The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-04-02

Ihero are new developments OF human |
character, which, like the distant stars, are
yet to visit the eye Of man and operate upon
human society. Ever since the image OF
the Godhead was first sketched in Eden, its
great Author and angels have been painting |
upon it; men have tried their hands upon ltj
influences like. the incessant breath OF hea-
ven, have left each It's line up0p the canvass;
still the finishing stroke Of the pencil wlll
not be accomplished until the last lingering |
survivor of 1.-THE wreck Of matter and the
crush Of worlds" ''is changed in the twink
ling Of an eye"
The hemisphere of the present age is stud
ded all over with such pearls ''and patlnes
Of bright gold" as never shOne before IN the |
heaven Of the human soul. In these latter
days the waves of time have washed up from
depths that angels never fathOmed, "gems
Of purer light serene" than were ever worn
before in the crown Of man. We are now
but half way advanced in a new cycle of
human society The race is but just emerg- |
ing from the long-reaching shadows Of an
iron age, and coming out into the starlight
and sunlight of new influences. If, as we
are assured, scores Of new stars have taken
rank with the heavenly hosts, during the last
two centuries, stars brighter than they, have
in the same period, kindled up new lights
in the moral ornament. Among these new
stars, one little lower than that of Bethle-
hem, has just appeared above the horizon.
1t is the star of woman's influenced lntiu-
ential woman is a being of scarcely two cen
turies up that period, and almost hitherto,
her influences have fallen upon human char
acter and society, like the feeble rays of a
rising winters sun upon polar fields of ice.
| But her sun is reaching upward. There is
a glorious meridian to which she shall as
! to-monow's sun will reach his in our ma
! tural heavens. What man will be when she
shall smile on him then and thence, we are
unable to divine; but we can found an antic-
ipation from the influences of her drawing
rays. Her morning light has gilded the Wis
ions of human hope, and silvered over the
night shadows of human sorrow. There has
been no depth of human misery beyond the
reach of her ameliOrating influences, nor any
height of human happiness which she has
not raised still higher. Whoever has touch
ed at either Of these extremities, or at any
points, could attest that "neither height nor
depth, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
| things present or to come" could divert or
vitiate the accents and anodynes of her love-
Whether we trace the lineaments of her
character in the mild twilight of her morn
ing sun, or in the living beams of her risen
day, we find that she has touched human
society like an angel. 1t would be irrever-
ent to her worth to say, in what walks oflife
she has walked most like an angel of light
and love in what vicissitudes, in what Joys
! or sorrows, in what situations or eircumstan-
ces, she has most signally discharged the
| heavenly ministrations of her mission; what
ordeals have best brought out the radiance
of her hidden Jewels; what fruitions of earth
ly bliss, or furnaces Of afflicton, have best
| declared the ineness of her gold. Still, is
a scene which has escaped the "vulture's
| eye," and almost every other eye, where she
has cast forth her costllest pearls, and shown
such qualities of her native character as al
most merit our admiration. This scene has
! been allotted to the drunkGTd's Uite. How
4 she has fitted this most desperate outpost OF
humanity, will be revealed when the secrets
of human life shall be disclosed "to mOrG
worlds than this" When the history of no
vels, and of murky garrets shall be given in
when the career Of the enslaved mebriat,
i shall be told, from the first to the loves
degree of his degradation-there will be
memorial made Of woman, worthy of beini
a told and heard in heaven. From the frs
moment she gave up her young and hOpin
e heart, and all its treasures into the hands Q
hun she loved, to the luckless hour whe
the charmer wine, fastened around the love
a one, all the serpent spells of its sOrcery-
down through the crushing of her yOun
G born hopes-through years of estrangemeI
/ and strange insanity-when harsh unkind
t ness bit at her heart-strings with an adder
tooth--thence down through each successiy
depth of misery and disgrace, until she ber
o over the drunkard's grave. Through a
D these scenes, halo or divinity has gaThere
D around her, and stirred her to angel deed
. of love. When the maddened victim trie
o to cut himself adrift from the sympathy an
D.. society of God and man, she has clung t
n him and held him to her heart with hook
Il of steel And when he was cast out, all dt
b filed with his leprous pollution-when h
% was reduced TO such thing as the beasts {
e the field would below at-there was on
r who still kept him thrOned in her heart {
as hearts, who could say to the fallen, drive
10 hing creatures, although you are nothin
ly to the world, you are all the world to me-
" When that awful insanity of the drunkar
set in upon him, with all its fendish shap,
at of torture while he lay writhing beneat
~ the scorpion stings of the fiery phantasi,
or and furies of detirtum tTenleAs-there was
al woman by his side, endowed with all ii
D. attributes Ofloveliness. There was her tea
p full love beaming eye, that never dimmt
or but with tears when the black spirits we
g. around him.
be There she stood alone, and in lone hou
W Of night, to watch his breathings, with h
O heart braced up with the omnipotence of h
i. love. No! brute as he was, not a tie whit
re her young heart had thrown around him
y his bright days, had ever given way, b
OF had grown stronger as he approached Il
ry nadir Of his degradation. Aud if he saI
i'll into that dark, hopeless grave, she enswath
Ch him in her broken heart and laid it in /
Ol coffin or if some mighty angels voice
ho arm brought him from the grave of drum
be enness the deepest that was ever dug
ne man, he came forth, Lazarus-like, bOu
be fast and for ever in the eerements of
no deathless affection.
! it Such is her sceptre such are the chol
which she throws around the wayward a
wandering, and leads him back to vir
DIN and TO b eaven, saying as she gives him
7ct' "Here am 1, and he l0hOm thou gapest N
ons
~ ~ NAPOLEON.
les BY REv. J. 8. @. ABBOTT.