Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-03-19

tial care
Thro' these bright orbs' dark centres
darts ray"
We ask who is it that cannot " read
noble pathos in the skies ?" Who but a
power almighty could kindle these fires
light up these innumerable lamps in the
VAULT Of heaven. not only for the purposes
ri ornament and beauty, but. in natural
sense emphaticaily to be ous" light IN
darkness %
But am persuaded benishted ira
weller. whose journey leads him through a
dreary and dangerous path, would be a
ale to see more than bare Almighty pow
er employed in the creation OF the hea,
vens. He would see more-he would
see infinite wisdom aud unbounded be-
neficence also united IN this inhni,e la
bur; all engaged in creating, adornins
and beau,,tyihg the illi'nitabie regions OF
ether
rievstiug his eyes towards the hea-
vens (, explore the star which she'd Its
dinini.hed lust e upon his path, 1t he
should see millions Of them all darting at
the same time their pale rays athwart
the gloom, and, as lamp, giving hsht 10
his oenighted footsteps. we doubt mol ma"
he n yer heard a word Of revelation nor
Genesis, he would ee adorable wisdom
and god.ike benefcence in ali this; aud,
in silent wonder, he would have adored
that unknown and mysterious Beng
who, upon the disappearance OF the sun
in faded g'ores ia he e, has prepared
these - lights Of tn" IT, mament" to ghm-
mer fort6 amidst the darkness OF night
with such picturesque variety IN the hea'
vens 70. his entertainment and use.
ID unto day. says he psalmi,,, alter
eth speech, and night unto night she,ceth
,U.sdom. Il of und intelligence, il un-
searchaUle wisdom and unfathamable
mind is not involved in this providence
of things and does not conspicunu,ly APP
pear he Weiss ude of day and night.
the SUMS rise IT, The east and drclens,On
in III west, The waxing aud the waning
Of tn IN ION, and the app arahce or di,-
APPEARANCE OF the stars as the sun rises
or ir :, we say tina, it j. hen high tine
for US al to urn materiaAsts. and 'Og'
to d ubtiug the reality Of ever, thing a.
perta an; to spirit. Let Us extngui h
the ghts Of our rea,"ns, AID deRy the
ing nous Artist design in a piece OF me-
chsmsm where it obviously appears.
But nothing i. more evident to the
sense, than that ma ter itself possesses no
motion, and seems only to exist for the
sake of intelligent beings. /, this were
not 50, we should see tone, in lisnant
at their oppressive confinement, starting
Up in our streets and loudly aud bitterly
complaining Of this vile usage, tesenting
the injury done them, and asserting their
rights Of 90 ,ality with intelligence and
reason.
Now. to the eye Of philosophy, the
earth which we inhabit (and which holds
distinguished place ,moog the heavenly
bOd,es) IS huge mass of unwieldy mat
tei and we believe ths reasoning I" just
that The larger any bouy. the greater, in
propo ton, will be The difficulty TO set it
in motion. Look then at the earth IN its
revolutions around the sun-Obaerve its
rema. kaDle swiftness BY the sun. which
see rs 10 rise in the east and 10 set IN the
we t, and answer me, who but the Divine
Being could perform this mighty wo k?
Who but Him could originally have set
the ea,.h and all the heavenly bodies in
mntiOu, and given laws as it were to the
sun, tina, he knoweth the time Of his 90
ing down, and commandment to the
MON, that she knoweth her seasons
We, therefore, are warranted in as
sorting that the earth alone is full de.
molstratiou OF the power and being at
God. Like a stone, possessing no poa er
of Itself to move, it is physically imrossi-
be thar il could have setitssl in motion.
b. il does perform an astonishing tevo-
luton around the sun. We conclude
then, in the beginning, when it took pos.
session of the orbit whica it now occupies
among the heavenly b dies, it must have
been placed there by an almighty hand.
{Nor can we. in this place, crncsive any
difficulty IN crediting Jushua's testimony
OF miracle which lie performed upon
the sun and the moon, TO authenticate
and support revelation Of himself tn
h,s gestures. 1t being perfectly natu"s
to conceive thar He who created the sun
and the moon, and all the planets. pos
ses'e omDipotescy to fulfill the com-
manlmen, given by Joshua to the sun to
stand still, and for the moon to 90 down
in the vale Of Argulon.)
We are restrained from Offering any
remasks on the law Of attraction and re.
pn'Hon in the ,uu, BY which the revoIu
t"nS OF the earth and all the heavenly