The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-18

exercise the action Of such thoughts growing OF
OF briar.patch flIed with cOpper-heads and WI
ter-moocaSOns. Ifyou but will it--ye need NJ
I think evil.
Before the aoo the humaa race started &c r
d the tropics, ami bursted short time after the
: commenced the building Of cities, and supplyiu
I themselves with too many wives. Nature mate
and paired US, and started us even; and SO
where we've got to. Man, at one time, lived nea
a thousand years, we nov live but very little be
yond the age of the hog, and we don't look I
the bosom Of our mother for nourishment urday
will grow shorter still
"Tho stopping and retrogradng of the SIM i
confirmed by Herodotus, the father OF pfoian
history. who informs us, that in very remote
ages, the sun had four times departed fIom III
Irregular course, having twice set where he ough
to have risen, and twice risen where he olght e
have SET"
This is also mentioned in the Bible-once
when Joshua was at the head Of the Isrealites--
then agriculturalsts- which was victory for
those who were willing to till the soil to reach
their father. A similar occurrence is mentioned
in II. Kings,c Xxx From this, it is nothing but
right TO infer, that il We had escaped the flood
the earth would have turned to the west,% and
went on through space accommodating in bulk
until the earth would also have been the centre
of as great System as the one in which she is
but a mere satellite That was the Heaven
that Christ and the Apostles contended for; and
John at the end Of Revelations, says, "And |,
John, saw ne,c heaaen and new earth" That
is, that we have failed this time, and we must
try it again. Christ also says, when preaching
to the people to refrain from killing and eating
animal food, Mate. Nv. IL.
lfye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto Your children, how much more shall
our Father which IS in heaven give good thiug,
to them that ask him.
That is, eat neither flesh or fsh-till the earth
she will provide an abundance for thy wants
the eye is a light to thy body-the Creator gives
you the requisite knowledge-you can see what
iGimal moves and breathes; and notwiihstan-
ting T. superior mechanism of that eye, it is
unable to distinguish, il unassisted by science,
he CilIions OF living breathing animals that 20
% make up an orange or I'LL out to perfection
he leaf Of cabbage. Therefore light was CIV
n to you to distinguish from what was good, !
md that which is forbidden. But in the cab
'age we find worm the principle life. The
anne with the tobacco plant-now both OF these
ire forbidden, but we chew the weed TO keep us
rom eating potatoes. "Of every tree shalt
hou eat, except" &c. Now, neither Christ,
john the Baptist, or the prophet Daniel eat any
neat Hence Daniel was 81 fe in tile lions den.
Iohn the Baptist lived on ust and wild honey. |
Moses undertook to bring out things right, he
made failure Of ii because the people we're so
snorant that they had to support preachers to
AXE care of their souls. Ten tribes of the chill
ren of Israel passed over the Pacific and took
ossession of this Continent. And when we
onnd them the lazy fellows had allowed the
'rests to usurp the places were gardens should
ave been planted, and where every man should
avs been found ''sitting beneath bis own vine
md hg-tree'" Well, we moved them out, and
We are trying TO get to our Father Cultiva.
ing the earth is the only way that we can gel
o him. "Westward the Star of Emoire takes
er way" In this work we must have Africa
0 assist us, and with Texas annexed, soon the
Tores Of the Pacific will be the East, and Asia
he "far'west." "Sudue the earth and multi.
ly," and we shall reach tour Father which ART
haven" Take not that life you cannot re.
lace, and this earth becomes N Heaven-the
orlous centre round which other worlds will
'll in uncea'ng praises of the Omnipotent. And
hen reaching our Father he will saw, swelll
one thou good and faithful servant--go on in
our work of mercy-difuse LOVE, light and
4Pplness abroad throughout all space, and
ght up with happiness, the whole Of chaos,
ow, this might all occur, five do not use pota.
res, and refrain from taking life. for every
wing animal has the same right to enjoy exis.
nee as we do. Amen!
Respectfully dedicated to the Right Rev'd
+ Percy HOWE, now residing at Coffee
vile, in the State Of Mississippi, by
warm admiTeT Of his teachings,
SAMIVEL.
The perihelia Of the planets are not fixed
in the heavens. They move slow
in the planes of the orbit. For all the plan
t., eEeept PefuS, these motions are direct,
that is, from west to east But the peTlheliOn
Venus moves from east TO west, or retrogado
.xaot observations are, as yet, too few and re-
ent to determine with precision the amount Of
hese small variations. The theory Of attFac-
on determines il with much greater nicely.
+Were the earth a hollow sphere, surrounded
lsrsiy with an external shell Of earth and water,
N miles thick, its internal cavity would he saf
cient 10 contain quantity Of materials zone
undged and thirty three times'' greater than the
hole mass Of continents, Islands, and oceans on
e surface, and the foundations or which they