The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-08-17
From TIE Western Christian Aavvcate.
MAG NETS JOSEPH JONES.


PowEs is am object of universal desire. sYou covet
H. and SO dc and all hum anty may be Presented as
travelling upon the eheekerei reads Of life, watching al
corner for the agerspos's that ar. SUPPOSE e
rcin. ~ this alldesare gal, ss0e choosing one FORK
and annsher 7antg for ne Prtrs at the end
q B ss-i Az iSl,e II .ac pswss Of wealth. of
. sss''.'ss W y assssksssss ~ :l.s:
apt ohecoms auxiliary q the one which our theme
involves. lou might eau t.Iis power ma-ie AMI be-
little az Gods firs, laws 70 human less,aenaIn
Won rn-St cali it magnetism, ami mystery %
explain mystery might call it -rasisas'on ana
use the unknown % explain the unknown yeu might
call II my sSfas and know il env BY its effects
Tt moral world ts q latent moral forces. attrac-
tsoas and repulsions human and Divine. whase ex-
Stenee may 0e known, bat whose natures can not be
fully unierst oui
The men who have the sodike grandeur 0, eharac-
ter which gives this power, sonl-times sway the Lana
tnent rises mans mol and bows as industrious
iy before the Wind. Like the Man OF calvary
he draws all men unto him IL Is sad Of Nspolsoii
that If the sixty thousand troops I'm his army al
Eyau. thirty thousand thieves and burglars
the men whom. in peaceful communities, hold II
with iron al their legs n prisons, under the
tauskets of ; ntnels this man dealt with hand 10
hand dragged them their duty. and won his victory
BY their bayonets." VIII you tell me the secret OF
that mighty fascination he possessed by which he
made the outlaws of hls country the very instruments
OF law aud emptiei his prisons Increase the mum
Der Of his most effective soldiers Mesmerists mag
etiza but one man AT a riIne-Napoleon magnetizSi
a whole nstion-so does Grant. Franklin ) said
have boasted, with very paronaele egotsn, tnat
though be never made ten minutes speech IN ms
life yet somehow b. always brought men 20 has opn-
ions
Such men are blazing Jupiters ami Saturns wheel
ing ther satellites through innumerabe sonersets.
They give directions the latent forces of society and
seldom miss their mark They waste no shot on o.,
blank blue sk,, but mold their lead IN cannon balls
and send them home. But how came they by this
power
..Some are born great. achieve greatness,
And some have greatness thrust upon them
And the same be said 70 extent of this
my sterious force of mind mind But what are its
constituents what the qualities in man that make
him thus resistess =?
Such men have wills These Lords of creation
magnets Of which the modest odestone Is but type
shadow. Like il they have deal Of iron IN their
natuss, moderately Welding perhaps hen undoubted-
" expeent vet containing enough OF the chiei con-
sti,uent Of granite to make them firm the ever
lasting hills when attacked 10y an opposing storm ami
the oxygen of the magnet too. that source OF lite
and heat, but Npiies the arian aggressive element
OF such men's wills, changing granite, passive stub
borness TO active, aggressive courage.
Again. this power others has been PRECEDED by
an apprenticeship in concentrating thought, ami in
controlling self Newton, when asked ,ov he had
made great a progress in the sciences, replied
.by always intending my mind" Such men are
burning glasses that turn all the of reason and
revelation, and experience upon single point what
they look must melt before their gaze AMI flow into
- mold OF their subni. design, or evaporate to
translucent vapor, IN whose CURING wreaths they may
find forms Of beauty or new hints OF truth Their
brains eruoibies in which God lays the crystal
truths, fresh dug from the mines OF the Forever 10 be
compounded and nodded into forms of use for man
ato less dazzling forms, such as man may look upon
and live.
