Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-26
Life.

The following beautiful disquisition up
on life. says the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, occurs in a sermon delivered BY
Rev. E. E. Adams, in the North Broad
street Presbyterian Church on last Sun
day evening:
There IS life in the ichen that clings
to the shaded rock. and drinks the cold
drops Of the mountain; there is life in the
freely that lights up the march with his
evening ray; there is life in the lark that
halls the orient sun with psalm more
sweet and not less glorious than the notes
of Haydn and Beethoven; there is life in
the lion who shakes the wilderness with
his terrible roar, sending horror through
every wild pulsing heart; there is life in
the eagle as he sits in solitary grandeur on
his alpine height, or sails on sturdy PIN
ions above the clouds that crown the An
des; there is still higher life in the speech
less child just opening its eyes to the light
and with pure lips in its first smile; there
is life in boyhood. glorious in its fresh am
bition, in its untamed aspirings; there is
life in girlhood,; the charm of beauty and
innocence playing on the cheek us if the
smile of God were there; there Is life in
manhood, and in the herculean arm, in
the brow that rivals Jove's, and the eye
that shoots out the fire Of Mars. Mea-
sure, if you can, the mental life Of Plato
the depth and compass of Webster Faith
ON the intellectual and moral depths of
Moses and Paul. Take the life of hu-
manity; let it be represented by all its
best qualities in a single human being.
Give him the frame of Sampson, the in
tellect of Lord Bacon, the soul of Payson
or St. John, the beauty and grace Of AL
cibiades, the song Of Handel or Mozart,
the oratory of Cicero, or Pericles, or Clay,
the devotion of Daniel or Paul, the exec
utive genius of Alexander, the science Of
Humboldt, the craftsmanship of WASH
ington, and the social nature of Burke,
the muse of Shakespeare, the chivalry of
Gustavus Adolphus, and the piety of Dan
iel or of Joseph-and let him stand forth
among his species to defend. to enlighten,
to win.
Let HIM shed his great light over the
earth. Let him reform Governments,
reyolutionize customs, awaken thought,
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life and fill the age with new, inspiring.
grateful, holy sentiments, feelings and
resolves. Let him impart something of
his great nature to humber mortals; let
him speak in majesty and tenderness to
us, and be before us the way, the truth
and the life-the highest standard of man
hood. the living depository Of all human
greatness and goodness-all that is mighty
in the arm of man, all that is profound in
his intellect, all that is precious in friend
ship, all that is sublime and blissful in
holiness-and I will tell you that the life
of Christ isinfnitely more! Angels can
not reach it, seraphs can not know it; 1t
is the life of God dwelling in the soul; it
is holiness that no spot darkens-love that
fills every capacity end expels every fear.
It is eternal life in fullness, in variety, in
beauty, in strength, in joy, in duration.
II there is anything rapturous in song,
anything exalted in character, great in
thought and achievement, it is in this life.