than two centuries ago amid the snows of the rock of plymouth ; nor as they were in the days of our revolutionary struggle thousands of both sexes are now reared expressly for want misery crime and an early and inglorious grave every one grows up with the impression that there is a utopian period when the restraints of youth will be cast oil if any indeed they ever endured when labors and cares will be wholly dispensed with and life will be one halcyon holyday of uninterrupted delight they expect in some unknown and mysterious wav.to achieve a fortune or secure an honor without the slow dull routine of virtuous action that is de serving of such a reward to live without labor to enjoy without care is the motto of thousands but o how mista ken the idea that individual who does not perform his part in the great drama of human life who iails to add his portion to tiie general stock of wealth by his own individual exertion is on the clearest principles of political economy a swindler of his race if he lives not by his own industry he must and will live on the savings of others and what the result will be we cannot divine w hen a e-reat moral revolution will take place when the sons and tbe daughters of our land will leave their idle habits give up their imaginary pleasures and return to the sober pursuits o industry for which our fathers and our mothers were lamed we cannot foresee it is said that revolutions never go back wards when the habits of a people begin to deteriorate they grow from worse to worse until the government is over throw n if this be true what is to be our fate the late of our beloved merica before another half century rolls round ? idleness begets poverty poverty begets crime and crime is ,\ poll von of all law and social order and if we progress downward for a few vears longer as we have done in years ■ money tj**"ound in mv yard on the 10th ol this month lhe ju sum of twenty dollards which the loser lean have by application to iik o;i condition that he | give a satisfactory account of it ; an.i by paying for this inolice daniel lyerly j nov 29ih 94 31:3t drs p & a m henderson j ll aving associated themselves in the prac \ tice of meoicixe ofl"i*r ilifir professional services to the pu'nlic oo office in the brick building opposite the rowan hotel — 45 — 4 4tf " bi_a«r*«iotk»rof h.od nentlv printed and for sale at this office that are past we may like ancient rome with her luxurious and licentious habits fall to pieces from the burthen of our own weakness may the god of heaven the god of our country the god of our fathers avert such a calamity ii young men should be diligent and persevering in the ; pursuit of know ledge it has been said with some degree of truth that in ameri ca the practical and the profitable swallow up every other thought it has been said that here is the land '" where ge • nius sickens and where fancy dies and where there is an utter destitution of taste asa nation we have been charg ed with an exclusive devotion to the accumulation of wealth and the acquisition of those petty honors which any shrewd aspiring demagogue may obtain and although tin se things have been exaggerated and uttered in any but a liberal spi rit yet there is unfortunately too much ground for the eharge as a people we live in the hurry and bustle of life engag ed generally in the more active and exeitinir pursuits we overlook or are entirely ignorant of those rich intellectual pleasures which literary men enjoy in this land of activity and enterprise the temptations to these evils are very great the demands upon talent for aetive service are greater than the calls for that know ledge which books impart we ; are more an active and enterprising than a literary people and for this there are many causes as a nation we are yet in the infancy of our existence a7i>t regions of our ex tensive domain are yet unsettled and large portions are only just brought under the control of civilization and in felling forest trees and rearing humble cottages there is but litlle disposition or opportunity for attention to reading books and in the counting room of the merchant and lhe workshop of the mechanic and even in the oflice of the professional man the business of each one's immediate calling is too pressing to give room for the pursuits of literature the political journal takes the place ofthe literary review nnd the cum brous volume and party slang inflames the baser passions ; ofthe mind which might he sweetened and enriched with tho intellectual treasures of the mightiest spirits of the age the ! noble powers of the intellect are paralyzed through inaction ' or perverted and inflamed by unwholesome aliment but there are thousands whose taste for reading if cultivated would a fiord much substantial and ennobling pleasure but '. who have suffered all within to run to waste and are wholly ' absorbed in the pursuit of wealth or are wasting their lives i in idleness and folly in the language of a distinguished ! statesman and scholar of our own age and country the mighty ladder of thought and reason reaching from the visi ; ble to the invisible — from the crude know li dtxo gained through | the senses to the sublimest inferences of the pure reason — i from the earth to the very footstool of god's throne is before \ them and invites their ascent but they bend their eyes ob ' stinately downwards upon the glittering ores at their feet ; until they lose the wish or the hope for any tiling better it is true that wc have in our country no class of men de ; voted exclusively to literary pursuits we have lure no richly endowed fellowships where men of talents and taste may devote themselves to scientific and literary research 1 without the interruption of external cares we have not as \ in europe a pampered literary aristocracy here the man ; who scans the wide field of literature must mingle these la bors with his professional duties the lawyer the physi • cian and the minister can devote to science and literature only lhe time which they take from tlieir hours of repose and [ recreation but does this fact furnish a sufficient excuse for ■ the utter neglect of reading and cultivating the mind ? in our 1 free country no one as in despotic europe is confined by law ' exclusively to any one single vocation a man may engage at the same time in as many different pursuits as may