Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-15

bloom and autumn hung It with its clusters
OF scarlet berries, and IL was hidden from
sight by the redundant foliage, but it kept
its law. The roots Of the mountain ash,
blndly reaching in the ground and imbibing
its juices, knew nothing Of the little orphan
ed twig above, that waited for its food ;
but they could not cheat it of its law. Up
to certain point of certain bough the
rising fluids came, under the law of the
mourtain-ash, and there they found gate.
way, guarded by an angel that gave new
commandment. Thus far-mountain.ash {:
beyond-Seckel pear ; and it, in October,
you will walk in the garden again with me,
! will show you among the scarlet berries,
bending heavily toward you, the clustered
succulcnce OF the Seckcl
A seedsman may cheat you, but a seed
never does. II you plant corn, it never
comes mp potatoes. If you SOW wheat, 1t
never comes up rye. Wrapped up in every
capsule bound up in every kernel, packed
iuto every minuleSt germ, is this law, written
by God at the beginning, produce thou
after thy kind So the whole living world
goes on producing after its kind. Year
after year we visit the scotsman, and read
the labels on his drawers and packages, and
bear home aud plant in our gardens the liz.
tie homely germs that keep Gods law so
well aud summer rewads our trust ia them
with beautiful fruition. Robins sang the
same song TO the Pilgrim Fathers that they
sing to US. The May flower breathes the
same fragrance now that it breathed in the
fingers OF Rose Standish, aud man and
woman, producing after their kind, are the
same 20 day that they were three thousand
years ago.
Now there is significance in all the laws
OF material life, above and beyouud their
special Office. They do the work they were
set to do; they rule the life they were ap.
pointed to rule I; but the laws, themselves,
belong to family, whose branches run
through all intellectual, moral and spiritua!
life. Laws live in groups no less uniformly
than the exiStences which they inform and
govern. 1t is law, both of animal and
Vegetable life, that they shall grow 10y what
they feed on; but this law passes the bounds
OF matter, and fnds its widest meaning and
ITS most extended application beyond.
The mind grows by what it feeds on the
heart grows by what it feeds on love, hate,
Jealousy, revenge, fortitude, courge grow
by what they feed on Spirituality grows by
what spirituality feeds on. Wherever
growth goes, through all the relm of God,
this law goes ; and the law that everything
that produces shall produce after its kind is
Just as universal as this. 1t begins in ma
lerial life, and runs up through all life.
Rather. perhaps, l should say that it begins
in spiritual life, and seeks imbodiment in
material life, 80 that we may nppreheud it.
The clouds were in heaven before there was
any rain, and the rain comes down from
heaven TO tell US what the coulds are made
o. might go further, and say that every
form OF matter is but the imbodment Of q
divine thought and that, with that thought,
there passes into matter the laws that reside
in divine things of CORES pondent nature and
Cfice.
But am becoming abstruse-quite too
much So considering the simple, practical
truths TO which | am seeking to Introduce
my reader. l have been thinking how. in
accordance with this law of which We are
talking, our moods, our passions, our
sympathieS, our moral frames aud conditions
reproduce themselves, after their kind, in
the minds and lives around us. | call my
child 10 my knee u anger l strike him a
hasly blow that carries with it the peculiar
sting of anger speak loud reproof that
bears with it the spirit of anger and |
look in vain for any relentng in his flashing
eyes, flushed face and compressed lips. |
have made my child angry, and my uucon-
trolled passion has produced after its kind.
| have sown anger, and Ihave reaped anger
iustantaueously. Perhaps become still
more angry in consequence of the passion
manifested by my child, and | speak and
strike again. lie is weak and am strong
but, though he bow his head, crushed into
silence, may be sure that there is a sullen
heart in the little bosom, and anger the
more bitter because it is mpotcnt. put
the child away from me, and think of what
have done. am full Of relentngs |
long 10 ask his pardon, for i know that |
have offended aud deeply injured one of
ChrisPs little oues call him 10 me again,
press his head to my breast, kiss him, and
weep. NO word is spoken, but the little
bosom heaveS, the little heart softens, the
little eyes grow tenderly penIteut, the little
hands come up aud clasp my ueck, aud INV
relenilDgs aud my sorrow have produced
after their kind The child is conquered so
am |. II utter fretfuI words, they come
back 10 me like echoes III brlstle all over
with irrllability, the quilts will begin to rise
all about me, One thoroughly irritable
person in breakfast room Spoils coffee and
toast, sOurs milk, and destroys appetite for
whole family. He produces after his
kind,
Generally man has around him those
who are like him. If he be man of strong
nature and positive qualities, he will plant
his moods and grow them iu the ma.
ture next TO him OF course there nust be
exceptions to this rule, because the will ia
free aud man is reasonable, aud the motive
and power to pluck up unwelcome seed, and
unpleasant growths, inheres in all men.
/ have known good-nstured man to live
with petliSb, ill-natured, jealous, fault.
finding wife through all the years of my
acquaintance with him, he meantime grow
ing no worse, aud she growing no better.
They had voluntarily aud effectually shut
themselves each from the influence of the
other. lie had closed bis spirit against
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