Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-05

! hind, even the slaves, whose father
were Caunibals in Africa, know more o
6 the wonders and magnitude of Creation
? than was known to Socrates, Plato ant
I Zoroaster. But this light, unfortunately
is like that cold radiance reflected II
i, Arctic regions from the long level Heidi
and lofty cliffs of glittering ice. IL 4
! light without heat or the frdit-creatlns
! energy, cold as the ice from which
CLEANS and scintiIIstes.
? The effect and result Of Science, in thu
main is, to substitute natural forces, re
suits Of material organization, anC
Laws Of Nature" in place Of the i'm
r mediate and varied action of the Deity
The Universe is no longer His TEMPLE
in which everywhere is the Shekinsh Oh
Divine Presence, between the Cherubim
It is but machine, eunningly manufae'
tured, and when once in motion, run
ming Of itself,-an intricate combination
Of springs and wbeels,-by means of its
forces and by virtue OF certsic ldUS, 81
/ some indefinite period Of the past en-
acted by God, and thereafter acting and
controlling as by virtue and power in
herent in themselves. Whether these
forces would continue existent and pO-
tent, and these laws gOvera and remain
in force, if the Deity we're to cease to be,
is q question that Science does not feel
called upon to solve
But, in the meantime, men no longer
feel God near to them, guiding, coutroll-
ing, directing and preserving all, and
ineessantly, by continuing it, rs'ae10iTg
/ Creation at every instant. Each is sur
rounded and acted on by the Forces Of
: Nature" What these Forces are, what
is meant by force, and what is meant
by q lalC of Nature, he never inquiries:
/ ne is content with the words that coz
cesI his ignorance: but in the mean
time, all true reverence Of God, all feel
ing Of immediate dependence on Him
dies out: the Levites abandon the Tenn
pie, and the service OF God ceases in it.
Science, instead Of bringing God nesrer
to Us, and making Us feel, IS it should,
that we are always in His immediate
presence, removes Him further from us,
interposing forces E" created by Him,
and claws" enacted by Him, but each
self-acting thereafter, and invested with
the faculty Of continuance, between man
and God.
Yet it is wonderful Temple of God
we live in, to whstever base uses the
Priests Of the Most High and His Dele
gates who rule men may put this partic-
ular chamber Of it. 1t is eight thousand
miles from pole to pole Of our earth
Jupiter alone is equal to thirteen hun
bred esrths; and the Sun to a million
four hundred Thousand; while Sirius,
which seems but a point of light in the
azure armament, is equal to eleven Mill /
ions two hundred thousand esrths. More
than twenty thousand such stars are al |
ready registered in our catalogues. Her
scbel, observing certsin portions OF the
galaxy, saw more than forty thousand /
stars pass over the field OF his telescope, I
during q single hour, in strip OF sky /
Only two degrees in breadth. The imagi- |
nation cannot conceive the number that
may exist in the infinite amplitudes Of I
space.
II we could ascend to a height al which |
we could see at once the sun and all bis
planets in their orbits, he would seem q .
globe Of fire some six and twenty inches 4
in diameter; Mercury, Of the size Of q
grain Of millet; Venus, Of q May pea
the Earth, Of little larger pea Mars,
q large pin head the lately discovered
small planets, notes OF dust, or grains Of
shining sand, fifty or sixty in number,
in the sunshine; Jupiter, of fine bright
orange; Saturn, Of billiard-ball; IRA
nus, OF a phOsphOresceDt cherry; and
Neptune, of a family luminous plum.
The distances between these would seem
by scores and hundreds Of
yards; but the consultations of fixed
stars would still outlie, at distances go
immense, that no change in their aspect,
Dr. alteration in the perspective Of their
groups, would be pereeptible to US, if we
could fit in the thousandtb part OF sec
md from Venus to Neptune. To en-
leavOr to conceive OF GH,-of infinite
pace, filed with stars like ours, each
With its retinue Of worlds, is to climb
hose lofty heights whose utmost summit
s inaccessible to human understanding,
hose elevated regions which are really
he mountain-peaks Of Truth; and yet
n the other direction lies q universe as
disclosed to Us by the micro
cope in every drop Of stagnant water
md almost every atom OF matter, the
Universe Of littleness, whose utmost I
boundaries are equally inaccessible to us.
This vast universe is not tenanted and
'eOpled and moved and preserved BY
laws and Forces other than or different
rom the COMMUNICATING VIII and
'Ower and Wisdom Of God. The Laws
u Nature are Gods will, acting directly
md continually. II not that, the word
has no meaning. The Forces Of Nature
re the powers Of God, in action. The
World is His Holy Temple, from which !
4e is not absent, bestowing His care !
nd exerting his creative power else
where.
Yet, thus encompassed by wonders, !
nan continually endeavoTs to escape e
rom the consciousness Of being in the
immediate presence Of the Creator and
{ the present day has succeeded in doing /
to an unprecedented extent. For il {
entirely certain that there never was a
a age when men acted, in the conduct .
! their daily affairs, and nations in their i
oliey, with 80 little reference to the d. '
Inc Ordinances,-which were never in
ny time unknown, -and with so little .
pparent consciousness and actual living 4
eiief that they do everything with the d
yes Of God upon them and in His i'm =
lediate presence; so little feeling it to F
true that every wrongful act, Of man Il
nations, has its full and adequate pun l
.hment in its consequences,-conse- :
uences necessary and Inevitable, and a
ON which their cause can no more b.
spaIaeso, Ihan the Light can be made D
exist Without the shadow. o
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THEY have got an immense sensatjop '
Spencer county, ky.,-nothiDq less d
han live roaring lion roaming tkTougb Il