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PROS V U € T 5’ S
OF TIIF
TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
[quondam]
TEMPERANCE BANNER.
4 CT'UATED by a conscientious desire to further
the cause of Temperance, and experiencing
great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in
space, by the smallness of om paper, for the publica
tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals,
we have determined to enlarge, it to a more conve
nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of
the fact that there are existing in the minds ol a
large poition of the present readers of the Banner
and its former patrons, prejudices and difficulties
which can never be removed so long as it retains the
name, we venture also to make a change in that par
ticular. It will henceforth bo called, “THE TE.M-
Jt ITERANCE CRUSADER.”
This okl pioneer of the Temperance cause is des
tined yet to chronicle the triumph of its principles.
It has stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur
nace,” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared
a uferufrched. It has survived the newspaper famine
winch has caused, and is still causing many excel
lent journals and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex
halations in the evening,” to rise no more, and it has
. even heralded tli.* “death struggles of many contem
poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself.
lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,”
is-novv waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “In
itial Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest”
olfthc Israelites, who stood between the people and
tins plague that threatened destruction.
j[We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause
to give, us their influence in extending the usefulness
of the paper. We intend presenting to the public a
sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage;
for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we shall
r endeavor to keep its readers posted on all the current
throughout the country.
iI2SF"Pr : 6e, as heretofore, sl, strictly in advance.
y “ 80 HN H. SEALS,
’ Editor and Proprietor.
Bwxfleld, Go., Dm. 8,1868.
tpctotA it CtntpmmcE, JJonifj, Ifitatart, (foicral Intelligence, -fta, Ac.
A BILL
To be entitled An Act to authorize persons
to submit controversies to arbitration, de
claring how arbitrators shall be chosen,
prescribing their powers, regulating the
manner in which their proceedings shall
be conducted, and for other purposes
therein mentioned.
The General Assembly of the State do
; enact as follows ;
: Section!. All persons having matters of
! controversy may submit the same to arbi
tration, and any personal Representative of
any decedent, or guardian ofany infant, idi
ot or lunatic, or any trustee, may submit to
arbitration any matter of controversy touch
ing the estate or property of such decedent,
infant, idiot or lunatic, or in respect to which
he is trustee.
Sec. 2. Every arbitration shall be com
posed of three arbitrators, one of whom shall
be chosen by each of ihe parties and one by
the arbitrators chosen by the parties.
Sec. 3. All submissions to arbitration
shall be in writing, and shall contain a clear
and accurate statement of the matters in
controversy submitted, the names ot the ar
bitrators chosen by the parties, and also any
other matter that may be pertinent to said
submissions. Said submission shall be sign
ed by the parties or their agents, and when
so signed shall be delivered to one of the ar
bitrators chosen by the parties, and when
this is done, said submission shall be inev >- !
cable except by the consent of all the par
ties.
Sec. 4. ‘flic arbitrators chosen bv the par
ties shall then choose another arbitor, and
they shall appoint their time and place of
meeting, which shall be as soon as can be
done consistent with a proper preparation
of the case, and the parties sh ill have three
days notice of the time and place of meeting.
Sec. 5. At the time the submission is
made, or so soon thereafter as can conveni
ently be done, it shall be tiie duty of the par
ties to furnish the arbitrators chosen by the
parties, or one of them, with a list of the
witnesses whose testimony they desire to
be had before the arbitrators, and any party
neglecting to do this for ten days after said
submission is made, the hearing of said case
shall not be delayed, on account of the wit
nesses on the part of the party so neglect
ing not being present. .
Sec. 6. Said arbitrators shall be clothed
with all the powers of the Superior Courts
to compel the attendance of witnesses before i
them, and also to compel them to testify,!
and any one of said arbitrators shall have |
power to issue subpoenas requiring tho at- i
tendance of witnesses at. the time and place j
appointed for their meeting, which subpee- {
nas shall be served in the manner pointed |
| out by law for the service of subpoenas in j
; cases pending in the Superior courts, and i
! witnesses so attending shall be entitled to j
the same compensation as witnesses attend- j
; ing the SuperiorConrts, and may be collect- !
| ed in the same way.
