The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-14
TIrc C.Iory-RlIed Earth.

This is tho prayer Of David, tho son Of
Jesse, ia which he prays that the whole
cartl--no village, hamlet. capital, country,
continent, or island excluded, or exempt, -
may be filled with the glory Of Coda
glory that involves in its bosom the high
est happiness and the most lasting pleas.
urcs to all.
Once this prayer was an impossibility.
Adam could not have prayed in Paradise,
Lot the whole earth be filed with thy
glory" for he must have praised his Maker
that the whole earth already was filed with
his glory he saw it lying like a soft aud
shining atmosphere over all space every
bush in that beautiful Eden burning like
IIorcbs bush; every mountain glowing
with the splcndors without the transiencc
Of NJ M)unt Tabor and in all whispers of the
wind-in all chimes of tho wavcs--in all
murmuring of brooks-and in the voice of
God at early morn and dcwv eve lie heard
tho most delicious music. On every acre
and on every footpath of that beautiful and
Beuucstcred spot he recognized the foot
prints and tho trail Of the glory of his God
and Father as ho passed by. lie praised
him that the earth was filled with his glory;
he could not pray that that might be which
WAS already come. But since that day
appeal to tho hearts that faltcr in thoir
beating, to the eye, the car, and all the
senses, to the annals of natiens, to tho his
tory of the world "A great deterioration has
passed upon our earth; deep shadows arc
nov mingled with its brightest sunstroaks /;
and tho lingering and ilickcring bits of sun
shine alone remain TO remind us what a
beautiful Paradise has passed away; yOt
presenting tokens and prophecies also that
yet moro beautiful Paradise is one day to
dawn. In our present experience there is
scIce line of glory upon our world that
a line Of suffering or shadow Of sorrow
docs not run parallel with.
Yet, fallen AZ our world IL, ono can SEQ
traces Of what it once was. An architect
visiting Jerusalem guessed from tho frag-
nent of au arch what must have been tho
measure OF its span, and the resting place
of its piers, From seeing tho fragments of
this ruined world, we may form rude con.
lecture what a magnificent thing it once
was and even in its darkest places ono
can notice many things that provo if it hath
fallen 1t is not utterly forsakru. Are thore
not some days in the loveliest summers
that seem rays of glory Just como forth
from tho gates Of Paradise, to give us a
transcont glimpse of faded glory? Even
in the docpost winters, tho laurel, and the
bay troc, and the holly, and the group of
cvergreons, seem to say, I'VE will not yield
as others have; wo will keep the path
opcn between the summer that has left us
and the summer that is to come, thus minis
tering to mans heart hope in the deepest
depth Of natures decay and with other
vestiGes leaving on the bosom of our world
memorials that if fallen il il not altog other
! forsakon. But tho mere natural glory that
breaks upon our world in Fragments ID
shaded by the departure Of that moral glory
which Onco ovorspread the whole hoavor
and earth as with the very presence of God
II i'll Adams day all was harmony with
out, ii WAS only responsive to n deeper
harmony within. l(man saw all the tokens
OF perfect peace above, around and beneath
he appreciated aud felt the peace the NOR,
bcCauso of the perfect rcposo and quie
that was within. But sin.o the FALL thes,
sombcr shadows have covered up not onl,
the outer glory. but they have also pro
jected themselves into the very heart o
man; and in his inmost soul he feels tina
moro has gone wrong with it than evei
with the world outside. lie needs to pra,
whether he looks within or without, wit
intense fervor, o Lord, let tho departed
glory return; lot Ichabod be erased iron
the surface of our globe let the days o
L len come round again let the tide o
sin and sorrow cbb and let the whole cartl
be covered with the glory of God. Bu
do we not read in the Psalms oven in thi
dispensation, and in the world Us il is, "Th
heavens declare the glory OF God, and tn
, armament showcth forth his handiwork? =?
, If then the heavens declare the glory q
God, is it 40 shaded as has been alleged
Few, indeed, can study tho heavens with
out seeing glorious apocalypse of God
. glory no one can read the last discoverie
of astronomy without being struck wit
the evidence Of the magniiccncc of that B,
4 ing who sits onthroned amid the shinin
=. hosts that are oncamped ON the plains G
+ inhntudc. Wcrew we to see starry, frost
|, night once in our life, it would be an apo,
A alypse such as we should never forge
t, II is the commonncss Of the spectacle tn,
o dims it's beauty, or rather dcadons ol
n sense Of It, But il II bc 80 beautiful no
o what must it have been ero that mist b
II twooA us and the sky had oxhaled fro
. earth! II while we sec nature through
y glass darky there be so much to admir-
x what must have been tho splcndor Of d
# spectacle when we saw il face 70 face !
When David prays that Gods glory ms
N individual may feel and taste Of its inf
" ence, that no heart may beat that is not
c. unison with God that every pulse in
5. man nature FROM tho hunibest oven TO 4
Of highest may be love 10 God; that eve
j. district may he covered with this glory
as that there may hc no lauo, nor court n
2, alley, into which the sunshine Of heav
does not penetrate, and memo into whi
of the light Of tho sun of Righteousness do
Ne not shine. No interest that NO feel in /
ID distant must make us overlook the nea
A. we must not carry corp 10 the ends of I
earth. while many arc starving from WI
el at our own doors and upon our own thre,
%. holds we must not be so taken up W
er the romance OF a converted world, that
ad forget the very plain but very Gutitul nee
ng sity of converted individual undor |
of shadow OF our OWL residence, Whilo
en- pray tor zach individual, aud for each d
Ia. trlrt oi uuT country, We at the same Ii
ee still pray that the whole earth may be c,
Sc cred with the glory Of God, that every c,
of tment may haSk in it--that every Capi
NJ may reflect il from it's spires, that the hi
oi great cities Iuay have II for Its key,no
that all the nations OF the earth, inspired
u love, illuminated 10y truth, may constit
nd together one worshipping. united aud hap
is. church until the nations rise TO a state
ais peace OF happiness, and rest, that will N
he uply with the multiplying years and al
its yet 20 roll and David shall no longer s
OF " Let the whole earth be hllod with glor
but shall sing The whole earth is Gil
with thy glory. - Cumming.
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