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THchEOROPIAN NAME AND SHIELD .................. 49
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THE OBJECT OF LIFE ................ ................... ;

THE SCIENCE OF CHEMISTRY ............................. .;

THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST .......... . .............. '

LITERARY DISSIPATION ................ V ................... .-
MENOF GENIUS ..............................
BETI—IANY COLLEGE 7 '-
THE CASTLE BY THE SEA ............................ .
CORRESPONDENCE .......................................... r
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A \VOMAN OF GOOD TASTE ................................ 54
THE DEVIL AND THE LAXVYERS ......................... 55
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RELIGIOUS DEBATES ........................................ 58
A TREMENDOIYS EVIL ....................................... 60
THE PRESS ...................................................... 61
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AMONG THE COLLEGES ..................................... 63
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The ﬁrst editorial which appeared in the Ceci'Opian
Shield which was founded in 1865—G. W. RANCK,
Editor.

The original name of the city of Athens was
Cecropia. It was named after its illustrious foun—
der, Caecrops, a great Egyptian statesman, who,
according to Plato, Heroditus and Diodorus came
to Attica, in Greece, more than 3,400 years ago,
planted his standard upon the Acropolis and
founded the most reﬁned, elegant and beautiful
city of antiquity. Time will not allow us to speak
of its glories in detail, sufﬁce it to say that the
greatest men of ancient times were citizens of
Cecropia orAthens, Thermistocles, Miltiades, Aris-
toa, Socrates and Pericles, were all Cecropians.
There we got ourname—to say that, is to say
enough. The protecting goddess of Athens and
Cecropia was Minerva, or, as the Greeks called

her, Athena. She was the patron of literature, i

science and the liberal arts. She is said to have
sprung from the brain of Jupiter in full armor,
that she chose Athens as her abode, and ever after
placed her shield between it and danger. The

glory of Athens was her Parthenon, or temple of ,

Minerva. It was on the summit of the Acropotes,
built of marble and aborned with sculptures from
the hand of Phidias. Here was a stature of Mt
nerva seventy feet high, armed with helmet, spur
and aglittcring shield, the ﬁrst thing in Athens
which gladdencd the eye of the weary sailor,

nies of death draw her tattered shawl around her .

priate—no other can ever stand on th ontskirt
of its glory. The Shield, how many strange
thoughts and grand historic associations are con»
nected with that little word. It gave conﬁdence
to the warrior servants of Abraham. Its clanging
was heard at the downfall of proud and wicked
Babylon. It aided in keeping the idolatrous sol—
diers of Titus from the sacred temple of Jerusa—
lem. It was borne by Cyrus, Hannibal and Alex~
ander. Rome took it and conquered; Carthage
saw it and fell. It has graced pagan altars and
christian sanctuaries, and has been placed be«
tween the heart and danger from the dawn of
creation to the present time. Appelles painted it,
Plato moralized upon it, and Homer sings his
loftiest strain on the shield of Ajax. On the eve
of a contest the Spartan mother said to her son,
“Return with this Shield my son or upon it.”

It brings to our mind the days of chivalry and
heraldry, and carries us back to the brilliant tour-
nament, knights in armor, and the Field of the
Cloth of Gold. We see the mail-clad knights enter
the lists with their shields shining in the sun; we
hear the signal blast of the trumpet, there is a
rushing of ﬁery steeds, waving of plumesand
pennons, crash of lances, a knight unhorsed, and
the victor reeeivespthe prize of beauty from the
favorite lady in the court.

Look at the word in a figurative sense. The
soldier shields his country from her foes. ‘iVe
shield our friends from slander. The protect
ing roof shields the weary traveler from the
storm. See that mother freezing amid the snow
and ice of St. Bernard-~see her even in the age-

beautit‘ul babe to shield it from the cutting wind.
Far back in the dim vista of time the great

f Jehovah said to the Fatherof the faithful, “i am
f thy Shield,” and the psalmist of Israel says. “His

truth shall be thy Shield and buckier.”

though miles and miles away upon. the JEgean Sea. '
Armed with this magic shield Minerva lead her 3

loved Greeks to victory in the Trojan War, covered
them with the highest military honors, and
crowded Cecropia with Poets, Painters, Statesmen,
Orators and Philosophers. Here this Society ob‘
taincd the name of its paper, and here they found
this shield Could we have done better? Our
Society named after the. most illustrious city in
the world, and bearing the Shield of that city’s
protecting goddess. ,

The Shield! that name has an air and dignity
about it that history, greatness and antiquity
a.‘one can give. No other name would, be appro-

\Vehstcr
shielded the constitution of his country, and
Henry Clay shielded the life of the nation from
the arrows of" passion and sectional strife. ‘ All

Variations and corporate bodies have their Shields,

the Cecropian Societv has one also. In ancient

times he without a Shield was a mark of disgrace;
the (.‘eeropian Society can still show her Shield.