: Sec. 7. Testimony may be taken by com
| mission under the same circumstances, and
; in the manner and subject to the same rules
and regulations as is now prescribed by law
for the taking of testimony by commission
in the Superior Courts, saving only that
; thiginal interrogatories shall be filed with
: one of the commissioners, and the commis-
I sion issued by one ol the commissioners, and
| the testimony when taken shall be directed
I to the arbitrator who issued the commission.
•Sec. 8. All free white persons who have
arrived at sufficient age to understand the
obligation of an oath, and are not idiots or
i lunatics including, also, the parties to said
: submission, shall be competent witnesses in
i all cases before the arbitrators, saving only,
that the wife shall not be witness for or
against the husband, nor the husband for or
against the wife, except in cases where the
same is allowed by law.
Sec. 1). Said arbitrators shall be clothed
with all the powers of the Superior Courts
to compel the parties to produce hooks and
all other papers, that they may deem neces
sary and proper for the investigation of the
matters submitted to them, giving to the
I party or his agent, from whom the produc
tion is required, three days notice.
Sec. 10. When the arbitrators meet for
; the purpose of hearing said case, if any one
,of the arbitrators selected by the parties,
should not be present, the party whose ar
: uitralor is absent may then choose another
in his place, and if the arbitrator chosen by
the arbitrators is absent, the arbitrators cho
; sen by the pat ties may choose another in his
; place, and the arbitrators so chosen shall
i have all the powers of the arbitrators first
J chosen.
Sec.il When the arbitrators meet for
| the purpu e of hearing said case and making
up their award, they shall first be sworn im
partially to determine the matters submit
ted to them, according to law, and the jus
tice and equity of the case, without favor or
affection to either party, and which oath
they may administer to each other.
Sec. 13. When upon the meeting of the
arbitrators, either party shall not be ready
for trial it shall be lawful for the arbitrators
to postpone the hearing of the case to n fu
ture day, which day shall be as early as pos
sible, looking at all the circumstances ot the
case, but there shall not be more than two
adjournments of the case, except for provi
dential cause.
Sec. 13. After said arbitrators have com
menced their investigations they may ad
PENFIELD, 6A., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1856.
journ from day to day until their investiga
tions are completed, and they h ive made up
their award.
Sec. 14. After said arbitrators have made
up their award they shall furnish a copy of
the same to each of the parties, and shall re
turn the original award to the next Superior
Court of the county where the award is
made, and said award shall be entered on
the minutes of said Court, and shall have all
the force and effect of a judgment or decree
of said Superior Court, and may be enforced
in the same way at any time after the ad
journment of said Court, and shall be final
and conclusive between the pariies as to all
mutters submitted to the arbitrators, unless
objection shall be plead to the same as pro
vided in the next section of this Act.
Sec. 15. When said award shall have been
returned to said Court, and entered on its
minutes as provided in the previous section
of this Act, it shall be lawful for either of
the parties to suggest on oath to sa ; d Court,
at the term at which said award is return
ed, that said arbitrators, or someone of
them, has been guilty of fraud and corrup
tion in making said award, and it shall be
the duty of said Court to cause an issue to
be made upon such suggestion, which issue
shall be heard by a special jury, under the
same rules and regulations as are prescribed
for the trial of Appeals, and which trial shall
be had at the same term of the Court at
which the suggestion is made, unless good
cause is shown for a continuance, when the
same may be continued for one time, and no
longer.
Sec. 10. If the jury shall return a verdict
finding that said arbitrator, or either of
them, had been guilty of fraud or corruption
in making up said award it shall be the duty
of the Court forthwith to pass an order va
cating and setting aside award, and the same
shall be null and void, but if said jury shall
not so find, said award shall remain in full
force as provided in a previous section of
this Act., and shall be final and conclusive.
Sec. 17. Said arbitrators shall have pow
er to administer oaths to witnesses, and all
other oaths that may be necessary for car
rying this Act into full effect.
Sec. 18. Said arbitrators shall return in
their award the costs of the case, which they
may tax against either party according as
shall seem just and right, or they may tax
part of the costs against one party and part
against the other.
Sec. 19. Said arbitrators shall have such
compensation for their services as may be
agreed on by themselves and the parties,
and which shall be paid equally by the par
ties.
