The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-25

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offensive smoke-While in third
phial it will produce an instantaneous
and violent explosion. So the same
calamity, sickness, bereavement, will
Waken in one man a 8lumbering con
science, will draw another feelingly
nearer to his God, while a third may
be driven by it to distraction. Is not
the same principle manifested through
out moral and material nature, and in
the constant experience of human life ?
1t depends upon the uSe you make Of
anything whether it becomes to you a
blessing or a curse.
Beneath the petals of graceful
flower is secreted a sedatiye poison of
such quality that it will frequently
steep q man in such a slumber as only
the last trumpet can awake him from.
This is recognized as opium. You
cannot cause water to boil for the most
ordinary culinary purpose, but you dis
engage o most formidable element, the
irresistible power Of expansion, you
call it steam. No summer passes over
you but you see the lightning tear
the sky as if it were a scroll Of paper
There is electricity. Those agents
opium, steam, electricity, to the mind
of an untutored savage, are instru-
ments Of death, and he can extract
from them only terror and destruction
But subject them to the Investigation
and manipulation of a man OF science
and behold the result In the deadly
narcotic he detects q principle which
compounded with suitable ingredients
he converts into one OF the most valua
BILE preparations in the pharmacopnja
so that from death he extracts life. II
steam he snatches from nature q most
gigantic power which lie c0mpels K
become the most obedient and versa
tile of servants, descending with him
to eay6rns scooped out beneath the bee
Of ocean, scaling with him the lofts
summit of the Andes, on making fol
him fabrics the most intricate and va
ried that his imagination can devise
And the very lightning he enIists and
disciplines into an obedient recruit
and along a wiry thread commands il
to carry his thoughts The same is
true Of many other forces, so that while
to the uncultured savage they would
be but agents of death and objects Of
terror, they are eoor6ff2g together fol
I the comfort and benefit of him who
has learned how to use them. This is
only a faint illustration Of the way in
which the same occurrences may work
with diverse results, upon the man
whose soul is filed with love to God
and the man who lives without him
in the world in the one exciting to
madness and rebellion, in the other
conducting to flial submission, confd-
ing faith, eternal life.
! Tgais blessed knowledge, bereayed
lmoumers, it is your privilege even on
this day to possess. You can gain it
in it's power, where Paul learned its
truth,at the foot of the Cross-a phrase
sometimes used with but little distinct
meaning, yet it is that position and
point of view which at once invites and
facilitates a survey Of the Divine S&-
yiour's career, of which the cross was
the most expressive and the most cul-
minating symbol Standing by the
cross you can learn the secret Of dis
tilling the sweetest essences from the
most repulsive ingredients. From the
bitter trial of the pres ent-tbe trial Of
your united lives, you can extract nu-
triment for sustaining a mere stead
fast faith, a more feryid hope, a more
expansive love.
Southey has beautifully compared
the painful dispensations Of providence
to clouds which pass over the disc Of
the fair Queen Of night. In truest
poesy he cries,
Look yonder at that cloud, which, through
the sky
Sailing alone, doth cross. in her career,
The rolling moon watched it as i came,
And deemed the bright Opaque would blot her
beams.
But melting like q wreath Of snow, i hangs
In folds OF waving silver round, ana clothes
The orb with richer beauties than her own
Then passing ledres her IN her tight serene.
So may this prostrating sorrow leave
Won. o beloved ones. to whom our