Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-16
oUR MIGHT.

m~eattAtlohA upon inc mut4bllitlee
Of life as taught by experience and
observation, to the philOsOphic.-
Wrong can never be Right; but
what We think wrong may, after
ell, PrOUe TO be right. This may be
taken as' an axiom in physics, or
in materialities, mentalities, or NOR.
alitles. Perhaps the beneicent Of.
feCts that the world would feel
from apractical recognition Of the
truth stated, is almost incalculable ;
1t Is certainly true that many bitter
nesses, many revillngs and heart
burnings, many ordinations and
recriminatiOns, many of the causes
of misery and injury found In this
LIE, would be unknown, and har-
mony and peace would reign where
now are known disCord and war.
The matutinal day Is dawning
that will usher in the New Dispen-
sation, the glorious and everlasting
period when the Right ever is
Right, and Wrong ever Wrong
There men do not judgdwith mans
mind, but with b eintellect illumin.
ed BY the Omniscience of the ON.
niscient One.
But now mankind iR finite, and
they think and act like finite be-
ings. Paul expressed this idea
when be said, "When l was q child
| acted as a child; but when l be-
came q man l put away childish
things" So with US now we are
children; in the Hereafter oaly
can we become men.
Ever and anon some Of the human
creatures seem endowed with SUI
pernstural powers, as II by q special
exercise Of power by the Deity.
These lights have burned with an
unextinguishable fame which IL
Illuminated at once, but feebly,
amidst the almost tangible gloom
settled upon human minds, but
they burned and gave light, moral
light mental and physical light,
such light as men needed and
cFaved (though, perhaps, they knew
Il nOt)' And envy and opposition,
ignorance and despotism pro-
nOunCed the light a false glitter, an
'gH"' JataGs, a myth, q passing
meteor, and endeavored TO smother
and extinguish IL.
But It was Wrong called Right,
uselessly attempting to extinguish
the Right called Wrong. Mankind
was finite, is finite and, as mankind,
must be finite. They perceived
not the true and the beauti.
full in the knowledge held
out them they had neither the
courage or the appreciation to
drink from the eternal and life
giving waters Of truth. God knew
the lights V0uchsafed the world
were true'lights, angel.hood knew
it. the gifted ones knew because
they felt 1t but
Man, proud man, drest in a lit.
tie brief authority, most ignorant
of what he's most assured" proud
In his "glassy essence" disdained
Gods truth through finite intelli.
gence and shrank back into the
shells Of their cynicism and incred.
nlOus ignorance.
And now we explain ourselves
better by embodying here some re
lative ideas opposite exact and to
the very point.
New ideas have ever met with
the antagonism Of the world. The
greater the discovery, the stronger
the opposition.
Harvey, the discoverer of the
Circulation Of the Blood was VIC.
lently prosecuted through life.
Physicians called him q quack, and
vagabOnd.
And yet, who doubts Harvey's
theory tO-dsy1 No one.
Lady Mary WORTHY Montague,
who had witnessed the good results
Of AaocntGEIon IN smallpox in the
East, introduced 1t into England.
Happy Lady Montague! She had
rank, wealth, and beauty. But lie.
ten to Lord Wharnclihe who has
written her life, and learn that per-
secution has ever been the reyvard
Of the benefactors of the human
race.
He says: LADY Mary suffered go
much from persecution, that she
seldom passed q day without bit.
terly ~repenting Of her undertaking.
The faculty rose in arms; the
denounced her from the pul.
pit, and the pOpulace hoOted at her
Is the unnatural mother.
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