The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-10-04
LIFE AND DEATH.
The Doom of Humanity and the Uni
verse.

verse.
Senator Ingalls,, in his recent
eulogy on Senator Beck, said:
The right TO 1--we IS, in human
estimation, the most sacred, the
most inviolable, the most luahena-
bic. The JOY Of living in such a
splendi 4 and luminous day as this
is lnconcrivable. To exist is exul.
tauon. To live forever is our
subllmest hope. Annihilaii3n, ex-
tinction aud eternal death are tie
forebodings Of despair. TO know,
to love, to achieve, to triumph,
to confer happiness. to alleviate
misery, is rapture. The greatest
erlme and the sevrrest peuaIty
known to human law is the sacri-
fee aud forfeiture o human life.
And yet we are all under SEN
tence Of death. Other events may
or may not occur Other condl-
tons NAV or may not exist. We
may be rich or poor; we NAV be
learned on ignorant; we may be
happy or wretched. but we all
must die. The verdict has been
pronounced by the lnexorablr de-
cree Of an omnipGlent tribunal.
Without trial or opportunity for
dBfelse; with no knowledge
OF thu accnSer or the nature and
cause Of tue accusation; without
being confronted with the witness.
es against us, We have been sum
moned to tn bar Of lie and cou-
demned to death. There is no
writ of error nor review. There
is neither exculpatlon nor appeal.
All must be relinquished. Beauty
and deformity, good and evil,
virtue aud vice, share the same
relentless fate. The tender mother
cries passlonateIy for mercy for
her frs born, but there is 20 Gle
mency. The craven fellow sullrn' y
prays for a moment in which tn
he aneled, but there IS no reprieve
The soul helplessy beats It's wings
against the bars, shudders and
disappears.
The prescription extends alike
to the individual and the type.
Nations die and races expire.
Humanity itsrlf is destined to ex-
tinction. Sooner or Later It Is the
struction of science that IN
energy of The earth will be ex-
pended, and 1. vii become inca.
pablr Of supporting life. 4 grour
Of feeble and pallid Survivors il
some sheltered valley ia tn.
tropics wlll behold the sun sins
below the horizon and the pitIe..
stars glitter IN the midnight sky.
The last man will perish. and tht
sun will rise upon an earth with
out an Inhaoitant. Its atmosphere
It's seas, its life and hrat, vii
vanish, aud the planet will ne al
idl. cinder uselessly spinning Il
its orb t.
Every hour some world die
unnotIced III the armament; SON,
sun shoulders to enbers md ashe
on the hcarihstoue of infnt
space, and the mighty maze 0
systems sweeps ceaselessly ON
ward IN Its voyage of doom TO re
morseless and unsparlng destruc
ton.
With the Disappearance Of ma
from lh- earth all traces Of hi
{ existence will be lost. Tue palaces
towers aid temples he has rrared
; the institutions he has establisheG
I the cities he has builded, Tia
, books he has wrnten, the creed
be has constructed, the nhilosc
phles be has formula ed-a
science, art, literature and know
edge will be obllierated and er
: gulfed in empty and yacan
obliyion.
The great globe itself
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
y And, like this insnbstantia, pageal
G faded,
Leave not rack behind.
i There is au intelligence so va
S and enduring thai th- flaming Il
. terYals between the BIRTH AZ
5 death of univrrses Is no more tina
l. the fash of frehies above II
o meadows of sunmcr--a coloss
10 power by which these siupendol