Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-23

peeh uttered by the oppressed, man.
GATE o. cruelty by the oppessor nor false and ateng word
by the deceiver, but registered indeby upou the
phere we breathe What thought
mas ever been raised upon the bosom of the sea
winch has not influence and change into every ocean
ana modled IN some form, the that roll other
shoes Cast into pool but the smallest pebble and ripple
nipple follow each other the Shore and the eye of
man the unduary motion soon lost yet that ripple has mod
he'd that with which in contact and and air are
In their changed and infinite unauary motion is COM
menced which will end with time The soul of the neor
whose body cast into the from the slave shin in
tighten the vessel will need the great dav of M
witness of his agony Every particle of air
still floating the earth, will record the act every we've
which breaks upon ten thousand shores will give evidence f
the last gge OF the waters which closed over the head Of the
dying victim Confront the murderer vh of the
moaed negro and in its still quverng movements he will
read the prophets denunciation of the prophet king
philosophers admit the existence of subtitle elastic oed
um pervading all space and if this is true il youd seem that
our thoughts and actions send Migratory thrill through the
material Universe Peter teaches the christian that the new
heavens or atmosphere and the earth wherein dweeth
righteousness are merely present earth and atmosphere
melted and burnt by the fires ohe last day We learn from
similar authority that evil and good are registered
and Is not rational suppose the ferven heat will oberae
them the inference in fact as it is catholic the
records our lives will appear in the economy and mod
y the pusaons OF the heavens and the earth SO long as
the pendulum OF Time vibates The confagraon of the
INTO new FORMS bat the mechanical character of the atoms
will not be destroyed and when they emerge from the caas
ophe, III new and brighter FORMS they may still bear the inn
press otevery word and action they take up Who shall
doubt that when gross bodies shall be laid aside
the SOUL looking forth from spiritual body with quckened
powers and unrestricted vision shall penetrate new world
IN the ntnitesnia parts of creaon Is absurdy to
suppose that now there minds in the Universe
VINO possess this qulckened power OF perception and though
IN distant worlds do actually know what is passing here by
the vibrations which words and actions produce upon elias
tic matter Light moves with such immense velocity that
1t requires little than second for it TO pass two hun
dred thousand miles fash of lightning on our earth would
be visible the second and quarter afterwards
on the sum- eight minutes the planet Jupiter, great
est distance from hytwo minutes Uranus two hours
on Neptune, four hours and quarter the star of Vega
the first magnitude five years of the eighth
magnitude hundred and eighty years on star of the
twelfth magnitude four thousand years Stars of this magn
tude are visible through telescopes and there ten
thousand times thousand worlds we may believe that our
poor aids have carried the gosser into the remo
distance and that there worlds beyond that would re-
quire six thousand years time eapse before fash of light
ming earth would be visible there This is known a.
mong the Poets, the Dim Distance"
Thunder and lightning Simultaneous yet the thunder
follows the FASH like manner the pictures of every &C.
curence propagate themselves into distant ether upon the
wings OF the ray of light and although they become fainter
in the Unreasonable distance they still have color and form
us ltlg visible,
these pictures also be said be vibe however impossible
may be for the human eye perceive with the hitherto dis
covered optical instruments There may be created vision
with powers all pictures of our worlds hso-
ry may pass before like panorama Suppose such vision
at this moment upon he twelfth magnitude, with
gaze fixed upon earth. Iwoud the deuge of Noah
sweeping earth Advancing nearer star would
see Abraham going out, knowing whittier he Ad-
vancng another and the crucxion and agony of the
Redeeme would be visible and yet another STEP would
hbt the and commissions of world in modern times
Photography furnish helps illustrate position The
process strictly chemical In beam light that
US from the end only rays of light and heat, but
chemical rays which upon bodies to change the
constitution When these rays reflected from human
face, and fall upon sivered plate coated with iodine
bromne they leave impression which fixed and brough
by the vapor of mercury and other chemical agents
1t evident that this Photographic influence pervades all
How do we know but thatit imprints features
they modified by the passions upon the world around
it may be that the Universe is Daguerrean gallery, llec
with mpe ssons and pictures. Nature acute for senses
may be unable conceal these mysteries from the vision
less material beings, and TO such features and actions
both be known What evidence there that the chemical rays
of beam rays of light We know that they
equally diused through the spectrum, being energetic
its violet extremity but there proof that they visible
They may like heat their appropriate influences wbic
be manly that ofdeoxidaton and yet be coorf
c so they would operate in the dark, and experiment il
illustrates this fact We infer because has We
been able bring the human but imperfect view
the mysteries OF nature that there is lack of them Thu
discovery of few leads the ingenious mind to seek still far
Their delicate and refined chemistry may disclos
the fact that Nature is full of them The enomities of hu
conduct have sought conceal themselves with tn
sroud night The thief the countereer the assassin tn
robber the murderer and the seducer feel comparatively SAT
the darkness ofmidnigt prevents the scrutiny of their
tons romh eyes Suppose night uneing hotogra
pist and that when the wicked open their eyes from the ee
death in another world that they should find the Univers
hung round with faithful pictures of the enomes commtte
the flesh and which they had believed forever lost
" the oblivion Of night
OF Zoology and Comparative Anatomy furnish aids to prop
position Botany and Geology afford endless illustrations
this subject many of which, had the space to spare
I'd would employ on this occasion The mechanical forces res
H. thousand illustrative evidences amid all of which
to seek in the Spirit Land for proofs uphold science
veopments explain the phenomena of merely mechanic
rappngs We must now come closer to the subject before
Electricity appears to be dsed through all and
yond all doubt it of the most important OF the Phyc
forces the great phenomena of Creation In the thund
a cloud swelling with destruction it resides readyo launch
bolts of death and shake the earth with its explosions in
aerial undulaons silent and unseen passes giving the
nd cssay the organisms around which 1t floats
The ran-dopthe earth grdlng oceanand the ringing
tes OF the hill born rvuet hold locked this mighty force IT
ed solid rokshe tenacious cays which rest upon the-u
superficial soand the incoherent sands give evidence
the presence of this agency and in the organic world whet
err er animal or vegetable the perturbation of electrical force
ways detected Experimenats have shown that "a
and platinum wires oneeighteenh OF inch in diame
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