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WISDOM. A Literary Address, Delivered by Ilun. Logan E. Bleckley, at the Martin Institute Commencement, on Thursday . Jtdy 7th, 1881. [concluded from last week.] There is no to-day, no yesterday, no to morrow. There is nothing but this present moment. But just such a moment, and an other, and another, so long as it may please God for time to continue, will follow, and these moments, before they come, and as they come, and after they arc gone, will be added together mentally into the various ideal di visions of time which I have mentioned. But no mental operation which we can perform in respect to time can or does affect its nature in the least. We do not keep the past from perishing by dividing it up into years, &c.. nor do we, by making like divisions as to the future, impart to it any reality in advance of its becoming the present. Next year’s alma nac is not an account of what is, but a pre diction of what will be. I desire to impress you with the brevit}' of actual time so that you may see clearly that whoever sacrifices the future to the present, sacrifices the greater to the less. As long as we have two mo ments left, we have twice as much in the fu ture as in the present, and one hour yet to come is worth many thousands or millions as much as the moment that now i9. Instead, therefore, of being in haste to consume, we should consume sparingly and produce abundantly. The ability to produce may cease long before life terminates, and what an ugly thing it would be to be cutoff in debt to the world, and leave behind nothing, or less than enough, to square accounts. Tru& wisdom takes cognizance of time as a ceaseless repetition of moments, and values two moments at double the price of one It prizes a } r ear as having twelve times the im portance of a month ; a month as thirty times that of a day, and so on. Moreover, it dis tinguishes, on the same principle, between time and eternity, and between a life which is to end and one which is to endure forever. What the preachers tell us of the folly—naj’, the madness of bartering the life to come for forbidden enjoyments and indulgences in this life, is doubtless very true, and if true is very terrible. Many persons are in perplexity on the sub ject of miracles, ar.d find it difficult to credit that water has been turned into wine, or death transformed into life. But if time is an} r thing at all, it furnishes an example of a miracle constantly performed and constantly repeated ; for to create a real something out >f nothing and conceal the process is a miracle of the highest order. In the produc tion of time, the creative machinery, so to speak, is always at work. Space is finished, and is suggestive of Divinity at rest; time, on the contrary, is incomplete, and seems to emanate from a Divine activity that never intermits. Of course, time has no depend ence whatever on the bodies that are in space •or on their movements or revolutions ; day and night alternate, the seasons change, but lime changes not; each movement is like every other movement, ju9t as each part of space is like every other part. And the whole of space is in one and the same point of time, and one and the same point of time is in every point of space. The infinitely large, which is space, is thus brought within the in finitely brief, which is time, or the infinitely brief is diffused so as to be co-extensive with the infinitely large. The same moment of time is everywhere at once, and thus time is n literal emblem of Divinity in the great at tribute of omnipresence. While we are in actual contact with these two infinites, time and space, and while in them we live and move and have our being, why should we feel that God is afar off? No matter how much we desire privacy, we cannot withdraw beyond the presence of the infinite. When you enter j'our chamber and shut the door and lock it, and blow out the light and make all dark, time and space are there just the same as they are here at this instant; and wherever they are God can be and probably is. And what company is God I Think of having Him for your companion, your per petual associate and attendant, and wonder that you can ever be regardless of Ills pres ence. If lie sees you commit an act of shame, what will it avail that you are hidden from nil mortal vision ? lam not seeking to alarm your modesty, but to put your conscience on the alert, and to make you realize that there is no reason why God is not as wise touching your every misdeed as you arc}’ourself, or as time and space would be if they were living intelligences. In fact, there is no certainty that space is not spiritual and a part of the all comprehensive and everlasting God ; or that we are not literally in the hollow of God’s hand. In what I have said of onr eagerness to consume, and to snatch from the future much of that which belongs to it, I have not meant to diparage any just claim of the present to reasonable and moderate in dulgence, nor to commend the practice of hoarding for the mere sake of having and keeping. What I wish to