The Republican journal., 1883-05-17

Since you insist on scope of Scripture now,
| Their scope reveals time you must allow,
(The Scriptures witness) when all things restor'd
Will be submissive to creations Lord.
The Mediator is ordand to reign,
Nor hold the scepter, nor the throne I'M vain,
Till every creature, high and low, shall own
The power and kingdom is the Lords alone.
| Then every knee shall bow, and praisd be given
| BY all on earth, by all in hell and heav en
| .'Conscence' replies:
When cruel Dives fell
| And rais'd his mental eyes, intlamd in hell,
Far off ne saw in realms of holy rest
The late scorn'd beggar, now with Abraham best.
He and sought, with seven fold an suish wrung
One friendly drop to cool burning tongue,
But sought in vain.
II" admits that
The rich mans case, if 'twere a history given
OF mercy sought by one in hell from hdaven,
| Could not be literal truth A soul havd eyes,
| Voice and a tongue; suppose spirit Hies
| ThrO' burning flames with water neer 30 cool
When from the fountain, he must be fool
Who, tho in misery, would indulge the hope
TO find a cordial in the scalding drop.
The argument goes on till all thd refugees of
the doubling Il" are overborne.
| Somebody says of this man that he was an
artist, poet and saint. His santliness goes
without saying to any one who cOhtempateS
| the foregoing facts as to the duration of his
ministry in one spot, and as to salary, perhaps
fair one in those days, but not certainly calcu-
| lated to grow saints. To which may be added
that he never had an oycrc0at and lever own
ed horse. and that he usually went pn foot on
his exchanges, or to conventions. His son
says that he has heard him remark bat he had
walked five miles without being sensible that
he had taken a single step. That hd patiently
fed the flock all his appointed days, and omit
TED no duty of the faithful and vigilaht pastor
that, with his tastes, he did not trN to break
away and get into some center. where he could
have more influence, where the people We're
not scattered, and where he coul find his
paints put up in Windsor and Newton tubes.
proves him a saint indeed
That these tastes lived in these conditions.
and We're vigorous enough to descend to his
children and grandchildren and find e Expression
under more genial influences, showE that he
had strong poetic temperament IhP necess-
ty to make wooden latches. to take time and
thought for the thousand and one little matters
of daily life. to make contrlvance do the work
of money i'll every direction. Kept his genius
well down to earth. But he turns SOME of his
economies to account. Trudging ove a dozen
miles in a SnOW-StOrm to keep an appointment
he drops into poetry:
Travelling still westward, as pass along
The tempest, rushing with unbridled forde
Beats full upon me; piercing is the cold
| turn my face little to the left
Hold my right hand against the windwarh cheek,
Sometimes Wade thro' % drifts, anon anon the the Iath,
Clear'd by the wind, affords better way
To trip it lightly. Thus journey on,
The knee, some weary, gives little pain
But all is well. The busy mind within,
Calm and unrunled, smiling at the storm,
surveys thousand beauties.
Now to get back to the aprcots. II this man
had had the Windsor and Newtons and if he
had not lived in Blue Hill. Maine. whdrc april
cots do not groW-f he had had my tcaEher. he
might have painted aprcots thai you would
smell in Boston. The actions Of this il st man,
his zeal, his Righteousness, his endurance.
Smell sweet and blossom in the duI H.
Tile CongrepationaliSt