Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1861-02-06
HORACE MANN's VIEWS or MINOR
TALErY.

. In the remarks Of the Rev. Mr.. Waterson
upon the life and lal ors af the late Horace
Mann, he quoted from his writings the fol-
lowing eloquent passage on the Future Life
which comes home 70 the mind with sub
lime impressiveneas ut this moment, when
he has just entered upon the glories of
which he so powerfully speaks After
speaking OF the universe as redundant in
treasures for the body, grandeur Tor the
mind. and happiness for the. heart" he
Says:
"Now all this vastness and splendor and
Duration are the birthright or rather tho
birthcijt Of all. Nor have we any reason
to suppose that the bounty of the Creator
is to cease its overflow here, as though His
fountain is exhausted, OF our urns were full.
On the contrary all our ideas Of our Heaven
~ Father prompt US to believe that He has,
and will forever have, parer, more precious
gifts in store, corresponding with our en-
Iarged and exalted capacities to receive them.
All that analogy teaches us that we have
undcveloped faculties within US, suscepti.
bilities of happi, css, yet dormant, for whose
srvor and intensity this world is too cold
and ungenial, and which therefore await cur
translation to the Land Of the blest, where
a purer ether and subtler elemental fires
shall kindle into life. While we were vet
in embryo, our bodies existed in form as per-
feet as at present; our muscles, our brains
our lungs, and all our organs OF sense, were
complete; but we needed to be ushercd into
this world Of air, and light, and motion. and
beauty to call them into play.
ESQ in roOo - tl,a
ence, we have the assurance Of splcndors
ard symphonies and loves. such as eye
hath not seen. nor ear heard, neither hath
it entered into the the heart Of man to con-
ceive; and if So then we must have within
us, lying undeveloped and inert, the rudi
lncntary organs Of eye and ear, and heart.
with which we shall see and hear, and feel
The vision, the hal!elujah Of the better
world. AS to this unseen and unimagincd
Inasnifiencs Of the future life, We are, while
sojourning upon tho earth only in the ante
natal state Of darkness, inactivity, and cir
;amscrip'ioR. Such is the nature which
Tod has bestowed upon us, to be macpi.
he'd, enlightened and adorned. and it is not
gwen to motal eloque"ce and poesy, with
Ill their high colored words, to paint the
number or v"riegatioa ofits 6: ories"
A party Of negroes gave grand bill near
Albany last week. Six distinguished col.
bred gentlemen were driven lhi.l.er by a
white coachman. In aspirit of courtesy
they invited him to enter the hall. He
the invitation, and was a pleased
spectator, until the aroma arising. from the
sable walters became somewhat punrent
and as 1t grew more powerful he prepared.
10 leave. Just At that moment one of the
'olored managers approached with much
politencss, and said the ladies desired the
:oachman to leave the room. The manager
to make the request, but the ladies
insisted. because, they said, he smclt too
much Of the stable! Il
The chap VINO writes Charleston letters
10 the New York Tribune from the corner
9f Nassau and Spruce. street, New York
City, makes some terrible blunders occa-
sional'y. Thus he let his imagination. loose
he other day in description Of the balmy
'pr'ns atmosphere there at date when
Charleston was suffering some Of the most