The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-07-09
For the Upton Advertiser

and intellectual life. What Its essential
nature is has been matter of much doubt
and embarrassment. That it is not a
part of any Of the elements of nature or
of earth is highly evident; for if SO it
could aot be exempt from the changes
aud vicissitudes that other bodies or parts
of matter are But in order to possess
identity and personality there must be an
embodiment JUDI dgment, memory, con.
scousness, identity aud intellectually
are properties that cannot be connected,
retained and used without embodiment
and personality; the element of its being
is probably material, but it is removed
entirely from every property and particle
! of an earthly nature, hence it is indie
structibIe and immortal If spirit is not
real existence it is nothing more than
seeming something, which is IN reality
nothing. But little. however, is known
of spirit; we know it by its manifesto
tions, and have nothing but spirit to
investigate itself. Could we gain some
, higher stand point we should know more.
The body is its tenanted homc. The
mind is the express image of spirit,
aud the medium through which we know
it; we cannot conceive that its essential
nature can be diminished, nor its stature
reduced; its volume may to some extent
be sup ressed, yet it possesses al! the
powers of sensation, perceptibilty and
consciousness in the highest and most
refined sense And though surrounded
with the most potent and active elements
in nature, yet it lives untouched, and
shines forth a specimen Of majesty, pow
er and wonderful sublimiiy. Roverses
may take place in its present state, the
loss of friends, adversely, yet it holds its
umpirage above the changing scenes Of
earth; its vivac;ty may be condensed, but
when these circumstances are removed it
is seen again in all its viyacity, power
and majesty. The native element Of
spirit is freedom, and when free it is
happy; its affinity is with spirit, but its
attractions are everywhere where cnj joy-
meot and happiness are to be found. The
waves Of time are continually rolling up
on it with all their force and multiplied
conditions, cares, trials recriminations,
pains, sorrows and sufGcrincs, yet it is
majestic and of higher order Of being
than anything else found upon earth.-
Aud such is its power and strength that
! tllp p'yeiu"' - -, ~" 'o'S wa
ten give way under it, power aud activity,
and spirit remaining in its full power
and volume. 1t makes its own excur-
sions, investigates, searches into, COM
nrchends, learns, enjoys and feeds upon,
becomes stroug, grasps in ITS cmorace,
darts through all space quicker than the
rays of light or electric fires, aud yet 1t is
resident of earth And strange as 1t
is this high wrought sublimatcd, attcnu,
.ted and mojestc body Of energy and
intellectual life, that can amuse and resale
itself with all the animate aud inanlmate
kim ngdoms, aud that can have happiness
that is general, universal or personal, may
come down, in many instances its deprav
ity general and extensive, its corruptons
deep and diffusive. Witness, if you
please, the dssipated and disgusting IN
ebrate that staggers and wallows IN The
, streets, and for days and weeks is no
! more than half conscious OF his own ex
istence, his whole mind is wound up, /
bound to, and comprehends no more thar
the liquor desk, being stupified an
liquor bound, all the range Of thought i
cut off, and nothing in the vast unlvers
, is thought of or known but this doso'at
ed place of extreme dcpravity, debane
and mental arrangement. All the suffer
ings and miseries caused by it are unheeo
Il: Ill. v,b,lSt q
y ting this the whole South looms up be
' fore me in it's vast and extensive state {
y corruption, degradation and moral d.
{ pravi'y. l see its years of misery an
oppression on Africa's afflicted sons.
- see their sufferings in general and in pc
son, the wall of woe has been borne Q
the breeze, the power of death has bee
,r hold on to it with death grasp, mails
e. e. nant, corrupt, unholy, and scarcely.
ID ID gospel salvation for them. All tne nj
* cries, sufferings and destruction OF lie
OF Justly chargeable upon them and the
sympathisers; they array themselv
- against every institution both OF G'
and of man. No doubt but the ret
a angels that were cast out OF heaven we
on az good as they or any of their sympatf
al sers are, and they were damned, etern
, " damned; they were destitute OF prln
). nle. truth, moral worth and wisdom. d
this is not all; what is their loss! lh
loss is great; already they have lost pr
80 ciple, moral worth, truth, WISDOM 1e "a
respcc ability. They have lost the po
er of estimating anything that is e'ey'
me, ing or desirable, or tends to contrib
ion to the happiness of men or to the g'
of God. They have lost affinity W
the great, with the good, and the ex'
nas lent of the earth. They have seVe
''A' from themselves the whole product OF
- advanced scientific and literary wo
the range Of spirit through the vast
eks. verse of God is cut off and bound az
ey. .I.:. / o,l;,b ~unrL nf misarv deSt