New-York tribune., 1869-04-16


WHEN are from the first the mastercoors OF our Drean
grotto; say rather. tile Canvas Hhe, warp and woot
painted. Nevertheless, has not deeper meditation
taught certain OF every climate ana age that tno
honghts are but superficial terrestrial adhesons TO
thoughts that the Seer may discern lnem wneIe loy
nonnt nm ont of the celestial EVERYWHERE ana FOR
EVER have not all nations conceived their God as Omn
present and Eternal as existing IN uverSi @ hHE @ nm an
Everlasting NOwi Think WELL thou too VIII ma tiae
space is but mode OF human Sense so likewise
Time there is no Space and no Ilme WE ae-w1
not what:-ghtsparlcs floating III the Dthcr OF DEITY
$50 that this so sodseomng World after all were but
M 9S 9 aea but "S the
reflex OF our own inward Force the phantasy OF or n
Dream Gg what the ~ EaTaGspr' dG III f@"' names 10 we
In BEINGS foods IN Actors storm,
woss Es ,SS ana wes1: T9H n 1SSHS enS.s. ssnst sn
Birth and Death,
Infinite ocean,
selns ana StS,i Svns
IT'S thus at the roaring Loom Of Time ply:
Aud weave for Go TIE Garment thou seest Him by 49,
OF twenty millions that have read and spOuted this
thunderspeech of the Erdgeist, there yet twenty
units Of us that have learned the meaning ihereofP
The struggle of the human mind with doubt is
typifed by the experience of TeufelsdrGckh who
after desperate wrestlings with the grim enemy
emerges into the light of The Everlasting YEA"
the sunny table-land Of serene convictions and a
noble life-purpose.
"Reautiful It was to sit there, as in my skyey Tent
musng and medItatlng; the high tabeand in front
of the Mountains over me- as roof He azure Dome ana
namely, Of the -Four azure Winds, on whose bottom
gs aS tat nave sood sSep eere IN hee
lows with their green fowerlawns, and white danes
Sooted CotnseS wherein stood many Mother baking
bread with children round her all hidden and pro-
frF S4e az .Ts as n Sea ht Or 10 ec as well as
fancy, the nne Towns and Villages that lay round my
| mountain-seat, which, in still weather, were wont to
speak to me by their steepebell with metal tongue;
md In almost all weather, proclaimed their vitality by
ogue might read tho hour OF the day. For it tho
smoke OF cookery, kind housewives at morning, mid
day eyentide, boiling their husbands kettles; and
ever blue pillar up into the air, successfully or
simultaneously from each OF tho nine saying as plainly
as smoke could say: Such aud such meal Is getting
ready here Not unntercstng For You have the whole
Borough. with all it's lOvemakings and scandal-mon
gerles contentious and contentinens as In miniature
and cOuld cover It al with your hat II. In my wide
Wayfarngs had learned TO look into the business OF the
World its details here perhaps WAS the place for COM
binng 1t into general propOSl0hs anu deuucihg ihIer
"Ofen also could sec the black Tempest marching in
anger through the Distance; round sOmo ScreckhOrn,
ye gS wU"d eady ng and HOW DOWN Ike mad
witcs hair TILL after space, it vanished, and Ia the
white for the vapor had held How thou fermentest
and elaborates in thy great fernentngvat and abora
il Nature Hal why do not name thee GoDi Art not
thou tho Living Garment OF GodP o Heavens y 1t,
jn very deed He then, that speaks through thee
that lives and loves In thee that lives and loves In me
Foreshadows, call them rather splendorS OF that
Truth and Beginning OF Truths, fell mysteriOusy
my soul sweeter than Daysprng TO the Shpwrecked In
Nova Zemba; ali, like the mothers voice to her little
muts like soft streamings OF celestial music TO my too
exasperaed heart came that EyangeL The Universe is
not dead and demoDacal charneEhOuso with specters;
but gOdlike, and my FathersI
"Wh other eyes. too could now look upon my fellow
with Infinite Love, an Infinite Pity. Poor,
