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Excerpt from The Obligations of the American Youth: An Address Delivered Before the Euphemian and Philomathean Literary Societies, of Erskine College, at the Annual Commencement, August 10th, 1853
Distrustful of our abilities to fill the measure Of your expectations, we appear before you to perform the part allotted to us in the celebration of your Annual Festival Of Letters. The occasion is fraught with the most lively interest. Age is here with its venerable crown of gray hairs'e - Middle age' with its'firm and settled vigour - fyouth, with its exuberance of l1fe and health - and Woman, with the sunshine Of her smile to illumine the Whole scene. Fond expectations have mounted, from the parent's breast, to the eye and cheek, and are there blushing, as the soft glow of electric heat upon the distant cloud. Anticipation has gone forth, like a pioneer, into'the future, and has carved out a destiny of usefulness and honor, if not of brilliancy and Splendor, for each inmate of this Institution. The aged patriot and philanthropist know that their generation will soonpass away, like a broken wave upon the shore, but, before their de parture, they would hail the rising generation, loom-i ing up, like a wave in their wake, and bearing upon its bosom greater blessings and richer honors. We are all convened, not only to witness the exercises of this intellectual gymnasium, but 'to give evidence of the weighty interest that is' felt for the welfare of our youth. And'what an imposing thought l - our youth.
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