Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-07-08
No. 30--WMOLE No. 4O3.

10 be matters OI surprise and cUflnsllyi
and Satan might as we'll undertake to
pick The lock Of the door Of heaven with
board naiI, as for me 10 try 10 open
your hearts to a sense Of the sublime and
miraculous. Bul look al the process OF
vegetation, see how nature, unseen and
myslerous!y, scrapes matter together to
buId tree, form a shrub, or fashion
plant! how precisely she shapes every
Ieai!- how beautifully she paints every
season OF the year!-how arlIstIcaIly
she manages the delicate shades that be-
long To he green grove!-but where does
she ger her coIor5? The everlasting sun
is her peIatte, and the finger OF God is
her pencil; but farther lhaa this we are
as ignorant IS an island of pengulns.-
Then zee, too, how with invisible hands
she weaves gariands for the trees and
sbrubbery, aud covers the most dirty
and desoIale places with the lovelIesi OF
blossoms s-bossoms that admit Of no just
Imitation by moral skiII or ingenuity. A
miracle, indeed! as The liar said, when
be told The truth by accident.
Ny hearers what are The tides that
appear 10 be tied to the apron strings OF
Luna, and are bound TO obey her bidding,
but miracles on the most extensive scale!
What ls material magnetism, but mira
cle?-what causes The needle TO be at
tracied by the Ioadstone3 These are
mysteries which no man solve, and never
will. There may be IN attraction be-
tween mInd and mind as we'll as between
matter and matter, for aught ! know; and
II were Ioolshaess in me to deny or dis
ele"e it merely because ! cannot COM
prehend n-(or the simple reason that
there are thousand other miracles daily
wrought before our eyes in which we
never should have believed had We not
brheld them 10 our satisfaction. My
friends man is an astonishing miracle
He knows not how it is, that while walk
ing, his locomotives are keptsIn opera
ton inluiliveIy, as it were, while his mInd
is otherwise employed. He cannot un.
dersland how his loquacious powers are
exercised IN obedience 10 voliiIon; and
he knows no more how the eggs OF his
ideas are hatched from The ovaly Of his
brain than a tsdpoIe can tell Why his
tail drops off when The legs OF the frog
are fully developed. The complicated
machinery Of the mind Is beyond mortal
comprehension. Man knows that he
knows considerable; but he knows not
by what means he knows so much as he
knows. He knows not what agent It 10
that keeps the main Wheel OF thought re-
voIvIng. 1t Is neither steam. water nor
FIRE; and, If it be- magnetism, that mag
nelIsm is a mystery, and that mystery
too impeuetrable 10 be pierced BY the
bodkin OF human philosophy.
My dear friends ds-sll we hehold, as
my text says is miracle, but seen so OF.
ten all ls miracle in vain. Nothing IS a
miracle to you. You see some most as
tonishng Extraordinarily being perform
ed on every side, and you don't even
give look of surprise Ibut seem 10 think
that every operation of nature which
you cannot comprehend is simply owing
to a way it has, and continues 10 operate
because it can't help it! You are igno-
rant, my friends, and need Instruction.
Mediate seriously upon every miracle
wrought by The OmniPotenI, and you will
become wiser-If you grow wiser, you
will grow berter-and in order to be LeI
Ter, you must purge The inner man oil any
quantity of vain cOnceit, venality, ras-
caIlty, haired, jealousy, and revenge, by
swallowing daily The genuine pills Of
good moral precept, and exercise your
piety by gentle practice at least So
mote 1t be! Dow, JR.