Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-05-13

ONleT instead ~ being left within human
reach, and for human use, to help mankind
to build the heavens they So much need, and
to cxungush ten thousand hcls in which
poor humanity has so long beei burning
| Away with such Interpretation, and such false
| and fatal PHILOSOPHERS Of human existence
| In the new heayen und new earth which arc
| 10 be tO he here in this life and not another
are TO be fealized in full fruition all that Is
declared or described in the scripture refer
ences at the beginning of This, ] fear too long.
too long, but not 10 broad discourse
The words are, 1--WE shall not all sleep, but
we shall all be changed"
read them we shall not always die, but
we shall always he changing-changing from
glory 10 glory by the spirit and power Of truth
yet 10 be discovered and revealed
Kepler, when he unfolded and explained
the discovt fies of Copernicus, who being a
priest high in honor was too cowarlly to re-
veal them hims' T. Keplcr said God has wait
ed six thousand years for a discOyerer, and
can not afford TO wait one hundred years for
a readery
Waited six thousand years :" Why nature
was struggling millions Of years to produce
! failures like Copnrnicus, and philosophers like
| Kepler and Newton aud they and their
gospels are not three hundred years old And
do you suppose that man is yet II tliOusandth
part done?
If it required unknown ages 10 hatch a
lolthsOme lizard, and other unknown ages
10 mould q monkey, and then others, alike
innumcrable, 10 make a man, and then ages,
and races, and empires of men out of whose
ashes one Kepler could lie born, are We to pre-.
sumo that creations work on man is almost
done Must we believe that myriads Of ayes
were wasted on matter to spawn it into monads,
| 500O00,0O0 of which swim in one drop of
water and that man is only born to die as
soon as born almost, and OitcntimCs before, and
10 be miserable while he lives beyond all created
beings!
do not believe man is born to die / do
not believe man has begun 10 live. He is
yet in embryo, at most and in infancy, al
best His Creator has given him the material
Universe as his patrilnony. But until Copper
nicus and kepleT came, rs but moment ago.
there was not wit and wisdom enough in all
the family TO survey and measure the home
stead. even, not TO speak of the outlands
anchored off in all the yastitude nf space.
Take these my son, the Father said
These globes and orbs are thine for bread
And now, while he knows nothing of one
Of them not even that on which he roams,
and still less of himself, must he be made
| religiOusly 10 believe that disease and death
are 10 devour him forever, as vcrmin do the
dogs Then indeed is he, of all beng, most
| miserable.
! 1t shall not he So Man is but begun. Light
and truth are to burst upon him, as no C)per-
nicus, Kepler, nor ST. John in Patmos, ever
saw.
Science is yet bat the morning star slowly
climbing over the eastern hills. Behind il
are morning, midnoon and eternal day-daY
| whose brightness our present eyeballs are too
mortal to behold. But be shall behold it.
Doubt 1t not. Behind us are unnumbered
myriads of years. Before us are myriads
equally innumerable. And long before many
OF them shall have run their mysterious round,
death, as now dreaded, shall. with all his ter
rors, have given up the ghost. Not one pain,
not one pang, as now endured, shall then be
known. Diseases, like demons, shall then be-
long only to the legendary lore. And death,
now king of Terrors," shall be but heavens
charioteer TO bring tue absent children home
And while pain and anguish are no more, and
all tears are wiped from all eyes, 20 shall new
joys and new delights be discovered and re-
vealed such, indeed, as eye hath not seen
nor heart conceived any more than ear hath
heard. Discovered too by men, of woman
born as now And the man worm of to-day
shall become god and woman, in all her
immortal attributes, shall be, not his equal,
his complement and companion. but his creator
out of Der own body and soul
Ask not ''l,ow Can these things be ," o ye Of
little faith
What has not been done in the last five
hundred years of sin and darkness of war
and carnage, destruction and desolati0n of
slavery and drunkenness of scorn and Op-
preston of the poor of the depreciation,
debasement and defiement OF woman OF the
crushing poverty of the myriad masses the
deceptOns and dclusiOns of a false and yet
costly religion, bilding the mind, soaring the
conscience, and hardening the heart And if
in such gloomy surroundings, so much has
been achieved, and our onward course is bright
and clear as a royal highway up TO the eternal
thrones
While present interpretations of the Bible
and present religions teachings prevail mis-
representaling this bcautiiul world as a vale Of
tears, the very valley Cf the shadow OF 6cath,
governed, too, by passionate, vindictiye God,
who sits above, Singing thunder bolts at the
poor beings his own word spoke into lite5 just
SO long must this frightful dispersion hlst.
While man is taught that he is only born to
die, rtading in his Holy Bible Man that is
born of woman is of few days and full OF
trouble" ii will last. While woman is taught
by her priest from that same Bible TO be in
base, sometimes even brastly subjecton TO
man, To governments, too in which she has
neither vote nor voice TO religion and priest
hood not less absolute and tyranical and to a
God who cursed her in the very morning OF
her creation, it surely must last. While wo-
man believes her SORROWS must be multiplied
in conception, and that in anguish she shall
bring forth chldFen, and That even in materni-
ty itself there is detilement in the sight at
God, ii must last. And while woman is made
TO believe that GOd, worse tlEfh FHafaOn ana
Herod, kills half the childPen in infancy, by
stern decree older than the foundations OF the
earth, it must be so
Why ask, what shall he instead of such fear
full delusions, deceptions, distractions AS
well Pharaoh ask Moses and Aaron If you
tske away these ten horrible plaques what
will you give US instead
When the plague in London, in 1865, swept
off almost hundred thousand victims in that
single visitation. the survivors were not anx-
ious 10 know, if that scourge were removed
what other good or bad thing, should be Civ
en- them IAs ED At all events, they were
willing To part with the plague.
But we do offer good and glorious things
instead of false, wicked and cruel dreams, de-
lusons and lies. We no longer postpone ouI
heaven to distant, unknown future, and con-
tinue This world rs theater of sin, darkness
Pdcsolation, drath-deatlE temporal, and finish
ing the tragedy in death eternal to ull bu
an elected few of the ilnumerabe millions o
the human racel
Man was not born TO die-let me repeat it
not To be slave. He was made TO be free
and he shall yet be free-free from sin free
from sorrow, free frnm death