Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-05-13

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interesting, wonderful, or glorious. Man
earth's lord. From ocean depths to
mountain heights; from zones-frigid,
temperate, torrid from iron, silver, gold
from air, water. FIRE from heat and cold
from storm and calmj from light and
darkness from birds and beasts; from
everything animate and inanlmate he
justly demads tribute. Dense forest bow
before him; the mountains cast their
treasures at his feet or part asunder to
afford him a passage. (Plains, %vallies,
and meadows seek his favor with offerings
Of sweet cane and bullocks wreathed for
sacrifices. His sceptre ruleth the whale,
his trident briugeth up leviathap, his hook
draggeth out behemoth.) lie layeth ma
ture upon the rack and extorteth her most
profound secrets. He descends by stair.
ways Of light to her thousandth chamber
of mystery and there revieweth her nice
proportions, her delicate and various
forms of millions of living creatures
Mounting his car Of light he dasheth up
among the stars, driveth around the or
bits of the planets, pushes his conquests
through trackless space, bridges vast
chasms before uncrosed by thought OF
man or wing of angel, captures Mars,
Venus, Jupiter, looses the bands Of Orion
and with them binds Arcturus and his
sons to the wheels Of his conquering char
lot, moves onward till he reached the
boundary Of the visible and movable and,
weeping for more worlds to conquer, be
sounds the awful depths of the uncreated.
Returning to enjoy his conquest he
makes the distant star or the delicate
needle pilot his ships of war and trade.
He divines the approach Of wandering
comets and computes the orbit of the
whirlwind. He lassoes the wild light.
nings as they dash across the sky, tame
them till they are holden by a Silkeu
cord teaches them his native language
and SPEAKS to them as friend speaks to
friend. He discloses to them his plans
! for battle and his secret thoughts of love.
He cleaves the subtitle rays Of light with
; uniform blocks of glass or with it stamps
his image on plates Of steel, measures the
, air as wheat or weighs it as the farmer
weighs his hay, fondles with the lion as
with the lap dog, aud handles the young
I tigress as the cat. All nature serves him.
: The winds push his spice-freighted ships
from port to port or grind bis corn as the
horse. The oceans bow their broad backs
and groan beneath his Invinclble Ar,
u madas." The rivers roll at the wheels
e Of a thousand boats and steam snitei
the ends of a million pistons. Waters
l gush out in abundance for his drink
~ The earth measures out to him corn
u wine, and oil in rich profusion. Fo
man the sun shines. the moon moves. star
II twinkle, thunders roll, lightning flash
is rains fall, fires burn, winds blow, TEN
u pests howl. seasons come and 60. AL
mineral all vegetable. all animals, al
lite, all death, all time, all eternity, al
Is heaven all hell-all is for him. 1t is no
/! pride in man to say:
h "For me kind nature makes her genial power
Suckles each herb and spreads out every flower
~ Annual for me the grape, the rose rene W
The juice nectarious and the balmy dew
l. For me the mind u thousand treasures brings
=. Seas roll TO watt me, suns to light me rise
rs My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.'
ir Man is not
"a worm by birth.
en- Vile reptile weak and vain,
Awhile to crawl upon the earth
". Then sink to earth again.
:, But "a phenomenon, one knows not what,
IN And wonderful beyond all all wondrous mea
urement
b Man is truly great, but in what col
!, sists his ture greatness? Not in lightin
up the c%onfagration Of cities, nor in rem,
:, ing the heart Of a nation with angus
~ for its slain, nor in depths of pbilosoph,
b. nor in sound reasoning. nor 10 vast pc,
sessions, nor in brilliant titles, nor
power. nor in eloquence. nor in geniu
nor in mitered heads out in the deve
"A opment and rropcr.use of all his powe
consists mans true greatness. A hea
a. with NO evil surmisings, no envy, no ma
;. Toe, no revenge ; but full of love. teude
+. nees, and compassion. A hand sprea'
:, ing out the mantle of true charity ov,
the foibles Of others, and pouring the c
of peace On the troubled waters of lii
An eye watching the wanderipgs of Il
r. window, the sorrows Of the orphans. Il
:. oppressins of the poor. An ear ey
open to the confessions Of the repentar
the calls of cha rity, the sobs of the br
ken hearted. Power to ward of brib
to injustice and stand unhurt clad in E
armour of self,integrity. A mind cal
IN storm and danger to be superior, b