The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-09-23

looking longingly ut the Senatorial
Hocis." lie said that as soon as tho
political conventions i'll Maryland wero
over he would conc here for q week and
bring the President with him, if the lat
ter had not got enough of the sport up
III the Adirondacks. NJ. L. r..
TiiE SOUL OF GOOD IN EVIL.
some Ei,nciy and Beautiful Extracts from m
Old Lecture by Paul III. Hnync.
Beyond the orbit of Longfcllow's cred
planet Mars" wheeling in circles which
sometimes interest each other, astrono-
mcrs discovered between 1900 and 1907
four small planetary bodies, to which
Sir John lIerschcl has given the name
OF asteroids. Dcviating SO much from
the path i'll the heavens described by the
other tenants OF our solar system that
the zodiac must be expanded five times
its breadth i'll order to include their
orbits, bearing with them traces Of
atmospheric phenomena and gigantic
scale; and what is most remarkable, pre-
Scutmg to the Observers eye not the
form OF an oblato Spurid but edges
rugged and uneven. 1t has been con-
jecturcd by Prof. Olbcrs, of Berlin, that
these bodies originally united in one
great planet, must by some strange OK
ploNlon have been scattered into space,
whenever they glCam upon us now with
the light dimmcd and mournful of a
fmgmcntary existence
y doom akin to this may be resting
latent III the bowels of our own earth,
Sometimes we hear the demon muttcring
his mysterious language and rolling his
thundcrS underground, and then, un-
chained for season, he riots in earth
~" kcS OF scars upon the fumos Of vol
C0nic CXhaltui,>;.
pompCii and lierculancum were buried
i'll might. Lisbon, with her thousands,
vanished like ono of those dissolving
'carth bubbles to which Banuuo COM
parcS the wind sisters in Macbeth.
RlVcrS that have flowed for ages with
III their appointed bounds arc prcclpi
tatcd into new channels, or swallowed
up III the vorticcs of fire and smoke;
fertile plains shivcr like glass beneath
the heel of some malign cnchuntcr, and
the whole globe trcmDlcs rs with throcs
Of dissolution.
And yet, i'll the economy Of nature
What arc these commissions but the nor
mai vents where through the carths
oNcrclIr3cd heart relieves itself of the
pcSt!icnt humorS-thc consuming heats
which @C"thC and boil about the core of
her Vitality? y few days, months, or
years and her Scared viSugc assume
! again the luVlinCsS Of Old; from the site
( OF her lava hurials and the chaSms which
/ show where her sick agony was all but
mortal, richer vCrlurC courts the airs
o. heaven NnI waters moro brightly
hcnutliul flash buck the splcntlor of sun
light and stars.
The earthquake, the tempest, the pas
hon oil vOIcMIc cruptions, arc therefore
but visitors of mercy. We're it not for
thrr strong agencies, We too might have
been rolling through the ''NUids I'M
m"nar," shon Of our birth-risht of life
and glory! Dissolution for an hour;
stability for centuries; the uphcaval Of
ancient landmarks to-day and to-mor-
row the beginning Of new order of
harmonious law, which progresses from
epoch to epoch, along pathways of
bcnciiccnco and love; sudden deaths to
hmdrcdS OF thousands, and the fullncss
OF life to myriaAs, perhaps of genera
tons! Such arc the sublime c0mpcnga-
tons Of Providence. Who, then, can
doubt tIEd our wonderful physical sys-
tenn, balanced and controlled by tho
cmnipotcnt arm, is but type in It's por-
feet advancement of that moral, spiritual
and political world within whose orbit
Immunity is called upon to act the drama
of It's destiny. In the conccit Of thcorotic
reason We may ask: "Whcroforo, OI
God! hast thou done thus and thus?"
Or with the Spanish sccptic's auducious
hardihUod We may Affirm that "if God
had only consulted us ut the creation,
We could have favored him with hints to
his udvmtNmc;' but, despite mans
baSphcmy and folly, the kind Call
tHthcr' Is leading him through process
Sos he cannot comprehend to the nOblcSt
lrulti"n Of his hopes. at suits not"
says tho @rchangcl III 'Fcstus,"
1t suits not the eternal laws of God
That evil DC immortal!
Yet on this temporary, partial stage Of
human action it is often through evil
alone that the highest possible good is
evolved, and Ill proportion to the magni-
Hdc OF the evil may be the vital
grandcurs Of the benefit.
These arc truths that We should all
deeply ponder.
The temptation to utter Bkcpticism to
"curac tiod' III our h@artS and "dic"
rises upon too many with Il terrible force.
Yet from the depths Of sorrow and pain,
If VIC listen Alright, comes the voice of a
beautiful consolation which seems to
say: "trom the ashes Of corruption
spring the flowers Of Ycrdurc, tho rich
blooms OF earth, and SO jH tho l0athc-
Somcncas Of sin and GvIornnd ill "things
evil" lies hidden away, but slowly gath
crlnG - powers for resurrection, the I'M
mortal 'aoUl Of good,