The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-24

/ on THE
Reformation Of The lcaste Lands Of te
Mississippi Delta.

the word and the word was with God. anC
the WORT was Cod In the beginning, Coz
I created the world-our world-and all there
was in it. When He hau thus created it. He
looked out upon it and resolved to make
master for ito perfect the creation. Ii
His own image created He the master of the
world, male and female created He them
and made them one And gave man domin'
/ ion over the beasts OF the field, the birds o
the air and the fishes Of the sea. and every
creeping thing. And He commanded then
/ the man aud the womar-to go forth ano
multiply and replenish the earth. AND SUB
! DUE IT.
| In every living thing in nature there is
seat of life-a centre, through and around
which flows its animating life giving power
! the blood. Every one of these created
/ things has distinct, separate centre-ar
existence. Every one of these distinct CEN
tres-all this eXistecce, is subject TO It's ere
ated master. Above the life of the shrub
( above the life of the tree, of the flower
above the beasts of the fields. above the
/ fishes OF the sea. above animated nature
| rises MAN. Above all these. above man
| rises God-the Creator of the L inverse. hi
/ God. mans master and king. when lie had
/ fashioned this world to his pleasure conf
handed man to subdue it. SaDdue ii tt
1 what, Mr.. President? To the uses of man
/ and TO the glory of God.
! III gave man dominion over che beasts oil
/ the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the
/ sea, and every living thing. The first uses
| to which man employs these things over
4 which he Is given dominion. is to sustain life
to make food of them There was a fruit
which man might not eat of. a fruit which
| grew on the tree OF Life-to eat and know
which man would himself have become a
God, and could have lived without food, and
would have denied his mother, his creator,
mis- God.
The next use man puts this power to is, to
harness the beasts of the field. and with APP
planes made from the fold of nature In
compliance with this law OF dominion, be
enabled to glorify God-another means to
enable man 10 subdue the earth.
Man as he progressed in years, experience
and knowledge (fOr il is one of the elements
of creation, that as life prOgg asses future eX-
istence is but higher reach Of the presently
advances towards pertection--the law OF
creation is revolution, change. progression,
because there Is never ending eternity OF
time and of space. Man as he progresses
finds himself controlled by this law of ma
ture, this command of God. and but the
highest order OF creation, without any mas
ter save God his creator, who has made him
master of all save knowledge. As genera
tionS of men progress, man progresses in
knowledge, and in consequence ihthe means
to enable him TO do His Masters will. We
need no other proof of this than TO look
about US. 1t Is only necessary TO cite the
achievements of the past few centuries over
those of any other since the world is known
to have begun, Human wisdom fails, in the
contemplation of this great truth, to COM
prchend the motives of God in creating eve
ry thing in this progressive state, and thus
continuing it, except singly and solely for
His own glory.
When man reached out his hand, and
chained to his own uses, to be made the
medium of thought between the inhabi-
tants of all portions of the globe the voids
of space, the intellect of the material world.
the Iightnings OF heaven; when he COM
passed the space between oceans by severing
Il continent IN twain; when he brought all
nations and families of men under the intlu-
ences of one common tongue-the ocean
telegraph when he opened highway from
the East to the West, from darkness into
light, from the night of barbarism into the
broad sunlight of our civilization by that
great combination of the elements of nature
which has perfected the steam railway SyS-
tenn, and developed that other and later and
grander means to the glory of GOG-the
pneumatic tunnel-he was but advancing in
conformity to the laws of nature. Every
successive step was developed by the per-
lection of its predecessor. Every law dis
covered led to and neceSsitated the discovery
of another. The pneumatic tunnel was not
invented rs means of transportation until
by the development of every principle gov
erning the wheel and axle, principle was
eliminated which creates the pneumatic
tunnel. 1t is only by combining the forces
in nature that the earth can be subdued.
And man, given power over these forces, Is
commanded to use them in subduing the
earth.
The difference between primitive man,
and man as he exists to-day, can be no more
strikingly illustrated than in their cOndi-
tiOns. While primitive man was only able
to harness the OK. or at beast the beasts Ofthe
field, man to-day is enabled to harness to
the purposes for which the OK was employed,
the elements of space-to give TO dead mat
ter that life which throbs in the steam en-
CINE, which pUlsates the ocean, and which
breathes through the pneumatic tunnel.
1T we, as the representatives of the high
est stage Ofthis progress would keep pace
with the progress OF the age--of our fellows
let us show ourselves able tc harness the
elements needed, in conformity to laws al
ready known, and subdue the Mississippi
river
Senators may say that we may as well at
tempt to dam the waters of the Mississippi
river as to attempt to control their flow.
Sir this is an error.
Verify. there is nothing so true.
That the damps of error have no warped it !;
For the enemy, the Father of Lies,
The giant L pas of Creation.
Whose deadly shade hath blasted this once
green garden of the Lord.
Can but pervert the good
But may not create the evil"
Sir, the designs of Providence are merci-
full to man.
length that it cannot be made longer; it is
not so deep. that it cannot be made deeper !.
it is net so straight that it cannot be made
straighter; the flow of its waters are not so
uniform, that they cannot be made to flow
more in harmony with the purposes of its
creation or so rapid. that it cannot be made
TO flow more rapidly; it Is not so useful that
it cannot be made more useful; or so great,
that it cannot be made greater; and these,
all. at the command of man.