Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-06-10

illintable ages to exhaust, he would see
issue the fuel which would supply the
comforts and provide for the necessities
of a mighty people by whom these basins
were afterwards to be Inhabited. by il
on the banks Of the Upper Mississippi,
the saw-mill is turned, into which is hoat-
cd lumber from the recesses of the ST.
Croix, to be cut up and shaped into wood.
work out of which are to be built the
quiet little home, the neat schoolhouse,
the simple church with which the prairies
Of Illinois and Iowa are to be dotted. BY
it is TO be impelled the hardy little steam
tug which penetrates the bar-locked inlets
of Lake Superior, as well as the gorge
Gus steamer that navigates the Mississip-
pi and the Missouri. BY il the machine
ry is moved that lifts q river from its
channel, carries it 10 the top of hill, and
then distributes il over city in streams
so varied and 50 appropriate, that in enc
place, while il sparkes in the copious Jets
Of public fountain, in another it passes
into the backyard of the court where
the washerweman makes her living, the
dangers Of disease and pollution are re-
moved, and the cheapest, and yet the best
of drinks, afforded to those 10 whom a
free use of it is indispensable to health,
if not 10 life.
There is great deal in such patient;
and yet such majestic, unwinding of the
chart of Providence as this, on which we
can well ponder. The Son OF MAN
Himself-He who was afterwards to take
upon Him the very flesh, but alas under.
desolate comfortlessness. the comforts Of
which in others He was so abundantly TO
provide--thus spoke before even the be-
ginning of time Before the mountains
were settled, before the hills, was bro't
forth. While as yet He had not made
the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world. When He
prepared the heavens, was there when
He Sc, a compass above the face of the
depth, when he established the clouds
above, when He strengthened the founda-
tons Of the deep, wlSeh hseppointed the
foundations of the earth, THEN l was
with him, as one brought up with him,
and l was daily his delight, rejoicing al
ways before Him; rejoicing in the habi-
table part Of the earth and my delights
were with the sons Of men,"
One other theistic inference arising
from the geological explorations Of the
Bad Lands, / may be permitted to notice:
" Every specimen as yet brought from the
Bad Lands" says Mr.. Owen, "proves I'd
be of species that became exterminated
brtore the mammoth and mas,odon lived,
and differ in their specific characters, not
only from all living animals, but also from
all fossils obtained even from contempor-
aneous geological formations elsewhere.
In other words, the Bad Lands record
miracle with as sharp precision as do the
first chapter of Genesis, the fourth chap.
ter of the second book of Kings, and the
eleventh chapter of John. Ii is a crea-
iion, not by the ordinary process of gen.
Grafton, but by divine fiat, of new
family of living creatures: The calling
of life into the widows child was not by
ANY means so violent disruption of what
philosophers call the laws of nature, as
the awakening of a new period of AMI
NAL life in the then untrodden bottom Of
the Missouri. Lazarus, rising from the
; grave, broke not so much in upon these
same laws, as the starting up from his
miry bed of that gigantic hornless RhiS
! noceros--the Rhinoceros Nebrascencis,
described by DIR. Leidy-who was the
I Adam in the race, whose last as well as
b whose first members now lie in the eocene
a tertiary of the Bad Lands. The records
e of snch creations and extinctions as these
Q is the record Of miracles, as distinguished
e from history, which is the working Of nat
S ural laws. The latter narrates the march
!, of second causes; the former. of first.
e In this view we have a most complete ref
$ uta,ion of Mr.. Hume's famous position,
: that no human testimony can prove q
e miracle because what is contrary to uni-
versal experience can not itself be shown
e by substantive proof. The universal ex-
J. perience of man, as he would argue,
n which established the uniformity of ami
IS nal generation, would exclude the recep.
e ton of any evidence whatever Of crea.
t ton by direct Divine interposition. Bu
h this is as if an insect whose term of life il
II moment, and the history Of whose rae,
d occupied but half day, should declare
r that the clock whose ticking sounds so SON
Mt orusly in his uny ears, and which from
le the memory of his remotest ancestors
,e never ceased TO strike in the same equa
d. beats, is an institution Of perpetual exist
It's ence, any deviation in whose course m
s. evidence can be received to prove. Tel
C. HIM that at some rsmo.e period, tha
IS, clock was wound up by extrinsic power
es and he will tell you that such winding
of up is contrary to all insect experiences
rs and lha, he will hear nothing to prove /,
rs, Now. while human history details tn