dcring, waywaId man Art thou not tried. and beaten
royal mantle the beggars gabardne. art thou not
weary. so heayy-aden; aud thy Bed OF Rest Is but
thee my BOSOM and wipe away ali tears from thy eyes
Truly tho din OF voiced Life which, in this soli
maddenng dseord but melting one; ike narcnlale
cries and sobbngs OF dumb creature, which In the ear
of Heaven prayers The poor Earth, with her poor
Joys was my needy mother, not my cruel scpdame;
Man. with his so mad Wants and 30 mean Endeayors had
become dearer and for his suerngs and
his sins, now first named him Brother. Thus was
@ c had too Sees saea ne as
long its sacred gates would open, aud the Divine
Depih Of Sorrow' lie disclosed TO me-"
Herr Toufelsdr6ekhs speculatons on the condition
Of tho Church and the prospects of fashionable
Igion have something audacious in their freedom,
and might well have produced sense of astonish-
ment almost of panic among men Whose eyes were
in their hindhead" but who perhaps have gained
thicker skins in these days of the Essays and Re-
views" Bishop Colenso, and NJ Renan.
"By Church Clothes, 10 need not be promised that
mean infinitely more than Cassocks and Supplies; and
tha. go to Church in. Far from III ChurchClothes
are vocabulary, the Forms, tho Vestres under
s.ntsd for themselves Religious Principle that Is to
say invested tho Divine Idea OF the World with sensible
These are Th:peaEab the most Important of all the
dsrs socETT for itis still only when two or three are
aed sSdss ta IN osa
ouwardy manifests itself (as with 'coyen tongues Of
and Church Militant Mystical, more than magical is
that Comnunng of Soul with Soul both looking heaven
in looking heavenward take 1t In what sense you may
not in looking earthward, does what we call Union
that Of Ncvalis 1T Is certain my Belief gains quite IN
Jnitely the moment l can convince = another mind mind
eyes where plays the ambent fire Of Kndpess or in those
where s S fSusSgh Vf ATT lS 2H
died with tho like ye blaze and each
other till it s all one lmitess continent flame tof
what miraculous virtue goes out Of man into man. But
Il So through ali the the thekped hns q our Earthly
Life; how much more when IL is OF the Divine Life we
speak and nmost DE us 1t were brought into contact
with inmost ME
spun and woven by Society; outward Religion originates
Dy soS,e'y Society becomes possible BY RELIGION Nay
may well be figured as properly and wholly Church, IN
one or other Of these three predcaments audiby
second Church that struggles to preach and prophecy
but cannot as yet iii IFS PsnteeOst come and third ara
mumbles dellrum prior to dissolution. whose fances
that by Church is here meant Chapterhouses and
speech and chanting, lot him." says the orscuiar Pro
fe%ssST or, "Tead & o. p light 20 Of heart getro.n Mae
Church Clothes specially recognized as 10th
remark feaIlessy enough that without such VestlIes
ana sacred Tissues Society has not existed, and will not
exist For II Government IL. so to speak the outward
SKIN OF the Body Polite holding the whole together and
pr0teotnglt and all yOnr Craft Guilds and Associations
Tor Industry OF hand or OF head the Feshy Coes
the Muscular and osseous Tissues dying .de such sKfS
whereby Society stands and worssthen Is Religion tho
inmost Pereardal and Nervous Tissue which minsters
Lie and warm Circulation 10 the whole without which
Percardal Tissue the Bones and Muscles (Of Indurv
were inert, or animated only by Galyanic vitality: he
sKIs wonld become shriveled pe or fastrOtng raw.
10 Ia
buried Men were no longer Social but Gregarions
which latter state also could not continue but grad
neiy issue ia universal selfish dlscord, hatred savage
ISOLATION, and dispersonwhe as VIC might contnne
10 saw the very dust and dead BODY Of Socetv wauId