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The excellent remarks are from the
weekly American Sentinel, decidedly the
best and most valuable weekly paper pub,
llshed in Philadelphia: .......


The rising generation will soon hold
our places. We are one by one stepping
across the confines Of time. The school
boy witF his satcheI and the smiling lltLIe
girl, that passes by US With her open book,
completing her task by the way side, 1T
lie dreams that they are 10 be in turn the
great pillars Of the country. As we are
destined to leave this goudIy heritage be
hind US, we should resolve TO place II in
competent hands. .......


Under our own eyes how wonderfully
has the world changed. We no longer
ask for the speed OF the bIooded racer to
bear our important dispatches from city
TO city. We have drawn the heretofore
remote parts of our country into near
neighborhood. Cities may be said to
sleep beside one another. The news that
alarus the one, is borne almost as swift.
ly as lightning to waken the other. And
yet we are only at the dawn ol the day
OF knowelIe. Tne great Multiplication
o! human minds Sparks from the Deity
will open Us myrlads Of secrets, that lie
now almost upon the verge Of discovery.
The richer the vein 0L education, the dee.
per ia all probability viii be the research
OF the coming generation. We should,
therefore open the schoolhouse every
where. No child should refuse seat
lor the poor excuse Of the want uf room,
Build schools and churches, aud you will
require lever JuIls. In our day we may
be said 10 concentrate existence, aud Gu
JOY more Of II than any OF our long lived
lurelatherS. That is no true standard


that measures mans lie by the number


Of years he has tarrled upon earth. =
Tho lust less is the amount ol mental nap
plness That one may experience 10
whole lite. A man may doze away TO-
dousIy extended existence with llltIe or
no thot Osyonl the brute that p9rIsh'th'
While another who looks up anl looks
througn' the great secrets OF nature, ana
duly contemplates the wonder working
hand of wonderful Providence, may


Iorm single thought find a perennial
source Of pleasure. If, threiore, we can
extend our existence by embelishIng ana
improving our minds, it becomes US TO