Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-23
THE BEAUTY OF Il NOR
MING

II
The following beautiful letter was
written from Richmond, October, 1850
by Daniel Webster:
"Whether it be a favor or an annoy
ance, you owe this letter to my early
rising. From the hour marked at the
top of the page you will naturally con-
clude that my companions are not now
engaging my attention, as we nave not
calculated on being early travellers to-
day.
This city has a pleasant seat 1t is
high; the James River runs below it,
and when [ went out an hour ago moth
ing was heard but the roaring of the
falls. The air is very tranquil and its
temperature mild. It is morning, and
morning sweet and refreshing, and de-
lightful.
every body knows why the morn
ing, in its metaphorical sense, is applied
to so many occasions. The health, and
strength, and beauty morning of life;
of a lovely young we say she is
as bright as the morning.
"But the morning itself, few people,
inhabitants of cities, know nothing about,
Among all our good people, not me out
of a thousand sees the sun rise once in
a year. They know nothing of the NOR
ming; their idea of it is that part of the
day which comes after a cup of coffee or
a piece of toast.
"With them morning is not a new is
suing of light, a new bursting forth Of
the sun, a new Weakening up of all that
has from a temporary death to behold
the works of God, the heavens and the
earth. 1t is only a part of the domes-
tic day, belonging to reading the news
papers, answering notes, sending the
children to school, and giving orders for
dinners. The first streak of light, the
earliest purpling of the east, which the
lark springs up to greet, and the deep
er coloring into orange and red, till at
last the glorious sun is seen, Regent of
Day; this they lever enjoy for they
never see it.
Beautiful descriptions of morning
abound in all the languages; but they
are strongest perhaps in the East, where
the sun is frequently the object of wor-
ship. King David speaks of taking to
himself the wings of the morning. This
is highly poetical and beautiful. The
wings of the morning are beams of the
rising sun. It is said that the Sun OF
Righteousness shall rise with healing in
his wings-a morning that shall scatter
life, and health and JOY throughout the
universe. Milton has fine descriptions
of the morning, but not so many as
Shakespeare, from whose writings pages
of the most delightful imaginary, all
founded on the glory of the morning,
might be filed.
II never thought Adam had much
the advantage of us for having seen the
world when it was new. The manifes-
tations of the power of God, like his mer-
cies, are new every morning and fresh
every evening. We see as fine rising
suns as ever Adam saw, and its risings
are as much a miracle now as they were
in his day; think a great deal more so;
because it is now a part of the miracle,
that for thousands and thousands of
years he has come to his appointed time
without the variation of the millionth
part of a second. Adam could not tell
how this WAS.
~ know the morning; I am acquain-
ted with it, and 1 love it. Hove it fresh
and sweet, as it is-a daily new creation
breaking forth and calling all that have
life, and breath, and being a new adora-
ton, new enjoyment, and new gratitude.