The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-04-29

tuelr seraphlin, ana now grand Is the soul
of the poet-king, which lies ever open to
these heavens and these scraphm. |
must take breath aud get calm This
seems like transition. need u giants
strength to bear the rush of thought, no,
not thought Of presence. | am come
from world built up Of language, in
which compressed souls live move and
have their being" from state Of cramp.
ing limitations, into world OF vision d.
vine suggestion, inspiration, and my lungs
are weak, my muscles shrivelcd, and
can scarcely go alone up these old hills.
| will take time. The world was not
made in day shall cat and sleep and
abide here, till | gain strength aud feel at
home. This is my veritabc self, brought
from over the seas of time, secure in its
own identity. What conscious Joy in not
losing that, in the midst of so great
change, and so will it be in all coming
transitions. But what seasoning must
take place within me. 1t seems as though
my heart would burst with strange, wild, !
undofinablo emotion | could weep or
shout, so that the blue vault would echo
back the sound, | seem to be in an H.
finite liberty. What means this load fal.
len from me? Matter itself has lost half
its grossness, its sharp metallic ring, so
suited to the ear of mammon, and 10 u
better sense, to the ear Of science. 1t
seems soft, deep, full of whisperings and
wondrous meanings. am no longer cut
to pattern, weighed to farthing, or
valued to COW, | am II larger, nobler
self. | am an atmosphere pulsing with
sound and music. The lightnngs gener.
atcd here, leap in it; the thunders can
roar in it; and there is no discount on
these natural working of the soul, for
here find them divine. God inhabits
these old storms and the feelings Inspired
by them.
The darkness is his pavilion, he rides
on the wings Of the wind, and the thick
clouds of the skies" trail low about his
feet. can almost hear the rustic of his
garments as he passes by. Some God
soul has been here, know, and broke the
ground, has baptised this Hebrew earth
and skies, and mcllowed, and glorifed all
with its presence. 1t has made world
for me out of this material, aud itself
therein infused.
Are not souls in this way world-build.
ers, making heavenly places" and often
going before and preparing places for US,
and coming again like mans greatest ex-
emplar, aud receiving us, O, with what
love and joy, into them. am received
into one now, and | hardly know what to
make Of it, Everything here has spirit
and tongue IT'S not in one place nor
many, but everywhere. The earth is
the Lords and the funess thereof the
world and they that dwell therein" This
q cd presence toned in matter and that
toned in this presence, make the genial
element in which souls best thrive. This
is what | need. | can live in it forever
limited they stand, divided they fall"
so far as it relates to all true soul.like
This is it. We must keep the order OF
the universe, if we would keep health and
equilibrium. God taken out Of nature Is
worse for us, than nature taken out of
/
or both apart, and so neutralized. Can a
genuine holiness be carried down the
channels OF language loaded on any shores
and taken home? Must it not ever ger.
inmate and blossom from the bosom
Of nature, this word meaning the Joint
out come, and consequent inseparableness
Of matter and spirit, las it was in the be-
ginning is now, and cvermore shall be-. -
They that 60 excessively to either side,
suffer loss, both in knowledge aud expert
ence God sought above the orders of
nature and being, is not so much found
and they who SO seek become the victims
Of the most damaging sei.deception that
ever came upon men. They are smitten
with singular blindness and deafness.
They are delivered into an unwholesolne
abnormal experience Of ecstacies, hopes,
fears, depressing, and from this select en-
campment near the throne an intolerabe
conceit, creating religious caste, creeps
into and possesses their life, and all else,
Men and nature inclusive, becomes secu-
lar, cheap, and will be cast off as some
refuse having been used indirectly, to eff
feet this grand result, this concentrated
excellence. which alone has present, and
shall have final favor with God.
This leap out Of the modiumis,ic order
of Gods manifestations into his immedi.
ate imagined presence is error aud penal.
ty all in one, and what part of earth is
there, that has not, in some severe sense,
tasted the bitterness and bondage of the
condemnation that comes of this supposed
exclusive reception of divine favor. Not
so was Jesus, who broke through all such
exclusion, and Sought and brcathcd sym.
pathy. and love on all whose angels her.
aided his advent and mission, singing the
heavenly theme down the skies, "Glory
to God in the highest, peace on earth
, good will toward men," lie 'came no,
{ to be condemn and in contending with
} this condemning spirit he spent and lost
his life. Not so was our royal friend il
the vast and swift circulation of whose
, great magnetic life, all things become oul
, possession. The opposite divergence, ex
cessive materialism, is safer than this
and yet how much does science creep oil
its way with the eyes of curiosity ever
, strained open. How gaunt and lean doe:
it make the divine side of being while
the other is fat with facts and laws. Wha
divided hemisphere of poverty and want
, in a universe superabounding with witt
all riches.
= Why can we not come into equipoise
: o, let US be gentle and patient with eact
other, for we are the children of an hour
. and of the night, striving to get to oul
; feet and if we utter now and then cry
} or moan, it is but the excelsior sign CONT
, out in nocturnal skies. G..
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