Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-06-17

EVERYDAY IHoUGHTs.-Some perhaps think
It oosh or preIumptuous, 10 ascribe any inven-
llon or discovery, to the divine influence and APP
polntment as if the times and Individuals used for
tue purpose are not as much appointed as the times
ana seasons OF other things-as if the magnet, the
art OF printing and the use of steam were not as
exactly IN the right and appointed time and year as
the revolution of the heavenly bodies as if there is
not as much order, in these parts of Gods power
ana providence, as IN the rising and setting of the
SUM- Even IN the natural world as we find in the
growth OF plants-in the mixture of fluids things
WIN not admit those of an opposite nature to mngle
and be amalgamated into their own natures and if
they receive them in mixture, it alters their own
quallty-that is they cannot receive them and at
the same time retain their own nature-and why not
in the moral world the same?
Some persons think the Christian hone and faith
deluslon-but why more so than the worIdng's
hopels ne not sustained by the prospect he has Of
thlngs to come-the idea he INDUCES of temporal
good: Is not the poet-the painter-the protector
raised or depressed, by his inward view of things
his image OF success or failure the thing IS pre-
scented to his mind? We wonder how the martyr is
sustalned-why not equally the worldly visionary
1t sIust precisely the same prnciplc-the object be-
ing dIfterent-one confined to the world, the other
reaching beyond to an after state.
that has shown for ages and is both soul and eve of
our earth, shall we presume TO know the spiritual?
Could not the Supreme selEexistent, create his
equal-hls fellow, another Supreme to partake of
his lulness! Does not analogy intimate it, like be-
getting ze' How could He otherwise gill the mea-
sure of his glory? Can the sun receive all his
beams back from the moon and planets that surround
him, by aught less than another sun set as ring
around the central? Within that circle, behind his
own curtain of light, He dwells, 'unapproachabIe
and full of glory
Unchangeableness is the prerogative only of the
Omnisclent who sees the end from the beginning
IT we see thing in another and clearer light we
ought no longer to withhold impressing it on others
than we did the first view. Providence is always
movlng-llght is moving and must the mind be sta
tionary. 1t is downright obstinacy and hypocrcy
to do otherwise than to remove as far as possible
false impressions, which we have given, whether
through ignorance or otherwise.
Who would be wise let him study nature, for there
IS perfect wisdom and we cannot improve it-let us
only investigate and search it out. Phenomena in
nature or occurrences in Providence being accounted
for by the learned Gas Henry says) is no evidence
they are not for signs-for like the rainbow they are
not created but only appointed-set for signs-be-
SIDES all that we call phenomena may be and pro-
baby are really natural as any thing, we are ac-
quaInted with or accustomed to. His ways are not
our ways, and we see comparatively none of them
or OF those we do see, understand comparatively no.
| thing The operation of Almighty power, under
the guidance of Omniscicnt SKILL who can compre-
bend or imagine the marvellous things it will work?
When the air is still without the least emotion. il
seems as if it would never be roused-when the sea
IS smooth, without the least ripple, as if it could
never be tossed-when the vegetable world lies leaf
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we find the air converted into tempests and the sea
into mountain waves-the vegetable world wakes
into life and then why not man when he lies down
in dust' 1t is not only not contrary to nature but
analogous to it.-From the manuscript of the late
F. Knight, Esq