American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-03-09
COMMUNICATIONS.
NEHsic Of The Soul.


NEssRs. EDIToRs The soul, like a
well tuned instrument, will enrapturc Us
with delightful strains, if rightly keyed,
and all its chords in proper order. The
first and most important requisite, is that
our wills shall be keyed in such way
as exactly to accord with the will of our
Heavenly Father. This is indispensable
else almost every chord will produce dis
cordant notes. Why all these discorlant
notes in civil and ecclesiastical fraterni-
ties? In ecclesiastical. resulting in dis
membcrmcnt. In civil, producing litiga-
tion, war, and bloodshcd The will Of
those fratcrnites is not keyed to accord
with the will of the Governor of the uni
verse. The several chords of our soul
must attach themselves to humanity in
general. The major chord should attach
itself to that part of humanity more Gle
vated than ourselves. In this class, We
behold many who have woven the scien-
ces into a coronct to deck their brows.-
Their minds, like a vast cabinet, is the
receptacle of every kind of knowledge,
either useful or curious. Not satisfied
with accumulation from earth, air, and
sea; the starry heavens are laid under
tribute to yield them fresh supplies.
If We find within our hearts a chord
attaching MS to this part of humanity,
what strains of melody arc frequently stir
red within us by the pcrusal of those
heaven-born ideas, which they scatter all
abroad through the medium of the press.
or by listening to the lofticst strains of ell
oquence from the pulpit, which sways the
gathered throng as the breeze sways the
trees of the forest. The minor chord at
tatches us to that part of humanity be-
low us. Here we place the savage, bar
barous and half enlightened nations OF
the earth. If we find in our heart a
chord attaching us to this part of human
ity, what sweet thrills vibrate through the
soul by hearing of the achievements of
the Missionaries of the Cross. ANY in
dividual who can compare the condition
of the Sandwich Islanders, the inhabi-
tants of Madagascar and Ceylon, before
they had listened to the storyof the Cross,
with their present condition, without be-
ing enraptured with the melody of the
soul, may rest assured no minor chord
unites them in sympathy with their infe-
rior brotherhood. But what peans of
music ravishcs the soul, by listening to
the proclamation of liberty from our Chief
Executive to three millions of captives in
our beloved eoURGy. Not only in the
soul of man is there sweet music by being
keyed in accordance with the will of our
Heavenly Father, but truly might Addi-
,son say, in regard to the starry host,
Forever singing as they.shine.
The hand that made US IS divine"
Think you we could talk of the music
ofthe spheres ifthey iran lawless through
the sky" and refused to course their or
bits in accordance with the fat of their
great Original. And not only is the mel
ody of the soul. and the music of the
spheres, occasioned by being keyed in uni
son with the viii of Jehovah, the rap
lures of paradise results from the same
cause Not single denizen in all the
:unlit bowers of that celestial CLINE, but
his va !, keyed in exact unison vita the
will of his Heavenly Fsthhsr.
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