Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — A Beautiful Thought. [ARTICLE]

A Beautiful Thought.

When the summer of youth, is slowly wasting away on the nightfall of age and the shadows of the path becomes deeper, and life wears to its close, it is pleasant to look througn the vista of time upon the sorrows and facilities of our earlier years. If we had a home to shelter aud hearts to rejoice with us, and mends have been gathered around our firesides, the rough places of the wayfaring will have been worn and smoothed away In the twilight of life and many dark spots we have passed through will grow brighter and more beautiful- Happy indeed are those whose intercourse with the world has not changed the tone of their earlier feeling, or broken those musical chords of the hearts whose vibrations are so melodious, so tender, so touching, in the evening of their lives. The lecture system has been abolished in teaching physics at Syracuse University and text-books adopted '