The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-04-23
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EDUCATION.
NO. |.
IT'S INFLUENCE.

lHlS ehflh Is very beautiful and when the
"stil small voice" moved over the dark bosom
of Chaos, AMI world replete with life and har-
mony sprans from its heavng waves to meet its
creator; God saw, and pronounced it good"
Towering mountains, snow crowned and cloud
girded looked down upon the foam capped bill
lows of Ocean, as with unjust murmur, they
swayed and dashed against their rocky base.--
UnbrokeA forests trembed meath their leafy
coronals; flowers Of every hue fringed the banks
Of the placid iakes, outlnging to the whisper
| ing breez9 the wealth Of their sweet perfume /;
rivers and streamlcts lay, like threads of silver,
upon the emerald earth; myrads of music
voices thrilled the dreamy air, while over all
bowed the bright, blue sky, gemmed by count.
less starry orbs, whose mttin hymn of Joy went
swectly W TO Ieaven,--a now note amid the
swelling chorus Of the ever-circling spheres.
THEN, Our world was bat a neeting panor-
rama, with no eye save His who formed it to be
hold ths light Of its marvellous beauty But
man, the lord Of this lower universe, soon trodc
with the p,oad majesty of a king over its sur
face, and nature lay sublued and beautiful, be-
meath his heaven appointed minislratons. Ages
of SIM sorrow ana sham, then swept their lava
tide over its changing bosom, and clouds and
chick darkness velel the sight of man," while
error, ignoranco AMI GRIM; tarnishel, obscured
or crushed out the light Of his glorious intellect,
What power lifted the storm cloud What
holy influence lured the noble mind Of man, up
from the black abyss of those dark ages, AMI
placed it upon the proud pinnacle Of glory,
whence emanato those pure and brilliant rays of
genius and soul, which like a starry halo, up
on the regal brow Of this our favored century?
1t was EDyclrloN, anln)w ns then, she is ever
pointing out to all who will heed her cnnobling
teachings, the beauty sublimty and grandeur
(which everywhere surround them; bids them
Hist the sweet melody Of sounds which arise
| from the greut heart Of Goure and see ana
hear in ALL the mystic words which unseal the
gates of knowledge ana wisdom, and which
once p1s5ad VITA firm reIont-lraad, b, it in sun.
shine or in storm; wealth or poverty, they
bear with them, tlisntu richer ft than the
haushtiast monarch's glttsrng crown,
Her iunrnca falls silently, like the shallow
Of an ang Is Wing upon the thoughts Of men,
yet thrones and !yrantS tramhla meath her magic
! sway. Nor need we search hs lnusty records
which lie mould,ring afar down in the dim
archives of the past, to show III. might and
power by which she sways AMI governs the das,
tnics OF men. Lift we the volume of the cen.
tury last closed, and behold her in the dark drys
! of the American Revolution. Our noble soidiery
fought as brave men ever fight for their homes
and loved ones. 10 them, learning hal never
opened wide her glowing portals,yet their hearts
had bowed low in loving trust around moth
er's knee, and from her mild lips had thcy learned
| deep lessons OF lila imbibed thence q ahless
hatred Of all tyranny, and with strong arms and
resolute will, went forth to rape the invading
foe. But who guilel and directed them on
! through every triul and hardship until the proud
British Lion was driven forever from our
shores, and the broad eCrnrr Of Liberty plant
ell deep in our noble soil whose azure fold
now float from the Atlantic's silvery wave to
the Pacifc's peaceful tide? When faint and
exhausted BY long and toilsome march b,naath
The burning rays OF summers sun or muir
derous knife and tomahawk of the savage indi.
an, instgateG by the mora murderous hirelings
of British tyranny, were hourly despoiing, des-
olating their homes; when disease and death
laid low their comrades at their side,--or when
they gazed out upon the battle field aud beheld
the CORY heaps OF ghastly, maugled corpses,-
when hunger, fatigue and want were growing al
their vitals THEN it was, that hopeless despair
settled darky down npon their brows; loud
murmurs of discomfort Orose from their lips, and
with brooding spirits they turned them sadly
toward their broken homes
Then, too it was, that the carton tones of the
master minds of the Revolutionrang out clear ant
audible above the sulIcn war Of the iron tempest
hushing the wild wall of agony which swelled "
from bleeding bosoms and thrilling by their bolt
and manly eloouence, the hearts of Tie Gespaiginl