The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-15
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By this stairway, we are led up to the
vaulted chambers where we may inspect
the pure gold of solid truth; weigh the
diamonds of chance and speculation, and
determine by rigid computation, the
values of hidden things.
This stairway leads US still upward to
the dome of the observatory where are
kept the immense balances in which are
weighed the sun, moon, and planets; the
delicate meters of light, heat and cleo
tricity; the wonderful lenses which ex-
tend our view far'toward the sentinel out
ports of the universe, where those won
drous fields of nebulae are bright with the
"star dust of the heavens" and where re-
side specters of comets and fixed stars.
The travellers upon these two stairways
all pass. at first, through the portal of
Honor. She furnishes each with a rule
and chart. Guided by these, the trav
ellers, however devious their wanderings,
all ultimately meet where the stairs con-
lesce, upon the pinnacle of Fame's temple
beyond which unaided human capability
cannot plant stepping stone.
LII luOl dl LILO ttlSO CHO1C dIC OWo oUttII-
ways leading from the vestibule of infan-
cy. The one, broad and spacious,
tending downward, through vanity, pro-
family, deceit, gossiping, thieving, drunk
enness, and murder, to the lowest earthly
degree, where the traveller stands on the
hang-man's gibbet, the trap-door to per-
dition.
The other, which we must build our
selves, allures to brighter worlds and
leads the way through modesty, gentle
ness, truth, purity, charity, affection, and
obedience, until the traveller arrives at
the summit of earthly zion, beyond which
human agency cannot aid him, but to
which the cable of Hope is attached,
whose anchor is within the vail. The
travellers upon these two stairways never
meet; those journeying downward are
lost forever in the blackness of darkness
and those going upward are finally trans
lated to Immortality of light and life,
where they shine as the stars of the fir
mament.
And whether in society or the individ- |
ual, all upward progress is made by put |
ting under our feet all things which are
wrong, and false, and hollow, and all feel
ings which are envious, and selfish, and |
unkind. And as each individual, who |
would reach higher plane of life, must |
struggle upward for himself, so the coun-
try, which would enjoy the purer air of
the higher levels, must toll up the steps |
of labor, of economy, of education, of mo-
rality, of obedience to law, of public en-
terprise, until it stands perfect state,
happy, prosperous, and intelligent.
True, most of the labor of nation 60
ing upward, is done by few wise, good, |
and strong men, who go ahead and from
their eminence call out to their brothers
below, "Come up higher" Yes, and |
many times they almost drag their slug |
gish friends upward, and find their |
reward at last in seeing whole country |
stand, where a few years before they |
stood, alone.
Saint Augustine, well hast thou said,
That of our vices can frame
A ladder, If we will but tread
Beneath our feet, each deed of shame.
AL common things. each days events
or That aesi1h, wsh the d day bsgnI snd snd
Are steps by which we may ascend.
All Mtbs thoughts @ Of M ILL., al. all qnkind IN Il deeds u
wb 3eye bnders root or I'm OF ILL.,
The action of the nobler will.
AL these must first be trampled
In 9wP sSs bFas es SHr df fiat would gain
The right of eminent domain.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept
tOiing