Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-06

For the A. 9. Bugie.
THE %BRAUTIFUL
a. ny MAS. crLrsrlA R. COLBY.

tares. They are the alphabet o. Nature, and by
their beauty, they attract the eye and draw out
the Intellect, until man is converted from a care
less observer of the outward forms around him,
into an earnest student Of nature.
The sky, that vast picture-gallery, where mas
ter-piece after masterpiece passes in quick success
ion before the enraptured eye, all brilliant with
the gorgeous colors of the first Great Artist, and
fresh from his brush, finished and perfect ms If to
endure, unchanged, for ages, yet fitting and
changing with the passing moment, ever varying,
ever beautiful, dissolvirg like the rainbow, or
bursting forth 10 glory like ooontide sun from
the bosom Of the retiring .der-cl)td, or the
lightning from its storm-rent Iv,ds what a source
of inspiration, what a rich volume Of instruction
does it hold up before usl
The child is charmed with its beauty, and gazes
admiringly upon it's cloud-pictures, long before his
eyeis attracted by the fceb.er engravings Of hu-
man artists, and there flows into his slumbering
intellect o something, bearing the semblance Of
thoughts, feelings and ideas-the dim shadowy
outlines, which the future shall nurture and devel-
op, until they leap forth from his heart and brain,
through the medium of tongue and pen, in words
OF living power, swaying tue hearts of the multi
tude, as the wind sways the forest before its TO-
visible presence.
The poet, the painter, the philosopher, all are
indebted to il, all draw from its illuminated pages,
all enrich themselves at its fountain and the man
OF research, charmed by It's beauty, has traced cot
upon its broad scroll, system nfter system Of sci
ence, or rather lifted its bright drapery and reveal
ed the framework, the skeleton that supports the
whole, and gives tone, character and utility to its
rare loveliness. acz,
Had il pleased the Creator to have stretched an
uncAangiDg canopy above us, to have dipped his
brush only in the sombre hues that please the
Quaker fancy, who can tell the loss il would have
been to the human race? Where would have been
the hue arts, the bright imagery Of the poets. the
sciences that are only unwritten poetry, whose
mighty numbers are traced in measured rythm,
upon the eternal tablets of the sky by the finger of
Omnipotencei Where now, earth, air and sky are
vocal with intelligence; where DAY unto day ut
tere.h speech. and night unto night showeth
knowledge" all would have been a voiceless, soul
less blank.
But for the pure, cold splendor OF the midnight
sky. the sublime marshalling of the mighty hosts
Of distant worlds, who hold no commu nicatiOn
with each other, save by the mystic telegraph dis
patches that are borne upon o roy Of light, and
fash instantly from world to world, through q
pphSe ~ Vdbt, tuab n mluu can 6CarC6 CONCEIVE VI
its greatness, yet all moving In harmony as if ont
soul, ono intsilect gave motionsto the whole bu
for the ~sublimity Of this picture, the science of as
tronomy would have had no birth, it's untold bles,
ings would still be locked in the hand of the Gi1
er,- and mankind still be cropping in the darkness
of the primal ages. s. q q MAJ
But the Al-Father, benevolent in bis goodness
bestows upon his children no undaractire bless
ings places in our hands no volume of dry, dull
unisteresting facts, to taA the memory, without en-
tightening the understanding; but every page 0
the wondrous volume of nature is richly illustrat
ed sin the highest style of the art, as publisher
Rre won't to announce. Every text is a picture
every truth an engraving, every chapter a PIANO
rama, whose shifting scenes fix the lesson in tn
memory, making it "a JOY forever.
Beauty and utility are inseparably blended j
all the works Of Deity everywhere we see th
most minute attention given to form. cOloring, &c
as if beauty were the only object in creation
Use first, beauty a5tertoard, seems no part of b
plan use altcays. and beauty Aeoer, as with Il
mass Of mankind, is a thought that never origina
ed in the mind Of the Deity, everywhere does
seek to please the eye. and thus reach the hea
and impress upon il some lesson of truth.
There is no careless disre gard for appearance
as in the works of man, no evidence of that sor
crushing ulilitarian;sm, that would rob the dav
Of its dewy sylendor, the coming on Of the sui
mer eve Of its glory, the night Of its magnificent
the rose of it's queenly beauty and rare fragranC
the lily of its poetry; but twin-born with the u
full, cometh forth from His hand the Beautiful, fc
and beneRcent sisters each upon her mission
the hearts of his children, aud he choOseth u
wisely who takes to his bosom, only the plat
brown-featnred maid TO be the companion of
life, white the sunny-eyed, dawn-browed sistt
with her robes Of woven sunbeams finds no W,
come. They are one, and poverty-stricken is q
man who seeks TO sever them. He grasps only /
outward form, the spirit that giveth life, fifth
from his tsrd, his treasures are Of the cart
earthly, and viii turn to corruption, or take
themselves wings aud fit away.
In the vegetable kingdom, the ripened grain al
rudy f~ruiiage, il not Code first offering to /
children. but there cometh up from the dark velV,
like surface of fertile prairie. a delicate embroide
of living emerald. Day BY day. refreshed by t
pure caress Of sun and shower. it stretches its te
der blades upward, coquetting with the wanderi
sephyrs, aud laughing in the sumner sunligl
eariching all VhO TOOK upon IL ViM an Unselfs6 c!
for beauty is Gods free gin the missr cannot a
pTopriats it, aud is a pauper in the midst of |
gold avarice cannot hoard II. but the pauper al
the slave may feast the soul upon It aud know th
upts them is given the Same title to the Beautii
as to the millionaire,
The budding prophecy Of April,-iainI and 4
icate pepciIings, which the Maytims touches wi
agfe6cr hoe, and June, glorious artist Thar she
fills out the magnificent painting, and touches
with thousand hues Of ~glUry-all this is
chance Offering Of the AlLFatheF. is comes befol
and in The economy of nature is necessary TO b
development Of the golden grain and ~olUsterir
fruitage Of bounteous Autumn, and while =
gather up hom heF full hand. aud O~ssraOwil