teach is that we should at least stay even, and not feast on what is yet to be earned or paid for—that we should not mortgage the future to obtain means to support the present, but, on the con trar}', should endeavor to bring over from the past more or less surplus, and thus provide, in some degree, against the contingences and casualties of the future. It would be most unwise to deny ourselves what we can afford and what we actually need. A man is far more important than all he has or all he hopes to have. Real excellence is internal not ex ternal, and to exalt what we have above what we are, would be to set the inferior over the —I : n it rn a* ] jfp j q Jjflt f O development of human beings, including our selves, is beyond all odds the highest end which we can pursue. A world full of first class men and women would be the richest and most precious world that could exist. What our children are is eve^’thing—what fortune we may be able to leave them is not immaterial, but is comparatively of little con sequence if they are all right mentally, morally and physically. It is far better to have a worthy child than to be worth an im mense estate. The Bible puts a high value on children, nor docs it over rate, if they are good ; but if they are vicious and depraved, and will not amend, the trouble they occasion is beyond the power of words to express. Good children do not need any great abun dance upon whiGh to begin life, and bad chil dren do not deserve it, except upon the con dition of reforming. The best service which we can render to the young is to put them in a condition to help themselves. The most effective means of doing this yet discovered arc correct moral and industrial training, to gether with a liberal education. No human being can be brought to his best state with- out educating him. Asa violin must be put in tune and kept in tune in order for it to give out a fine strain of music, so a man or woman must have the mental faculties de veloped and harmonized by education, or the conduct of life will, for the most part, be a weak and discordant performance compared with what it might be. To deny that educa tion is beneficial is no less extravagant than to require a musician to play without first tuning his instrument. Indeed, with the hu man instrument the being and keeping in tune is the main concern, for as the chief concert for which it is supposed to be design ed is beyond this life, the capacity to make good music there is of far greater importance than all the music it makes or can make here. Education promotes me.tal growth; and full stature cannot be attained without it. To be large minded ought to be desirable to all. The size of the body is not very mate rial, but who that can help it ought to be con tent with a little mind ? Some have not the opportunitj’ of acquiring an education, and of course they must forego its advantages, and do the best they can without it; but it is utter folly to restrict education by voluntary choice, either in degree or in the number who are to share in its benefits. If every man and woman were educated to the utmost, there would still be enough inequality and enough unlikeness. There is no danger that the world will become idle and useless as soon as the masses become learned. With the spread of knowledge, methods of labor will multiply and improve, so that the ratio of production to labor will increase to such a degree that the mere necessaries of life will be easily supplied, and our great business will not be to get money, but to get more knowledge. Most probably, the reason why money is so generally an object of pursuit now, is simply to afford us occupation until we can become enough enlightened to work with equal ardor after knowledge. The lat ter is a far higher and nobler prize to toil for, and is destined to take its true place at the stock exchange and in quotations of the market. One scholar will hoe another's cab bages, not for so many dollars per day, but for so many ideas which have never occurred before to any man, learned or unlearned, ex cept the owner of the aforesaid cabbages. It may be, too, that modes of supporting animal life will be discovered which will put a stop to the consumption of cabbages, and render it quite needless to produce them except for the purposes of ornament or to facilitate the study of botany. If the work that is now done to earn money, or money’s worth, could be devoted to the acquisition of knowledge and the spread of enlightenment, the increase of wisdom would be so vast in a few genera tions that to meet with an ignorant adult would be more rare than it now is to find a well informed child. It is to knowledge that we must look for devising means to promote its own increase. The more that is known the more will be known, and the more rapidly will fresh knowledge be acquired. If the whole worlcl would search for truth, immense stores of it would be discovered and our wealth of knowledge would become great. And still there would be no danger of ever exhausting the material. Truth is so abun dant that omniscience only can ever be