The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-22

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IN the Adirondacks. NJ. L. R.
THE SOUL OF GOOD IN EVIL.
Some Timely and Beautiful Extracts from nr
Old Lecture by Paul II. Hayue.
Beyond the orbit Of Longfellow's cred
planet Mars, wheeling in circles which
sometimes interest each other, astrono-
mers discovered between 1900 and 1907
four small planetary bodies, to which
Sir john Herschel has given the name
OF asteroids. Deviating so much from
the path in the heavens described by the
other tenants of our solar system that
the zodiac must be expanded five times
its breadth in order to include their
orbits, bearing with them traces of
! atmospheric phenomena and gigantic
scale; and what is most remarkable, pre-
seuting to the observers eye not the
form of an oblate spurid, but edges
rugged and uneven. 1t has been con-
jectured by Prof. Olbers, OF Berlin, that
these bodies originally united in one
great planet, must by some strange ex-
plosion have been scattered into space,
whenever they CLEAN upon us now with
the light dmmed and mournfl of q
fra9mentary existence.
\ doom akin to this may be resting
latent in the bowels of our own earth.
Sometimes we hear the demon muttering
his mysterious language and rolling his
thunders underground, and then, un-
chained for a season, he riots in earth
quahes or scars upon the fumes OF vol
canic eyhalations.
Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried
in a night. Lisbon, with her thousands,
vanished like one of those dissolving
''earth bubbles" to which Banquo COM
pares the wind sisters in Macbeth.
Rivers that have flowed for ages with
in their appointed bounds are preclpi-
tatcd into new channels, or swallowed
up in the vortices of fire and smoke;
fertile plains shivcr like glass beneath
the heel of some malign enchanter, and
the whole globe trembles as with throes
Of dissolution.
And yet, in the economy Of nature
what are these conrulsions but the nor
nal vents where through the earth's
overcharged heart relieves itself of the
pcstilent humors-the consuming heats
which seethe and boil about the core OF
her vitality? 4 few days, months, or
years and her scared yisage assume
again the lovliness of old; from the site
OF her lava brlrials and the chasms which
show where her sick agony was all but
mortal, I richer yerdure courts the airs
OF heaven and waters more brightly
beautiful flash back the splendor Of sun
light ard stars.
Thc earthquake, the tempest, the pas
sion Of volcanic eruptions, are therefore
but visitors OF mercy. Were it not for
their strong agencies, we too might have
been rolling through the "yoids i'm
mense.' shorn Of our birth-right Of life
aid glory. Dcsolation for an hour;
stability for centuries; the urheaval of
ancient landmarks to-day, and to-mor-
row the beginning Of q new order of
harmonious law, which progresses from
epoch to epoch, along pathways of
beleticence and love; sudden deaths to
hundreds of thousands, and the frlllness
Of life 10 myriads, perhaps of genera
tions! Such are the sublime compensa-
tions of Providence. Who, then, can
doubt that our wonderful physical sys-
tenn, balanced and controlled by the
omnipotent arm, IS but type in its per-
feet advancement of that moral, spiritual
and political world within whose orbit
humanity IS called upon to act the drama
Of its destiny. II the conceit of theoretic
reason We may ask; s'Wherefore, o.
God. hast thou done thus and thus?"
Or with the Spanish sceptic's audacious
hardihood We may affirm that ''if God
had only consulted us at the creation,
We could have favored him with hints to
his advantage" but, despite mans
blasphemy and foil, the kind call
Father IS leading him through process
ses he cannot comprehend to the noblest
fruition OF his hopes 'sIt suits not,
says the archangel in ''Festus,
It suits not the eternal laws of God
That evil be immortal!
Iet on this temporary, partial stage of
LllllltJI 1b 10 OIlCI CYL
alone that the highest possible good is
evolved, and in proportion to the magni-
trlie OF the evil may be the vital
grandeuIs OF the benefit.
These are truths that We should all
deeply ponder.
Tie temptation to utter skcpticism to
s:cucse Cod in our hearts and "die'
-,;.oc ,,,,o,, FOO -,,,-,,- Will, +nr,;l>1o foroa
Yet from the depths Of sorrow and pain,
If we listen Alright, comes the voice OF
beautiful consolation which seems to
say: From the ashes Of corruption
spring the flowers of verdure, the rich
blooms OF earth, and SO in the loathe-
scn4cncss OF sin and error and all "things
evil, lies hidden away, but slowly gath
cIing its powers for resurrection, the in
mortal ''soul OF good"