Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-04

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wrapped the Garth; and the frenzy of the cle-
ments and utter overthrow and chaos Of all
things, there was one heart that beat as calm.
" as in sleep for in The solitary ark that
lifted to the heaving billow, the aged patri
arch knelt in prayer. Amid tho surging oi
the fierce ocean his voice may not have been
! heard by mortal ear, but tho light of faith
shouc around his aged form, and the moving
lip spoke a repose as tranquil as childhood's
on the bosom Of maternal love. The patrl-
arch's God ruled that wild scene, and Noah
felt his frail vessel culver in every timber.
without one tremor himself. Upborne on
the flood, the heagen-prolected ak rose over
the buried cities aud mountains, and foated
away on the shoreIess deep. Like a single
drop of dew this round sphere of ours hung
and trembled-a globe of water in mid-heay-
en-. ] have often wondered what the con-
versations Were during the long days and
nights that lonely ark was riding on the
deep. .Asit rose and fell on the long pro-
tracted swell, massive ruins would go thun-
dering by, whole forests sink and rise with
the pillows, while ever and anon an uptorn
hill, as borne along by the reslstless tide, it
struck a buried mountain, would loan for a
moment like some black monster over the
waves, then plunge again to the fithomless
bottom. Amidst this wreck and these sights
the ark sailed on in safety. How often in
Imagination have | pictured it in the deluge
at midnight. To a spectator what an object
Of interest it would have been. Round the
wide earth the light from its solitary win
lows was the only indication of life that re-
manned. One moment it would be seen far up
on the crest of the wave, a mere speck OF
fame amid the limitless darkness that envir-
oned it, and then disappear In the CULTS be-
low as if extinguished forever. Thus that
gentle light would sink and rise on the breast
Of the deluge, the last, the only hope of the
human race. Helmless, and apparently guide
less, its wreck seemed inevitable, but the sea
never rolled that could e%xtinguish that star
like beam, that told where the ark still float
ed. Not even the strong wind that the AL
mighty sont over the wa or TO dry itup, driving
it into pillows that stormed the heavens.
could sink it. Though it shook like a reed
in their strong grasp, and loundered through
the deep CULTS, i, passed unerringly on to the
summit Of that mountain on which it was 10
rest, and at length struck ground and ceased
its turbulent motion.
Noah waited a week and then sent forth a
rIven TO explore the deep. Though the
waters still swept from mountain to noun
tain, the myriad carcasses that hoated on the
surface furnished both food and resting place,
and he returned no more. He then sent forth
a dove. 1t darted from the place Of its long
confinement, and sped on rapid wing over the
food, now turning this way, and now that,
looking in vain with its gentle eye for the
green earth, and at last turned hack towards
the ark of rest. The tap Of its snowy wing
was heard on the window, and the patriarch
relched forth his hand and took it in. The
fierce painting Of its notified breast, and its
dropping ~pinions, told too well that the earth
gave no place Of repose. But the second
time it was sent forth it returned with an OIL
i've leaf in its mouth, showing that the earth
had risen from its burial and was sproutng
again in venture. Then the patriarch went
forth with his family and stood on Mount
ARAFAT, and 10, the earth was at his feet, but
how changed Cut into gorges where the
the strong currents swept, and piled into
ridges, it bore in every part marks Of the pow
er that had ravaged it. Noah and his family
were alone in the world, and he built an altar
there, on the top of the solitary mountain,
and lifted his voice in prayer, and the AL
mighty talked with him as ''friend tliketh
with friend" bidding him go forth and &C.
cuPy the earth. And as the fame Of the sac
rifee arose from the mountain top bearing
the patrlarch's prayer heavenward, the prom
ise was given that the earth should never
again be swept by a de'uge, and 10, Gods
signet ring appeared in the clouds, arching
the man of God, and shown as a warrant
that the covenant should never be broken.
Baptized by the food-consecnted by the
aItar-illuminated by the fresh rainbow,
Mount Ararat stood a sacred mountain on the
parth