Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

Mr. EDITOR:-After long delay, !
place myself in an attitude to respond to
your request-to write an article for your
column fl do lot succeed in accom-
plishing all that you would have me,
please think that the spirit is willing
but the flesh weak" and take the will
for the deed" What little | may write
will be upon Order. Order was the first
enactment written within the statutes of
Deity; and it has remained there for more
than six thousand years. Ere he could
call earth from chaos and bid it revolve
upon its axis, he must first fix the laws
of attraction, that the newborn planet
might not sink from whence it came. All
things were ready, and as the world was
swung into illimitable space, light was
demanded, and "there was light" The
sun in all its vivid brlliancy burst thro'
the gloom and darted its rays upon the
desolate earth, to guide it onward in its
airy flight. The queen of day cast her
cheering beams at night to again gladden.
nature. Then the morning stars lifted
their silvery heads and sang in praise and
alteration to Him who had so beautifully
arranged the heavenly bodies in perfect
order. Ages upon ages have rolled away
Yet the order is unchanged; the earth
continues to course its way around the
grandest orb of the universe and the gen
ial seasons flow; the sun moon and stars
are governed by the same immovable
laws, as at the beginning, and, probably
will be until they shall sink forever into
oblivion. 1t is from the work Of God that
Burke concludes "Order is the foundation
of all things" and believe this conclu-
sion to be a just one, since we can trace
our existence, as well as the earth's, to
the origin of this law in the mind of the
Infinite One Hurl to the four winds this
first law of heaven, and we live in a world
of chance. Pearson says: without or
der we have no church, no ministry, etc. y
and it would be useless for me to add that
without order we can sustain no republic,
empire or kingdom without IL, we can
not sustain our common schools, and as
order is needftll for improvement, must
we not make it the chief corner stone in
the foundation of a good school? Then
let us develop this organ fully; as more
good schools are what we most desire for
the benefit of the community and the
State. Without good order we cannot
train up the youth in the way they
should CO." so that when grown into man.
hood they will at once recognize the laws
Of their country, be prepared to live as
upright, honest and faithful men, men
who are willing to cast their lives upon
the affairs of their Maker, and labor for
the regeneration of mankind; for, when
disorder reigns supremacy, the instruction
gained amounts to naught, and has ten
dency to drive back civilization and in
tclligence, and encourage barbarism and
ignorance When we compare finite sys
TEN to perfection in ordor, it glimmers
almost into insigniicance; but the aspir
ing heart cries ego forward" See to
what point nearest perfection you can at
tain. Everything in nature has it's own
general laws, from the least floating atom
to heavens mightiest orb. Each is de-
pendent upon all, and all dependent upon
each, and in this consists the harmony
and sublimity of the works of the Great
Creator. Upon entering school show each
and all that we are indebted to one an
other for example and prccept during the
session of school, and with few general
rules to govern us during the "hours Of
labor" and ever with the old maxim in
hand, "A time and place for everything
and everything in its time and place" the
universal equilibrium can but be prcserv-
ed and our little "arks' Of learning move
quietly and tremendously along the mag
netic needle ever pointing upward and
onward to the seven pillars erected by
Wisdom in the days Of Solomon.
M.