The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-05-14

vision OF the burning DuSn nau Deen /
and that, as in the vision Of
St. John i'm Patmos, voices we're min
gled with scenes, and the ear as certain
ly addressed as the eye. A great dark
ness" FIRST falls upon the prophet like |
that which in an early age fell upon .
Abraham, but without the "horror, |
and, as the Divine Spirit moves on
the face Of the wildly troubled waters
as a visible aurora envelopcd by the |
pitchy cloud, the great doctrine is orally /
ouunciated, that Gin the beginning God .
created the heavens and the earth. w.
Unreckoned ages, condensed in the Wis |
ION into a few brief moments, pass away
the creative voice is again heard, "Let
there be light" and straightway a gray
difFusod light springs up in the east and
casting its sickly CLEAN over a cloud |
limited oxpause Of steaming, vaporous
sea, journeys through the heavens to-
wards the west. One heavy, sunless
day is made the representative Of myr-
lads; the faint light wakes fainter-it
sinks beneath the dim, underlined hori-
zon; the first scene of the DIANA closes
upon the seer, and he sits awhile on his
/ hilltop in darkness, solitary but not
sad, in what seems to be calm and
starless night
The light again brightens,-it is day;
and over an expanse of ocean without
visible bound the horizon has become
wider and sharper Of outline than be-
fore, There is life in that great sea
invertebrate, mayhap also ichthyic life;
but, from the comparative distances Of
the point of view occupied by the proph-
ct, only the slow roll Of its waves can
be discerned, as they rise and fall in
long undulations before a gentle gale,
and what most strongly impresses the
eye is the change which has taken place
in the atmospheric scenery, That low
er stratum of the heaven occupied in
the previous vision by soothing steam
or gray smoko-like fog, is clear and
transparent; and only in an upper re.
. gion, where the previously invisible va
, por of the topid sea has thickencd ir
+ the cold, do the clouds appear. Bu
/ there, in the high strata Of the atmos
phcre they lie, thick and manifold
%
from those beneath by the Transparent
, frmam mt. and like them, too, impelleC
in rolling masses by the wind a
, mighty advance has taken place in crea
>, ton; but its most conspicuous optica
= sign is the existence of transparent at
d mosphcre, of a armament stretched
= out over the earth, that separates th
waters above from the waters below
But darkness descends for the thirr
time upon the seer, for the evening ant
the morning have completed the scconc
day.
Yet again the light rises under a can
opy Of cloud; but the scene has chang
j. cd, and there is no longer an unbrOkcl
cxpansc of sea. The white surf breaks
at the distant horizon, on IN isolatel
reef, formed mayhap by the Silurian o
h Old Red coral zoophytes ages before
III during the bygone yesterday; and beat
lin long line of foam, nearer at hand
l. against low, winding shore, the sea
ward barrier Of a widely spread coun
d, try. For at the Divine command tn
" land has arisen from the deop-not in
o. conspicuously and in scattered islets, a
D. at an earlier time, but in extensive the
fiat and marshy continents, little raise
' over the sea level; and yet further fic
Ia. has covered them with the great carbon
ne ferrous fora. The scene is one o
mighty forests Of cOne-bearing trees
of palms, and tree-ferns, and gigant
~ ~ club MOSES, on the opener slopes, an
of great reeds clustering by the sidD
by of quiet lakes and dark rolling rivers
3D. There is deep gloom in the recosses q
the thicker woods, and low thick mis-
= creep along the dank marsh or sluggis
y stream. But there is a general lighte
u ing of the sky overhead; as the day d
- clines, redder flash than had hither
lighted up the prospect, falls athwa
N. fern covered bank and long-withdra,
ing glade. And while the fourth eve
ing has fallen on the prophet, he b
oh comes sensible, as it wears on, and {
10 fourth dawn approaches, that yet a
:, other change has taken place
10 The Creator has spoken, and the sta
or look out from openings Of deep unclou
wo ed blue and as day arises, and the pla
II ct of morning pales in the cast
, broken clOudlets are transmitted frt
y bronze into gold, and anon the gold
oX- comes fire, and at length the gloric
the sun arises out Of the sea, and Ont,
re- on his course rejoicing. 1t is a brilli,
1.u day; the waves, of a deeper and sof
''' blue than before, dance and sparkle
ion the light; the earth, with little else to
vas tract the gaze, has assumed a garb
ca, , tighter green; and as the sun deolii
- amid even richcrglorios,than those VIII
= had oncircled his rising, the moon
not pears full orbed in the east-to the |
in man eye the second great luminary
hat the heavous-and climbs slowly to
,ric zenith as night advances, shedding
mild radiance on land and sea.
ore Again the day breaks; the prosp
bes consists, as before, of land and ocean
lch There are great pine woods, reed-c
.or- cred swamps, wide plains, winding ]
~ ers aud broad lakes; and a bright
can shines over all. But the landscape
ich rives- its interest and novelty from
fol- feature unmarked before, Cigar
don birds stalk along the sands, or W.
20 farinto the water in quest Of their
VI thyic food while birds Of lesser
noat upon the lakes, or scream disco
hive ant i'm lowering foeks, thick as ins
by i'm the calm of a summer evening, q
ure the narrower seas, or brighten with