Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-06-19
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The beauties of the world without, at
tracted me to seat by an open window
early one morning in summer. Not +;
sound was heard abroad but the voice o.
Nature singing its matin song to the grea
Creator. The brook and rivulet went dan
cling along as if rejoicing that they were
free from the cold, icy covering that wa:
a little while before spread over them, ,and
that they were allowed to sparkle in the
sunshine. The hills and tho fields were
all arrayed in their brightest garbs. The
leaves which clothed the so lately naked
trees, ard the grass-thc carpet made by
God as covering for the earth, and for a
shade to protect the eye-still retained that
soft, delicate appearance, they assume just
before they come forth perfected in growth.
The air was filed with feathcred songsters,
whose scarcely pcrceptiblc motion as they
rose higher and higher recalled to mind a
simile once heard made, "That, as the
lark, by beating down the air with its
wings, rises upwards, so the Christian,
overcoming trials and temptations by pray
erfulness and perseverance,, rises above
earth to enjoy Heaven" How easy il,
would be to resist temptation, did we, as
the birds, have nothing to hinder our
flight but outward Instructions; were there
no sinful heart within, whose deceitfulness
and hardness is constantly retarding our
progress.
My thoughts were diverted from this
channel by the sun, the king of the ccles-
tial world, who, rolling around in his orbit,
shed his rcfulgont rays upon and called
me to contemplate his glory. As l gazed
| could not but think that that was splen-
did superstition, if regarded in the light of
poetry, which led the ancients to hold in
such reverence that glorious orb of day,
and to rear gorgeous temples, whose polish.
cd domes nigh: catch tho earliest beams,
upon which his lastray nigh. "linger low
ingly." But when l thought of it in the
severe light Of reason, it only was another
proof of the sinfulness Of man in paying
divine homage to the created in place of
the great Creator.
was unwilling to acknowledge the sun as
the centre of the solar system, but believed
it subordinate planet, revolving around
the earth and thought, too, Of that one
who was the first to give to it its true po-
sition among the heavenly bodies, and
who in defiance of the mandates of a ty-
rannical pontiff, maintained his views, and
also published them to the world. l was
carried back in Imagination three hundred
years, and at the close of day stood by
the dying bed Of an old man. The SHOWS
of seventy winters had whitened his head,
care and sorrow had left their autograph
upon his brow-suddenly his countenanco
brightens-a friend approaches, bearing in
his hand printed volume, still damp
from the press, containing those truths, to
prove which the dying man had employed
all his life, all his talcnts-he seizes the
volume, and with prayer of thanksgiving,
that his early dreams were realized, the
spirit Of the great Copernicus took its
flight.
As the last beam Of the setting sun fell
upon his cold brow, seeming to say 81
give thee the kiss of peace, for thou hast
been the first to place me upon my THRONE"
| thought of the analogy between the sun
of the material world and the Sun of Righ-
teousness. AS the former rises in the east,
dispelling the darkness and gloom of night,
and makes all the world, even the most
desolate places, look glad and beautiful,
giving consolation to the dying by remind.
ing him thot the sun Of his existence does
not set for ever, but sinks to rise again in
brighter worlds so, when the world was
involved in great moral darkness, Sun
arose in the east, driving away the gloom
Of sin and superstition, and spreading
abroad the glorious light of the Gospel.
And He still rises each day in some new
soul, causing it to rejoice in the beams Of
His love. But to the dying hour inesti'
mably valuable! He shines upon tho path
through the tomb, and leads them to that
abode that needs not the light Of the mate.
rial sun,but is ever lighted by the presence
Of the Sun Of righteousness.
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THE ST. LOUIS MURDER-The passen-
gers on the steamer Rocket, after the
dreadful occurrence of the murder Of Mr..
Robert Il. Webb, of Lewistown, Pa, on
Wednesday night last, met on board that
vessel, and passed a series Of resolutions
on the subject. As yet, We believe, no
clue has been found to the murderers,