Sec. 20. All laws in conflict with this Act
are hereby repealed, and this Act shall be
of force from and after the passage thereof
ALL’S WELL.
The following exquisite gem is worth re
taining and preserving. We doubt it the
whole range of English or any other litera
ture can furnish anything more simply beau
tiful—rmort purely eloquent:
“Twelve o’clock at night, and all’s well.”
False prophet!—Still and statue-like, at
yonder window stands the wife. The clock
has told the small hours, yet her face is
pressed closely against the window pane
striving in vain with straining eye to pierce
the darkness. She sees nothing, she hears
nothing—but the beating of her own heart.
Now she takes her seat; opens her bible,
and seeks from it what comfort she may,
while tears blister (he pages. Then she
clasps her hands, and her lips are tremulous
with mute supplication. Hist! —there is an
unsteady step in the hall; Jie knows it!
many times, and oft, it has trod on her very
heart strings. She glides down gently to
meet, the wanderer. He falls heavily against
her, and, in maudlin tones pronounces a
name he had long since forgotten “to honor.”
Oh ! all enduring power of woman’s love !
—no reproach, no upbraiding—the light arm
passed around that reeling figure once erect
in “God’s image.” With tender words of
entreaty, which he is powerless to resist, if
he would, she leads him in. It is but the
repetition of a thousand such vigils'. It is
the performance of a vow, with a heroism
and patient endurance too common andev
ery day to be enchronicled on earth ; too
holy and heavenly to pass unnoted by the
“registering angel” above.
“All’s well!”
False prophet! in yonder luxurious room
sits one whose curse it was, to be fair as a
dream of Eden. Time was, when those
clear eyes looked lovingly into a mother’s
face—when a kind, a loving father laid his
trembling hand, with a blessing { on that sun
ny head—when brothers’ and sisters’ voices
blended with her own in heart music around
the happy hearth. Oh! where are they
now ? Are there none to say to the repent
ing Magdalen— “neither do I condemn thee
—go and sin no more !” Must the gilded
fetter continue to bind the soul that loathes
it, because man is less merciful than God?
“All’s Well!”
False prophet!—there lies the dead or
phan. In all the length and breadth of the
green earth there was found no sheltering
nest where the lonely dove could fold its
wings when the parent bird had flown. The
brooding wing was gone that covered it
from the cold winds of neglect and unkind
ness. Love was its life; and so —it droop
ed !
“All’s Well!”
False prophet!—Sin walks the earth in
purple and fine linen; honest poverty, with
tear-bedewed face, hungers and shivers, and
thirsts, “while the publican stands afar off!”
The widow pleads in vain to the ermined
judge for “justice;” and, unpunished of I lea
ven. the human tiger crouches in his lair,
and springs upon his helpless prey.
“All’s Well !”
Ah. yes, all is well, for He who “seeth the
end from the beginning” holds evenly the
scale of justice. “Dives shall yet beg of
Lazarus.’’ Every human tear is counted.
They will yet sparkle as gems in the crown
of the patient and enduring disciple ! When
the clear, broad light of eternity shines upon
life’s crooked paths, we shall see the snares
and pitfalls from which our hedge of thorns
has fenced us in ! and, in our full grown
faith, we shall exultingly say—“ Father ! not
as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
Fanny Fern.
THE PERILS OF EXCELLENCE.
The desire for excellence is commenda
ble. ft is one of the noblest affections which
can animate the breast of man, because it
lies at the foundation of all true human pro
gress. It should therefore be cultivated ra
ther than repressed. The man who sets lbs
heart upon high and ennobling things and
principles, will be continually aspiring to
wards their attainment (for it is a law of the
Inman economy, that we are led and gov
erned more by our affections than by rea
son or intellect;) and in the efforts made in
ibis direction, he will experience the interi
or delights which ever accompany a genu
ine elevation of soul.
