Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-08-30
RANDOM ~ruOrGHrs-NO. 10.
BY JrTHR0 JETH RIN0TON.
Aryyicat white butterfly.

a Typical white butterfly.
A beautiful little thing; it fioated
away from my sight as on celestial
wings. Once it was only a crawling
worm. and felt the journey of a few
feet as a long, tedious undertaking.;
but now il glides quickly aud grace
fully through the air, a living emhodi-
ment of happy existence. From the
nectared cups of flowers it sips its
dainty food, and without care or toll,
clad in aueenly robes, it fills its place
in the great world. Its happy lifetime
seems short, but perhaps one of our
DAYS will be rs long to it as twenty
wears To the human pilgrim of middle
age. Nav this eunobled creature not
he fitlv accepted as an emblem of
gloriiicd man, who, while in The body
of this flesh. is only II worm of the
dust? When the rags of humanity are
left behind. and the soul is ransomed
from its bondage, it will. on being adj
mitted into the glories of the better
land, be enabled. through a wOndrolS
increase of intellectual ~spiritualized
power. to look into the mysteries of
the universe with grateful alteration
toward its benign Creator. Ii may
then be lis privilege To flash on mighty
wings from one planet to another. and.
throughout the boundless realms of
space, to study the wonderful works
of the Infinite God. What employ
ment could he more ~congenial TO Sir
Isaac Newton thar to take up the
thread of his earthly studies where
death snapped it in twain, and follow
it onward and upward among the
worlds of light brought under the
vision OF his glorilied spirit? An I'M
imaginable increase in mental capa-
city may prepare h redeemed in
Heaven for examining into the won-
ders Of iilimitable space: but, however
great that increase may he. so infinite
ly beyond its scope will these wonders
always appear that they can never be
overtaken. The field for exploration
will always he fresh and new in the
secrets it yields to countless millions
of the very highest intelligencieS Of
the heavenly world. Far OFF as these
celestial Investigators may 90 from
the central home of the heavenly host,
their songs of gratitude and praise will
vet mingle with the anthems that as
cend before the throne, and re-ccho
their glorious notes among the snns
and stars that gem the immeasurable
expense of creation.
Mountain Voices.
\ mountain wrapped in the mantle
of solitude is a poetical representation
of calm grandeur and irresistible pow
=. rov.ori,r into, 1.-Two
-. .s..,
SKY anu. aiHaiehtiN' surveying WIN
silent majesty 'he extent Oh country
stretching around lis BASE II Is always
an attractive oiyeet 10 tlie rove, Oh
natural scenery. Acol'e1il plati'e iook
al lis summit own win snow al
It's soii1per scopes liii,pcred OF pate' Us
heetiihg cilliN; It's deep ana sihnous
ravlnes; ana Its un>nakeh STABILITY III
the widest storm, Will DC ilkelv 10
take one 5 thoughts hack ihtothe long.
long past. ana produc on the NINA a
leeiihS AKIN 10 awe. II Sapeah>
ana roopcu oho his nerds;
when Joseph wa, il PRISONER IN Egypt;
II Jesiis giofliieul Tins caflh by leaF.
ing MS rrinis on us s'lflice' a'id
When i.olEc ANA NlhcNah We're III th"if
glory. tlat mountain STOOD as II STANDS
to-day. FOR thousands OF years me
storms OF inter have been lung
back from ITS a peaks asSliav o
ocean beach. 70. how long. no man
can tell, the sun has kiSse1 ITS tower
lng slopes. ana the two have been 81
lent trends since that eventiu dawn
wicn the angels and the stars reJo'ced
together yer a.wofId prepared Tor the
human I"lrn
Ii Il could conceive OF i mountain
having HE. anu thought, ana oil lis
Watching, With deep interest, the rise
II tall OF human dHna>tlcS. the
CROWN OF cities ana theif oNertlroW,
the births ana deans OF countess rem
erations OF men, now very similar, III
n respect, to such Il mountain would
these events appear To the coming INTO
beng. and the vanishing away at lis
base, OF an ant-hlii ana It's occupants.
In the duration OF the universe the
life OF Il race OF inferior creatures Is al
most an invisible dot, II the history
of human families Is little more; but
what a mighty result hangs on each
soul endowed lie stretching. as 1t III
"vitablN must, mt the neNer-enilng
future, an making the harvest of eter-
nifty bear It's due relation to The sowing
of time. ii is Il solemn thought that
the nnoun.ain We look on to-day sinai
stand unchanged When we nave been
forgotten: tina its silent grandeur shall
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