Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-06-23

secure their homes besides sale at 80 early
time would draw from the circulation Of the
Territory large amount Of money, and add to
the hardness ofthe .imes.-I. r. Gazette.
THE E.vU. @
The comet is gone without setting the
world IN flames. Il seems even to have
carried off portion of the heat which
warns the earth, and poor sinners are free
zing 10 death. instead Of being burned up.
The earthquakes appear to have exhaust
ed themselves in shaking to pieces few
little islands, instead of rending continents
and breaking up the great globe itself.
Within a few duys, the weather has Civ
en- decisive Indications that "seed time
is returning, and doubtless .'harvest" will
follow. The end is not yet" the calcu-
lations and predictions Of the Mii!erites
no,w outstanding.
The idea that the great Architect is a.
bout to destroy this young world is an inn
puta,ion upon his wisdom. II is not yet
half populated. l. is just beginning to be-
useful. True, in the great deserts of Az
RIGA and Arabia there is something like
bald head; bpt look at America and the
Isles Of the Ocean which seem 10 be cree
atoms of yesterday.-Even Europe has
scarcely arrived a. manhood, and@in most
of Asia and Africa there are no signs Of de-
cay. The evident design Of the earlil's
Builder is not half accomplished. Civili-
cation is to spread over it; millions of in-
telligent human beings are to live where
savages and wild beasts now roam the
principles of Christianity and the lights Of
science are to ameliorate the hearts and the
conditions of men, and every thing OH
earth carried far towards perfection
When the globe, becomes peopled to its
utmost capacity when improvement IS
no longer possible; when its fertile fields
in every latitude begin to be covered with
driving sands or perpetual snow; when
mankind, from natural causes, disappear
from its mountains and plains, then may
we expec. the regenerating fire. Then
will the material Of our earth need work.
ing over, TO be made fit for some useful
purpose in The economy Of the Universe.
Such is the revelation of nature. the die
tate OF reason. and the faith Of that reli>
gion which believes there is nothing Ca
pr icions in The character or acts Of Him
who rules all worlds. Nor is there any
thing inconsistent with it in the book
whence all sects Of Christians deduce their
creeds. f.se ..sl
Let ancient women, womenish men aud
.inid children dismiss their fears. The
world will roll on for the mex. 6 thousand
wears very much as il has done for the
last six, with the difference that the hui
man family will multiply faster, and attain
10 much higher rank in the scale Of ami
mate exs,ences. The present preachings
to the contrary are partly delusion and
partly fraud. LIT effect. they are another
of those humbugs by which aEtful and dis
honest cop,rive TO live in idleness upon
the labor of their delnded followers. What
trembling believer in the faith of Miller.
will not give food, raiment and money to
the Herald that brings these startling IL
dings, and the more freely because all. all
is to be burnt up within one short year
Milersm has the advantage Of Mormon
ism in one particular 1t aeeces the fioc:>
much quicker. and then turns it over to Dc
roasted; but. on the other hand. Mormon
ism pens and cherishes the flock, that j.
may be heeccd from year to year. EaeI,
plan is efsctual in its way; and il is mel
ancholy 10 behold rational beings w'p
claim to be intelligent, duped into snprntt'
ting by their lsbol a sci of idle. knases
who become teachers Of lies that they n'ay
live by the vocation.
LlsELs.-The Globe is in for half dp
zen or so Of libels. That paper thus puts
Them forth in their order:
I'VE are making a pretty docket f,r
The Dis.ric. court Of the u. States fol. tins
city, for postcrity TO look upon. Oar
anes are not on j. for any cases Of debt.
except as surety for others; and all IT
these We are proud TO say for ourselse.,
we have discharged except one, and that
one has been discharged by the principal
OR. at least. he has released us from y.
Not so with the SANDER cases they nes-
er get off the docket; but stain it from
,er:a 10 term as follows: Robert Mayo
versus Blaia & Rives, for slande. Ma
,haniel p. Talmadye do, do; Fletcher
Webster, do. do. do. and now we are
threatened with Jas E. Harvey, do. DO.
do. We are ready for trial in all shess
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