The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-05-19

and win make "Trip down and bsek again
in six or seven days."
To look back through the history Of our
country, and for period Of seventy years,
to the beginning of this change and follow
down the succeeding years from then like
now-we may well use the expression in the
caption. "The beginning Of 4 chungs: -
= All great things have been brought about
through the fundamentally of the most
humble meaps. The discovery Of the light-
ming conductor, by FrankIin,S humble
printer. the cotton gin BY Whitney. ! School
teacher, the electric telegraph by Morse, a
portrait painter, and Of the gold Of Califor-
mia, which revolutionized the commerce of a
world, by humble laborer while digging a
mill race for Col. Suffer. Such will con-
tinue to be the progress of knowledge-a
progress that il humbIing to the pride Of
vain men.
It is but q few years since that Richard NJ.
Johnson and his brother James started the
first stage coach that run west Of the ALE.
ghany Mountains. ~ sol -
When l FIRST stood upon the Eastern bank
of the Ohio river. in Kentucky, and cast q
look to the Western, shore of that majestic
water course, Indiana was almost an unbro-
ken forests vast wilderness--now it is
settled with an active, intelligent and pros
porous population, many of whom had not at
that time been born. e
When 1 traversed the ancient works oil
the West, and contrasted these works oil
art with the wild, rild wilderness with which
they were shaded, I exclaimed "what q
ehange!" and now, when my minds eye
runs over the same surface, and see the
. forest trees have disappeared. and the plough
has forever effaced these mysterious crea'
itions from the face of the ground, again
am led to exclaim--"what change"-and
yet change will succeed change until the
great change shall come, until that periot
shall arrive. when this vast globe shall nell
with fervent heat, then tic atmosphere will
become expanded-lts orbits acquire greater
eccen,ricity, then viii it take comets path
perform comets revolutions, traversing the
boundless and unbounded regions Of space
until it shall acquire density, and again re.
sumo its original orbit, a new earth, a new
creation. Such change is in conformity
with teachings of the volume inspiration, and
is in accordance with natures .harmonies
but the time when this shall be accomplish.
ed, no man knoweth.
Mankind in looking back into the earliest
history Of time overlook the nice distin ctiou
which the sacred historian has made in the
record of events-"in the beginning" Che
says) "God created the heaven and the earth
and the earth was without form and void, and
darkness on the face of the deep and the
evening and the morning were the FIRST day.
!, In this brief history of the first day of the
creative epoch we have the whole record Of
the beginning of change. and the worh
was not matter of time but of power ant
the earth is now being q witness of the
execution of that power. A Being who
could create the earth in ten thousand years
could accomplish the work in single mo.
{ ment. Yours, &C.,
| E. MERRIAM.
i BRooKLYx HEIGHTS, N. Y, May IL, 1855.
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