Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-10-08
LADIES' DEPARTMENT..
For the Spirit of the Age
To the Social Circle.
SABBATH MUSINGS.-NO. q.

From the contemplation of Gods ~unutter-
able love, as manifested in every graduation
OF the natural kingdom, the mind very natu-
rally turns to the creature for whom such
lavish productions were intended. The Gre
alton of this world alone, though in its COM
parison with others but as a leaf to the for
est, a drop to the ocean, or a grain of sand
to the sea shore, is in it's every part a beau
tlful and perfected piece of mechanism
But Its mountains and valleys, its rivers and
cascades, It's trees and caverns, its birds and
beasts, and flowers, and music, though per-
feet in themselves and pronounced so to be
by their great Architect, yet remained un-
appreciated by the living things which in
habited it, and the master spirit of all was
reserved as the most fitting object upon
which the perfected ingenuity of a God could
be exercised.
We may imagine angels shrinking from
the contemplation of that only void, and
= trembling with a fear that the glorious links
!. emanatlng from the Divine hand should
fail i'll neutrality-suspicious. here. That
l archangels felt an indefnable thrill fdoubt,
lest the being, intended as the climax to
e those astounding productions, should fail to
realize the mighty expectation which each
u preceding creation had led them to entertain.
Silence unusual and profound might have
4 fallen upon the choristers of that happy
- world. But even as their gaze grew more
u intense, and every emotion of anxiety deep
ened,-"God created man in his own image"
[ What being less than the great Infinite and
ID Eternal Jehovah could nave coniectured
such a glorious finale? Then the still harps
Mt of the empyreal Heavens, beneath seraph
fingers, gave out a richer burst of thrilling
;" melody. The hushed choirs resumed theil
full tide of song. The glorifed spirits, bask
n ing in the r~esplendent brightness of thai
ire world Of light, shook the dim shadows from
en- their glitterlng wings-cast from their radi
ant brows the ~shrouding fold-and a new
ho song of glad, triumphant, harmonious reiQic
Tie ing swelled outin deeper glory, caught an,
- : -Ye-echoed by kindred bands of liquid music
ale until Heavens golden arches rang again
and its very atmosphere q~uivercd with tn
err new born gush of ~ecstatic melody "Thor
To- art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory an
honor and power: for thou hast created a
things, and for thy pleasure they are an
were created. For thou hast made man
~ little lower than the angels, and hast crowne
him with glory and honor. Thou made'
him to have dominion over the works of tn
hands thou hast put all things under b
mel feet: All sheep and oxen, yea and IL
beasts of the field the fowls of the air, ar
Won the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passe'
through the pains OF the sea. "! LORD, OF
Lord, how excellent is thy name in all tt
cry earth"
the God created man in his own image"
one Even from the hidden deeps Of the hum
heart a glorious set of ideas break up fro
the reading of this portion of sacred histo1
And not the rapidly succeeding sad fall frc
mos primitive purity, contrasting as the gloom
0' night with the brightness of midday, can
iuge fectually destroy the pleasing visions til
mer- called up. Let us suppose, for a nome
I'M we had become Enthusiastically dedicat
t ris- to the sublime service of the most High
ma alizing the heart-renovating system Of sal
ton without imbibing the idea of original G.
lu sanguinity to the grand Jehovah of the U
~" verse, as portrayed in the beautiful brew
10" of that sentence alone. AS the eye first
only upon it, Oh! how the eager flush of surpl
Iy, Is would CLEAN Ger the countenance, to
4 has succeeded by the abstraction of deep and
king tense thought. And then as mental Wis
HIS alphabetically scanned the projections of
Deity-the majesty of His power-migh
=. His i~ntellect-beauty of His arrangement
d and incompatible love of His nature, t
wife; came back to the point from which tt
o see thoughts emanated, how the eye would bl;
the cheeks glow, and the heart thrill f
n the the sublimity of the feelings which had (
49, awakened. A new and deeper myster,
80 the soul would be revealed. Its magnit
tlieo and Importance more fully realized-its
mortal demands more readily admitted
bell Unsuitable cravings more easily accounted
Della LORI
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