The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-09-22

IS exceedingly fond Of the sport When
he makes an unusually large catch he is
rs g.cctiil as child. While on his way
from JiagcrStown to Baltimore, few
days ago, he had to stop over here fol
half an hour to await his train. He spent
his whole time down mt the river bank
looking longingly at the Senatorial
! Rocks" lie said that rs soon rs the
| political conventions in Maryland wore
/ over nc would cone here for week and
bring the President with him, if the lat
ter had not got enough OF the sport up
III the Adlrondacks. NJ l.. r.
'iF.E SOUL OF GOOD IN EVIL.
Som" Finely aud Beautiful Extracts from m
Old Lecture by Pau. II. Inyuc.
Beyond the orbit of Longfellows cred
| planet Mars, wheeling in circles which
! sometimes interest each other, astrono-
mcrs discovered between 1900 and 1907
| inur small planetary bodies, to which
/ 'olr John !icrschcl has given the name
/ OF asteroids. Dcviating SO much from
/ the path III the heavens described by the
! other tenants OF our solar system that
/ the zodiac must be expanded five times
lis breadth in order to include their
/ orbits, bearing with them traces of
atmospheric phenomena and gigantic
scale; and what is most remarkable, pre-
. SCutn8 to the Observers eye not the
| form oi an oDlato spurid, but edges
| rugged and uneven 1t has been con
| lccturcd by Prof. Oilers, of Berlin, that
these bodies originally united in one
great planet, must by some strange cX-
| plosion have been scattered into space,
Whenever they CLEAN upon us now with
the light dimmod and mournful of a
tragmcntary existence
y doom akin to this may be resting
latent iii the bowels of our own earth.
Sometimes we hear the demon muttcrinp
ms mysterious language and rolling his
tlUndcrS underground, and then, un-
chained for season, he riots in Garth
qiakc5 on scars upon the fumes of vol
camic cXhaiations
Pompcii and i1crculancum were buried
Ill Il night. Lisbon, with her thousands,
vanished like one of those dissolvinc
''carth bubbles to which Banuuo com.
parcs the Wild sisters in Macbeth
Rivers that have flowed for ages with
III their appointed bounds are precIpi-
tatcd into now channels, or swallowed
up III the vorticCs of fire and smoke;
fertile plains shivcr like glass beneath
the heel OF some malign cnchantcr, and
the whole globe trcmblcs as with throes
OF dissOmtion
And yet, IN tho economy of nature
what arc these commissions but the nor
mai vents where through the carth's
ovcrchargcd heart relieves itself of the
pGStllCut humors-thc consuming heats
which sccthc and boil about the core of
her Vitality? y few days, months, or
years and her scared visagc assume
aSMn the lovlincSS of old; from the site
ui her lava burialS and the chasms which
show where her sick agony was all but
mortal, richer vCrlurC courts the airs
OF heaven and Watcrs moro brightly
beautiful flash back the splcndor of sun
light and atlrs.
The earthquake, the tempest, the pas
sion ol volcanic CruptionS, are therefore
hnt visitors OF mercy Were it not for
thClr strong agencies, VIC too might have
been rolling through the 'svoids i'm
mCnac, shorn OF our birth-right of life
and glory. Dcsoation for an hour:
stability Tor centuries; the uphcaval of
ancient landmarks to-day, and to-mor-
row the beginning of new order of
harmonious law, which progresses from
Gpocn to epoch, along pathways Of
bcnciiccncc and love; sudden deaths to
hundreds of thousands, and the fullncss
OF ll@ to myrlads, perhaps of genera
TONS! Such arc the sublime compcnsa-
tions Of Providence. Who, then, can
doubt that ou wonderful physical sys-
tenn, balanced and controlled bv the |
ommrotcnt arm, is but type in its per- |
feet advancement Of that moral, spiritual
and political world within whosl rrbit
humanity is called upon to act the rama
OF It's destiny. In the conccit of thcorctic
reason we may ask: "Whcrcforc, O |
God! hast thou done thus and thus?"
Or with the Spanish sccptic's audacious
hardlhood we may Affirm that "if God
had only consulted us at the creation.
we could have favored him with hints to
ms advantage" but, despite mans
blnSphcmy and folly, the kind "All- |
luthcr' Is leading him through process |
Sos he cannot comprehend to the noblcst
trmtion OF his hopes. 'It suits not"
says the archangcl in 'Festus,"
1t suits not the eternal laws of God
That evil be immortal
Yet on this temporary, partial stage of
human action it is often through evil
alone that the highest possible good is
evolved, and III proportion to the magni-
tudc OF the evil may be the vital
Srandcurs of the benefit.
These are truths that we should all
deeply ponder.
The temptation to utter skcpticism to
'cWse COD in our hearts and "dic"
rises upon too many with II terrible force.
Yet from the depths of sorrow and pain,
If we listen Alright, comes the voice os a
beautiful consolation which seems to
say: 'From the ashes of corruption
spring the flowers of vcrtlurc, the rich
blooms of earth, and SO in the loathc-
somcncss of sin and error and all ''things
evil, lies hidden away, but slowly gath
crng ITS powers for resurrection, the i'm
mortal ''soul of good"