Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-01


tons 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 outfy electrici-
| ty, could not have reached us in mil
lion years; that the sea star, Sirius, is
sun equal to 1900 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 wont 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 1900 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 I'M
cover the white throne of God. When
Job looked upward toward the stars his
heart began 10 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
any intermission, and it remains true
TO-DAY that the material world awakens
the mind and helps fill il 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-
mansions 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
inc, and inspiration of his mird and
heart. Nature is the school-house to
which we must all go for our best les
sons in poetry, and imagination, and in
the beautiful, and may | not add in re-
ligion? For what q religious teacher is |
| that which tenderly compels us to be- |
lieve in a God! You will approach |
some estimate of the power of these WIS., |
ible things if you will mark what COM
panies of educated mortals have always |
been repairing to the grand scenes of |
earth, that they might find among the |
mountains of Europe or America feel |
ings which can never be born in the |
market-place or even in the studio of
theologian. Those Royal children
which recently came fromthe Old World
to rule the northern border of our con
tinent soon broke away from court gay
cites and forms that they might enjoy
that strange happiness Of seeing one OF
Gods purest rivers pouring itself over
a ledge of rocks high as a cathedral
tower. Look for moment at the
Queens daughter meditating by this elo-
quence of waters, and then let your
mind run back 2,5G0 years to Sappho, a
Greek girl, and you will find her upon a
couch at midnight, with her soul look
ing outward upon the external splendor