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Apparently the swilish man has no soul; his
heart is encased in adamant, and his life, in self-
sacriiice. He robs his own grave of every ﬂower
and every sympathetic tear; he mortgages his

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physical frame, and sells his own soul, simply to .

“satisfy his desire to replete his confers with “sor-
did dust.”
present gratiﬁcation.
entity to the extremely sellish man.
the present are all the objects of his vision.
eyes cannot see the miseries ot' the poor, he cannot
hear the cries of the wretched, he has no heart to
sympathtze with the tears of the distressed. He
turns from all to worship his cottered deity.

Society has no part in him. He thinks his own
good promoted precisely as he detracts from the
general good of society. He esteems personal
and social beneﬁts to be mutually at variance.—
This causes him to acquire, but not to impart.
He heapeth up treasures, but knoweth not who
shall squander them. How strange the disposi
tion! How vain the object! The whole mind he—
comes narrowed to the little Circle—SELF around
which it revolves as the subject. attribute and
object of its greatest pride. Indeed he

In fact the future is a non-

“Lives alone, abhored by all,
Like a disease, yet cannot so be ’scaped,
But, canker—like cats through the poor man's hearts
That live about him; never has commerce
With any but to ruin them; his house
Inhospitable as the wilderness,
And never looked upon but with a curse.
He hoardsin secret places of the earth,
Not only bags of treasure, but his corn.
Whose every grain he prizes above a life;
And never prays at all but for more years.” L.

2715’ oral/3702' of ﬁfﬁﬁiw

It has been beautifully said——

“ "Tis not the whole of life to live,
Xor all of death to die."

”We see at once the importance of knowing the
true object for which we should live. God would
not have created man in His image and granted
him dominion over the works of His hand, unless
an object had been in view. If we know not the
object, life to us will be a failure; not only so, but
after having learned the object, it must be ac—
complished if we would make life a success.

We might reasr,>nably infer that the object of
life is a. high and a noble one. God has made
man a little lower than the angels, and crowned
him with glory and honor. Hence nothing but

An object which transcends everything low and
grovel’ing. An object far above the fashion ot‘ life,
that lives thrcugh time and reaches into eternity.
The fashion of this lite passeth away, and there
is nothing in it by which we are satisﬁed. How
sick the soul when it sees the beauties of earth
passing away, and the carnal desires of man being
accomplished and soon vanishing like the mist
of the morning before the rising sun. lire long
for something that will remain with us forever;—
Such is the true object of life. It is not transient,
nor is it a bubble which remains for a while, but is
soon sunk beneath the waves of the ocean——
Troubles may come, and disappointments over-
take us, still there will be but light aﬁiictions if

He sacriﬁces the future in order to :

Himself and 3
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we have only lived for the true object for which
we were created. \Vc ask what'is the object?

lst. It is not to gain wealth. Many spend their
lite in adding to their estate farm at'ter farm.—
They pursue wealth by day and dream over it by

night. Soon they become Jich in the good things of

earth, but like the man of whom the Savior spoke,
who havingno place to store his goods, pulled
down his barns and built new and larger ones.
Having stored his goods in these he says, “Soul,
take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.” But
God said, "Thou tool, this night thy soul shall be
required of thee, and whose shall these be which
thou hast gained?” So is every one who layeth
up treasures on the earth, and is not rich towards
Grod.

Ed. It isnot to gain power. How many men
sink their own souls y striving for power. Many
love to rule in authority. To bring others under
our control is one of the carnal desires of man;
and many live for no higher object than to cause
others to bow in reverential respect to them.

3d. It is not to gain nu‘litary distinction. We
might become ever so skillful in arms, and power-
ful enough to make nations tremble before us, as
did Napoleon, and at the same time be an abomi-
nation in the sight of God, and bury the talent
which he had committed to our improvement.

