Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-02-18

Iilc WeIc CTCdleu 10 undergo tne same merry
ordeal and that, by "a series of successive
creations and catastrophes, the Earth was
prepared for the residence of man, and the
rich materials in its bosom elaborated for his
use, and thrown within his grasp In the
age OF our own globe, them we see the age
of its brother planets, and in the antiquity of
our own system we see the antiquity of the
other systems of the universe. In our ca
tastrophes, too, we recognize theirs, and in
our advancing knowledge and progressive
civilization, we witness the Development of
the universal mind the march of the inn
mortal spirit to its final destiny of glory or
of shame
The Being who created the earliest forms
oflife that possessed our Earth, was not likely
to limit to so insignificant a planet such a
display of his wisdom and power, and the
same high purpose which prompted its sue
cesslvc changes as steps in the march OTTER
restrlal organization, must have operated in
the preparation of the planetary worlds. To
believe that the earth was the only place
where organic life was given and taken a.
way-the only field where great physical rev.
olutions were in play, would be to detract
from the wisdom and bcneficence ofthe Gre
ator TO the laws of nature we dare not
assign either limitation or locality. Whcr-
ever there is matter we may predict its laws
and its elements, and wherever are its ee-
mcnts, we may anticipate the existence of
beings that are to use them. Wherever light
shines, there must be an eye to welcome it
wherever air expands, there must be be-
ings TO breathe it,-wherever heat WHITES,
there must be life to be revived. The God
of nature neither works in corners, nor linn
its his benevolence. Everywhere is matter
everywhere is light, and everywhere there
must be life-life animal to enjoy his boun-
ty-lifc intellectual to expound his wisdom
and life moral to love. and fear his name
We have thus cndeavourcd to conduct the
reader athwart our own planetary system,
and around the sidereal universe, and we
have pointed out to him, in conformity with
existing knowledge, the nature and magni-
tude and movements of the various bodies
which fill the immensely of space. In the
very diversity of means by which it is ac-
complished, we perceive a grand unity OF
purpose; and, however difficult may be the
conception to minds limited like ours, we yet
see, in the capacious domicile of the uni
verse, the countless abodes which the Al
mighty has prepared, or is preparing, for his
creatures. In the arrangement of our own
system, we recognize the type of others, and
on the breast and in the womb of our own
mother earth are revealed the mysterious en-
ergies by which other worlds must have been
modelled. If we have reasoned Alright, our
own globe is not the only fatherland in Gre
alton, nor its family the only intellectual
IN, ,,,I
cred by distance from the tenants of bright
or spheres, we are not doomed to an utter
separation. Along the telegraph of light
which stretches to MS from the remotest col
ony in space that the telescope can descry.
speeds the flash of reason. Upon its more
than electric wing reciprocatc the messages
of science; and thus dove survey each 9TH
er's abodes, watch their changeful move
ments, and, with minds expanded by a COM
merce truly free, we doubtless Join in the
same hymn of praise to the great Father of
all. BY chain thus invisible, and that can
not be broken, even by the worlds that dash
across its links, does our own globe become
a molecule in the spacious domain of crea-
; ton, and thus does man take his place-an
lnhnitesimal in the grand integral of intel
lectual life
But while the mind rests, with pleasing
satisfaction, on these great deductions ofphi-
losophy, it yet pants for fuller and high
or revelation. If the man of clay has been
honoured with such magnificent apartments,
and fed at such luxurious table, may not
his undying and reasoning soul count upon
spiritual palace, and sigh for that intelec-
tual repast at which the Master of the feast
is to disclose his secrets. In its rapid and
continued expansion, the mind, conscious of
its capacity for higher sphere, feels even
now that it is advancing to goal more dis
tant and more cheering than the tomb. Its
energies increase and multiply under the en-
cumbrances of age and even when mans
E heart is turning into bone, and his joints i'll
to marble, his mind can soar to its highest
flight, and seize with the firmest grasp. Nor
do the affections plead less eloquently for a
future home Age is their season Of warm
and genial emotion. The objects long and
E fondly clasped to our bosom have been re-
moved by Him who gives, and who takes
what He gives and lingering in the valley
of bleeding and broken hearts, we yearn for
that break of day which is to usher in the
eternal morn-for that home in the house OF
many mansions which is already prepared
for us,-for the promised welcome to the
threshold of the blest, where we shall meet
: again the loved and the lost, and devote the
eternity of our being to the service of its al.
mighty Author.