The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-11-19
Disceiiapecps.
Looking Up.

01r- AstOr, IL Is SAID, Wnen once 1orolng
the Susquehanna on horseback, found
himself becoming so dizzy as to be about
to lose his seat Suddenly he received a
blow on his chin from trapper who was
his companion, with the words "Look up!"
He did look up, and recovered his balance
1t was looking on the turbulent waters
that imperiled his life; the blow he re-
ceiyed, and the LOOKING Up saved it
Er.
"LooK UP! !' when the heavens are all
dark, and sun and moon, and stars are hid
from view, and casting the eye which
way we will, no bright blue sky is in
sight, then LOOK UP, and ten chances to
one, just over head, where least inclined
to gaze, there is seen one little spot Of
clear blue sky, and though at first no
larger than a mans haud, as we look it
grows larger and broader, and more and
more of the cerulean vault is opened upon
US. Away flies the cloud, and down from
the zenith to the horizon, with jagged
course athwart the great big dome, we see
that for which before we had looked for
hours, yea days, in vain. But, still looking
up the stars, one by one appeared, then
comes the moon robing the earth in a
silvery sheen; and in due time aurora
brings the morn, the golden sun appears
Just at the base where the sky and earth are
joined, and flood of living light is thrown
over mountain and valley, and glen;
and that which was sad, desolate and
dreary yesterday, is hilarious with ecstatic
joy to-day.
Looking up' divulged the radiating
point; the "silvery clouds" came sporting
out from beyond the great black mass
which was seemingly piled up in endless
profusion; and then gray morn, and an
effulgent sun lit up smiling world.
When the darkness of the middle ages
settled upon the earth, those few who
looked up, saw HOPE in the future, and q
brighter day beyond. Philosophers and
poets saw that all was not dark, save tc
him who looked out upon his own plain
They talked and wrote of the "good tims
coming" and we live to witness its con-
firmation.
In the darkest period of our national
history, when the soldiers of the revolu-
sion were campsd at Valley Forge, and
their marches were traced by footprints ol
blood along the snow, there were those
who looked up, saw the glorious "here
after" which few years have realized
and the hardships, perils and triumphs o.
those times have been commemorated il
story and song.
Our own loved Kansas, when the black
ness of midnight had settled upon her
and her highways and by-ways wer'
guarded by robbers and murderers, whel
the horizon was red with blazing homes
and the earth was CORY with blood, ant
safety had fed from every hearth-stons
and shelter from danger was sought il
"wide old forests" or in the tangled gras
of the "boundless prairie" then the SIX!
was truly dark; but peering up into tha
dark black vault, and gazing long, tn
brightsome sky was seen, and the bound
less ether beyond. To-day we reallz
that hope was not baby's dream, to be
wilder for moment, and fade away.
To him who is cast down, against whom
the tongue of calumny has hurled hi
bitterest hate; who from cloud-cappe'
elevation, or less giddy height, has seel
the vivid flashes of envious rivalry, AM
felt his poisoned arrow in the guise
falsehood, Oh, to him, we would say
LOOK UP! There is God of Justice
who sits enthroned eternal in the heavens
looking out upon the actions of men,
Wrong and outrage may triumph to-day
The wicked may flourish, for time, lik
the green bay tree, but though the wicke
join hand in hand, they shall not go un
punished" There is hope beyond tn
dark, rolling, massy cloud ah, the clea
sky is seen OVER HEAD, the silrery cloud
come sporting out one by one, the ga
tiuseled rainbow skirts the horizon, tn
sun shines out from above and beyond
and thick mists, all pass off beyond tn
reach of human ken, and joy irradiae:
the down -trodden, insulted and oppressed
Has disease assailed you, robbing 20
of health and vigor, shrouding the memo
! ries of the past in gloom, the present i
pain, and the future in sorrow, LOOK UP
Health, in q shining vestment, is but
little way of, orif the aching body is wor
out with disease and suffering, kin
Providence has provided a happy futur,
where there shall be no more wretched
ness and woe. The limbs racked wit
pain, and the tortured body shall Civ
place to the spiritual form which know
not decay, and will live on when world
and systems shsll have run their cours
and been "lost in immessurable wilds {
ether" or swallowed up in the great Ger
trail attraction around which they no
revolve.
Under the influence of false socist
; have you become incorporate, or sunk
, vice of any kind? Has habit laid h
calling chains upon you, and loaded yo
2 down so heavily that you cannot rise
. Oh, LOOK uP, a Templar's arm is over an
D around you ready to lend strength in II
4 hour o. need. He comes with stror
hands and fixed purpose to save the fal
en- from q drunkard's grave, or low,
! ! 5aoradation Throw varrsalf ,,nen hin