Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-11-04

and learned their names and course;
art familiar with the sweet influence of
the Pleads, and the bands Of Orion
Thy teacher was reverent worshipper
of nature, and thou meek and earnest
pupil. Thou heldst a more intimate
communion with nature than we Of
later and more worldly age. Thou
workst with her laboratory, creating
the gem and pearl, and all things what
soever the breath of life entereth not.
There was nothing of falsehood,
nothing of diabolic power in this
Men were nearer primitive man, near
er the freshness Of creation, and they
who patiently and religiously dwelt III
the temple of nature learned her Sc
crets, and acquired power hidden from
the vulgar, even as do the learned men
now, in their dim Libraries and amid
their musty tones,
Thus it was with the Woman of
Endor. She was learned in all the
wisdom of the East. She had studied
the religion of Egypt, had listened to
the sages of Brahma, and studied phi
losophy in the schools to which the
accomplished Greeks afterwards resort
ed to learn truth and lofty aspiration /;
yet even here did the daughter Of the
Magi feel the goal of truth unattainsd.
She had heard of new faith--that
of Israel-a singular people, who at
one time had sojourned in Egypt, and
yet who went forth, leaving their
gods and their vast worship behind, to
adopt new and strange belief. Hith-
err had she come with a meek spirit of
inquiry, to learn something more Of
those great truths for which the human
soul yearneth forever
Hence it was her wisdom and her
beauty became a shield to her when
the mandates Of Saul banlshed all ia
miliar with knowledge from the coun-
try. She was no trifler with the fears
and credulities of men. She was, an
earnest disciple Of Truth, and guile
lsssly using wisdom which patient gen
Jus had unfolded to her mind.
All night did she watch the stars,
and firmly did she believe that human
events were Swallowed in their hushed
movements.
She compound, j rare fluids, and
produced creations wonderous in their
beauty.
There were angels described in the
vast mechanism Of nature, in the pass
age Of the heavenly bodies, in the con-
gealing Of fluids, and the formation Of
gems, which were of tremendous
power when used in conjunction with
certain words Of mystic meaning, de-
rived from the vocabulary Of spirits ;
spirits who once familiarity visited our
earth, and left those symbols Of their
power behind them. These, the learn
ed, who did so in the spirit Of truth
and goodness, were able to use, and
great and marvellous were the results.
Such was the knowledge, and such
the faith Of the Woman of Endor, the
wise and beautiful daughter of the Ma
ri. She was yet young and lovely ;
not the girl or the child, but the full,
intellectual womsn.
She had used spell of great power
in behalf Of Saul, who was in disguise,
and unknown to her; and thus had
compelled the visible presence Of one
OF the most devout servants Of the most
High God. Even she was appalled,, not
at the sight Of the cold man covered
with the mantle," but that she saw
goods defending to the earth"
The fate Of Sau! would have been
the same had not the prophet from the
dead pronounced that fearful doom,
"to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be
as am" but he might till the last have
realized that vague comfortto be found
in the uncertainty Of destiny, and in
faint indictments Of hope. Fancy
might have painted plains beyond the
mountains Of GiIboa, where the dread
issues Of battle were to be tried, and
he would have been spared that period
of agony, when the strong man bowed
to the earth at the certainty OF doom.
Saul and the Woman of Endor, ages
on age, sincefulfIIed their earthly mis-
sion, leaving behind this simple record
of the power and fidelity of human E.
motions in all times and places; we can
not regret even the trials OF Saul, in the
view Of enlarged humanity, for had he
H. ~. thar he rvas tho ,uarld