Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-08-15

ery mans life to which he recurs with
any bat pleasurable sensations: Life Is
a continued conhict-a state of incessant
warfare, and often the poor soldier, dis
piritSd in the wasting struggle, feels like
throwing his armor aside end yielding
himsslf a prisoner to his eneanies. De
ceivsd BY professed friends, the highest
obligations of human invention violated
with impunity by those who have bowed
at the same holy altar-oyercome by pc
euniary misfortunes, wasted By i'll health,
or avertaken By some other calamity
that wrings his heart with anguish, aad
orospreads the sky of earthly hope with
clouds and thick darkness, the temporary
sojqurnsg on earth is tempted . thousand
times to give over the struggle and aban-
don himself without hope to bis darkened
destiny. There is great disparity In the
condition of men. Why il is 50, We are
not always able to tell but while come
men seem to live in the oat-Hashing sum
Anime of prosperity from youth to old ago,
ten thousand Of theif<hrethren, who pos-
ssss By nature all the elements peculiar
to common humanity, are borne down
by tide of sorrow that threatens every
inatant to engulph them in its rapid cur
rent. Every act of their lives seems to
be fraught with peril and misfortune and
although they command the energies Of
noble and suffering hearts, to do battle
against the adverse influences thai gather
about them all along their pathway, there
L. fatality, dark as the shadows of the
dreaml - land to which they are hasten
ing, that elings to them until the drapery
Of the grave eneircles their bodies. The
world to them has but few pleasant or de-
lghtful spots. Il spreads out before them
as gloomy panorama whose shady sur
face is uarelieved By the brighter pencil
ings Of tranquil and peaceful existence.
No angel wings fan their ferVid browne
voice from the far of land Of happiness
that comes cheerily from that unsorrow-
ing cline, falls upon their ear. No hand
Of sympathy, moved by the life pulses of
genial kindness, Is reached out in protsc-
iion and deliyeraRce, and no light from q
region more glorious and tranacendantly
delightful than that which forms the en-
pire of human suffering, pierces the dark
ness Of their abode, and illumes the mind
with blessedness Of a happier destiny.
| But still why need these sorroying voy-
ayers upon the great ocean of life, cease
their efforts to reach some hospitable port
at which the anchor can be dropped and
the shattered vessel can be re6tted for a
more prosperous voyage. The storm may
not always howl along the. angry sky
The great waves may be subdued. A voice
omnipotent as that which passed cheerily
over deep Galilee, commanding the sweep
ing pillows into silence--dispellsng tho
terr0rs of the gathering tempest, eoRtrol%
ling tho fash Of lightning, sending back
the thunder TO It's home In the clouds Of
the far of distance, iinparting life and
hope and happiness TO the heart Of the
sinking mariner. Midnight and tempest
may not iass forcvsr-the star Of hope
will yet gid the Morrison. Another sun
will dawn upon tho vast waste Of whelm-
ing waters, and the hospitabie beacon
lights Of q distant shore, which thous.
and times have flashed out in streaming
radiance upon the darkness Of The rest
less deep, will jet be seen blazing out
from the high towers along friendly
coast. BE strong in faith, bald mariner
upon the stormy waste. With ere fxed
upon Jon distant island Of happaness upon
which beautiful lowers blossom. parsnni-
al waters gash from their sparkling foun-
tains, and groves Of beaaEy and blessed
ness sxpand beneath the bread blue eve
Of Heaven, direct Thy BARK across che bal-
loSy tids 10 shs brighter and better home,
ere Thy driven vessel shall have embarked
apon thai shoraless sea which rolIs In
sAadowy myssery n the sssrnal dissAaes,
aad upon which the generations Of past
sgss have been drifting throagA rolling
csaaariss thou maysst Cad sheIlsxinz
hAsbor, reiaevsd from sAs ssznsests shss
NOS frown In gioom and terror upoa ny
vcyags aLifs up thy Asass, Vi moi dis
mayed.n Plaza thy sssaag Am upen ito
lasln, and shFeash ssa<n 81 .igAt ed
iiseoassssnsnt fsscs ~ ~, mai III |
danger = past, ~ dslivM1.se in.pires
~ hs&rs with he hlosssdaSss for ~hieh
4 seeks. Tks seens Vim sna1sn txsusi1 /
'ica ahansss. Behold apon yon hassls-
Nd ~ = oysszrrsna wisA ~ bsdfus IL /