The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-12-04

Church service everywhere is defec-
tive in this, that the first prayer by the
congregation should be offered kneeling
and in silence, for humility and spiritu-
al enlightenment in the preacher.
We thought to steal q march on the
other papers by publishing first the
''ghost story" which the reader will find
on the outside of to-day's issue. But
the Dispatch, which sees everything,
knows everything, does everything and
gets ahead OF everything, forestallod
us. RIvEs POLLARD was a year old when
his brother was killed In Texas, and
was, doubtless, named utter him.
DR. W. Leigh Burton of Richmond
is, we hope and believe, in fair way to
utilize the modern theory Of heat
Faraday and his school call heat
''mode of notion" Tyndall says fiat
ly, heat is motion, and declares that we
can ''create" it at will. His very words,
N we remember rightly, are "the impact
eta falling body produces molecular
vibration, and the trenor we feel is heat"
What a blessed thing it would be to
make the motive power of the James
river the means of heating Richmond
This DR.. Burton proposes to do. By the
way, we see that new damper for open
tife-places or CRATES has been invented,
by which the heat now wasted and car
ried up the chimney may belmade to do
its proper work Of warming the room.
Bledsoe's fancied solution Of the orig
in of evil in his "Theodicy" is famil-
lar doctrine in the works of Sweden
borg. Bishop Hopkins's chapteron the
Principles of the Divine Administra-
ton in his "Pope not Antichrist" is al
most literal transcript from Sweden
borg. In Alcott's "Tablets," lately
published, the most profound and beau
tiful thoughts are but versions of Swe-
denborg's ideas. "Minds OF the same
spiritual elevation discern the same
spiritual TRUTHS" says the learned but
not pious author of "The Discourse of
Religion" and it has taken the world
hundred years and more to grow up to
Swedenborg's stature. The simple fact
is, that, in wedding the facts of physi-
cal science to moral and religious truths,
Sweden5org has gone about as far as it
is possible for the human mind, in its
present state of development, to co.
We shall have more t. say on this topic
when we come to notice, as we ought to
have done a year ago nearly, DR.. Hol-
combe's lovealle little book, "Our
Children In Heaven"
The N. Y. Home Journal is flourish
ing. Gets so many advertisements it
has to print supplement every week
to hold them.
"Nothing new under the sum-" Well
may We believe it, when we find Anax-
imaader, who lived six hundred years
before Christ, anticipating the theory OF |
the Vestiges of Creation, by affirming |
that the heavens and the IL finite worlds |
have arisen by segregation from the In
finite; and that at the generation of the |
world certain sphere of fire encom-
passed the air which surrounds the earth, |
MS a bark doth a tree; and that, when |
this sphere was broken up, and divided |
intoispherical bodies, there sprung from
it the sun, moon and stars" "This," |
says Robt. Anchor Thompson, In his
christian Theism, published in 1851 by
Harper & Bros, 'this is precisely the
cosmogony of the "Vestiges," due al
lowance being made for the change in
astronomical science" Cudworth also
quotes this remarkable passage, Vol. l.
p as7.
A writer in the Scientific American
breaches new theory about meteors.
He says the earth ON the 18th of No
vember crosses the path of the sun,
which leaves meteoric train behind
him many degrees beyond the earth's
orbit. NJ. Chapelas-C ou.v.er--Gra-
vicr, French astronomer, who has
made 377 observations of meteors, when
catechised by newspaper correspon-
dent, declared that meteors are seldom
larger than mans fist, never descend,
never explode, never make noise, and
never fall in shower of stones-aIl OF
which are yagaries of the excited imagi-
nation.
Wendell Phillips accounts very salts
actorily for the stagnation in business
in the following paragraph, which we
clip from one of his recent editorials,
While Government borrows S200,OQO,-
900 at better rate ofinterest than bust
ness speculations are likely 10 pay, .
there will be no activity in business
In a healthy condition Government
should pay only four or five per cent,
just enough to attract sluggish capital
that OF women, children, savings
banks. and retired old men-classes T
" hich aim at safety, not great dividends, {
The moment Government attracts, by |
It's larger interest, the funds of active
men, It is the foe and nightmare of bust |
ness. t I
The nonsense below, taken from the
asst number of the Weekly Memoran- t
lum, brings back old times in Lynch
'urg very forcibly. We never played :
'ften with the boys at A'Frens Ware q
ouse," being away in New Jersey at Il
ctool. but often enough to remember c.
he following formulate. Dearus! It's o
hirty years ago, and more. m
Eeny, meeny mony Mike. it
BarcelOny, Bony strike,
Har war-froWi1ac4