THE BATTALION.
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by the receptive power of the five senses, while intellectual
and spiritual powers reach their limit never. Young- g-en-
tlemen, your nature is an unsounded deep, never touched
by the plummet, and you have no conception of what there
is in you. Even your body is an unmeasured force for
power and usefulness, which time will develop. Christ
ianity is the only way to the development of true man
hood and aug-ments the volume of the intellectual and
spiritual powers. Unbelief is a process of contraction.
The loveliest characters under the reigm come to look un
der the reig-n of sensuality as if God had gxme out of their
faces and Godlike faculties are burned to cinders in the
heat of passion. The infallible Bible sug-g-ests a scale of
development of mag-nificent sublimity, and which can only
be realized fully when the spirit breaths ethereal air and
the eyes behold the whiteness of the throne. Young- men,
in order to make the most of life and g-et the best of it,
gave Christianity a larg-e place in it. The higdiest g-ood is
the development of the intellectual, spiritual and immortal
that God has put within you. Begun your intellectual and
spiritual development now. The time will come when
angels will recognize as their peers those who have toiled
in flesh upon the earth.
The sermon was embellished and enriched with in
cident and illustration drawn from literature, history,
philosophy, etc., and was delivered with profound atten
tion from the audience. The service closed with a hymn
by the choir, Dr. Wilson pronouncing the benediction.
SAYERS AND SCURRY.
Governor Joseph D. Sayers and Adjutant General Tom