Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-12-18
COMMUNICATED.
For the Spirit Of the Times.
Kindred Spirits.

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| MAN Is o social being; emiCently so.
His soul loves its kindred. bis hear,
bleeds and It's strings snap asunder with !.
out the warm embrace of congenisI
heart to cherish il in depression, and pro.
tect il from tho blighting influences ol
solitude. The genius Of mans spiritual
nature Is sympathy, which raises him
higher and higher into regions Of light
and happiness, where love and friend.
ship, two sister graces, hold undisputed
sway; but without il, he becomes mere
wreck Of hi, former self; his warm
hearts blood congsals midway, and a
low unmanly instinct leads him down.
ward his mild and generous spirit loses
its pleasing attributes, and a gloomy,
endless night throws her raven wings
around him.
With it, man is indeed a noble crea.
ture; noble in his soul. that emanation
OF deity which distinguishes him so sig.
nally from the other creatures of God.--
Noble in his heart, which then expands
more and more in every social grace,
and at length mirrors forth the loves Of
spirits already made perfect by the trans.
forming influences Of perfect life. No.
BILE in himself, glorious sight. worthy
Of the admiration Of angels, as the mas.
terpiece Of Gods creation--his only per.
feet work.
Without it, he stands like the forest
oak shorn Of its foliage, defving at once
the tempest's ire and the lightning's rage,
laughing 10 scorn the mingled torrent Of
heaven; forever you think it could stand;
and yet, by and by unseen, the tiny worm
pierces its hearts core, and sit withers
away and crumbles into dust.
The sympathy Of man for man mus,
be ever tenderly cherished; for like the
blue flower Of the valley, the chill dews
Of heaven will gather upon its delicate
tendrils. and sink it to sleep, from which
the genial influences Of the god Of day
sufereth TO awake. And when thus
cherished. it transforms US into bright and
Joyous beings, like primeval self; as God
cid make US. 1t uniolds gentleness ol
spirit and divinity Of soul, which, like
the roses bud, more and more develops
its latent beauties, until at length il
bursts in all the splendor Of the full
bloom.
The soul must find its kindred spirit,
or else, lone one, through life's dark
vale, it travels home oppressed by the
burden Of existence. The all.beautiful
earth with its flowers and sunshine is q
hated prison.house, and time slavely
bears it tupon her icy wings, down to the
portals Of death; when, at length, like
the bIig ghted flower Of Autumn's chilling
blasts, it sinks to earth ever to rest up.
on her cold, calm breast.
The kindred spirit found, and the fine
wrought fibres Of the heart around each
other cling, and bright and joyous in
life they live, until the lullaby Of kin.
dred spirits watts them from their clayey
homes to regions Of bliss beyond the
sky, where love doth reign supreme. So
pass they here "as fades the morning stal
before the light Of heaven" Or may bs
Iron Death carries one home with him
when, 10 the other, the dark waters o
sorrow overflow the fountains Of Joy and
gladness the head droops, and gloon
ovefshadows the soul, life becomes 4
"cold and cheerless probation" which
opposes the high reunion beyond tht
skies.
All, is not this lovel
That one pure, wild feeling, all others above
Vowed to the living, and kept to the tomb
The same in its blight, that it was in its bloom
Such is the sympathy Of man for man
a heavenly, holy charm. sent TO relieve
the dull monotouy Of this lower word
and to impart a heavenly hue to the dull
dark gloom therein.