The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-29
(Eor the Petite Comme.cia Advertiser.)
A soi;foamy OLE the Soul.

What means this Huttering inhabitant, this spark
of fire celestial Within this earthly tabernacle
thou hast dwelt, IN early years of time; when MORN
ing dawned ON earth, thou didst connect thyself with
the frailties of mortality. Between this body and
thyself there has existed the closest intimacy; thou
hast sympathized with il in all its wants and woes;
thou hast bloomed in its beauty. thou hast lit the fires
in its eye, thou hast glowed in its life, strengthened
in its strength, and crowned its maturity with honor;
and yet, between us two, there exists an imineasura-
BILE distance, a strange'contrast of matter and spirit
When labor and toll have exhausted these physicai
energies, and weariness and fatigue have closed these
eyes in silent slumbers, and all Nature has sunk into
repose; when night has drawn her curtain over crea-
ton, the hum of business has died away, the busy
throng have left the streets, the tread of hurried and
eager footsteps ceased; then thy thoughts are busy as
the stars that shine the whole night long and never
weary; and as their individual lustre is more distin-
puishable. because of the contrast of night, so the
soul shows her identity and discovers her ~self-sufi-
cheney, when the visible and material structure has
resigned itself into the arms of "a temporary uncons
ciousness. Strange that thou dost never weary, for
thou dost never rest. The wheels of thy existence
run on continually, and yet they never wear on ac-
count of this constant friction. There is no episode
in thy history, there is no parenthesis in thy exist
ence, no respite to thy activity; the fires that burn
upon the altar of this spiritual temple, are the vestal
fires Of the universe There are no analogies in nature,
with which to represent thee, an intangible, invisible
and indestructable essence; the most subtle elements
of material substances, are infinitely gross when conn.,
pared to thee; the swiftest rays of light keep not pace
with thy movements; thou hast forever eluded the
subtlest rules of analysis; the most patient and pro-
found researches have failed to disclose the mysteries
of thy life and the enigma of thy destiny. When to
the silent mansions of the dead, this habitation of
thine shall be carried; when to its mother earth, its
~congenial dust shall have mouldered; when freed
from these material weights, whittier wilt thou stray I?
what will be the mode of thy action, or the laws of
thy developments ? A conscious, sensitive, intelligent
and individual existence is thine; what will be the
theater of thy action, the play of thy immortal pow
ers, undimmed by the veil of flesh? What will be the
extent of thy vision What wonders will burst upon
ments! How rapid will be thy advancement in
knowledge and holiness Eternity will be thy orbit,
God thy center, a blooming immortality thy destiny,
and an ~unending duration thy reign. Illimitable
will be the fields of thy researches, unwearied will be
the vigor of thy nature, and imperishable the proper
ties of thy existence. The present is but the begin
ming of thy unending career, the budding Of thy
being, the embryo of thy Immortality, the scintilla-
tons of thy future glory. Strange that while within
should be so UNDECIDED; strange that a diamond of
such exquisite beauty and brilliancy, dimming the
lustre of ten thousand suns, and shining through all
this night of time. and rising undimmed among the
splendors of eternity, shogld be so neglected.