mas ter of it all. I have heard with much pleasure of the prosperity, past and present, of this Institute. That so man}' of its former pupils have be come teachers, and are engaged in that uso ful and honorable vocation is especially grati fying. Without competent and faithful teach ers the progress of education would be slow indeed. I trust that the classes now before me will each contribute, in due time, their full proportion to the great body of instruc tors abroad in the land, and that other useful and honorable walks of life will attract and engage the rest. Above all, I 9hall rejoice if no single pupil who has listened to this dis course shall fail in that part of wisdom which depends on virtue, for, say what we will in praise of illumination, love is more precious than light; it is better to be warm in a dim chamber than to freeze in the glare of ten thousand lamps. 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BALDWIN & BURNETT, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS JUSTID SHOES, No. 3 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia. WE HAVE just received the largest and most complete stock of Boots and Shoes ever brought to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, and our prices within the reach of all. We deal EXCLUSIVELY in this line, and promise the most courteous treatment and perfect satisfaction to all who may call. TO MERCHANTS: Our WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT is complete, and we guarantee prices as low as any house in the South, and will save jou freight. <3-I AT E US .A. C-A.EE. BALD WIN Sf B VRNETT. Athens, Ga., October Ist, 1880. EOWE &c CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS, WINES, Etc., Etc. ALSO AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Stone Mountain Corn Whisky. Corner Broad and Jackson Sts., Athens, Ga. Feb. 25 Harmony Grove High School. rrMIE Fall Term of this school will open on JL MONDAY, July 18th, and will close October 7th, 1881. Rates of tuition the same as hereto fore. The tuition of pupils between the ages of 0 and 18 will be credited by the pro rata of the Public School Fund. We hope that pupils will enter at the opening of the school, that they may take an even start with their classes. Respectfully, julyS M. L. PARKER. OR order FLORESTON FragT-ant, COLOGNE. iufSihW A Hew, Delightful and Fashionable Perfume. Sold by druggists and fancy goods dealers. Non# genuine withoot igntnr* of HISCOX A CO., Cbemi.U, N. V. PARKER S GINGER TO^NtC ■ Uinger, Bucha, Mandrake, Stillingia and' many of the best medicines known are combined' |in Parker s Ginger Tonic, into a medicine of< such varied and effective powers, as to make it' the greatest Blood Purifier and the ! Beat Health A Strength Restorer prer nsed.< .“ Si 1168 Pwep**** Rheumatism, Neural- 1 aia, Sleeplessness, and all diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Liver, Urinary Organs, and all Female Complaints. 1 , If you are wasting away with Consumption or >any disease, use thd Tonic to-day. 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M. ; “ Spartanburg Ki 12.14 P. M. • 11.40 “ I 2.11 “ ! “ Gastonia Lj 2.30 “ j 2.04 A. M. j 4.27 “ “ Charlotte Mi 3.35 3.15 |_ 5.35 “ j i : i i i U. S. Mail, jN. Y. Express, ;U. S. Fast Mail.; Suwance WESTWARD. No. 42. No. 48. No. 50. j Accommodation | | j No. 22. Leave Charlotte M; 12.30 P. M. i 12.20 A.M. i 12.10 A.M. | “ Gastonia Li 1.27 “ j 1.30 “ ! 12.56 “ : “ Spartanburg K; 3.50 “ j 4.05 “ i 2.53 “ ; u Greenville II; 5.07 “ i 5.18 ! 4.05 u ! “ Seneca Gj 6.50 “ j 7.02 “ i 5.27 “ f “ Toccoa F; £.Ol “ I 8.15 “ ; 6.30 i “ Lula Ej 9.16 “ j 9.31 “ j 7.59 “ j “ Suwance D: 10.38 “ 10.54 “ 8.51 “ • 5.40 A. M Arrive Atlanta. ! 12.05 A. M. i 12.20 P. M. j 10.00 “ j S.OO “ * CONNECTION'S. A with arriving trains of Georgia Central and A. & W. P. Railroads. B with arriving trains of Geoi-gia Central, A. & W. P. and VV. & A. Railroads. C with arriving trains of Georgia Railroad. I) with Lawrenceville Branch to and from Lawrenceville, Ga. E with Northeastern Railroad of Georgia to and from Athens, Ga. F with Elbcrton Air-Line to and from Elberton, Ga. G with Columbia and Greenville to and from Columbia and Charleston, S. C. II with Columbia and Greenville to and from Columbia and Charleston, S. C. K with Spartanburg and Ashville, and Spartanburg, Union and Columbia to and from Henderson and Ashville, and Alston and Columbia. L with Chester and Lenoir Narrow Guagc to and from Dallas and Chester. M with C., C. & A—C. C.—R. & I). and A. T. & G. for all points West, North and East. N with North Carolina Division R. & D. Railroad to and from the North. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. PARKER & CAMP PROS. We have within the last few weeks opened up a first-class stock of FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES, CIGARS AND TOBACCO, STAPLE DRY GOODS, HATS AND SHOES, All of which we are offering at Rocli. Bottom Prices. Our Goods Arc Bought From Manufacturers For Cash, And We Will Sell As Cheap As The Cheapest . 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