Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-05-24
Whole No. 1851.
From an '.AntI.Seetarian,, pIseours,

EEunA aA AuLA"oeekAElAnS' DlSe0ursea
o tits passing strange that all the
beauties Of the Bible have been lugged
of and hung up on some distant heav-
ems gate, or hell's brazeu door to
tempt 10 the one or terrify from the
other instead Of being LEFT within
human reach, and for human use, to
help mankind to build the heavens
they so much need, and to extinguish
ten thousand hells in which poor hu-
manity has 80 long been burning
Away with such Interpretation, and
such false and fatal philosophers Of
human existence! In the new heav-
en- and new earth which are to be; to
be here in this life and not another,
are to be realized in full fruition all
that is declared or described in the
scripture references al the beginning
Of this. I fear too long, too long, but
not too broad discourse! +!
The words are, 'We shall not all
sleep, but we shall all be changed
read them we shall not always
die, but we shall always be changing
from glory to glory by the spiritand
power Of truth yet to be discovered
and revealed.
Kepler, when he unfOlded and ex-
planned the discoveries OF Copernieus,
who being priest high in hOnOr, was
too cORardly TO reveal them himself,
Kepler said, ''GOd has waited six
thousand years for q discOYerer, and
can not afford to wait one hundred
years for q reader?
Waited six thousand years pr
Why nature was struggling millions
Of years to produce failures ike Copper
hieus, and philosophers like Kepler
and Newton; and they and their Cos
And do you suppose that man is yet q
thousandth part done?
II IL required unknown ages to
hatch a loathsOme lizard, and other
unknown ages to mould a monkey,
and then others, alike innumerable,
tc make man, and then ages, and
races, and empires Of men out Of
whose ashes one kepler could be born,
are we to presume that creations work
on man is almost done? Must we be-
lieve that myrai6s Of ages were vast
ed on matter 10 spawn it into mOnRds,
500, 900, 900 Of which swim in one drop
Of water, and that man is only born
to die as soon as born almost, and
oftentimes before, and To be miserable
while he lives beyond all created be-
ings7
do not believe man Is born to die.
do not believe man has begun to
live. He Is vet in embryo, at most ;
and In infancy, at best. His Creator
has given him the material Universe
at his patrimony. But until Copper
nieus and Kepler came, as but q mo-
ment ago, there was not wit and wis
dom enough in all the family to sur
vey and measure the homestead, even
not to speak Of the outlaDds, anchor
ed off in all the vastitude Of space.
Take these my son, the Father said.
These globes and 0rbs 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 to devOuI
him forever, as vermin do the dogs
Then indeed Is he, of all beings, most
miserable.
It shall not be so. Man Is but be-
gun. Light and truth are 70 burst
upon him, as no COpernicus, kepler,
nor st. John In PatmOs, ever saw.
Science is yet but the morning star
slowly climbing over the eastern hills.
Behind it are morning, midnOOn and
eternal day-day whose brightness
our present eyeballs are too mortal to
behold. But he shall behold it,
Doubt it not. Behind rs are unnum-
bered myriads Of years. Before US
are myraiads equally innumerable.-
And long before many Of them shall
have run INTERPRETATIONS round, death
as now dreaded, shall, with all his ter
rOrs, have given up the ghost. Not
one pain, not one pang, as now endu-
red, shall then be known. Diseases,
like demons, shall then belong only
to the legendary lore. And death,
now "King of TerrOrs,h shall be but
heavens chariOteer to bring the ab-
sent children home. And while pain
aud anguish are no more, and all tears
are wiped from all eyes, so shall new
Joys and new delights be discovered
and revealed; such, indeed, as eye
hath not seen nor heart conceived any
more than ear hath heard DiscOv-
cred too by men, Of women born, as
nOwl And the man-wOrm Of to-day
shall become a god and woman, in
all her immortal attributes, shall be,
not his equal, his complement and
companion, but his creator out Of her
own body and soul.
Ask not chow can these things be?'
o We Of little faithl
What has not been done in the last
five hundred years Of sin and dark
ness ? of war and cainage, destruction
and desOlation? ? Of slavery and drunk
enness2 Of seOrn and oppression Of
the poor? OF degradation, debasement
and defilement of woman Of the
crushing poverty of the myriad mass
es the deceptiOns and delusiOns Of a
false and yet costly religion, binding
the mind, soaring the conscience, and
hSrdening the heart And If in such
gloomy surroundings, so much has
been achieved, our onward course
is bright and clear as a royal highway
up to the eternal throne Parker
PHis5UTy.