American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-02-07
NEW SERIES---V0L. 8 mo. 40.


render fertile the .-stubbotn globe" It1
was calsulssd BY Dr. Halley that five |
thousand two hundred and eighty millions
oftons Of water were aevap6fated from the
surface Of the Mediterranean Sea in one
Summers day; and. Aaccotding to DR..
Thompson, ninety four tho1sand four hnn-
dred and. hftypcubic miles Of water circulate
annually through the atmosphre,1 400
{ How many aaesGonsa child Night ask
about drop ofrain, that would puzzle the
very best mind to answer; leading by its
lsnnplelinqRires into the wide edonfain Of
science, ant. stunning thoughtby the scope
Of its lhfantile investigations, Sitting in
your easy chair, you may slumher while
the Pattering rain drops are falling all a.
round you, or spashing upon the window
frame like seamist, as though the we're glass
had broken into a profuse sweat, and you
may earnestly long for Sunshine and light
weather. But we oughtto be philosophers
enough to analyze the rain drop, and CO Il
vert i into 3 medium Of knowledge and
instruction Have you ever querried in
your mind When the rain has been pouring
4 down, where the drops came from, how
| far they had fallen, and with what velocity
| they fell? And how they chanced to fall
| like shot, or wafer forced through cullen
der. instead OF great sheets. or in buckets
full, 1t may be neither OF these thoughts
have entered your mtGd, and yet some day
J when you have been ya&niny lazily, and
| wishing impstieady for a clear day, you
might have beep more pfo6snbly employed
ia moral and philosophical reflection.
| We would be far more apt to think Of
the whesesbouts Of a sixpshce that happen
ed TO fall in our way than a rain drop on
its .misslsn of mercy FROM the skies. lex
pect sfter all, orr aversionto rainey day,
iS,mere owing to its interfering ofeniimes
with car worldly pursuits than any desire
to. see the warm, cheerful face Of the sun,
and the calm, duspotted azure above us
1 We are housed up, and have iothingto EN-
a ploy our thoughts upon but business, VIZ
grow impatient to embark upon its tireless
Z round. The rainey day never brings mel
s ancholy and ennui to tie man who can ttrr
! il to a good account. He sees wisdom il
+ the cloud, aud brightness beyond il, ant
the myriads of drops as they fall around
y him, are all SPANIEL with miniature rain
bows He has .. thousand questions tc
ask each one. and more that must remair
n unssked, because there are found no word
in which to clothe them. His thoughts viii
follow the little globule on lis beneficien
mission. Ii meets with some queer re
4 verses more than we could enumerate wer
we 10 try. AT one time sparkles as dev
uponsome lonely flower, whose bosom
glows with pride at tile brightness Of it
jewels: then snatch away by SUNBEAM
and drawn up into the atmosphere is re
flected in the rainbow, to fall soon in a
: April shower, to be trodden under foot o
drunk by man or beast or again perchanc
exhaled, 1T floats in the mist Of Niagars
and tumblcs with its roaring mass over tn
rugged rocks; again it may lily off in stear
v from some iron horse, that dashes alon
among our valleys and gives nourishmer
e to vegetable matter. Or performing al
"a, other mission. is slipped by the lips {
in SOME maiden, or falls upon her cheek as
no tear drop; or it is borne by the meande
nit ing stream to the river, and on the bosol
n Of the river to the ocean; taken up inI
us the atmosphere it falls upon the desert
50 refresh the weary trayeler and yet agai
a. it turns the wheels of industry, 90,
'e- through its usual transactions, and is druu
Of by the upper ten as pure Croton, an
h sometimes by the lower million as impu
its rum. Who can number the changes of
single drop of water? tits cspable ofe.
ON isting in a solid; fluid Or gaseous form, ar
ar Of nun9berless variations in each. 1t
he said by the wise that there is not one pa
rs, ticle more or less Of water now than the
nj was when the river went out of Eden to Il
no four quarters Of the earth. Matter, thoul
in it changes itsform, is not destroyed
he Through how many mutations has
yer drop Of water passed in six thousand yea
lr- using our common chronology 1t B
ed passed and re passed Into ratI, snow, ic
nr- hail, dew, mist. steam. and every, 9th
Az form into. whichitis possible / t6 press,
a't susceptible nature. The drop then mo
tens, the sol Von garden may havebe
!. the dew of Heaven, ,,3or that which fell u
,Mr. M on Gideon fleece, It may. once hafe rest
'So9n ondhe trees ofLebanon, OF tretIbled up
yus Che lilly which perhaps Christ referred
ihe when he said. "they toll not neither do tn
~ nm SPIN, 1tmay have bseTthe water viii
ms Christ converted into, wine, and may hR
wa mingled with the Tinegarahat wet his Il
us Upon the cross j But en0ughq Of this,
10 Wish to impress you with the fact that
= slightest, ,pbsts common, and therefore
tnee most neglected objeetsand events are We
rue often irapSAt with, the most important
en- fedti6nsl lIiThat theirhihl dtep has 4 MO
less and philosophical as wellrqs an agricT
= rshmission1 end is of greater signifcar
Gus: to the mind shat studicsitsf sfnaturel cou
nv its changes and neditates Upon its ma
OUT fold forms, JGian to him who merely watc
anss ss; es its development into corn, and fr
ana thence into c0fn5 transferred to his o
get Golfers to rust and ruin
the SirSGe g1-lL q Al II l-i.-a2L- iiiy y|
that LoNG PRAYERS, Speaking against ID
anq prayers, Elder Knapp, says$ ,,i.s "a
rtS. tn "When Peter was epdeayorlag to W
lble on the, waterIto meet his Master and '
and about sinking, had his supplieation peer
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