Smyrna times., 1882-11-08

a house, why did he not simply build a
house, standing fiat on the ground, and
with no shafts piercing the air, and no
vast guiding beam at the back? Trust
me, Friend Wolfgang, this is something
more than the common abode of which
alone you seem able to think"
While the two supplemented men
yet talked together, the sun had risen;
and there was a sound of many waters
and of rising waves; and through an
opening in the rocks, which the tray
ellers had not perceived in the twilight,
the great ocean became revealed to their
eyes. Higher and higher rose the tide,
! till it almost reached where the strange
wooden building still lay motionlcss;
and the travellers r0treated little up
the shore, and stood, awe struck and
/ bIt;,hlpss. Watching what might hap
pen. iii,n down from the cliff ran a
band Of mariners, and leaped on board
the vessel, and hauled i'll the anchor !;
and presently the waves lifted up the
snip, and she ilOated bravely on the
waters. Very soon the mariners set
the sails, which had lain idly on the
deck, the pilot placed his hand on the
rudder, and guided the noble bark, and
she was borne by the winds Of heaven
far off, beyond the uttermost ken OF
the two poor travellers on the shore.
Then, after time, Wolfgang turned
to his companion, and said Athel-
stane, you spoke truth. Ion IIoGse-of.
the-Sca was made as you 1oresaw, fol
other use than to stand on the ground
1t was planned for the free world o
waters and now we see what was tht
| purpOrt of so many things which before
: seemed to us so useless-the keel, tn,
: MASS, Tie sails. the marvellous an(
) mysterious rudder. How wonderful i
5 is! How wise and far-seeing the grca
t carpenter who made the ship"
As Wolfgang spoke, Athelstanc LITE,
t his head, which had dropped in heav.
\ thought, and he saw the wide ocea1
: leaping in the morning light;
e stretched out before him, and the ris
d ing sun smote his face with glory
g And Athelstnne laid his hand on Vol
gangs arm, and spoke as his frien
:. had never heard him speak before, fo
G it was as a man in whose soul a grea
l. new thought had sprung to life.
AYE, Wolfgang, aye he said
l. "but if that marvellous work Of huma
e hands was not made only for earth, d
/, you think We were made for nothin
f better than the life which we now lea
to eat and drink, and marry and toi
d and sleep and die and be forgotten
lie Are not We, too, o Wolfgang, made f
it other things than these? Are we n,
at fitted for some other element than tn
ID in which we have our being, son
DC other existancc than that which yet Y
lead? If we were intended only TO Ii
- our few years of animal life on earth al
". perish, why were we given minds
plough the seas Of thought, and aspil
80 tions to point to heaven, and love
Nc swell beneath the breath of atfectio
:, and conscience to guide us on our W
N. as the pilot lays on his mighty han'
~ O Wolfgang! we could perceive II
~ the ship was intended to float on {
great ocean which we had never
,ro held. Can we not see that we and
60 our race are made to live in a wOl
70 yet unseen-wider, frecr, grander
N thousand times than earth-a wo
on which we shall enter whatsoever
.va tide of death shall lift us up, and b.
Ia, us away ?"--Frdnces P0wer CObJc.