But to excel does not imply a disposition
to vie with another for the purpose of over
reaching him in any respect, or of outstrip- j
ping him in some property or position, in ;
which he is distinguished ; this is mere ri
valry, an abomination to the purely virtuous
mind. The true notion of excellence is ex
hibited in the progression of our own indi
vidual states and attainments, to arrive at a
higher degree of perfection to-morrow than
we enjoy to-day ; to go on and on for ever,
not halting by the way to parley with the
suggestions of indolence and sensuality, but
keeping steadily before the mental eye some
desirable form of beauty, to press forward
constantly and diligently towards it. This
principle of progression, this gift of excel
lence should be inscribed upon all our un
dertakings ; from the performance of the
simplest and most menial services, to the ex
ecution of the loftiest and most important
duties devolving upon them. Its presence
will make the meanest work sublime; its
genial vivifying influence will impress with
an effigy of greatness, the lowliest deeds of
the honest sons of toil.
And why should it not be so? Why should
any rest satisfied with the position he has at
tained? If treasures lie within your reah.
will you not extend a hand to grasp them?
If you say that you are satisfied, and need
push no further on the upward journey, you
beguile yourself with a fond delusion, if you
suppose that you can rest. The plain of hu
manity has no level. Stand still you cannot.
If you will not advance, you must recede.
The vital phenomena are not amenable to
mechanical laws. Ifyou indulge repose ;if
you would stop short upon your way ; that
instant decomposition of your mental and
moral fabric commences. The vital organ
ism becomes impaired from inaction, the vi
tal functions become sluggish, and vitality
itself is stagnated. Go then up the hill of
life courageously, and you will have no rea
son to regret your choice. Let your stand
ard be a holy one, and let its position be high
up the pilgrim’s pathway, and do not be
squeamish about a little toil in your endea
vors to gain your end But do be captiva
ted by the vain conceit that you are born
great, and that you may attain real excel
lence without application and labor. It is
not obtained so lightly ; it is not. a bauble to
be purchased for a groat; nor is it an un
substantial fairy creation, to be wooed and
won by the wishing only. If you succeed—
and succeed you will if you are in earnest —
; you will have had not only to bear, but to
overbear. You must work , and you must
wait. And there is a sublimer virtue, a
more generous nobility oftentimes displayed
in this waiting, than in the more obvious pal
pable working.
When vou shall have arrived at any dis
tinguished point ol excellence, either in your
artistic, mercantile, commercial, or moral
concerns, be sure you will not be permitted
to remain unmolested. It is not good that
you should here live at.ease.
The giddy worldly spirit has no sympa
thy with the trials and toils which your pre
sent position has cost you. It looks only
upon the one now apparent point of excel
lence, and is forthwith envious. In God’s
good providence it will be your scourge.—
It will harass you with strange and unrea
sonable questionings; it will strive to cir
cumscribe your sphere of action; it will
seek to damp the ardency ot your efforts,
and to quench your bravest enterprises. It
may even go further, and by maligning your
motives may bring contumely upon your
labors. But so sure as this becomes your
position; so certain may you be, that you
have under the guidance of heavenly prin
ciples attained some degree of excellence;
that you are in short better than you were.
Be not discouraged. Now come* the grand
est epoch of your moral history. Here is a
star for your beginning ? keep it ever before
you ; “when reviled, revile not again.”
Can any but those who have gained an ad
vanced post indeed act thus ? Stand firm
upon your principles, and the pressure from
without will only squeeze a smile from you;
a smile, it may be, intermingled with a pel
lucid tear of pity. Sweet and precious
gems are such heavenly smiles and tears!
When persecuted, let not a ruffle disturb
your moral features, let a holy placidity in
vest your soul ; then will you understand
something ot what is involved in that most
humane of all duties, the duty o iwaitin-*.
If this be your experience, you will be en
abled to see that the storm which has pass
ed over you, lias purified and cleared up the
mists which hang about your mental hem- j
ispheres, and has lelt you :t brighter and a ‘
wealthier man.
Such assaults, as those above described.!
cannot but- be bitter for a season. Frail hn- j
man nature would fain be spared them.— I
Can I escape them ; timidly asks the newly ‘
awakened spirit. Tut, man, they are for !
your good. Were you exempted from them. !
you would be deprived of one of the most!
efficacious means of attainingto moral d : gni-1
ty and greatness. Temptation is a boon,
which the upright traveller towards heaven i
would not willingly forego. It strengthens!
and fortifies his spirit, when by divine assis
tance he is enabled to repel it by the force
of true and high resolves. It furnishes his
whole being. Tho upshoot of a victorious
encounter with the powers or principles oi
darkness is this: the affections beam more
gloriously with the resplendency of love;
the intellect shines more brilliantly with the
light of truth, and the outward life exhibit
both in a humility and frankness of demean
or ; emulative of His, the essential meek
and veritable divine man, who was and is !
emphatically “the Light of the World.”— :
Ph re no logi cal Jo urn al.
