The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1883-01-12
ORIGINAL POETRY.



IT'S said that Colonel IngersCH
Maintains this present life is all,
But mere assertion is no proof,
as sure as Satan wears n hoof;
for we can say on t'other hand
There is dreadful hery land
now let the gallant Colonel bring
SIron9 1,os i.9- arguments 20 prove the thing
tor It's a weighty circumstance
And one that shouldn't stand a chance
10 pass heaven like Christian folk
Or in eternal tre and smoke!
Eor, that we all live now TITS sure
And certain to the veriest boor
VOW, Whate er called Us on this stage
a a Lusy belng TO engage,
~ ANl8ht sun prolOng our lives hereafter:
Our thinking thus need oanae No Ianyhtar
LsI any man say now we couldn't
1--WE on hereafter! No. he shouldn'ti
TOT Whate'er brought US on this far
Gould still drive on the eternal ear
~ aa5LsPIoVe IN assertion-l don't fear It'll
M ~ NE comes next to that OF spirit;
ana why should this great universe
Al end ana vanish with the hearsef
Inn I'm sun. the moon, the planets shine
tne stars arc marshaled into time,
Aho comets rush with blazing train
throughout the hosts in speed anafn
SNOt one part jars upon the other
a M n star doth not his neighbor bother:
al moves, one mighty, grand machine
And ~, net on rebe! sun lie seen;
An plain from this there is some great plan,
Me n nc not the least In 1t is man.
-NeHt, this fair orb to contemplate
through ether bowling untold weight
her land aud-water checkered face
I1 Ter lahdscapes drawn with vondrous grace,
mer mountains, clouds, and forests grand
Her nora spread on every hand;
Her animated being, too
Anat 4 mis- earth. air, and heaven blue;
All laws Of water air and land
EIts everything OF every hand.
i ls not but wisdom everywhere,
% nc biemish mars her features fair;
Ihen what should alter Wfsdom's plan
In cutting short the life of manf
Is foolishness, eternal life
In universe. with being rife?
Is man unworthy of the boon
when ne can mete and weizh the mosnf
" Mould II not be ineptness quite
uS,ll. 10 snun l1 such being into night3
w nat should live always senseIeeH mattaTy
lhst would prefer the worse to better
That's plainly out OF Wisdorn's vny
6s a sure as night precedes the day
But there is given a wOndrous kew
That opens up life's mystery:
Inc Inc word Prophetic, shown to men,
me AneWiedge Of the Spirits ken
enart OF iife's wide ocean vast
Wnleh shows the headlands Of the past
All times main isles and shores We see
On TO the port, Eternity
rus is Gods word what needs rnanma,a
no gulde n TO tn eternal shoref
" ny search all heaFon. and earth and sea
TO ope the Uuiversee The Kew
10 Immortality was given,
Long ages past, 20 men from Heaven
rbs5l ne qiIiereRt ereeds we contemplate;
Were introduced by SINS DARK night.
& or man At tirst wss formed in light
he ~andered rom Gods presence out
And then ne nrst began to doubt
and wander, cropping in the dark
without an aim, without a marx
All Heathen Systems are in sooth
But grotesque shadows Of the Trutb
Mahomet's rise you plainly see
within the great Inspired Kew
Inc ninth of Revelation shows
Prom whence the smoke Of Tslar, rago
ODseuring all the Christian light
Hso Hno shaaewing mems souls In night.
Lne prophet did on Patmos write
~ Sarscen and Turkish blight.
Fe centuries ere the plague began
ne showed their coming unto man
1nls 1Ih single Instance plainly shows
Inhence came the single, double uoea
enc instance shows the inspired pen
SonVineingly as thousands ten. Ann