Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-11-05

"And man became Living Soul"
The prophetic voice of the Recorder adds
| Whchis the hope that guides his path through all
| The dark mysterious way his journey leads.
Thus man was made an Heir of Promise,
| To which Jacob a figure stands,
While Evil and Good people his House,
And IN bondage meath the yoke Of Wisdom bends
Natures dividing wall in Eden stood,
The Tree Of knowledge fenced with death,
To separate the Evil from the Good,
sword to pierce the spirit of the Earth
knowledge figures the coat that Jacob made
Ofmany coors for his favored son,
figures the Tree of which Wisdom was the bride
From which the Law now barred the man.
How fair the knowledge Of the good appears
To Him who sees her by the Living WE'LL
Arobe OF Angelic purity she wears,
That drapes form where all the graces dwell.
1t was her that the Heir OF Life would gain,
BY years OF patient toll and weary care
Ignorant of the work that must obtain
The Living knowledge that he seeks for hire
For Evil was mans inheritance by birth
Who came unseught and unbidden to his arms;
Natures first born who became mans bride by STEALTH
AS when the hated Leah to Jacob comes
But man cannot the depth of Evil learn,
While he holds communion with the Good
And in this appears the wisdom of plan
That was built upon motive that was hld
lo.iearn OF Evil man must die to Good,
To learn OF Good he must to Evil die;
But to know Of both is the wisdom OF a God,
A living we'll whose waters never dry
ne day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,
Was covenant the Maker made with man.
That man, through death might from its sorrow fly
When he should knowledge of the Evil learn
To develop faith in the infant SOUL
That could pierce the gloom of sunless sky,
And fearlessly scale the forbidden wall,
Was to be born God, and as man to die.
For the dissolving dust could only free
The breath of the Maker, prisoned there
Arrsyed in Wisdom's varied hue
The garment the gods of nature wear
lhe Makers presence was the light that shone
And gave to the bloom of the garden birth;
His fading face was Edens warning sun,
lie disappeared from view; and it was DEATH
Sadly the parent from his offspring goes,
AS the mother leaves her infants newly made grave
When obedent to the law from Earth he rose.
And helpless nature to the Rulers hand he gave
thus life from its parent source was rent
That Evil might be bred unrebuked,
When the Creator was from his creature sent
The light from natures darkness was removed.
The chill OF a starless night began to fall,
As when the sun from summer sky sinks down.
Converting Life's Heaven into its hell.
And the smile on Natures face into frown.
Thus with it the dividing nature drew
All that was good and pleasant from the DUST
In the light of his presence Heaven grew,
But hell was created where it was lost
As in the debris OF the ruined tower
Abraham discerns his Makers voice.
And by obedient faith was led to where
He could recall his lost parental source.
A inquire OF the Tree that in the garden STOOD
And clad in discerning wisdom shone;
OF whom "she is my sister" Abraham said.
But the Tree of Life and knowledge were but one
Inc knowledge of the EVIL and the Good,
Was as pair Of balances to men,
To preserve the perfection of the Cod
And he that eats of either dies TO one
And of the voice forbddine man to eat,
AT the first, from the last an echo comes
''See that the oil and wine thou do not hurt"
Though cheap, all other food his bread becomes.
And though prmeva nature was
AS lovely as an infant at the first .,
Man was as helpless as his childhood is,
When the perfection of the God was lost
Unstable as water thou shall excel"
JACOB describes the nature of his Elder son.
While fear and hate and pain people the hell,
lhat IN the absence OF the Good was horn
Ane ilsnt OF the law was the sun that shone
And taught to man the nature of the rod
10 whom the Tree was clad in bis M,ts.,s t
And the covenant demanded blood.
Both Death and the iaborer were
Handmaids to Wisdom's bondage piven
For want and hunger begot toll and care.
when all that was good from dust was taken
Here the garden with its leafy troop.
Is given into the laborer's hand.
me tnorn and thistle choke the goody crop,
"hen Death has shorn the faness from the land.
ana dumb life is found offering of night
hat lives in sorrow ard in darkness dies:
ana gave to him who sought for Wisdoms light,
a knoWledge OF what life in Natures darkness Is.
nefe were giants in those days" and ronstfous shapes
-! mat were horrid sight to the inquirine eye
VINO rom distorted nature lesson takes,
And builds its wisdom on reality.
The Lord, for Wisdoms sake created this,
Though repenting oft that man was made,
For as the pure and good and holy rose,
Hell deepened, and man conceived of bad
But Heaven grew upon the other side,
Where the Father taught his angels how to sing,
While joy and peace and love abide
Conhdinglybeneath his sheltering wing