Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-24
Nr. Webster ON the Morning.

NlCUNuNb, Tel. -, 100, > o clock, y. NJ.
IL Deat Frni- Whether il be favor or an
notnnee You owe hs Iclcr to my habit Of early ris-
irl, From the hour marked at the top of the page
You will naturally conclude that my companions are
not now engaging ny attention. MS we have not cal
enlatcl on being e.Jly travellers to-day.
This city has pleasant sent 1t is high the
Jmaes ri,cr ran. below it and when | went out an
hour ago, nothing was heard but the roar Of the falls
The hif is tranquil, and its temperature mild 1t is
morning and morning sweet aud refreshing aud de-
Il shtiu
E.er, body knows the morning in its metaphor
cal sense applied 10 80 many occasions. The health,
strength, aud beauty of early years lend us to call
lint period the morning of life OF II lovely young
woman, we say, she ia bright rs the morning. and no
one doubts why Lutier is called son OF the morning
But the morning itself, few people inhabitants Of
eiaes, know anything about. Among all our good
people, not one Ia u thousand the rise once
IN a ycar. They know nothing of the morning
Their idet o IT IT, that it IS that part o the day which
rerps nluug after cup of coffee or piece OF toast
Viii them morning Is not II new issuing of light n
nr0 bursting forth oil the sun, II new waking up Of all
GI3 b. life from sort ottcmporar} death, to behold
nqiiu the works Of Cod the heavens aud the earth.
Il Is only part Of the domestic day belonging 10
tc1gg the new 'papers, sWetlng notes sending the
children - school and giving orders Tor dinner The
Inst streak of ght the earliest purpllug OF the Eas
which the lark springs mp TO greet, and the Geepcr
aud deeper coIorng into orange aud red tl Mt length
the glorious sun IS seen, regent oil dny this, they
hetef enjoy for they ever see it.
Beapjrll descriptions of morning abound in all
languages but they ARE strongest perhaps in the East,
where the sun is frequently the object of Worship
hing David speaks OF taking Ia himself the wings OF
the morning This is highly poetical and beautiful
The wing OF the murnnF the beams of the rising
san. Il is thus SAID that the sun OF Righteousness
shall arisc with healngin his wings morning that
shall scatter life aud health aud joy throughout the
Universe. Milton has fine descriptions of the morn
inp. but not many Shakespeare. from whose writ
in.ts pages Of the most beautiful imagery, all founded
On tie glory Of the morning might be filled
Il never thought Adam had much the advantage
al us tar having seen the world when it was new.-
The manifestations Of the power ofGod, like his mtr-
elcs, new every morning, and fresh every mo-
nent " as line riSings ot the SIM rs Adam
ever saw; and its rsings are rs much n miracle now
rs they were in his day, and thoka great dead more
-; because it is part OF the miracle, that Tor
thousands aud thousands of years he has come 10 his
appointed time, without the variation of the mlionth
| art Of second Adtm could not tell how this might
| he.
i know the morning; am acquainted with IT.
! and love IT, love il, fresh and sweet "a II isl
daily creation breaking forth and calling all that
! have lite and breath and being 10 ador"tion new
! enjoyments, aud new gratitude.
" y ever, Your friend,
"DANIEI. WEBSrEk'