The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-07-16

one square.
Poetry.
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THE POWEROF THE PRESS.
ny MRS. VIRGINIA FRAsTz.
Written in response 10 a resolution Of
tbe Press CdauemtioR Of 1869
When by Infinite pow'r this little world
Was launched upon the bonndless sea Of space,
To be the home of mortal man through life,
There was one law implanted in his soul,
Aud that unspoken, changeless mandate was,
Progression.
Fer since Eve and Adam sewed
Their fig leaves meath the bow'rs of Paradise,
And passed through Eden's beauteous gatos,
with sins
First blighting influence upon their lives
To eat the bread of labor, this wise law
Has been in operation.
When the Great
Creator stood upon the battlemepls
OF Heav'n and in His wisdom thought this
world,
While all the shining host had paused, and
Expectant watched to see what wond, ,rous
thing
He was about to do, when he pronounced
The words sublime, "Let there be light, and
light,
A new variety Of pure, sweet light,
Sprang forth Within sphere to them unknown
The pow'r creative then wentout from God,
And who may say 1t is not moving still2
God hath bestowed on man powr that seems
Almost as great as the creative powr
Itself, that Is the pow'r to search and know
The uses Of the vast mysterious
Materials of Garth.
1t matters not,
If God created earth, and all therein,
In six short days, or in SIX thousand years;
II is a wond' rous miracle no less.
The seal Divine in stamped upon the work,
And day by day, Jehovah's work goes on.
Day after day, some latent gem OF pow'r,
Some hidden thought Of Deity burst forth,
And man with some discovery is blessed.
How wisely hath our God ordained all things?
Every necessity that doth arise
Is by our Fathers boundless bounty meet
A new invention, lie, to us reveals
some great mind, for the occasion
taught.
How gently God deals out our daily light
And knowledge Step by step the mind moves
on,
By evil often turned aside, because
Of mans free agency, but by and by
The destined end is reached, and Gods designs
Are never twarted by the pow'r of sin.
At first, when men were few upon earth,
They needed naught by which to transmit
thought,
Save the sweet speech that God had given them.
Then men lived heart to heart, and soul to soul,
Aud told each other all they felt and knew;
But when they grew, and scattered Ger the
earth,
Then mans inventive genius was called forth
To action, and how sk,llhlly he planned
To find some way by which he could commune
With friends by distance separtcd far.
God knew in the beginning, man would''need
The art Of writing, and Of printing, SO
When first the need was felt by him the germ
Inventive sprang up in bis mind and grew
And blossomed, and the idea matured,
Of sending pictures radely drawn, instead
Of verbal messages. This only served
To make him feel his need, the more because
He could not thusexpress, one half he wished
To tell. Imperfectly he could make known
A simple fact, but could not thus convey
His thoughts and feelings TO another mind.
This Geographic system very soon
Was changed, the characters was modified
The mind had undertaken this great work,
And on II moved, studied, improved and
planned,
Until the alphabetic system was
Produced. Long and laborious was the.work,
And we cannot the system here recount,
Through which this great invention moved.
before
The present perfect method was stiaiued;
Nor can We here, the substance review
On which enrudcly wrote, ere paper was
Trough, out III III rs rerfcct beauty,