Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-10-28
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The Sky.

1t Is, strange thing how little, in
] general, people know about the-sky-
It is the part of creation in (which ma
ture has done more for the sakeyef plea-
sing man, more, for the sole and evident
purpose of talking to him and teaching
him, than in any other of hery-works;
and it is just the part in which we least
! attend to her. The noble scenes of
earth can be seen and known but BY few;
it is not intended that man should al
Ewaysslive IN tie ilids. 81 tl1cna4 keiinz
jnreslt hem by his Rlesencc fa16S t6
Ihe SKY Is 1of al, Ilt Is It Is, IS not
fRtoo bright of g56d for huiiiahi inatt77fs s
daily food" tits fitted in all its fdac-
/ tions for perpet ual co mfortz and ;exalt-
ing Of the heart, soothing and purifying
it from dross and dust. Something gen
tie, something eaprieious, something aw-
full; never the same for, two months to-
gether; ALMOST human in its passions,
almost spiritual in its Tenderness, almost
divine in infnity, its appeals to what is
immortal in us as distinet'as its I'M inistry
of chastisement or ofo blessings tor what
is immortal and essential. And yet we
never attend 'teoit we never make it a
subject Of thought, but it has to idoIwith
our animal sensation, We look. upen
all by which it,speaks to as, more clear
ly- than to brutes,. upon all which bears
witness to the intention Of the Supreme
that we arc t0ireeeive More from theueo-
yeEingoTduh than the light and dh e day
that we, share With, the5 weed aapd the
worm, only as succession of meaning
less monotonous accident, too COMMON
and too vain to be worthy Of a tionieht
'of watehfulness or CLAN neet Of adinira-
III on.R e-ti.~ isar - i:.-5 ysdj ,saisu
90. If, in our moments. Of idleness aud in
sipidity, we turn, to the sky as the last
resource, which Of its phenomena do we
speak Of? One says it has been wet,
another it has been windy anGtberiit
has been warm. Whe,cameng the whole
chattering crowd can tell me Of the forms
and preoipiees of the ekaihFof tall white
mountains on the horizon at u ood yes
terday ? Who saw, the, narrow sun besm
that came out of the south, and smote
upon the. summit until they melted and
moulded away tn a dust Of blue rain
iWhoosaw the dance efDthe dead 'clouds
last night, and the west wind blow them
before it like withered leaves &. All has
passed ungreated and unseen; or, if the
appath be ever shaken OF, even Tor an
instant, it is only BY what Is extraofdi-
nary. And yet tbs not in the broad
and fierce demonstrations of the elemen-
tal energies, not id the clGslI efhail nor
the drift. of q whirlwind that theahighest
characters Of the,spblime are Developed
God is not always so eloquent in the
earthq quake, nor in the FIRE, as in tho
'.still small voice. They are but the
blunt, and low faculties of our. nature,
which can only be addressed 'throug gh
lampblack and lightning. ,Iti to quiet
and subdued passagesT'of unobtrusive
majesty, the deep, the calm, and perpet-
ual that it is understood-Gthings which
the angels work out for US daily; aahd
yet vary eternally, which arc to be found
always, yet each found but once. 1t is
through these that the lesson is chiefly
tausht,and the blessings ofbeauty given.