The daily union., 1854-11-23

or rudder driven SUCCESSFULLY whithersoever changing
winds may blow The universe is the reflex and image OF
Il, Creator aThe true work Of art says Michael Angelo
is but shadow Of Divine perections" we may say 10
more general manner, that beauty aSey Is o me soas.1
image Of Infinite that all creation is the eiuence oil 'he
Almighty the result of caprice, but howing 9us
from His perfection and the universe thus produces
always in the course of change SO the regulating @
living Providence perpetually maniesing itsen
His designs could be thwarted should lose the great
evidence of His unity well as the anchor oil our o"
hope. :, e..,;o,oo
and immuabe laws of moral existence must Pervaae All
time and all space all ages and all words ine SonP
alive anatoms studied analysed and cassihea every
species of vertebrate existence to be 1ouhd now o M M
earth the air in the rivers, in the deep OF among he
fossil remains of lost forms OF being anu ne S ho
that they all without exception are analogous 80 'ha he
induction becomes irresistible that archetype existed
previous to the creation of the first of the kind
Shall we then hesitate to believe that the system OF
law likewise pervades the world We cannot shut
our eyes the established fact that an Ideal or archeP
prescribed the form of animal life and shall we not pc
eve that the type OF all intellectual life likewise eMs's III
the Divine mnd2
know that there is pride which calls this iaiaiSn
and which rebels at the thought that the wall OF the
of Life should control what He has made There are thoe
who must needs for their individual selves the con-
possession of that power which the great Engsh
poet represents the bad angels TO have lost heaven or
ing gifted with the faculty OF discerning he eounsels Oh
God, and becoming happy by conforming to hls DEGREES
but claim the privilege of acting irrespective OF those de
crees Not satisfied with having been created in HIS I'M
age they the liberty to counteract HIS Will lhey
that cosmlcal depends on
versatility and absolute certainty of law that for that end
events in their not merely fixed as Ararat
and the Andes follow laws that much older than
Andes or Ararathat old those which upheVed
the mountains The glory of God is not contingent on
mans good will, but all existence subseryes his pur-
poses The order Of the universe is as celestial poem
whose beauty is from all eternity and must not be
marred by human interpretations. Things proceed as
they were ordered in their nice, and well-adjusted
and perfect hamonyso that as the me hnna ., e
History gathers it from the welliuned chords OF me not
that this harmony be heard while events are passing
Philosophy after events and gives the reason OF
them and describes the of their results The great
mind of collective may day arrive ut seii-con
sciousness interpret the present. and ioretei Inc
future but yet the of present actions though we
ourselves take part in them, shapeless and unne
eibe But all Is whole-men, systems, nations, the
race all march ia accord with the Divine will and when
apy part of the destiny humanity fulfilled the
ways of Providence vndicaed The antagonsms OF im-
perfect matter and the perfect dea ofberty and necessary
law become reconcled What seemed irrational confusion
appears the web by light liberty and love- But
this is not seen till the act finished The patriarch when
he desired behold the Divinity face to face could not 90
SO but he able to catch glimpse Of Jehovah after he
had passed by and it goes with search for him III
the processes OF life 1t is when the hour of conflict is
passed that history comes TO rgnt nun nd oa ,e
time may be written God reigns' Events ;;es pass
away proclaim their great original and it you viii bp
listen reverently you may hear the eceding centuries,
they roll the dim distances of departed time pepetu
ally chanting "7e Deum Laudamus" with all the choral
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IL is because God visible in history that its office is the
noblet except that of the poet The poet at once the
interpreter and the kvore of heaven He catches the
first beam of light that flows from its uncreated source
repeats the message Of the Infinite without always be-
ing able analyze it, and often without Knowing how he
received it. or why he selected for its uerance BAT
History yields in dignity to him alone; for it not only
watches all the great encounters OF life put recalls wha
had vanished and p@ng of bliss like that OF creating
restores it to animated bang The mineraogst takes
special delight in contemplating The process Gi crysaa
ton as though he had caught Nature at her work as
geomercian giving herself be gazed at without CON
ceamen suck as she appears in the moment OF action
But History she recines in the lap OF eternity sees the
mind of humanity itself engaged in formative efforts con-
structing sciences, promulgatiEg laws organizing Gom
monwealths and displaying its eargies in the visible
movement of its intelligence OF all pursuits that require
analysis history therefore stands first i eqai to Ptlos
ophy; ,p as certainly the actual bodies forth the des
certainly does history contain philosophy IT grande
than the natural sciences for its study is manthe last
work of creation and the ast perfect IN Its relations Win
the Infinite
In surveying the short period duri.g which man has
been the Of the EARTH the proofs OF progress are 50
abundant that do not know with which OF them 10 o
GIN or how they sond be classified He is seen in the
earliest stages OF society," bare of abstract truth unsed
in the methods Of induction and hardly emancpaed from
bondage the material universe How Wonderful Is H.
then that being whose first condition SO weak, so
humble and naked, and of whom no monument Older
than forty centuries be found should have accumua
ted such fruitful stores of intelligence and have attained
4 to such perfection of culture!
Look round upon this beautiful earth this temperate
zone of the solar syste and see how much has done
for its subsection and adornment; making the wilderness
blossom with cities and the seemingly inhospabe sea
chssrv social with the richly yreighed fleets OF world
wide commerce Look also the condition of society," and
consider by a. amenities barbarsm has been softened
refined what guarantees of intelligence and hberty
have superseded the awessness OF brute orce and what
copous ntechanges of thought and love have taken the
place of the sombe stodity of the savage e wander
ngs of the nations greater than they have eyer
been in time past and productive Of happier results Peace
full emigration myrads in motion than all the
hordes OF armed barbarans whether Gaus Scy hians
ohs Huns Mortimer Saracens that ever burst from
the steppes of Asia and the northern nurseries OF men, Our
own city gives evidence tas the civilized world is beco-
ing federation for if you enter the sorehouses of our
merchants you find collected there for mauc the
ducts of every zone from nrs that whened by Arctic
SHOWS the spices which rpened by the burning sun
the equator and you classify its inhabitants you ind
people which the representative of a the cultivated
nations of Europe
Every cline is asked also TO enlarge the boundaries OF
knowledge The minerals that lie the peaks OF the
Hinaaiqyas the animals that hide in the denses unges
of Africa the flowers that bloom in the soudes OF Su-
matra, the tracless swamps along the Amazon, are
brought within the observation and domain OF science.
With equal diligence the internal structure of plants
and animals has been subjected TO examination, We may
gaze with asonistent at the advances which the past nifty
have made the science of comparative physiology
BY most abogios and ong-contnued use OF the micro
scope and a pber of careful and minute dissec
ons man has gnned such Insight into animal being as
not only define its primary groups bnt almost to draw
the ideal archeype that preceded their creation Not con
tent with the study Of his organization and the COM
parson with the Fauna OF every zone he has Dee
able the pusaons of the heart OF caterpillar to
watch the flow of blood through the veins of the skwor
to cnumcrate the millions Of living things that dwell in
drop water take the OF creatures so small that
parts of their members remain invisible 70 the most power
thai