4th. It 2's not. to creel in science. we might
climb amid the stars and be able to measure their
distances, and explain their various metions, di-
urnal and annual, and tell the exact time of every
astronomical phenomenon, and yet, fall far below
the object of our being.

int fourthly. 11‘ is TO SEEK ron
HONOR, storm as» innoarAerr.

cnracsrrar.
This is the orig-

, inal, true and great object of life, to which all

secondary objec s must be made subordinate, if we
wish life to be a success, and to accomplish the
object for which we are created.

G. A. Rnrxonns.

THE SCIENCE or GHEMISTRY.—-Of all the sciences which
have so far been developed to the world, none is so nearly in-
dispensable, or has furnished so much material for blessings,
progress, wealth, health, and happiness, as chemistry. While
it was regarded as a mere beautiful and intricate plaything, too
subtile to be brought into general practical use, the world
made but little progress in arts, sciences, and mechanisms;
but as soon as it was aekncwledged as the indispensable agent

‘ of all knowledge, behold, with what power theinhabitantsot'
, . _ , the earth leap forward.
what is great and good would be suited for hnn. '

Nothing is impossible; nothing is left
undone. '

An eminent writer says: “Chemistry has added very ma-
terially to the wealth of the people generally; but it has ac-
complished far more than at. first thought appears. It lHS
given us better ventilation; 11’ilixed noxious substances that
were otherwise repulsive or. dangerous; made plain to the stu-
dent what articles were poisonous, and the antido'es that ren-
der them harmless; has increased our pleasures, and made ex-
istence far more enjoyable to all, but particularly to the com.—
mon laborer. Besides, it has lengthened the averige duration
of humanlife. By the direct applic:tion of the pr nc'ples ot'
the science in the development of almost every modern art,
success has been rendered more cztrtain, and the field of in-
vention has shone with the irillianey of its discoveries.”

llut our greatest industries are, more than. all indebted to
this science tor their principal s‘rength and prominence. Bury:
chemistry, and all knowledge of it, anal iron and steel would
occupy the same grave. Without these, where would our

civilization be, or what woufd life be wort-Er?

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narrow, Gothic chamber,

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Times—Night.

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Floats 11'0211 me now; I mount the ready main,
’I‘o pierce through other, paths 1111111101111 disco1'01,
\ew sphere es of pure activity to gain. .
This lofty life this God- -21ppro aching lapture,
Cans’t thou, but now 21 11'0111102111s’ttho11 then
A1 0, but resolved to end the ignoble c2 11_)ture,
Why back on Ear th’s fair sun—01b tur 11. '9
Asunder 112110 to rend the gates inteinal,
By which each cowering mortal t10mbles fain !
’Tis time by deeds to pr o1'e Dthe truth ctei 11 11,
That 0’ en the heighth of God man’s dignity may gain.
N ot from that dark babyss to quake in terror,
Where Fancy, self-condemned to anguish,
frames;
The threatening path still to struggle nearer,
Around where narro11'-1nouth 11011 universal ﬂames ,
To take the step with resolution cheerful,
Tho’t hurl thee conscious down to nothing, swift and
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torment

.\nd now come down, thou cup of crystal purest,
l5‘or th fr 0111 thine ancient cover? Thou allurest
The thought denied so many 1' 0a1's,at 1' 1st.
Thou should’st at old, ancestral feasts of gladness
11 rom gloomy guest dispelliugs sadness,
As health with thee from each to other passed.
Thy '211'ied splendor, rich, in carvings calst, ~~ .
The drinker’s duty to explain' 111 measur,e
As at a draught he drained the 112111011 ed treasure——
Hath many a youthful night in memory glassed. I
Thee never more to neighbor now I tender, _ I
Never more shall test my wit upon thy curious Splen— I
dor—— ‘
Thou juice that quick sleep-bringing virtue hast!
I ’ith browner ﬂood ﬁll 11p the hollow spacious!
I chose, prepared thee, 1101 tion precious .
With all my soul to greet the morning gracious,
Be drunk this lott1'pl0d53',e this festalb cup, the last!

(Ile places the cup to his mouth.)
Jl’z'ng/fng/ of'oclls and Morin sol/(I.
('noiu's or 11.11.2115.

Christ is 21—1'isen!
tapture renew in him,

3 Mortal! To rain Ilim,
Olin gin g, pursuing Ilim,

No frailties prison.
11'111's'r.
W hat hollow 1111111, 11 hat tone resoundeth 01021
With power the goblet from my lips (0111peIIIing:9
T he Easter morn’ s 111st hover of testal cheer

Announce ye booming bells, with rapture swelling?
Sing yo, 0’ en 11011',yewehoirs, the song that mund the

A 1’0 211

Linen did fold we,

01021111in binding Ilim;
Ah I woe beheld we,

Here 110 11101'0 ﬁnding Ilim.

cnoiurs or AXGELs.

