Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-23
'TIsn nIxsgivI..g.

the day will be-: generally observed by our
people-the business iinen of this place
having agreed 10 clessaheir respective es--i
adjustments from l6'to 2 o'clock Of that
day. er 5rT eea ID ta.'s f'..
The ministers and congregations of the
Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal
Churches Of Pomsroy, have agreed to unite
on that occasion for the purpose of relig,
ious worship. The services will be held
in the Methodist f. Church, commencing
at 10 O'clock A. NJ. Other Churches and
congregations will also hold religious SER
vices during the day
This is all right and proper. Itis beft'
ting and seemly, with thankful hearts, to
render our Acknowledgements to "Our
Father Who is in the Heavens" for all his
manifold blessings and benefits. True,
our worship is not needed by the Lord nor
does He require il at our hands for His own
sake. His Infinite Love is not changed
by our performance or neglect of this. or
any other service. He causeth His Sun
to shine equally on the evil and the good,
and sendeth HIS rain upon the just and the
unjust alike. His tender mercies are over
all His works, and even to the obdurate
and unlhankful His bounteous hand is
ever open.
Why, then, concern ourselves, II we can
not, by SO doing, alter the feelings Of the
unchangable and all wise Being toward us?
For our own sakes, doubtless. .
The Sun, which symbolizes in the nat
ural world, the Divine Being in the spir-
itual, sends abroad, in ver-ceasing flow,
its streams Of vivifyng heat and light upon
all things alike. The same influences
which scent the rose and paint the lilly,
passing through the deadly night-shade,
are changed to rankest poison. The diff
ference is in the nature and quality of the
recipient subject. and not in the Sun, The
same law, doubtless, pervaies all spir-
i.ual as well as natural processes, operating
upon mans spiritual as well as natural be-
ing. The Divine influences, like the heat
and light Of the sun, flow out in infinite
profusion, from the fountain Of His un-
changing Love, into, and giving life to all
men. but that lie, in its ultimate effects,
will be as various as the qualities of the
mediums through which it flows.
Itis an universal law pervading all life
all growth-whether vegetnbl-, animal or
spiritual, that the recipient subject, taking
in its forms and vessels, the substances
which nourish and sustain it. by the sub
tile chemistry of its vital laboratory. modi-
fes. changes. and assimilates those sub
stances to oneness with itself. and out ol
these, produces fruit in exact correspond
ence with the nature of the stock which
bears it.
If the laws Of natural growth and health
had never been perverted, the currents oI
natural life would flow smoothly and phys.
ical pain would be unknown; but having
perverted all these laws. AMI obs'ructed al
these currents, our beautiful world has be-
come grand hospital. whose daily music
is the groans exlorted by bodily suffering
And so, too. if man had never departed
from the laws of spiritual life. if his sou
was tuned to harmony with the Divine
order, the inffuent Love and Wisdom of hi
Maker, would ultimate themselves in lif'
Of beneticent use 70 his fellows, ditfusin9
happiness as naturally as the pink emits iii
perfume, end for the reason. because it il
its nature to do so. But man has departed
from the laws of spiritual, as he has from
those of his natural life, and spiritual dis
ease is the consequence.
True happiness. in this or any other world
must. therefore, consist in its subjects be
ing in harmony with the laws OF their life
When those laws are violated disease fol
lows, and in the footsteps OF disease tread
its necessary attendant, unhappiness. TIN
has the appearance. asif God was angry
az man becomes incensed at his fellow, AM
inflicted punishment And bence. actini
on this appearance. many persons seem t
think that by prayers and repentance, an
worship. God viii forgive them and nc
punish them any more. And that on tn
same conditions he viii sdnait them int
Heaven. and then they will be happy for
ever. But all this must be a mistake.
would not ease the pangs Of disease to carr
the sufferer into the most sumptuous hall
nor would it, by possibility. make the per
yerted soul happy to admit it into Heaven
In. both cases tits cure that is wanted. 8
that ths currents Of life can flow freely
That cure can only be had by a return t
the laws Of life, and whatever has ten
deucy to lad us in that direction is goO'
and useful.