Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-10-30
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THE POWER OF LIFE.
In every form life is a mystery. We can
not see it. We cannot touch, taste, measure
Or weigh it. And yet we know that it is
one OF the most searching and powerful and
productive forces of the world. I have seen
where the little, ~thread-like root of the oak
mad made its way under an immense boul-
der of granite lying on the mountain side,
and by the slow, patient action of that invis-
| lie force in it called life, working on stead
lily, year after year, the whole mass had
been, at last, lifted and rolled from the bed
where it had reposed for ages. The power
that lurked in that little mystery thus came
forth into manifestation. And so we always
know life only by what it d~oes-exterior to
ourselves by the facts we observe, within
ourselves by what we feel. 1t can be inter
preted only by experience. We know it as
the power which lay. the whole surface of
the earth annually with a new carpet of
green, and f~estoons the mighty forests with
leafy garlands, and gives our gardens a gala
day, decorations which no deft fingers of art
and taste can eyer rival, and flushes the
cheek with q glow richer than that of a sum-
mer evenings sunset, and carries forward
the growth Of the frail infant form to the
full stature and strength Of manhood, and
holds it from dissolution against all the nu-
merous forces that struggle to destroy it, for
threescore and ten or fourscore years, and,
in its longer reaches of duration, lifting the
giant form of the seQuoia in our Sierras to
battle VIGOROUSLY with the storms of 5000
winters. We know what the unseen power
is through these manifestations. In the
same way we know the power Of life in the
words OF truth, Jesus says, My words are
lite." This is not simply a pretty phrase.
We,learn the life there is in His words from
what 1t accomplishes before our eyes. We
see it sending a trail, t~hread-like root Of
truth down under somr colossal, century
bedded wrong, and slowly lifting it from its
place and rolling it away from the sight Of
men. We see it clothing the earth gradually
with a tenderer humanity, creating a benefit
cence that mitigates the savage passions OF
war, and inspires foemen, even on the battle
field, with a divine kindness towards each
other. We see it building asylums for every
of need and even extending its care to the
mute sufferers of the brute creation. We
see it rising up in Christian men and women
in the midst Of the corruptions and wrongs
practiced in every department of human ac-
tivity, not to smite the doors with the fist OF
anger, bnt to shame and change them by its
own purer presence and patience. If strick-
en- they strike not back,-intini,e in hope,
boundless in faith, with no time for com
plants or enmities, feeling the
Life is too short to waste
In critic peep or cynic bark.
Quarrel or reprimand:
Twill soon be dark
Up! heed thine own aim,
And God speed the mark!''
Thus life in nature is a type of life in the
word of truth. And life in the word of truth
comes forth into manifestation of its power
in the lives OF those who love the truth
&. Il. in Work and Play.
MEN AND WOMEN OF CYPRUS.
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