Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-10-31

like these are calculated rather to depress
than to elevate Us in the scale Of being;
that banished as he is by these coutem-
plations to a corner Of creation and there
reduced 70 an atom, man sinks to moth
inguess in this infnity of worlds. Bma
second thought c0rrects the impression.
These vast eontemplations are well cal
culated 10 inspire awe, but not abase-
ment. Mind and matter are incommen-
surable. An immortal soul, even while
clothed in this muddy vesture Of decay"
is in the eye Of God and reason a purer
essence than the brightest sun that lights
the depths Of heaven. The organized
human eye, instinct with life and soul,
which, gazing through the telescope,
travels UP to the cloudy speck in the han
die Of Orion's sword, and bids it blaze
forth into a galaxy as vast as ours, stands
higher in the order OF being than all that
host Of luminaries. The intellect of
Newton, which discovered the law that
holds the revolving worlds together, is a
nobler work of God than universe Of uni
verses Of unthinking matter.
II, still treading the loftiest paths Of
analogy, we adopt the supposition,-to
me l own the grateful suppositiOn,--that
the counties planetary worlds which at
tend these countless suns, are the abodes
Of rational beings Ike man, instead Of
bringing back from this exalted concep-
lion a telling Of insigniicance, as if the
individuals Of our race were but poor
atoms in the intiuiiy of being, regard it
on the contrary, as glory of our human
nature, that it belongs to family which
10 man can number Of rational natures
Ike ITSELF In the order of being they
may stand beneath US, or they may stand
above US; he may well be content with
his place who is made "a little lower
than the angels =
Finally, my friends, I believe there is
no contemplation better adapted to awken
devout ideas than that OF the heavenly
bodies; no branch Of natural science
which bears clearer testimony to the
power and wisdom Of God, than that TO
which you this day consecrate Il temple.
There is much by day to engage the
attention Of the Observatory the sun,
his apparent motions, his dimensions, the
spots on his disc, 90 Us the faint indiea-
tions OF movements Of unimagined gram
deur in his luminous atmosphere,) a So
. lar eclipse, a transit Of the inferior pla-
nets, the mysteries Of the Spectrum all
phenomena Of vast importance and inter-
est. But night is the astronomers accept
ed time; lie goes TO his delightful labors
when tile busy world goes to its rest. A
. dark pail spreads over the resorts Of ac-
| tive life terrestrial objects, hill and yal-
, ley, and rock and stream, and the abodes
Of men disappear; but the curtain is
drawn up which concealed the heavenly
J hosts. There they shine and there they
: move, as they moved and shone to the
I eyes Of Newton and Calico, Of keplcr
!, and Copernicus, Of Ptolemy aud Hippar-
+ Gus; yes, as they moved and shone when
S The morning stars sang together and all
1 the sons Of God shouted for joy, All has
= changed on earth but the glorious sea-
+ vens remain unchanged. The plough
: passes over the site Of mighty cities the
homes Of powerful nations are desolate !;
{ the languages they spoke are forgotten; !;
+ but the stars that shone for them are
= shining for Us; the same ecIipses run
a their steady cycle ;--ihe same equinoxes
$ call out the flowers Of spring and send
o the husdandnan TO tho harvest; the sun
4 pauses al either tfopic as be did when
i his course began and sun and moon,
: and planet and satellite, and star and
4 constellation and galaxy, still bear wit
, ness 10 the power, the wisdom and the
e love, which plaed them in the heavens,
? and upholds them there.
e CHEATING.-A man who cheats in
= short measure is a measure-less rogue.
= II he gives short measure ia wheat,
II then he is a rogue ia grain.
l. If in whiskey, then he is a rogue in
'e spirit.
o' IL be gives a bad title to land, then he
g is a rogue il deed.
= And If he cheats whenever be can, he
ol Is IN deed. in splIi,, ia grain, a measures
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