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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1877)
Trg (5 CllOlCK OK PUOKKSSION. "I wish you a Happy Year, anil a r.M OHO." With careful hands wo laid it away in Memory's casket, Oft times, as the pass ingdays of 1874 left weariness and tiniest at our hearts, would we turn to survey this treasure. Its radiance serving over a pnssihle prophecy of work unfinished and tho sudden requisition "Give an account of thy stewardship." Thus would we take on vigor, and achcivc many a victory which else had been defeat, lSTo dawned in the full glory of a new birth. I watched the ingress of visitors and at last he came. " Prof. this treasure your message. Upon it has poised many a success which otherwise had not been counted worthy the struggle. It has fulfilled its mission. I live and have won. Receive it again at my hands, and may it prove to you a surer talisman in Us two-fold ministry." May loosened winter's icy fetters. June roses bloomed. Our Christian poet had already made our now state a land of po. csy and song by his -Nebraska Legends" and softer '.Midland Poems." Hit; having adopted Puiishon's labor song, " No rest except between the achievement of to-day and the higher venture of tomorrow's dawn," his fertile pen might not rest, even amid the exhaustive labors of a Proles sorship. Many contributions to current periodicals indicated to his friends growth rather than surcease of literrry strength, "Whilst, as he expressed to the writer, "his specific work for the year was Jo compile materials for a new volume, Mich as in his riper culture he chose to leave to poster, ity. Summer deepened into autumn. A mellow October sunset a quiet Sabbath evening. The Prof., child in hand, strolled out. Was it to borrow soul radiance from the dying rays ? Did he read thereon the pre. diction of his own near sunset? His friends perceived a radiance but did not dioam the night drow on. At S a.. M. he aroused his companion Avith an expression of pain his last utter mice. At 10 A. M, lie had passed "The rock waste and tlie river." In the ripe ness or mental and spiritual culture he erected the Grand Conservatory of God, into which comes nor blight nor waste. The unfinished woik which fills every hand when the paralysis of deatli siozes it doth it go on, with tho resources of Kternily to furnish the materials? We would not lia the veil. Tho revelation may be nearer to us than we think. Head the lesson we may. Casual words. They drop from our li s into hearts, as the leaden plummet or the sorcerer's elixir. The dead weight of sor row sinks deeper or the canker-worm dies and from its ashes springs a new faith. The soul's stagnant waters give forth rank vegetation and the serpent's venom, or, by the new alchemy, make new affinities, and the white lily blossoms. Be wary then, oh trifierl Sensitive plants may wither at thy touch, never to put forth fresh leaves, lie slronjr, ad icaper, looking in vain for full cars. Tln-rt-are harvests which ripen when Alpine snows have melted. Ye of the trembling lips, if tho Master hath touched thee, put forth the message. It shall not fail of its mission though the announcement await Throne Day. Speak quickly, thou of slow utterance. The waiting spirit passeth thee. Dumb lips palied hands death's signet and thy love token may be too late. Mrs. Axoie F, Nkwmax. CHOICE OF Before the ship sets sail on the rough and boisterous sea, in order to insure her a successful voyage, she must undergo an examination, be scrutinized by the work men, her rigging must be overhauled, her weakest parts made secure. She is then tried on the smooth and placid waters, where she glides with seeming perfection. All is now ready and the captain sets sail with high hopes of a successful vojage because he has tri d his ship and knows PROFESSION. J2EEi