Christ is ascended!
Love of creation, all
Transport ! Tentationa I,
.IIealing, probational
'Wocs thou hast ended.
ILIUST.
Why here 111 dust, with Reason wild,
Y0 gentle, po11 erful sounds of Heaven hail 11113.9
ather there to beings natured- mild.
Hear y Our message will, my I aith almost doth fail me.
Of Faith is miracle the 110111 est child.
To yonder spheres I dare not st1i1'e, whence falling
T he joylul tidings echo round
And vet, from childhood 11p 210011510111011 to the sound,
\Ie back again to lite 0 on now ’tis calling;
In s0101nnDS21bb21t11 stillness, once, the Kiss
Of Heavenly Love brought down its voiceless 1110ssage;
And poured their fullness forth, the church hell’s tones
of presage,
And 111111701 enw1 'apt me in 21 burning bliss.
A yc—111111110s11'021t, past comprehending
Drove me tl11 011011 woods and 11102161 011's de11'—'1111pearledg
And, thousand beaming tear —drops blending,
.I felt for 1110 211ise a world.
Then say s the aried sports of y 011th 101'021ling.
The freer joys of fest2 11 bpl 11113 f'0113told;
\nd b21011 doth memory now, 11 ith chih Iisl 1 110111151,
15 rom step the last, the solemn hold.
Sound 011, y 0 sweet, transporting 1211's 01 I113: 111311!
Tears gush again, again to e211th I’ni (311' 011.

CIIOlI US 0 I" DISCII’LEH 1

lIath the ’I‘omb~1'aulted One
Burst from His prison?
Lives He, th’ Exalted One,
Glorious, arisen.
Joy—born to upper Life,
Creative rapture near 29*
Ah! me the cup of Life
T2 1ste in 11 00s capture here.
Ilim, left alone, 11' e
Yearning, I-Iis lov’d, miss ;
Ah I how bemoan we,
Master, Thy bliss'
cuoncs or ANGELS.
( ‘hrist is acendcd
Out of corr uption’s
Death’ s fetters r ended
Joy 0 er the Tomb.
I’1 raise Him admiringly
I 01' e Ilim aspn 1ngly
Feed uninquiringly,
Preach Ilim untiring l1" ,
Thus ﬁnd the Master 1113211,
Thu: 11nd 11111111010.

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9* Ist er in \‘I'erdclust
Selndl’emler l5‘rende nah?

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tomb,

BV angel voices sung, 001‘1solin53'brol1'0 the gloom,
Glad tidings of new covenant telling?

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Faithful, with preeitms
Spices arrayed we Ilim;

Low in the spacious
Sepulchre laid we 111111;

. live rapture“.9
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The thought is that (‘ hrist, in the joy of- de—

obscure.
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Said the Superintendent of our public schools
to me the other day: “Reading the daily papers
is a dissipation» of the mind; it is destructive of
mental concentration on solid subjects; it con—
sumes much precious time that should be devoted
to a higher class of reading; it detracts from sober
centemplation and profounder studies; and conse-
quently I have stopped one of my dailies, and I
propose to stop the other.” _ _

I expressed myself of thewsame opinion, and
particularly corroborated his experience by my
own. I have long been convinced that the liter—
ary diesipation of the present day, a fearful de-
velopment of mental intoxication,‘ is one proliﬁc
cause of personal impiety and church demoraliza-
tion. Satan, by means of promiscuous and sensa—
tional and imaginative reading, which acts upon
the soul like an opiate upon the senses, is effecting
as much in the direction of social and domestic
depravity and spiritual deelension, on one part of
mankind, and he is accomplishing'with another
part of the human family by the dissipation of the
intoxicating bowl. For he knows that, as no two
bodies can occupy the same place at thesame time,
if he can ﬁll the mind of the Christian with daily
instalments of political trush, and Jdeaden the
senses of his soul with literary bosh and. bun—
combe, and inﬂate his imagination with visions of
speculation and sudden wealth, there remainsno
spare room for the Word of’ God; no guest-cham-
ber is held in reservation for Jesus; the Lord ﬁnds
no access to the citadel of his heart; the Spirit of
God is excluded by the spirit of the world.

