The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-05-18
THOUGHTS AND TRUTHS.

still progressing through the ilhmitahl,
depths OIL space. Those who resd, on th,
far-distan, stars, have perhaps just now dis
ccrned their rays, and their glasses-i they
have obtained 4 very high perfection in The
arts and seences-ire now revealing thu
scenes and incid ents which existed on TIL S
earth in ancient times. Perhaps they are
now viewing tn allHyiil plain OF the El-
pirates. and noting the scenes transpiring
in busy BABY lon,--or on the Tigris, the
scenes in Ninevah,--ar on the Nile. view
inu the incidents within Taebes, or Mem
phis. or one Of the twenty thousand cities
an towns in that fertile valley. Perhaps
they are admiring the newly erected palaces
temples, tombs, ani pyramids,-or the
twenty-sesen millions Of human beings,
who flourished on that vast plain thousand
years before solomon reigned. Or, T. re-
turn to more modern tmes-thHteen cen
turtles subsequently, perhaps the rays OF
light which shone upon the melancholy
scene of the CFuctixion, have but just
reached the penetration Of their great
glasses, and now reveal to them the picto-
rial record OF that solemn time.
We must not suppose that incidents per-
i>h, for it is not true. Every deed that the
bright sun has witnessed since the begin
ming of creation, has been pefpe,uated hy
his winged rays: for ike messengers from
heaven, they are continually conveying a
pictorial record OF our deeds. forever on
ward into other innumera5le worlds
And onward. onward they q, until they
are finally borne, fresh and vivid, as when
frs, perpetrated, unto the throne Of the
Great Jehovah. Nothing perlshes, for no
entity can b. annihilated. Even the deeds
OF this nutable earth. which We imagine 50
soon past and gone forever. still liYeth.
fresh and vivid as when first perpetrated;
for on the wings of eternal light, they are
borne upward and onward forever.
s. even with the thoughts. II is the
impression that all emotions pass ever the
mind as harmless aud trackless as the
zephyr over the fields Of golden grain
But we should reflect that nothing can per-
ish. The only things annihilable are forms,
for they pass away. the one shape being
substituted for another; but the molecules
which constitute those forms, are still
Observation-Disclosures of eternal exist
cnce. Emotions | said are not pershable;
eZ1steIEy f..4-.>vi,,.bsa,si nature stamp their
mass, and leave their track OF evil or good
on the features. Guard We'll your thoughts.
Tor Tomorrow may give rise to those which
viii never perish-may imprint upon your
organism mark which wll be as lerible.
and nde!lI5le as that OF Cain; which will
last until death, and whose ctfec, may In.
Hunce your soul even in eternity.
| have seen a strong man stricken a.
instantly 10 the earth BY adverse news, a,
il thunlerbolt had fallen upon his head
Did that terrible emotion leave no mark
upon his organism! l. it possible to strike
nam to tie earth. paralyzed and insensib!e,
without injury to his delicate cerabeal orgab.
ism! Strong emotion has turned the hair
grey almost instantly, and has al instantly
caused maniacy. Could those tremendous
effects have been produced, only through
considerable alteration Of the brain and per-
yous matter! Then, wherefore shop ID Mt
the slightest cmotiocs cause correspond
ing changes! We know that they do. and
that persistence Of evil thoughts impress
themselves upon the features with those
unrnisiakeable characteristics peculiar to
opium Or ardent spirits.
There are certain lines observable IN
the features, which may be termed the
marks Of evil. They exhibit themsclve. as
upon the fac. Of beauty.
as upon that Of the unprepossessing and
unlorbiding-uPon those Of youth or old
age; and there those little lines tell fear
full tale Of the fierce contentious and evil
workings Of the restless soul within il,
earthly tabernacle. They tell Us that tran
guilty never reigned within the breast Of
that person, but that Il hell Of passions
RACES forever therc-continually burning
but never consuming. q, how often have
d'9ee""ea those lines upon the face sur-
d2HIc with smiles, and thus wreathed IN
apparent joy, the evil fires beneath con-
tinaed 70 burn, aud the in atiate devil 10
gnaw!