Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-08-06

mountain peak but great waste Of rock
and earth? Who does not know that
around those hoary SUBMITS the air, risen
from he fetid, malarious earth below IS
purified or rectifed cleansed from its
impurities, and sent forth from that arid
height with healing in its wings! Or
that those lofty mountains act like en-
gines to send the cooling stream into the
valley, and even push it beyond the level
into the cottage Of the poor, as well as
the palace of the rich, giving them pure
sparkling water in place Of the fetid, pu-
trid aud deathly liquid it would have
been if left in its own stagnant pools,
with no "force pumps TO give it circula-
lation Go out upon the fiat hilless
reach of the great desert Zahara, and in
hale the heated simeon, or search in vain
for the pure water that would have gush-
ed up there had there been these noun
tain engines and feel how feeble is the
springing up of the blood, and how great
the lassitude of the muscles. Then how
distitute is the mind of that veneration,
and sublimity of thought so necessary in
the worship Of Him who sitteth on the
circle of the heavens, and rules over all,
with earth for his footstool. That Aw-
full One will be more appropriately wor-
shipped by him who in his daily life has
something about him that invigorates his
mind, and gives him conception Of the
grand, and beautiful. The people Of the
desert, or Of the broad steppes of Central
Asia partake much of the nature of their
landscapes, and their ideas of God, and
their worship of him are as much inferior
to those of the inhabitants of the noun
tain has the dull "thump" of the thunder
clap on their plains,with no echo,is infer
ior in sublimity to the rolling reverbera-
ton of the same when mountain answers
to mountain, and hilltop sends back the
report to hilltop.
Go, compare the inhabitants of Swift
erland with the people of the fertile wales
Of Italy. Those mountaineers love their
homes and have fought for them and
maintained them, so that they can look
back over the past and claim that their
ancestors lived here from generation to
generation and the old mountains them
selves could say eve have known ouI
people for thousand years, and every
year of thousand, we have loved them
better, and known them more for We
have cherished them on our sides, anC
handled them on our knee, as the mother
the child And tho it is evident they
must be frugal, aud economical to Obtain
comfortable living, yet every thing
around and in their houses, testifies o
their happiness, contenment and love
, while the people of the plains below,ami,
: profusion Of tertility,-Eich but discon
: tented, have been restless, ambitious, en-
= croaching upon the rights of others, an,
have been driven out, and supplanted s,
often that now it is next to impossible t
find one of the original owners of the soil
+ Italians, or Romans in the whole debased
/ and vicious population. In the one case
less in the store house, and the pocke
4 but from the sublime scenery that look
G out from their mountain homes, and th
o pure breeze that comes down from thei
: snow capped mountains, and kisses thei
d beautiful checks, happy, worshiping Goo
q blessing freedom, and enjoying thei
4 friendS-rich in the treasures of I'll
i heart. While in the other, more in tn
= store house, and more, vastly more of di
= content, vice and crime. Say then, hav
not those dwellers in the mountains che
> sen wisely in preferring their pure al
e their sublime scenery, their peac eff
., homes, before the splendid fields, and W;
n wing corn Of the plains below
Il Surely he has made a sad mistake wi
9. has decided that riches consist in yello
- ore, in bushels Of wheat, ard extende
l. fields and can be locked in an iron SAT
or recorded on the town book of record
/ Rather true riches are those of the hear
those that create peace, true enjoymer
N and thoughts of God, and our fin
home.
The Creator has formed a world
beauty without, and a correspondir
:, world within, to take up, and receive il
pressions from the outward, and to tran
NIT them to the soul. Poor, and me
49, gre must that internal world be that is
constructed, or so educated that it Y
brates only when struck with the soul
of tinkling metal, or is cheered only win