The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-10-09

cal body il takes up, and fits il for the
place it is intended to occupy in the build
inc about TO be erected, and with mate
rails SO collected and prepared il builds
unceasingly--green leaf, graceful shoot,
towering stem, blooming flower till thro'
the wonderful workings, mechanical and
chemical, of that hidden speck Of life
which so long slept in the unseen germ,
beauty and grace adorn your garden, and
inert, useless matter has been converted in
to green leaf and fragrant flower. How
slow and limited is our most advanced
chemical knowledge, compared with that
easy skill SO richly given 10 this tiny seed.
Behold, also, your perennialsl Look
out in the coming-spring time and see
them bursting into bud. Watch, how,
beneath the midday-suD, the lender leaf
let spreads out its yellow surface to the
fayoring rays. See, how, from day to-
day, its hue becomes greener, and its sew
cred parts increase in size. This growth
will continue till earl summer finds the
little bud changed into magnificent
plant, clad with copious leaves and sue
cessiyely blooming with gay and fragrant
flowers. But autumn soon comes TO stop
the growth and give new color to its
leaves, and chill winter will strip it of all
its summer beauty and leafy pride, and
leave it naked as when spring time be-
gan. .
Is there no beauty in watching natures
change! nothing suggestive of the spring,
summer, autumn and winter Of life, in
this faint portrayal of the workings Of
that nature which is spread out so lavish
ly around you? See natures revolving
circle spread out before us all; how, So
lected first from earth and air, the plant
is formed This same matter next builds
up the more curious animal frame; and,
when that is worn out or dies, returns
again 10 earth and air, to run the same
course anew-showing one simple, though
grand idea pervading all life, embodied in
the existing course of animated nature,
yet BY its manifold and complex details
leading us perpetually to admire and rev.
erence the great Workman, who, before
man was, commanded "The earth to
bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed
and tho fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself upon the
earth-and il was so"
Finally, from the past let US be cncour-
aged for the future. AS successive sea-
sons shall fill the land with fairness, and
our barns with plenty, forget not our an
nual feast of good things, and fail not to
bring n cheerful heart and an helping
hand. Let the acorn already sprouted,
yearly watered with our benignity and
gifts, become the mighty oak, whose
branches, spreading in all directions, over
our cnvied county, shall protect us from
the whitening sun of indifference and self
Let the apple Of discord-should there
be one-be stripped of its golden Skin
and yellow flesh, and its seed be buried
in an unproductivc soil, beneath the reach
Of summers sun and vernal rains. Let
our motto of to-day be the same next
year, and on for future years, till we shall
see no second, third, nor fourth, entailed
TO our distinction, but FIRST IN RANK OF
SKILL AND THRIFT shall stand in bold re-
lief as our reward. That motto is I" M
PRovEMENT."