Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-21
THRILLING ESSAY.
REAL By W. 0. FORREST.

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good things said:
Ladies! do not be afraid of the
drunken man, be will not hurt you.
Though drunken he still respects You.
Speak kindly to him--show by acts
and words that though he be fallen
never SC low, you still are interested
in, and care for him. No one can
tell what of good to runs victim
may not come from such conduct on
your part"
To prevent these grand words from
being forgotten-to compel their full
est appreciation and, TO illustrate what
glorious results have and may come
to the individual and society, if their
lessons of wisdom and philanthropy
be needed, are the purposes of this
paper.
Who, among mortals, can measure
the influence of a kindly word spoken
by a loving and thoughtful matron to
m erring man? Who shall under
take to put limits to the effects of but
a smile playing over the cheek OF
beauty upon the character or conduct
of the wayward young man? Where
in all the universe shall be found
balances, equal to weigh the direct
and reflex results OF a single, though
the simplest, act of gentle woman,
done I'M kindness and in love for err
ing, SHINING man?
May not such a work or smile or
act put into operation a train of
thought i'll the darkened intellect,
awaken memories of other and better
days-revive and restore the holier
associations of home and mother in
the vice and sin-scared heart, or lead
to convection, in the weakened, if not
perverted Judgment If the fallen and
the lost, and all operating, compel
him to stop IN his wild and horrible
career and, to turn backward to the
point of his departure from the great
highway of temperance and virtue /;
thus restoring him to himself, to his
family and to society?
While the wisest philosopher has
never beena able to make definition of
it, yet all admit, that in all the uni
verse of God, there is no atom, no
created thing, no existence, but in
which inheres an indifinable thing or
element, or essence, or agent called
force.
1t is in every particle of sand in all
1.-THE wastes of Sahara,i it is found in the
dew-drop that glistens in the morning
sun, it pertains to the tear that turks
IL the eye of infancy, it Inheres in
every drop of water We drink, it is a
part Of every atom of our common at
mospherc. So is it in organized mat
ter; in animals, and above all, in
man and what is true in this regard
in physics, is equally true in meta
physics, in ethics, in the individual
member of society as a social being.
While we give different names to
this agent force, US it may be connect
ed or associated with one or the 9TH
er matter under consideration, as in
Lhysics, we call it physical force; SO
when connected with metaphysics we
denominate it mental force when with
ethics it is known as moral force, and
that which belongs TO man rs o social
being, as a men Der OF society we
characterize as social force, still by
whatever name it bears. it is force
and but force; governed by the same
general laws and subserves but a Civ
Ell purpose and which is to put into
activity, to drive into motion, to go
out after results.
This force in any given ase may,
and often does, remain so tranquil
like a sleeping giant or chained titan,
within its own peculiar habitation as
not TO attract attention or even to in
dictate it's existence, and sometimes
the thoashtless and unlettered from
this fact only, talk Of inert matter and
seem to concede the absence of iniu-
ence ON the part of an individual
member OF society as possible things
or facts but when force, in the phyEi-
cal world arises from its slumbers
and pushes out after results, motion
is produced and force is developed
into power.
AS when the force which inheres in
each particle of sand OF the desert
pushes it's particular particle into ac-
tivity all OF course must become a
like active and motion will result,
when power will take the place OF
force and we s'mll see the surface OF
the whola desert tossed by the simeon
like an cea in . storm; waves OF
sand raising Heavenward, shutting
out the sunlight and whelming cara
vans into living graves.
And so the drop of water, all The
drops in the ocean, lie as calm as
painted ship on ocean painted"
but anon, the force inherent in each
drop pushes into activity its particu-
bar drop and all moves; hear their
terrific roar. And when the storm
is done we see the beach strewn with
wrecks OF ship and the dead bodies OF
storm-tossed; storm-killed mariners.
The electric force Ia each particle
of the air surrounding us, heretofore
so quiet that its existence has been
un ,oticed, perhaps forgotten, all al
once arcuses itself, and impells into
activity. each its particular atom and
all moves. Power again assume
direction and control, and we behold
the flashing, binding, lightning, and
hear the laundering of Heavens ar.
tillery.
Subterranean lakes and heated
chambers are in close contiguity ant
have SO remained quiet for centuries
The forces in and peculiar to each
have apparently slumbered during al
these ages; but now they push out t.
action water and heat come in con
tact ; ehrculean power is developed
and belching volcanoes vomit fortl
Mississippi, of burning, flaming lava
overtiowing and consuming nation
and peoples, or old earth itself, reel