The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-05

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And flowers TO wither the at north winds
!, breath,
And stars 10 set-hut thou hast all
All seasons for thine own, v Death.
| Higher than our proudest steeple soars
a California cedar; for two thousand years
it has been building its gigantic pillar, in
defiance of the rocking storms and the
lightning's stroke. A thousand cities, that
earth bore proudly on her bosom when it
was a sapling, are now unknown. Yet
there it stands in its majestic pride. But
death reaps the forest of two thousand
years with no less certainty than it cuts
down the waving grass and the blooming
flower Of the season.
The broad based pyramids have looked
down upon hundred generations, as these
have marched to their destiny before them.
But even they feel the tooth of time-and
a mound of undistinguishsble desert sand
will lie where rest the enduring pyramids.
| But here are tie cloud kissing, the
heaven-popping, the everlasting mountains;
yes, they too must perish; these rivers that
run down their furrowed sides are the
corpse-bearers, carrying tn IN down to the
ocean, whose csverns yawn to receive them
There winds that howl around their frosty
heads are chanting their funeral dirge.
| DEATH A UNIVERSAL FACT.
Yes, the great globe itself, million
centred, rock-ribbed, fery-hearted, the
mother of myriad-, she too, must be gath
cred, when her hour comes, into the arms OF
the burning sun, from which she sprang
| and the heavens knew her no more; for
| worlds have their tine TO fall and suns 10
perish, and bright stars decay and all
| tbibgs the universe contains DOW before
the scepue of the all-conqueror, death.
| Death is written upon everything that the
universe contains; bat. after all, it is only
the turning Of the Kaleidoscope; the old
forms haye departed, the combinations
| have dissolved but that which composed
| them remains, enters into new com bina-
tions, as fair to the eye, as perfect in form,
| in like manner to pass and BE- succeeded by
| Others, in the eternal procession of all
| things The old cedar falls; but ont OF its
| dust springs the young one, more vigorous for
| the ashes Of lis predecessor, and waves in
time its lordly crown al high those who
| went before il. The mountain decsys; Its
atom is borne upon the seas troubled breast;
but out of the ocean depths .pring Lew
| mountains, bigher and faIrer aud erriched
with the spoil of the ocean beds from which
| they We're elevated. Death l. no cure i'm
posed upon an otherwise immortsl being,
in consequence OF the sin Of the first pair.
1t existed for sges before man or sin ap-
peared upon the planet; and It is evident
that If the purest spirit could return TO
earth, and he could be clothed in flesh,
death would claim his body with no less
certainty than that Of the wills criminal.
Death is interviewer with the very consti-
| tuition OF the planet, snd doubtless of the
universe. 1t swan with the primeyal mo-
nads in the steaming waters of the early
sea-; il lurked in the groves OF the carbon
ferrous swamp; tsxePt off the successive
hosts that reproduction pushed upon the
globe, through The ages; and it came to the
first man as it had previously come 10 ali
living-and thus it comes to Us.
THE LIFE WE Do NOT SEE.
Now we say the cedar is dead and gone
burned up, nothing left but its ashes; but
don't think so. | believe the cedar that
is burned TO ashes is not gone. You say
| the pyramid that is decayed is gone. Some
of them have been gone SO long that the
tooth Of Time has left nothing. But say
there il nothing OF the kind. "Do you
| mean to say that they exisi?' 1es; say
| that pyramid that has de-
csyed, gone blown away in Dust say it is
here still. All the trees that have lived on
this planet are living somewhere. There
| are persons endowed with certain senses
the psychometric serse-that csn cognlze
| them; that have eyes 10 see things that ex
listed in the primal sger; that can listen to
winds that blew millions of years ago.
CURIOUS FACT RELATED BY HERsCHEL.
Sir John Herschel, in his scientific lee
lures, says: Il hsd been witnessing the
| demolition OF structure familiar to me
| from shildhood, ard with which many in
teresting associates were connected; u dem
clifton not unattended with danger TO the
workmen employed, about whom / hsd felt
very uneasy. Ii happened to me- at the
| approach of eyening-while, however, there
was pretty good light-to pas near the
place where the day before it had stood,
the path | had to follow leading beside it.
Great was my amazement to ii still stand
ing, projected against the dull sky. Being
perfectly aware that it wss a mere nervous
impression / walked on keeping my eyes
directed to it, and the perspective OF the
form and the disposition of the parts ap-
peared to change with the change in the
| point OF vision, as they would have done if
the structure had been real"
THE NO EXPLANATION AND THE REAL ONE
Herschers explanation Of what he saw
"a nervous imprsssion'-is really no expla-
nation at all To make nervous impression
something must BE-, or occur, TO produce
that effect on the nerves. How could a
nervous impres ion project a house, and
make it as real "a the brick and mortar
dwelling had been? Psychometry explains
this most satisfactorily. II was not fancy.
What was ii? say il was the building.
cay there is something to everything, that
death cannot touch. My experiments in
psychometry demonstrate that everything
has a spiritual counterpart. We have in
terror senses BY which we can recognize
it. A specimen from Egypt calls
up to the eye of the sensitive
when placed upon the forehead, life-like
scenes Of the Nile Valley, long ago. give
to the sensitive person q little fragment, it
may be, from a rock, q wall, tomb. a ruin
lit is specimen; don't tell him Tor her
what it is, or where it came from-and
only ascertained afterwards by looking at
the printed number pasted on it, and then
looking for that number in my written cat
alogue, which will tell what the fragment
is-where it came from. But the sensitive
goes on, without being tod anything about
it, and describes perhaps, the scenes on
the populous banks Of the Nile in Pharsohs
time, or the rocky hiilsides of the valley,
and describes the rock hewn sepulches, and
the artists there at work with chisel, or
with brush, carving and decorating the
wonderful figures cut out OF the rock in the
hear, of Egypt three thousand years ago.
AMAZING POWER OF FsTCHoNErRY.
The sensitive goes back, not only to the
! gigantic tree ferns unroiliDg their fronds IN
|. the worlds primal ages, and sees reptiies
rushing through the waters, or lying dead
on the shore, bu; even sees cockroaches run
out, when the dead csrcass OF the huge
!. reptile is turned over by one OF the land
slides on one of those torrid hills OF mighty
rains. There experiments ard others OF q
similar nature, have tried by Thousands.
LET Us NOT FEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH.
You say these statements are extrava-
CANT But there are hundreds Of extrava-
CANT things that are true. l know these to
!. be true. People cay you shouldn't tell
such extravagsnt things, the world isn't
prepared for them yet. But what Is ever
going to prepare the world, if the truth is
J never told il? The world will remain babes
if people acted on that principle. Some
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