Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-09-25
miscellaneous,
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FORCE OF GRAVITY IN THE
MORAL WORLD.
by ELlllU BURRtTT.

the command, and the command shall
be obeyed--" Thou shah lore tie Loro
IMy God sritA all My so1l. mind ana
strength, and My neighbor as MyseC'
Thou shalt attach thyself to his eter'
nal throne with all thy capacity ofad'
hesion, and draw with thee thy fellow
atom towards the same center. Since
1.-The world was made, not q grain oi
sand, not drop of rain or dow, nor q
viscle of air, has ever broken tina, law;
and there has been peace through all
tho pcoplcd amplitudes of space
Pervading the whole universe with its
socializing influences, it attracts parti'
clio to particle, planet to primary, sun
to sun, system to system; mooring all
the creation Of God around his throne,
/ tho common centre of matter and of
mind. And there, firm and peaceful,
that royal law holds them, while they
make music with the harmony of their
motions, singing as they revolve in
their orbits which it prescribed them
when eternity was young, and which
shall remain unaltered by hair, when
eternity shall be old. Upon tho al
| mighty and omuiprcsent force Of that
law, depends the destiny of worlds
which geometry never measured, the
condition of beings outstretching the
arithmetic of angels. Should it re-
lease its hold on a single atom Of mat
ter floating along on the sunless disk
of non-existence, trembling would run
through all those innumerable crea-
tions, "and signs Of voc unutterable
that all was lost"
| Suppose now, that some human
government should undertake to sus.
pend the operation or existence ofthis
royaTlaw ofthe physical world: And
suppose that its puny arm could palsy
that all-pervading, concentrating force;
what mind could not conceive the wild
catastrophe that would ensue through
the material universe7 Millions of
suns would be quenched simultane-
ously in everlasting night. All the
worlds they lighted and led, would
crumble in their orbits into the minut-
est divisions ofmatter, filling the whole
immensity of space with hostile atoms,
each at war with its fellow, repelling
lbs society, and dashing on in its cen
trifugal madness, to "make confusion
worse confounded." All the beings
that peopled those decomposed worlds
would float promiscuous and dismem-
bered over the black surges of the
boundless chaos; and not throb of
life or ray of life would beat or shine
amid the ruins of the universe. Does
any one doubt for moment that all
this, and more than VIC can conceive
of ruin, would be the instantaneous
consequence Of destroying the great
law of gravitation?
But what is all this; what to God
and his moral universe is all this dis
aster this wreck of matter and crush
of worlds; what this disruption of ev-
cry vein of life and form of beauty ;
what is this to that other and more
dreadful catastrophe which war would
produce, when it reaches up and es.
says to paralizc, with its iron hand,
the great law Of Love, the law of
gravitation in tho. moral world, which
attracts and centres around the heart
of God, all the hearts that beat with
spiritual existence Amid the de-
compositions of the material universe,
every undying spirit would be safe
from the general ruin, nor verge a
hair from its moral orbit, nor be JOS
tied from its centripctal tendency to-
wards its great Source and Centre
Put in that other act of immcasurablo
iniquity, man would consign the NOR
al world to n chaos infinitely more ap-
palling than that which would involve
the material universe, should he strike
from existence the law of gravity
He would sever every ligament Of at
traction that attracts heart to heart,
spirit to spirit, angel to angel, and all
created beings to God. Ho would set
tho universe on fro with malignant
passions, on whose rcd billows con.
tending spirits, once blessed, now
damned, would thrust at each others
existence, and cnrse themselves and
Gnd. That act would put sword in
every angels hand, and every harp in
heaven, with horrid discord, would
summon the frenzied and battling ser
APPS to mutual and deathlcss slaughter
1t would blast the foliage of life's fail
tree, turn the crystal river into burn
ing pitch, and line its banks with fight.
ing fiends. Hate, malignant aud
qucnchlcss, would burn in every heart
and no two spirits in the universe
would uni,c;S even in common malcv
olcncc.