Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-09-16

where beheld the void no longer
bot a mighty tide instead, rolling
along withou, beginning, without
end; and over il like thing ofmys
terry, hung a cloud. which was dark.
ness beneath, and above it was light
That mighty tide was Tine. thai
cloud was Destiny. a
/ knew not where | was; | wa:
lostin time and space. and only knew
that | stood upon a great height
with the mighty tide rolling far be,
meath me, and the mvsterinus cloud
moving steadily and upward before
me. NV spirit roamed along the
gulf Of Time, and saw the race ol
man floating on the tide. like the
cast off leaves Of Autumn's smitten
woods, and all, all were striving and
struggling; rising with a struggle,
floating with struggle, sinking with
a struggle-sinking 10 rise no more.
Human desires and human joys, Ike
gilded shadows or painted dreams,
ever changing, ever within the grasp,
but never reached, buoved BY their
own lightness, skinned along. The
nobleSi monuments of human art,
the glory Of great deeds, and the
immortal fame that followed the
fight OF Heaven-reaching Genius,
Ike the lurid train oil some wild
comet, were as the Iighrning's seen.
an instant blazing forth, then swal-
lowed up in utter oblivion. The
proudesi empires Of the earth swan
on the tide, like splendid bubbles.
glorying fora moment in their power
and grandeur, then bursting Of their
own emptiness, and falling rent and
torn asunder like cobwebs.
Age alier age went rolling back,
nor. ceased the struggle: in Ibe preg.
nant Future countless ages, fraught
with untold struggles, still remained.
And as looked | saw that every
man was doubled, and the two in
one were the fish and the spirit, the
bad and the good. These waged
perpetual warfare; warning, striving,
and struggling, hy turns they fed, by
turns they conquered; brooding over
them watched Sorrow, Pain, Des
pair, and Death. And as they
warred, the cloud of Destiny, still
moving upward, was By turns a,
cloud OF light, clo"1 of darkness,
then mingling all was mystery.
] Hooked, and looked, and saddened
at the sight. Something invisible
troubled the fountain Of nv tears,
and | wept, Oh. how bitterly! "Oh,
woe unuterablem | cried, sand
shall this struggle never have an
endi is not the amount Of human
misery yet summed up!'
And scarcely had spoken when,
a sound, a sound like nought that
mortal ever heard, shook ms very
soul. 1t came from every side; first
faint and low. bat fearful and over.
Il waxed louder and
louder I'LL the realms of matter
with the sound. Itissued
rom the utmost depths Of my soul;
I issued from the utmost depths of
he universe. Ger the Past il came
rolling in mighty volumes; from the
silent Future it burst, and the whole
course Of Time was embraced. L.
was The Last Trump.
A terror without sense, without
seized my quacking soul
md cried, "Oh, God of mercy bear
ne up,-l laill sink! | am LOST I /,
'm lost in nothingnessp and I was
borne up.
Aud then heard a wail-a wall
wrung from all the suffering that
rad been entailed on man, ascending
o the Mercy Seat. "FaII down ys /
'ocks, ye everlasting bills, and hide /
IS from the lace Of God, and shield !
Is from His wrath; ye oceans over
cap your bounds, encompass Us
ound about, and bury us forever
rom the sight of Jehoyah the hour
5 come, and we are not preparedl-f
Mercy! Mercy Mercy!" il ceased:
he struggle OF Lille and Dealh, of
light and Darkness, was ended.
Then Earth and Time were swept
way by the breath Of God. aud (
fought bat Destiny remained. bright. !,
.ioridUs, ever upward Desii0y; its
afkness had fled from the sight Of
he Lord, and il was now a cloud OF
iure transeendant light.
And then saw the starry hosts Of
1eaven, summoned 10 Judgment by1
he last dread trump, advancing in
nterminabIe lines OF light through
pace, and, concentrating, they ar T,
ayed themselves in a thousand ,
alos of solid and unbroken glory
ound the throne OF the Deiiy.- !
hen Earth and all things that had (
cen Of Earth were judged, Judged 0
y Omnipotence, and still. the cloud Z
Human Destiny moved upward, b
yer expanding, ever increasing in 5
brightness.