Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-03-21
Written for the Grant County HERALD. I
TRUTH AND FICTION.
BY WILD BrRp-ro HER YOUNG FRIENDS.

| ."iANN anu Mtpt IN Tue morn OF Time.
| And wei e youthful, strong AMI fair,
| While centuries came and rolled away.
Anu the year hew by like a summers day
y could we read from the hidden page
The woniers bright of the "tioden Age
Our hearts would swell with emotions gr nd;
ouf thoughts would glow and our souls expand
| Adam lived to be nine hundred and
thirty years old. Only think how
much knowledge and experience he
must have had who had seen almost
q thousand years. What wonders
CLEAN out of the book Of Genesis.
Enoch, that holy prophet, is caught
away to heaven bodily and his son
Methuselah dies at tho age of nine
hundred and sixty-nino years and
that same year Noah enters the ark
with his family, and the beasts and
birds of all kinds, and is borne safely
on the waters Of the deluge above the
drowning world and the ark was
their home for one whole wear
Then they leave the ark upon the
mountain and descend to Offer sacri-
flee, and see the silent world spread
odt before them for their home.
Noah lives until two years before
the birth of Abraham while Shem
the son Of Noah, who was born about
one hundred years before the foodand
was with bis father IN the ark, lived
until Abraham vas one hundred and
nifty years old and died only ter years
before the birth of Jacob, when Isaac
was fifty years old. And Abraham
lived until his grandson jacob was
fifteen years old and doubtless Jacob
learned much of his grandfather
about the people before the food,
and was thus prepared to teach his
twelve sons great deal of precious
history. And when Joseph was sold
into Egypt, this knowledge Of things
from the beginning was surely a
great comfort and safeguard and
with the love Of God in his heart, be
was prepared to live the life Of virtue.
nobleness and righteousness with
which no blest the world and orna-
mented me pages Of history with un-
fading beauty. SO you see that Jo-
seph did not need to look back many
generations to see Adam. For his
father Jacob lived in Abraham's day,
and Abraham lived in Shem's day,
and Shem lived one hundred years
in Methuselah's day, and Methuselah
lived two hundred and forty-three
years in Adams day. SO that Jo-
seph might say, Gather Jacob told
me that his grandfather Abraham
| told hi M thot Charo 1noau;IoI Al = -
TO him, and related what Methuselah
told him about Adam and Eve, their
words and doings and personal APP
pearance." 0, there is much in
struction and pleasure in gazing into
the past, ell sparkling with facts,
and filed with monuments TO those
who have lived and passed away be-
fore us. 1t makes the old chrome
logical tables shine with splendor,
aud the loag names come TO life,
and we see the heroes of the past
awake and speak, until our souls are
thrilled with wonder, and the inter-
vening years all melt away, and we
seem TO stand in Eternity and gaze
upon Time. A thousand years pass
before US as dream and we do not
wonder that it appears like day to
our Heavenly Father, as from His
throne he beholds the centuries glide
away, and with one glance surveys
the flight of Time, from its cradle to
It's grave; so that the shout of the
sons Of God at the creation of tho
world, was but a prelude to the voice
Of the angel who shall "stand upon
the sea and upon the EARTH" and lift-
ing his hand to heaven, cry that
Time shall be no longer"
How il strengthens the mind,
rouses its energies, and enlarges the
soul, to trace these great events, and
see the wisdom and mercy and pow
er of God in His dealings with the
people of this world. And as | read
in the Bible Gods warnings to the
believing, and His sweet and sure
promises TO all who trust in His Son,
Jesus Christ, and then look out upon
the worlds grand history. and see
Gods providences, His mercies and
His Judgements in all the earth" |
get nobler views of God, and | have
clearer perceptions of the beauty of
Truth.
Dear reader, if you would drink
forever Of the River of Pleasure, feed
only on the truth. Buy the truth,
read the truth, believe the truth.
Love it more than riches or fame.
Seek the truth and not silver, and
knowledge rather than choice gold.
Life is far too short to allow us to
waste time on fiction aud emotion
and sympathy are too precious to be
wasted on characters that never ex-
listed, and men and women who nov
er loved, and never lived. And the
lovers of truth would sooner turn from
feast of butter and honey to feed on
hasks, than to turn from truth to feed
on fiction, because truth is sweet
er and stronger than fiction. 1t
will be untarhished BIZ the ravages
of time, and shine out in fadeless col
ors, when God shall sweep away the
refuge OF lies.
sarThe Democrats Of Kentucky
have become Disguised with the
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