Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-03-13
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world, there are growths from the mcrest
pigmyism. to the tallest gianthood, then
succeeds the opposite change, and the
stateliest head declines to weakness, and
succumhs to decay. This isa part of the
plan of Creator of mind and matter, n
plan that admits of no question or check,
and is eternal as its author. Yet amid
all the changes of nature or governments,
nothing is lost, or becomes extinct. Cen
turies may roll their lengthy round, but a
century ofcenturies is an llandbreadth
which must measure eternity. Day by
day are repeated the affairs of forgotten
ages, whether it is the recreative order
of nature of spontaneous growth, or the
sudden phenomena ofirruption, all recur,
unaffecting the undisturbel plan oftheir
Creator. The puny plant just emerging
from its germ which is destined to out
live the cycles of ages, begins life unno-
ticed, gains vigor with each changing
season, and puts on strength with years,
for awhile it towers in glory, then its iron
frame is the prey of decay, and it wastes
back to nothingness.. The child with
timorous step essays his way in life, soon
the dawn of halcyon days, sees the cheek
of youth flushed with hope; then the full
embodiment of the man, finds him upon
the arena, brcasting now the wave Of OPP
position, and again exultant in success;
but the proud..shout Of Eureka" mocks
his baffled soul, ms the dim eye of dccrcp-
itude looks into the open grave. And
so through the endless cycles of pcrenity
revolre the eternal wheels of creation
Yet there exists M void nor vacuum in
nature, even the scene of death, is the
birtlspot Of some new being, the genial
showers of April, garland with fresh beap-
ties, the wreck of Dccembcrs blast, and
the riven earth that cngulphs with con-
vulsivc agony the mountain pile, is cheer
ed with n gladder life as the rushing
waterfall courses its rcsstlcss way. Even
the proud Monuments of genius, though
overturned by civil conmoton, bear a
record of lasting fame or infamy. Every
thing pertaining to nan aside from his i'm
mortal nature, shows in every change, the
short lived fate Of his nobcst schemes.
To this the fixed laws of the natural
world are in glaring contrast, revealing
ever the direction Of an iniallible hand.
The harmony which guides iDnumcrablc
words in their set spheres, each poised
in space, yet all affecting the others bal
ance, the perfect mechanism of n system
ofsphcrcs.
| "Wherc science ycarns, with wldering ken to
pry,
Whence hang, unhung, worlds mid the azure
sky"
The changes of seasons, the cquaposine
influences of heat and cold, of night and
day, all attest a wisdom infinite But
mark the ever shifting panorama, where
man in his boastful wisdom attempts to
guide, and sec the varied pageant which
at times elevates, only to see him debas-
ed to lower depth of moral depravity.
Such periods as give birth to the name of
Shakespeare and Spencer, Newton and
Locke, lift the fog Of moral darkness
and incite the mind to nobler ends, as
the blaze Of splendor bursts upon the
world, but how transitory; the red hand
OF revolution barred with its bloody talch-
ion raised on high, surgcs like wave of
fury from continent to continent, az n
Cromwell rears his iron throne upon the
wreck Of thrones, Charles XII delugcs
an hundred fields with mad ambition, or
q Bonaparte for no less sordid ambi-