Arkansas Intelligencer

The Men to Make a State.—The following are the concluding passages of an address by Bishop Doane before the trustees, teachers and students of Burlington College, on the last anniversary of the national independence.

"And for the marks of men that are to make a State, I see them in the ingenuous boy. He looks right at you with his clear calm eye. The glow that mantles on his cheek is of no kin with shame; it is but virtue's color spreading from his heart. You know that boy in absence as in presence. The darkness is not dark to him; for God's eye lightens it. He is more prompt to own than do a wrong, and readier to amend than for either. There is nothing possible for which you may not count on him; and nothing good, that is not possible for him and God.

"I see them in the earnest boy! His heart is all a-throb, in all his hand would do. His keen eye fixes on the page of Homer, or of Euclid, or of Plato, and never wavers till it sees right through it and has stored its treasures in the light of his clear mind. His foot has wings for every errand of benevolence or mercy. And when you see the bounding ball fly highest, and fall farthest from the stand, and hear the ringing sound of triumph, you may be sure that it was his strong arm that gave that ball the blow.

"I see them in the reverential boy. He never sits where elders stand. His head is never covered when superiors pass; or when his mother's sex is by. He owns in every house, at every hour of prayer, a present God. Ingenuous, earnest, reverential boys; these are our marks of men to make a State."