The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-02-16

are reflected the stars of he wen, each q
which is, doubtless another earth, where
there is still another world of animate
inaniinate, and intelligent CREATION
Does any one doubt this? Does any one
suppose that the Author of the Universe
has created all these almost innumeraLle
globes, and designed to eople only one
this insignificant item among the whole
W Cd intelligent, sentient human beings
Nay-the presumption woulo be unwar-
rantable.
The earth is schoolhouse, the world
a school, but WHO is the schoolmaster p
Ah! tlat's the question. Some say Ma
TURE, but then, no, she is not school
master. Here we all get at loggerheads.
Here, too, acknowledging no common
Teacher, each in turu, or out of turn,
turns teacher, aud what a confusion
Whata course of education! But
q,
and if am educated to believe that tie
wolll IS a workshop, and made to get a
iiylug IN, why, believe it, of course
Ii ain educated to believe that the world
is school house, thea believe that also.
Belief then, to q great extent is a matter,
III
Ii we all acknowledged one common
Teacher, accepted his interpretations, a.
dopted his theories, and were united as
band of brothers, what blessed world
this would be! But no-how then
should we all get a livii 60 We should
all be following one pursuit; all have the
same natural tastes AMI inchnauous, and
since variety Is the SPICE OF lie, this
would never do. We are all adapted 10
different spheres, and different pieces, and
Wien we can tini them, those we should
occupy IN acting the greet drama Of hu-
man life. Bui, alas what trouble there
is, and ever has been, IN finding our pla-
ces. What al amount of STRIFE, tunult
and vexat.on. The times are out of JOIN"
the world is out Of JOINT, yet all agree
in proclaiming it was ali right once
But man, 0, sinful man, has thwarted the
eternal purposes OF JEHOVAH! Even the
wise, the sage-hke rs well as the poetIcai
DR.. Wits, endorses this doctrine anu PHI
losophlcaliy exclaims:
The mighty power which framed the mind,
One moald for every two designed,
And blessed the new born pair
This be match for that, he said,
Then dow ne sent The souls de d made,
To seek them bottles here"
But SIS they parted from their abodes
celestial, they evidently rnistook their road
and when they reached their homes ter
restrial, in their eage,ness to find congeT
iai spirits, they made hasty matches, and
i'll Hymen's most holy bonds, there have
been ten thousand times ten thousand
wretched souls yoked together and liter.
ally chained to eternal strife"
But the world is growing wiser, and
some of the old sayings are being new
vamped. Now the doctrine is, "Spoi
tho rod and spare the child 1t ha:
been found by actual experiment, philo
sophicaliy too, no doubt that children
have feelings-not only the kind of feel
Jugs which .'feel" the rod, but others feel
ings, such as social feelings, moral ant
even religious feelings, any and al o
which are liable to be outraged and har
dened by the use ofcow-hides, canes ane
clubs. Indeed, thtr are many new tt e
cries prevailing, aud even some of GU
m ,dern divines begin to hold up thei
heads, and declare that they will pre-. 81
no longer ''For doctrines the command
ments of men," e fA4lhe
This IS happy omen. Let us listel
to one ofthem as he speaks upon the sub
| ject of M.rth:
"For my part. I say it in al solemnity
| I have become sincerely suspicious ofthss
who do not love pleasure in any form
| cannot trust the man that never laughs
that is always sedate; that has no apps
rent outlet for natural springs of sportive
ness aud gayety that are perennial in tn
human soul. | know that nature take
her revenge on such violence. | expeC
to find secret vices, malignant sins, or biol
rid crimes springing up IN his hot bed
confined air and imprisoned space; an6
therefore it gives me sincere moral gra
iication, anywhere. and in any comms
My, to see innocent pleasures and pop,
Jar amusements res.s; NJ the religious BIS
esry sAat frowns 50 anwise'y upon the n