be agreeable to his taste and advance his interests and while even the man engaged in active life is supervising the af fairs of his farm his store or his study he may find many remnant hours in which he may retire from the bustling scenes of the world and hold communion with the mighty intellects of different countries and other ajzes when did franklin make his most astonishing and useful discoveries iii science but while engaged in the drudgery of a printing of fice and pressed with a multitude of other cares when did edwards complete those far drawn speculations in meta physics which astounded the most profound of european scholars but while performing the pressing and responsible duties of a gospel minister ? a distinguished physician of the state of south carolina while engaged in the labors of an extensive practice imposed on himself tht duty of writing one literary essay every week a pious minister of the gospel in philadelphia has given to the woi id in the last ten years a greater amount of biblical exposition than any theological professor in the land that distinguished scotch lawyer archibald alison amid the duties of a laborious profession has written the best history of europe during the time embraced that the world has ever seen and what shall wc say of a macaulay the researches of whose mind seem to expand at one and the same time to the four winds of heaven and through every age of the world 1 and what of a brougham whose giant intellect grasps at once the mighty truths law politics literature aud revelation present ? and what of our own learned mechanics one of them a son of ethiopia whose literary attainments would pul many of the privileged sons of freedom to the blush it is true that some of these brilliant examples which we have cited are from among the great men of the old world but they serve as well as others to illustrate the same principle as the learned and enterprising of our own land they labor under the same disadvantages have the same multiplicity of pro fessional duties to perform with those in our own country who make these excuses for their criminal neglect of literary pursuits nor is application to literature uncongenial to the spirit of our free institutions it is a slander on the genius of repub licanism to say that here men may nol attain to a standard of literature ofa high order ant why may we not .' there is no want of native talent of as high a grade as nature ever produced our history furnishes themes as rich as romantic and as interesting as ever poet novelist or historian discours ed upon our country abounds in beautiful landscape scenes in sublime mountain scenery in mighty cataracts and majes tic rivers outvieinjr those of the old world the allegations of bullon and de pauw that in this country both men and animals deteriorate are just as false as the reason assigned for the phenomenon is absurd that this continent was sub merged by a deluge long subsequent to that ol noah and as the theorv that this globe originated in the impact ol a comet against the surface of the sun which struck a huge , na . s of melted glass and sent it whizzing on i*s aerial our nev tliere is nothing so far as the history of our country can show either in climate or soil or in our free institutions to prove the deterioration ofthe american mind or its unfit ness for high literarv and scientific attainments there is nothing in republicanism itself even in the patty changes that continuallv occur adverse to it the very reverseis true freedom of spirit gives range to the flight of thoughts and kindles the latent fires of eloquence : and the changes and - mr ve-p'aacl ami how important thai these mighty resources which may be turm d for lhe weal or the woe of mankind should be applied to useful purposes ! how important that the future guardians of our country s welfare should be prepared for the md responsible duties that must soon devolve upon hem the young men of our hind there is something soul-stirring and charming in the term there is something l!l i noble and interesting in the mind of youth just develop * * it powers like the bud of opening flower blowing ut into the corolla of an hundred leaves and there is some hing interesting iti that mind bursting from the shackles of youth leaving its idle sports settling down in the sedateness jfmanhood and preparing for the infirmities of old age — wis this an idle speculation or empty theme for the ora : 7 ■ cl m ; nor is the view that we have laken a no re or hasty eye the portrait is as antiquated as the pages !'■ holy writ and drawn by the wisest of even inspired men '''' preacher was wise nnd sei in order many proverbs and ii of these nre applicable to the young how graph ics his picture of the temptations to which the young man exposed how does his heart yearn over those whom he lew to-1 in the reach of these seductive influences i 1 run the round of youthful folly ; he had proved bim e wi.h mirth he had enjoyed till the dazzling splendors of j ealth and the pleasures of sense ; ami now when . ! al mature old age we find him describing all \ of vanities and casting his eye back on the h which he lin i passed ar.d beholding others grapple with temptations which had proved too his moral fortitude he seems to agonize in spirit his experience before them as a beacon light to the young man is ever first iu his mind my so &'" hqw endearing the term ! my son if sinners entice nl thou not m son attend unto my wisdom ne ear to mv understanding my son keep 7 c immandments and forsake not the law of thy , and looking backward from old age to the days of his '• remembering how swiftly the years had passed j^'.y and how much of duty was to be done in so short a i seeing thai ti race is nol to the swift nor the '.;]';'•" '" ihe strong he addresses us in the words ofihe text j yfctsoever thy hand findeth to do do if with thy might ; i reason assigned for this promptness and diligence in tl0n » is the shortness of the time in which the work may " for tliere is no work nor device nor knowledge "''! w;m ii in the grave whither thou goest „.'""•'' words weir penned by the wisest of men and they ,'"'''' li'-.cn in old age and are the result ofa long and full j 1 ''' l "''- since man must soon go to his long home it 1 in to be diligent that he may perform with faith part assigned to him by his creator the words