Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-12


history sees but confusion worse
confOunded." Things seem to have
no calculable beginning, no sure end
ing. Wars and revolutions succeed
each other and empires rise and fall
without parental cause. And out
of his confusion spring doubts, skep-
ticism, atheism, m,pitiable, thrice pitiable
is he.
There is golden key to history.
Even the novice with this in hand
can solve, can unlock many of its
mysteries. The text of to-day is this
key.
"rlIE LORD REIGNETH'
Now we are ready TO watch those
child nations, the one after the other,
tottering from their cradle in the
mountains of Central Asia. We are
prepared to understand their disper-
sion, and their choice ofhOmes. Why
that dark eyed, meditative people
settled under those bright shining
stars of silent Egypt: Why that per-
ceptivc, emotional, graceful family
became enamored of the balmy air OF
Greece and pitched their tents around
the Acropols: Why that square
browed, broad jawed, warrier tribe
planted their standard Oh the fastness-
es of the seven hills: Why that child
like, tcachable race built their altar
IN the land OF the jordan: Why that
wild, hardy, freedom loving clan
pushed on through the forests of Ger
many to make their port Oh the isles
and their home upon the seas. Each
one of these migrating nations chose
its home according to the dictates OF
its own inclination, but this inclina-
ton was the beginning of the unfold
ing of that plan which lie who rules
had planted deeper than their con-
sciousncss. Earth is now his stage.
The nations are TO be his spokesman,
hls actors, and the drama TO be enact
ed is The TRANSPORTATION of Man.
We may not hope TO comprehend
this God-conceived drama in all OF
its parts until the curtain shall fall
and we can look back upon it. The
plot is too deep. We are too much
absorbed in our own part. The sol.
dier in the midst of battle, blinded by
smoke and deaiened by the roar OF
cannon cannot understand the plan
of the battle. But after the enemy
has fled he may stand upon that en-
inence and see and think as his gen.
eral said and thought. So, some day
when our fight has been fought and
won,w may stand upon the emincnct
where stands our General and SCI
and think as he sees and thinks.
But we are not left in total ignO
rance. There is no room for doubt
We, with our unframed eyes, may
see the thread of the plot and makt
some prophecies for the future. lie
us now turn our eyes backward for |
while.
Thousands of years ago the worlt
was ingulfed in ignorance, supersti
ton, and corruption. How igmoran
we cannot appreciate; how super
stitious we cannot fathom; how cor
rupt we cannot state. Whether the,
had risen thus far from the proto
plasm or fallen this low from the per
feet man, we will not stop to enquire
But this we know, in intelligence ant
morals they were but little removed
from the brute. They had forgotten
there was a God and turned to wor
ship at the shrines of their personiiie,
passions.
Out of this darkness, this menta
and soul chaos lie who rules propose,
to bring light, and form, and beauty
and glory.
The naturally meditative Egyptian
lifted above the struggle for eXistenc
by his great bursting wheat barns
and stimulated by the silent flowing
sourceles Nile, the never-changin
brightness of those southern star
began TO ask questions. Early j
their history the problem Of life be
came a burning, national question
The pyramids are but expressions G
: their longing to live in the futur,
Their mummies and "The Book {
the Dead" tell us how near they cam
to the solution of the mystery of TIL
grave, OF their hope of immortalit,
One of their number filled wit
their hopes, and learned in all the
wisdom, under the direct instructio
, of God, led out from bondage thu
teachable nation, and hemmed thel
in by sea and mountains and rive
and desert sands to enact their par
to learn and speak their messag
. This nation was made unit by
common parentagc, common bondas
and sutlerings, a common deliveranC
and common hopes. For forty yea
they were at school in the desc
with God almost directly the
n teacher. To them he declared h
\ existence; ~ am that l am" TIL
was their first lesson. He reveale
his power in the discovered sea, Il
II overturned hosts of Pharaoh, Il
cloud of fire and shadow. He shove
his love in the sweetened waters
: Marah, the daily mama from leave
the rifted rock. They saw his quit
ing hand in the falling cities an
fleeing armies of their enemies, The
were made to feel the holiness of Ii
being by his abode in the Holy
D Holes. He made revelations to the
prophets'and priests and kings, an
had them speak and sing of the ma
esty of his being, the glory of h
home, the love Of his soul.
II They have learned their part b
are not ready to deliver it. They ha'
- crude language, and stumblir
speech. They know not their relate
to the whole. They have lost the
cue. So long isolated they hi
taught themselves to despise Il
other nations. 1t would seem tn
here was break, miscarriage, b
not so. The great Ruler fOresaw til
and planned to meet the want. f,
fifteen centuries that sparkling, pc
ceptive nation which settled in Il
poetic environment Of Greece h
been developing language for
conveyance-a language pure, bea
tiful, flexible and profound. Wit
in the embrace of this language is t
:: noblest culture and the deepest ph
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