The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-05-30
PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS
OmenS Results of 1910.

PROVIDENTIAL DlSPENSATIONS
Omcns Results Of 1910,
It's sometimes impossible for the most
n6del mind to resist the impression, that
there is a mysterious connection between
mind and matter, between the moral char
acter and conduct of man and the material
creation around him, which causes them
to act and react upon each, other, produc-
ing concord and peace or discord and
war. In other words, when the mind OF
man runs riot, ard immortality and crime
overspread the earth nature herself seems
to imblbe the decentralization, and in
storms and earthquakes, porlents and won
ders, overleaps the laws which regulate
her operations, and partokcs Of the dlsor-
ders which aiilict the moral world, 1t
was mans fall, as we are taught in the
Scriptures, which brought pain and death,
disorder and confusion INTO the natural
world, the death Of our Saviour by the
hands of wicked men, was attended by
darkness and earthquakes; and may NOT
the Christian and the Philosopher, even
ofour day, without the lmpuia,lon or sup
erstition, believe, that through some IN
visible and nscrutable connection between
the moral conduct of man and the crea-
ton around him, his gross general depart
ure from truth, honesty, and order, throws
nature herself into confusion, and produces
apparent distress in all her members.
But, as relates TO the object we have in
view, it is quite immaterial whether this
notorious coincidence between the dsor-
ders Of the moral aud physical world spring
from general law which makes it impos-
sible that one portion of our Makers king
dom can be convulsed without disturbing
the other, or be referred TO a special Prov
dcnce. Unnatural commissions and extra
ordinary por,cnts, regularly or usually, fol-
low departures from the principles OF mo-
raIity by masses of mankind, 1t is inmate
rial whether they spring from the Law of
God or Will of God-whether they be the
rcsu, of an Interchangeable rule, or OF
special dispensalion. To the offender man
it is all the same. 1t is enough Tor him to
know, that he cannot violate the moral law
without occasioning pain, and suffering,
and commissions, not to himself only. but
to his family, his fellow men and the world
around him.
who can look back to the falsehood, the
fraud, the ln,cmperance, the debaucherles,
the shows, the mummercs, and the gcner-
al decentralization in the Whis campaign
of 1910, aud then turn his eyes to the
events which followed, without mentally
exclaiming, i, is Gods law-il is Gods
wilt is GoFS jmticG If the Judgements
upon the Egyptians for the oppression of
the Iseralltcs, were more terrible than
those which hive overtaken our Wing
brethren, they were scarcely less remark
able. The contest had no; ended when
these almost supernatural demonstrations
began.
TO welcome the arrival Of General lIar-
rson at gainesville, Ohio, on an election
ecrng tour, before the election, the flag Of
the United States, inscribed with the word
"T;ppccdnoe" was displayed upon lofty
pole. While the old man was waiting TO
address the assembled multitude, bolt
of Heavens thunder rent the dag and shiv-
cred the pole. Its echoes had hardly died
away. when an express arrived inform
inc the General of the death OLA beloved
son.
Upon the front of the Portico Of the
Capitol above the pillars which sustain it,
is statute of Justice formeIy holding in
her right hand a scroll, labelled "COnsti-
tnfion." Prior TO the Inauguration ofGen-
eral Harrison, the right arm ofthe statute
broke, and with the scroll of the Constitu-
ton, fell to her feet. where it now lies.
Over the chair of the President of the
Senate, is a Spread Eagle which held in
his beak n label inscribed with the words
"E PhmiJm Unum." This label, bearing
the motto of our Union, about the same
time fell from its position, and has nerr
been ropiond
About the same time, picture of Pres
ident Harrison in an elegant frame, had
been procured and hung up with great
care in Congress Library. One evening
when all persons had retired except two
gentlemen therein employed, when there
was nothing to produce shake or jar, it
fell from its position the frame was dashed
in many pieces and the picture left stand
ing against the wall of the room.
While President Harrison was on his
way to the city of Washington, the Bank
of the United States, which for years had
been the source of more moral ifnot phys
ical disease, than Pandora's box Of old,
stopped payment for the last time, sinking
under the weight of the corrnptlons it had