Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-28
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COHIMUNICATED.


''If thou wou1d's read a lesson that viii
Thy heart from faintipg, and thy soul from
Go to tie woods and hilIs-no tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears"
LonGfett0t0.
1t takes a poet to unfold the beauties
of nature and teach us her many les
sons. We poor, unobserving crea-
lures, day by day, look upon nature
and pass her away without notice.
Like the niser, described in Pilgrim's s
Progress, we are on our hands and
knees, with face near the ground
searching for earth's hidden Iucre. all
the while falling to see the greater
treasure above our heads. With face
and eyes, always looking down, we
fail to observe the beauties of God all
around and above as. ssThe heavens
declare the glory ofGod, and the firm
ament sheweth his handy-work,0 but
how few of us ever see that glory or
care for the beauty Of heaven or earth?
To-day the forests are covered with
the splendOE Of fall. Green and GRIM
son and many variegated colors all
blend in dazzling richness, filling
the intellect with wonder and the heart
with thanksgiving to Him who rules
and beauties our dwelling place.
Carlyle has lecture on the Hero as
divine in which he takes the Scandi-
navian Mythology and shows how all
the forces of nature impressed the peo-
pie as deities=the primary character
istic is the 'simpersR nation of the visi-
bic workings of natare.'' In this lee
ture is found the following: 'FIhun-
der was not then mere electricity, VT
reouS reSiuOuS; it was the God DOnner
Thunder, or Thor-GOd also of benefi-
cent sunmer-heat. The thunder was
his wrath the gathering of the black
clouds is the drawing down of Thor's
angry brows; the fire-bolt bursting
from the hand of Thor; he urges his
loud chariot over the mountain tops
that is the peal wrathfuJ he blows in
his red beard'-t is the rustling
stOrm-blast before the thunder begins.
Bolder, again, the white God, the beau
tiful, the just, and benignant, (whom
the early Christian missionaries
found to resemble Christi is the sun
beautifullest of visible things; after
all our ASTRONOMERS and almanacs."
And do we not forget the marks of
the Divine Hand in all these things?
The forces of nature are called by
scientific names, and there we let
them remain. It takes an earthquake
or a thunder-bolt upon ones house to
awaken US to an appreciation of the
power of nature. The Enlightened
Mortimer saw Deity in the thunder
and bowed in awe before Him. We for
get the Deity and explain away the
thunder The NOrthmen saw God in
y
and power We scarcely ever look
upon his beauty, nor render thanks
for His benefits. Is not the farmer-the
man who has so excellent a chance to
observe the unadOrned beauties of ma
ture as they come from Gods beneh-
cent hand-is not the farmer often un
mindful of these beauties and bless
ings? There is no country home in
this country but might teach us les
sons of thankfulness and love, were
we only to keep our eyes open and no.
tice the beauties which God bountiful-
ly has provided. There is beauty ev-
en- in a girdIed tree there is a hidden
message in every falling leaf, a gentle
whisper of consolation in the silver
capped cloud as it jOurnies-whither
The Hand that directs that cloud,
also directs our life. and those
changing and falling leaves bid us re-
member our change. Read and study
nature. All communion with Gods
works viii ennoble us, if we but right
ly use it. r. d. X.