Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-06-07

Il eGcH1u an NE tONNIflUttpHttt CHuTCN, DdO'
6dh eeeni"g, My este, 49,.
''And they said go to, let us build US city'-GEN
Esis XII.
History repeats itself. This building
OF city and of Il tower Immediately
after the food, is not the only one that
Las occurred, but in every generation
md age we hear the same words sound
i g among the people, like an echo.
ii he race as 1t emerged rom the ark and
went down from the mountain to the
llain, struck the Keynote, and each ma
ton as it has arisen has taken up the
refrain, until now, four thousand years
after, eN cry individual sings the tune as
he goes forth to toll ana to labor. This
building process is not an event of any
one time. 1t belongs to II certain stage,
rather than to Il time. Like the open
ing Of the buds in spring-time, each new
era has its season Tor tie blosSoming in
to building aid the expansion of the
teeming, swelling life of man comes out
in the many and varied houses i'll which
he lives. There is season when the
! great work of the amin a! cleltiOn is to
build its nests and repair the houses for
| the birth o; the new creatu that are
to people this wide, wide world. The
fishes of the sea, the birds of the air and
the beasts OF the forests are making
houses without hands, and the nests in
thousand branches are only emblems
or types OF the houses which men are
forming for the habitations of their
families. From the frozen regions of
the north to the sunny glades of the
south, amid the eternal ice-tields, and the
evergreen forests, amid the rocky hills
and III the tangled jungles, every creature
is building house, until this "green,
tlowery, rock-built earth, trees, noun
t.lins, rivers ANA many sounding seas"
have become the building places for
creation. And the works of man.
What are they but the buildings which
he has erected, the cities he has found
ed, the towers and monuments and tenn
lles he has erected in the spring-time OF
his life and then flown away and left
as The only sign of his existence. There
is, then, something meXpressibly sad
and solemn even in this most hopeful
season Of his history, and the question
arises, as we look back over these differ
ent periods, what shall have become OF
us W hen our building period shall have
closed, and what shall be the monuments
We shall leave upon the earth after W,
have gone, as the evidence of our exist
encc?
There are certain characteristics t.
every building period which are fraugh
with great moral lessons, and nothing
can ~ .4~re eloquent to us than th
lessons which the whole history of th
race is teaching us. The statue of Mem
non is siad to have sent forth IL sound ST
strange, when the sun arose and tn
first rays began to strike its head, tha
the Leholders were held in awe with TIN
mysterious notes. What is the sount
tha oar u ding Period sends forth, a
+ iuc sun Oh prosperity lights upon II
= shall we listen and give heed to tn
. solemn tones and learn the lesson whic
" the leriod may teach us? Let us the
consider these lessons of history, an
from the separate characteristics, lear
that which may be for our lasting benz
at,
!. The building period is the primitiv
stage of history. 1t is SO with the ind
Ndual, with the community, the nato
], u ID the race, Git is the primitive stag
vi mankind.) one of the first thing
v hich the man desires to do when h
becomes man, is to build. Every ma
his lis !uilding period ms much as hay
the birds Of tie forests. In his chilC
J.. h Cd and south, he thoughthoting of i
Nj II ms old age, he is weary of it; but
N the maturity OF his manhood he has n
. eagerncss tor this. 1t is the animal il
:. stnct coming out; it is the family fee
= ing finding its embodiment in this matt
=, ral shape; the parental affection and ii
n homelike wishes, pressing the man
m this form OF activity. So of whole con
:. munities 1t is true that the first thin
/" they do is to build. Before the prain'
: are ploughed or the fields are fence
/" before the forests are felled or the crol
:. secured, before the rock-bound coast
N explored or the winter is passed, eve
before the first cargo is landed and Il
IL. nation begins its history, the cabin, Il
M hut, or the rude structure, is erected f
=" the abode of the advancing ra,e. IT
on wild Indian might have roamed ov
" the wild plains, or made his camp-fr
on under the green forests, or hid his co
ma crops under the sand heaps, but his ru
tents are struck in a moment and not
ing is left of him but the bent pol,
ss the burnt fire brands or the place in t