Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-22

scorn TO learn Of thee. With most exempla-
nv patience thou hasttaught this truth, They
also serve, who only stand and wait. A
thousand years hast thou been known to rest,
cased in impenetrable rock, unmurmurinp,
though thy circumstances must have been
most hard, tarrying there till some way has
been opened for thy usefulness. Does not
thy age-long silence seem to say, 30 man,
wait till thy hour has come, nor waste thy
force in seeking for thy work. 1t shall come
10 thee when thou art prepared. and never
can be lone well till it does. Because thy
neighbor frets, must thou ! or if he dirs
shalt thou not rest | tell thee, poor, work
hunting soul, God never put thee here TO
work without supplying thee with work to
do. II resting be thy duty, rest-if doing
do.
There is a whole sermon Of comfort in
connection with those eyes. 1t may be that
some will not accept it for there are those
who'll not discern the moral of a thing if it
don't stand out like the probt sc S of an Ele-
plant, But we will take it. Souls that
look forth like those bright eyes from poor,
unpublished bodies, great kings in shabby
huts, beautiful angels swathed in rude,
coarse, garments, all Of you have here a type
teaching that nature never quite neglected
any one; that not for one, nor two nor
many features we dis-relish, may we re-
iect the whole. o man, wilt thou re-
fuse to accept this fact as full, Of hope =
Thou cramped, torn, t~rodden, long-despised
Humanity, deemed wholly vile and linkfd
to the very worm is there not yet in all thy
brute deformity a jetDei also Hast thou
not somewhere, eyes like the morning. kind
ling with glimmerings Of divine light, beams
that testify thou art a child Of Eternal Good!
What are these fever-dreams Of heaven, and
a more perfect Life than ever yet was seen I
what these wide gleamings Of The truth
out every way in manifold Reforms, that
show the very hideousness we sicken at =
what are they but the opening Of thine
angel-eyes, the out-lashings thence of thy
diviner soul
He must indeed he scepiical, who can deny
in this age that there is in man a spirit Of good
shining in myriad bright colors from the
dark shapes ofhis old deformity. The gen.
tie deeds that have made blessed many pool
bruised hearts attest that he is often Godlike;
the deep, loud storm whirl of his troubled
nature, shows that he is nerer satisfied with
ill.,. All, wronged and wronging man, ,Dornl
if thou art, as some have called thee, there
is within thee more than many pearls
While some look on TO see thee perish,
whelmed in the last world-fre, as il thy toll
for truer life did but weave around thee thy
death shroud, | see thee like the silk-worm
weaving not a shroud, but from myself evol.
wing a bright web of new relations, from
which. as from a fair cocoon, the chrysalis
man shall mount, no more a worm, but a
bright angel, winged with deeper love and
holier desires. Weave on then, o thou better
soul in man fashion around thee TO thy need,
new faiths, new systems, and new modes,
yet never dreaming that thy forms are aught
hut transient helps that shall be left behind,
Toll on, nor heed the cry that calls thee rep
tile-and anon the heaven that all have look
ed for up there in the stars, will burst on,
upon the earth, like the new flowers of spring,
fresh, beautiful and full Of Joy.