Such men believe too in the chain of things that
nothing comes by chance; that any thing is always
the father of something that if strike the earth
You raise the antpoae though their be molten planet
between the blow and its effect Their praetcle creed
tine efficiency of labor. Some that, ut West
Point, Colonel Bufora the chief engineer. Pounded
with hammer on the trunnions OF a cannon uu he
broke them Off He fired piece of ordnance some
hundred times in swift succession till it burst Now,
which stroke broke the trunnlans? Every stroke
Which blast burst the piece Every blast Which
Kiss of the ievout pilgrims the deep concayity in
the sacred marble shrine The first one, and the
second, and the last Whose bullets in this shall
be the most ehectua Which, in its whZzing through
the air shall sound keynote of the funeral drge
of this rebellion Eoecs bullet has added n the
horrid dscori of and sent Vibrating ON our every
nerve such grating agony OF shattering largon as
and jungles of being, every dormant fury,
every capacity of hate, till we have vowed eternal
enmity to the rebellion and its cause, and the seal oil
that shall be the unbroken seal of siaverys grave
This faith effort makes such indomitabie, and
III full belief of the nobility OF labor,
..They would not waste their spring of youth
In idle dallianee they would plant rich seeds
To blossom in their manhood, and bear frait
When they DID,
And such men have enthusitm not the spright,y
leaves but the inner stwart branch that bears the
fruit notthe spray that dashes the beach nor tire
that decks itlf in dancing wbtafeather
ell puna ge, but rather the deep, mid ocean current
that bears its continents OF ice as quietly breath
feather the dashing comet with his luminous,
hazy train astonishing the world for day, and then
disappear forever, but the modest, vet mighty and
enduring planet not the dazzling tightening, that
flashes and is gone but tine blazing
that dims, in fact though clouds should inter
for weeks and years.
Enter the presence Of such man, AM yonr soui
instinctveir takes off its shoes. Before you have
touched the hem of his garments, do you not teet that
virtue has ont OF him ami entered YOU that his
divinity has awakened yours that your nature and
super nature bow 40 his Does not humanity
vail itself and uble but only
greater dignity and assert its divine brthright and
co-heirship with the object Of its worship? There's
mill iR. tah IN NAT .rtfr
understand. Though not word has passed, you go
out from such man with greater self -respect with
higher resolves with passions subdued, aud your
reason on its native throne. You have had baptism
OF strength in the cloud OF his glory There's a
munon Of hearts which largaage has never hampered,
and, thank God It never can There's an urrbro&en
succession OF professional reformers whose very
silence has been vocal ito those that listen WE'LL in
favor of thosc reforms which have sometimes been
hindered by the unemTer.d zeal of bigvtei enthusi-
Whoever is pure, be he silent statue.
sounding trumpet of reform LII the mystic realms OF
influence.
There IS a magnetic halo gathered about all great
ard purity ia which Is strongly ALLIED 70 the
sublime and beautiful in nature and in art IN fact
IS sunhuty and beauty m character mat gives II s
power: bnt no attempted imitation Of the ard
manifestations of greatness or purity can have their
power. As Haven tells "Tde beautiful in its
cannot be appropriated or possessed. Io
may appropriate the picture, the stane the
the waterfall, but not their BEAUTY 1t Is heal and
can not be possessed II IS ethereal spirit that
floats away a silver cloud near. yet ever b.
yoni your grasp IS byw, spanning TIE b!us arch,
base WHERE the rosy light TO hover the
wood and touch gently the earth but yoa not BY
any fight sceei Of travel come up with it,. Il con-
stantly recedes you advance.
81 you may gaze towering inrrfsct roIr
model vour instructor, yoa may dwell IN its shallow
and in Tiu,iration. but you not appropriate
The stately Tna Of that brow, the strangely
aefic which those fash In mellow bean
upon you the ripple Of divine suness tat just
those cileess, and cui1EiB1t1 in tose half
co1apressel lips. Nor y0u initiate them You
might as well attempt to counterfeit night without
day without 1t Is not ere and brow.
not flesh ami skin, not smile tear. that give that
his power you. Il - Ia. so4{-the mln-the
Behind the scene that shines through the canvas
ant changes the draily dAao a living il uInan face
oiyIsi..
Woai3 YOU hare power Would WELL an in
f,ieace s11-h angels not Then set Yourself
e culture Of that t..ip1 which call soul
That mysterious thing
" llseh bata NJ limits iT tie ais OF sense,
No call frrrn LoaFy tiIIt, with 2 l. decay
No fellow ship, SHALL stand forth Unchanged,
J14se.src 10! and tlIs resarr-ctsol isTes.'
To be44 q bsuad.ezs power Tor god or ILL.,