IT WONT LET ME ALONE.
“You let it alone, and it will let you
alone,” said a liquor seller to me, as I urged
him, m consideration of the public good,
to abandon the traffic. But it is not true, i
Thousands and thousands in our State,
never use intoxicating drinks themselves;
they let the liquor alone; yet their suffer
ings in consequence of its use by others,
are very great and ought not to be endured.
Mrs. Albro is a lady of superior talent
and education. In her early days, and for
the first few years of her married life, she
was surrounded by kind and loving friends,
and had all that her heart could desire. —
Multitudes almost envied her, as they view
ed her beautiful mansion, her peaceful and
happy home, with her affectionate husband,
and beautiful and well-behaved children;
but a sad change has come over her. That
kind ajid faithful husband began to visit,
with boon companions, a fashionable sa
loon. He soon acquired an appetite for j
strong drink. The habit increased. He i
soon became an inebriate —a loathsome
drunkard. His business was neglected —
his property wasted his mansion sold by
the sheriff—his family reduced to penury i
and want.
In a few short years the once happy Mrs.
Albro found herself the wife of a man who
seemed to take a sort of fiendish delight in
abusing her and her children, and making
their life wretched beyond description. At
length, her spirit crushed by the abuse <4
a once loving husband, and a body-emaci
ated, and sick from her priv.itions and suf
ferings, she and her little ones are carried
to the alms-house, while the husband ami
father is in prison for crime committed in
a drunken spree.
Now, Mrs. Albro and her children let
liquor alone, hut did it let them alone?
.Mrs Albro is but. the representative of
at least twenty thousand women in this
State who, with their children, are suffer
ing more than language can express, in
consequence of the traffic in strong drink.
Yet they let it alone, but it won’t let them
alone.
Need we say such persons ought t* be!
protected?
There is another class in the eommuni- j
tv which liquor will not Jet. nione, though ;
they may be total abstinence men.
To say nothing of the interest every man j
has in the public morals of society—the j
peace, happiness and prosperity of the peo- ;
pie at large; every tax-payer is injured by
the traffic, and has a right to claim protec
tion by law.
It has been shown beyond all reasonable,
doubt, from official documents, that three
fourths of the criminal prosecutions and,
seven-eighths of the entire amount ot pau
perism in the laud,-may be traced to strong
drink. Os course, three-fourths ot the ex
pense of the whole system of criminal ju
risprudence, the cost and interest on cost,
of all our jails, penitentiaries, and prisons
of every description, are attributable to
this cause. The men who pay the enor
mous tax necessary for these purposes, may
let liquor alone, but it will not let them
alone.
The man whose ship is wrecked and pro
perty destroyed, because strong drink Inis
caused the commander or pilot u to err in
vision or stumble in judgment,” may never
use liquor himself, yet sutlers in conse
quence of the traffic and its use by others.
We may safely aver that there is not a
man, woman or child in the country, who
is not injured, directly or indirectly, by
the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
r TEEMS: ijli.OO TN ADVANCE.
) JAMES T. BLAIN,
PBINTKU.
VOL. HII.-OTJMBER -5.
There is, then, no truth in the declara
tion, “L von let liquor alone it will let
von alone,” it won’t, hurt you if you don’t
use it. !*• d<es injure every one of us.—-
TI extern (JrusacU v.
EBB AND FLOW.
The nun who expects to see an everlast
ing llood-ti- m this side of Jordan, may
as wdl give up tli.it hope now, as to oher
iit till the ! 0.-vitable elk* :e S1 • -11 him
trande< 1 a hove tlu marstu sol .
Men’s mind> are like the oc an, if not ex
actly governed by the moon, us with luna
tics, vet- web ‘... and re: -T mg in wor-flnc
tuat’ug tides, licit carry witli them ths
hopes ands. art's, the triumphs and dt spurs,
of those who have human . regress dcvplv
at lieart.