The world dissipate means, to scatter, to melt
away, to disappear, to break in parts and sink out
of sight. There are many methods of dissipation:
dissipation by drunkenness, dissipation by high
living, dissipation by the extravagance of dress,
dissipation by seeking wealth, dissipation by. gor-
mandizing; but among all the dissipations of the
age, none is proving more ruinous to the church,
more destructive to godliness, nor more vitiating
to the tastes of the rising generation, than that of
reading the promiscuous, hoteh—pote‘n, dashy,
ﬂashy, prurient literature of the day. Added to
all this comes the “campaign paper,” which, for
bitter invective, withering sarcasm, roughness and
bluﬁ‘ness, scandalous misrepresentation, wilful
lying, uncouth words and depraved thoughts, and
malice and ridicule and bombast, and brazen-faced
eﬁ‘rontery, stands unequalled and unchallenged. It
is the scavenger of all moral putridity~it is the
pack-horse of all political sins.

How can a man be a Christian who, without dis-
crimination and without countinor the loss of time,
reads everything that comes along? Reading
everything and anything, he craves more and more
of the same sort, and is distressed if he does not
receive his daily allowance of literary and politi-
cal miscellany. Is it any wonder so little is known
of the Word of God by Christians? If the spare
hours of the day are consumed in reading several
dailies, and illustrated weeklies 7— some of them of

the most pernicious tendency and the sacred
hours of the Lord’s day are spent on magazines;
where, I ask, does the time come in for Bible
reading, serious meditation, and communion with
God, the Father of lights? How many Christians
read the Word of God in their families? How
many even read a religious book or newspaper?

It is a notable fact that general readers, or
readers of everything, are pre—eminently super—
ﬁcial in everything. There must be a limitation
somewhere, else there will be no advancement in
any branch of learning. The man who under-

takes to read everything perfects nothing, even as

a mechanic who undertakes to learn every trade is
master of none. There is dissipation in both
cases. The preacher who reads everything every
day, gives out no mature thoughts and solid argu—
ments in the pulpit, but he will give you the el-
fervescence of ginger-pop and soda fountains,
shining as it spurts, but leaving nothing substan-
tial. Every Christian should be extremely careful
in the selection of his reading matter, and read
nothing but what ﬁlls his mind with useful knowl-
edge, and that which makes him wiser and hap-
pier, and which does not leave him unﬁt to com‘
mune with God. No preacher can preach success-
fully who does not wisely select and classify his
knowledge. Neither can a Christian advance in
the divine life who does not select the good and
reject the bad. The glutton who is alwas eating,
and eating everything, does not enjoy the sweets of
nature and long life and happy days, as he who
selects his food and cats at regular intervals.

As every Christian is responsible for his time

and inﬂuence, it is morally incumbent on him that;:.

he keeps out of his heart everything that is cor—
rupting and everything that is of a dissipating
character: That which he reads, like the food
which he eats, should be pure and well selected.
He is as responsible to God for what he reads, as
he is for every overt act of wickedness; for what
he reads is taken up in his mind, and is assimilated
in his moral nature, so that the thoughts of his
heart and/the acts of his life, are but a natural
development of the moral poison which has been
secreted in his soul. J. F. R. '

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One of the greatest misfortunes entailed upon society is the
opinion that great generals are great and neble men, and that
those callings which have the most gunpowder, lead, epauletts
and music about them, are the most splendid, honorable and
useful. False views of glory and greatness are, indeed, not'
conﬁned to those circles of earth’s great ones, but, unfortu~
nately, are extended to other circles connected as much with
the animalism of human nature as they. Polisical chiefs and
successful. demagogues are everywhere hailed as men of great
parts and good fortunes. Every senator is an‘ honorable man.
and .every governor is an impersonation of excellency
worship paid these political dignataries deludes the weary into
the idolatry of such ofﬁces and ofﬁcials, and turns their judg-
ment away from the oracles of reason and the true philoso-
phy of human greatness and human happiness. Indeed,- such
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seem to desire the honor of an ofﬁce than to be an honor to»

the ofﬁce. ‘

Indeed, we would not divest useful ofﬁces of their proper
honor. To sarve society faithfully, whether as a scavenger of
Rome, or as an emperor of France, is an honor to any man.
But to serve society in any capacity promotive of its moral
advancement, is the highest style and dignity of man. True,
indeed, in the great category of moral improvement there are
numerous departments, and consequent'y many ofﬁces. There
are aut