Sharp County record., 1879-03-27


bein0 to that kind of a soul which we
see upon this little globe. 1t seems al
most certain that man repeats himself
upon ten thousand worlds, and NAV be
here in his smallest nature, In the least
of intellects and the least of morals, Just
as he is dwelling upon the smallest of
Gods globes.
Let us now abandon the fate of other
stars and return to our own. In our
first and largest proposition it was AZ
irmed that the Creative Mind fashion,
ed the material world because OF its re-
aexive action upon Himself. Hewas the
end to be blessed. II is the Sculptor,
not the statue, that is bless
ed. 1t must therefore follow
that the material is formed
to bless the mental, and man having
been made a mental and spiritual being,
the external world becomes a great min
ister to mis- education and happiness. II
Jehovah himself needed a heaven and
an earth, the land and sea, and all these
innumerable contents of the Cosmos,
needed them because He was a Mind +
then man, the child and image OF God,
is picked NO by the arms of the same
law and is borne rapidly forward into a
higher mental power and deeper happi-
ness. The heavens, which declare and
contain and cause the glory Of God, re-
veal the path of man and treasure up
much of his mental and spiritual great
ness.
The material world comes to man and
helps furnish him with language. His
words are made out Of its qualities and
quantities. He learns highness from
the mountains and The clouds, and then
he speaks of high virtue; he learns
depths from the earth's chasms, and
speaks Of the depths OF lnlqultvi he
secs bird pass Oh swift wing, and can
then speak of the flight of time; he be-
holds the ocean, and ever afterwards
has an image of divine power and love-
he marks a dying plant, and then he
can say 50 man cOmeth forth as a flower
and is cut down" Thus came the ma
teriai world to the soul in its early ca
reer, and dressed it in a beautiful Ian
guage, that as painter puts mis- emo
tiOns upon canvas, all minds might
pour forth their feelings in words,
Words are urns made of material things
into which urns the soul may pour it
self outward and be passed over to its
friend
Having given humanity language the
material passes onward and furnishes
thought and emotions to put into those
holy urns, Look into any appreciative,
sensitive mind and mark what place in
that spirit the sky, and sea, and land,
and the seasons, and the field, and
bloom are assigning to themselves. And
welcome tenants are they all Our ideas
Of the vast come to us when the aStron-
omers inform us that there are suns
whose light, which can outtiy electrlCi-
tv, could not have reached us in q mil
lion years; that the sea star, Sirius, is
sun equal to 1000 suns such as the one
we all love And yet our sun is one Of
the most measureless things of which
we can dream. We owe all things to it,
1t grew the trees, and grasses, and ferns
which million years ago made the
cOal-beds of the world; it melted the
glaciers and made our seas and streams
it walked up the verdure of our woods
and prairies; it now grows all our food
and fabrics for our clothing; it makes
the wood in our houses; it, in one word,
sustains all the life and makes all the
beauty of earth, and has never in mil
lion years abated his care and love of ev-
cry man and every beast and bird. 1t is
hardly to be wondered at that the an
clients were won't to assemble on the oath
of June, when this sun had reached, his
annual glory, and worship him with
their sympathetic fires or the mountain
tops. Now, when we are informed that
Sirius can perform the benevolent work
of 1000 such suns as our loved one, we
may confess that the material realm not
only furnishes man with language but
also with thoughts which almost stop
his breath thoughts which seem to un'
cover the white throne of God. When
Job looked upward toward the stars his
heart began to burn and his eloquent
LANGUAGE to burst forth. And so when
the Psalmists, David and his cotempo-
raries, looked up into the deep blue,
their hearts arose like the skylark and
burst forth into song But what began
so far back has followed man without
anv intermission, and it remains true
to-day that the material world awakens
the mind and helps fill it with emotion
the greatest, and sweetest, and purest,
and with the most thrilling measure
ments of both man and God. From the
great and vast in Nature the mind pass
es over to some conception of the di-
mensions of the spiritual kingdom.
As the Infinite Spirit demanded an
external world which might forever
bring blessedness to this Infinite Self, so
man following his Father draws from
Nature the education, and the awaken
ipO oud 3nspirotioD of his mind oy,d