W hen I bo Hood com in, and the good
cause sot ms drawing the whole world after
it, our hopeful frieuus begin to date from
the ivLilieuoium ui: once; and antic paling
aii immediate lan ling of the whole craw,
of whatever ship of Zion they are steering*,
in the happy port of the New Jerusalem
on eairh; .i; y shout, elated with joy and
liii'\Vi"-al goo.; Wiii, and 1 >1! SiloS’ u i . ■! ill
ii:ijp\ fuinnot, as if eager to oespeak hacks
and cabs .dr the ui no humbv i miliions,
in ore or less, just mi the eve of entering
in!<> rest.
The. next conscionsnc-ss to \\ hich they are
mused by the ebb „tido, is a half-distinct,
idea tiiat the Happy City is adrift, and that
their particular ship of Zion is being; de
tained through a most unaccountably long
quarantine, while the whole world is slow
ly settling down in the mud, leaving Orion
and Pleiades unutterably distant.
X<>w, we want the enthusiasm of high
hope in every good cause, and can hardly
expect to have it without the correspond-”’
lug depression, when, a reverse comes. A
f-w bravo men, h wever, may also be wise
men, ami knowing that the best cause in
its brightest fortunes is not secure from
change and retrogression, they will exert
an o er-strength through triumph and de
feat; not elated by the great waves of a
i coming tide, nor desponding as the billows
are sucked back into the guffs. Such,men
may-seem cold in t lie hour of victory, but
when disaster and defeat are near, tiiat im
perturbable calmness, and the inflexible
strength which accompanies it, will be the
hope of the weary and disappointed, and
the shield of the defenceless.
Let every man make,his own application
of the broad fact we assert, and whatever
good he seeks to accomplish, be sure tiiat
the reverses he may meet are quite in tire
• >rder of nature, that the world is not wreck
ed or stranded with the momentary failure
of his enterprise, and that a stout heart and
busy hand will bring any true thing for
ward to success at last; while the luckiest
lie that ever swept past, him in splendor of
gilding and clamor of loud huzzas, will go
I down to the murkiest bottom, to rot in
| darkness forever. — People's Organ.
BEAUTIFUL FIGURE.
j X o painters were employed to frescoe
I the walls of a magnificent cathedral ; both
j stood on a rude scaffold, constructed tor the
; purpose, some forty feet from the floor.—
j One of them was so intent, upon his work
i that he became wholly absorbed in admira
i tiom and stood off from ihe picture, gazing
I at it. with intense delight. Forgetting where
’ he was. he moved backward slowly, survey
ing critically the work of his pencil, until he
had neared the very edge of the plank upon
which he stood.
At this critical moment his companion
turned suddenly around, and almost frozen
with horror, beheld his imminent peril; an
other instant and the enthusiast would be
precipitated upon the pavement beneath : if
he spoke to him it was certain deatii —it he
! held his peace it was equally sure. Hud
! deniy regaining h.s presence of mind, and
j seizing a wet brush, he Hung it against t;ie
I wall, spattering the bcautifubpicture with
I unsightly blotches ot coloring. Ihe painter
! flew forward, and turned upon his friend
! with tierce imprecation, but startled at his
i gha'tlv face lie listened to tue recital oi Ins
I danger, looked sh-addring over the dread.
! space below, and with tears of gratitude
j blessed the hand that saved him.
I Ho, said a preacher, we sometimes get ab
i sorbed m looking upon the pictures ot the
world, and in contemplating them step back
wards. unconscious ol our peril, when the
Almighty dashes out the images, and we
spring forward to lament the destruction—
into t he outstretched arms of mercy, and are
saved.
[iTpOne ofthe finest passages in Richelieu
is the following:—
Richelieu —Young man, be blithe; for,,
note me, from the hour I grasp thal packet,
think that your guardian star rains down
fortune on you.
1 1 uncis;:o —lf 1 fail?
Richelieu —Fail ! fail! in the bright lexi
con of youth, which fate reserves for a most
glorious manhood, there is no such word as
fail! #
Why should a young man fail! If he
honest, if he be honorable, it he be-ardent, it
he be energetic, it he be.gilted with mental
power, if he be right in soul and strength, he
should never foil; and if any alluring tempta
tion whisper in his ear words that make bun
turn aside, let him revert to that bright lex
icon and never fail.
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