Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-31
M isrGllaneuns j.
Time and Eternity.

Time and eternity! What a crowd of thoughts
| and feelings-of doubts and fears rush over the
human soul at these two words; so awful in then
import and so sublime In their very sound, fall up
on the ear. What a volume of intense thought
imparts itself as it were, upon the mind, when it is
associated with the succession of countless ages
that marks the progress of time or when it endea-
vors to penetrate the dark shadows that hang like
walls of adamant before the mysterious passage
that leads to eternity; and through which every
creature must pass before reaching the glorious
realm of immortality.
With what ease the inauguration stretches back
over the thousands of years that have elapsed since
the creation-with what ease it can grasp millions
yet to be measured by revolving planets; from the
mighty source of time!-eternity! But when it
endeavors to form a conception of that which has
neither beginning nor end-when it seeks to COM
prehend one eternal immeasurable duration, cycle
or limit; its weakness and inequality to the task with
outshows clearly that God has severd time from eter
nifty and given it to man. and that he can never
pry into the secrets of the eternal world, until the
Almighty shall reveal them to him. When that
time shall come When the vigorous and unfet-
tered spirit shall futter over the threshold of time
through the portals of eternity, and then soar
away to the everlasting from whence it came,-
when that time shall come, he may feel himself
an immortal being, endowed with god-like faculties
bing their domestic circles, with the sensations of
one who appreciates their grandeur, and reveres
the power that produces their sublime eyolutions
If we look back to the dark wrecks of immor
talty that lie in the pathway of Time, where shall
we find an object uninjured by his destroying
touch.
The brightest names enrolled on the page of
history-how are they dimned by the lapse of cen
turies! Let the minds eye" glance back into
the darkness of the past and rest upon of the
mighty ones of the earth - who have successively
shaken the world with the gigantic power of their
intellect and sleeping in their silent graves
UNCONSCIOUS of the voice of fame that sweeps in
dying numbers above them and is fast sinking to
silence amid the mighty cycles of Time-An Alex
anderl Hannibal a Napoleonl Washington!
The mghtiest effort of the most fertile imagina-
ton cannot recall their great deeds and invest
them with even seeming reality. Their names
are fast disappearing in the interminable gulf of
oblivon-the bright glory of their superhuman
exertions will soon be extingushed in the eternal
darkness of the tomb of buried years. 1t may be
thought that this scarcely be said of our no
BILE Washington; but the brightest things of earth
are doomed to be forgotten in the succession of
ages. When thousand years shall have rolled
away all their varied scenes of crime, blood and
horror sweeping countless myrads of human be-
ings into their graves, raising up innumerable as
pirants to fame will he be remembered as the
great founder of this vast Republic? True, his
name may be remembered. but it will be cold
and glitterng like those of the heroes of ancient
days
The existence of Time cannot be said to have
commenced at the creation of this world nor is it
certain that both will cease to be at the same time
But period will arrive when both shall be de-
stroyed when the earth with its mountains, seas,
rivers forests and plains shall give place to one
vast empty void-when the sun shall no longer
dart his bright rays through the realms of ilimit
able space-but the radiance of Heaven shall illu-
inmate its remotest regions; and Time shall be roll
ed into eternity.