The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-26

Glowing Power! that, dwelling deep within,
Consoles our spirits in their wo and sin: -.
When days were dark and all the world went
wrong, n
Nor any heart was left for prayer or song:
When bitter Memory, DER and DER again,
Revolved the wrongs endured from fellow.men:
And showed how hopes decayed and bore no
fruit,
And He who placed us here was deaf and mute!
II then we turned on God in angry wise, @>"s~-s
And scanned his dealings with reproachful eyes,
Questioned His goodness and. IN foolish wrath,
Called Hope lie and ridicuted our Faith, E: =
Did we not find, In such an evil hour,
That far within us dwelt this Loving Power7
NO Wrathful God without to smite US down.
Or turn His face away with angry frown;
But In the bitter heart smil began, ~.=4-r9 80
Grew. all at once, within and upward ran,
Broke out upon the face and, for a while,
Despite all bitterness we had to smile!
Because Gods Spirit that within us lay
Simply rose up and smiled our wrath away!
This love endures through al things, without
end,
And every soul has one Almighty Friend,
Whose Angels watch and tend it from lis birth.
And Heaven becomes the servant of the Earth!
Whate'er befall our spirits live and move
In one vast ocean Of Eternal Love! -
0 wOndrous race! this human race of ours.
So small In space! SO limit in powers!
And yet 80 formed that all the gods above,
Are drawn toward US by resistless lovei
Man IL 50 fashioned that his faintest sigh.
Draws down q god to help him from th1 sky!
Fav'rite Of Heaven! whom Angels strive to
please!
Borne in their arms and dandlel on their knees!
Creations Baby! best amid the Curse!
The Pet and Darling of the universe!
The quotations I have given are not
culled, but clipped in body from two de-
partments OF tho poem, as find them
under the respective heads of ''Nature''
and s'teligion," and include, perhaps,
one-fourth Of the entire production.
Mr.. Miller was one of the founders of
Worthington, and has made the AD-
VANCE which was the first journal es-
tablislled in the town. financial sue
cess, and one of the ablest country
newspapers in the State. It has stood
firm and mistaken in the midst of the
reverses which the town has expert
enced, including four years of the ''mys-
ferrous dispansatiOn" of grasShOppers,
and to-day is more prosperous than ever
before.
Mi. Miller is an Independent in relig-
ion, as his readers well know, and
sometimes incurs the i'll will of those
who are too shallow or Obtuse to UNDER
stand the depth and purity of his char
acter. But he is one Of the most earn
est and intense believers in God and an
over-ruling intelligence that ever met.
lie is a personal embodiment of the idea
outlined III the extract have quoted
from his poem on 'Religion." lie
means and Nres every word of it. lie
was formerly one Of the editors Of the
Toledo Blade, but left that paper some
eight or nine years ago and cast his lot
with Prof. IIumiston and ot>er pion-
GERS to build town OIL the Minnesota
prairies. He is between s. and 40 years
of age and unmarried, and 4 purer-heart-
ed and cleaner-tongued bachelor never
lived. 1t is to be hoped that no will
publish his poems in book form.
JAMES G. CLARK.