Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-03

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that had stood for ages steps aside to let
him build his cabin and cultivate his farm.
The sea which raved and foan1ed upon the
race has become "A crystal pathway for
commerce TO march on. The thunder
cloud tina. slept lazily above the mountain
is made to come down and carry mail bags.
Man, dissatisfied with his slowness of adj
vanCement, shouted to the water and the
fire, Come and hlt!" Come and draw"
Come and helpl' And they answered,
"Aye, aye, we come, " and they joined hands
tho fire and the water-and the shuttes
Gy, and the rail train rattles on, and the
steamship comes coughing, painting, fam
ing across the deep.
He elevates the telescope to the heavens,
and as easily MS through the stethoscope
the physician hears the movement of the
lung the astronomer catches the pulsation
of distant systems Of worlds throbbng
with life. He takes the microscope and
discovers that there are hundreds of thou
sands of animalculB living, moving, work
ing, dying within a circle that could he
covered with the point of Il pin-animals
to which rain drop would be an ocean, u
rose leaf n hemisphere, and the fash Of u
freely lasting enough to give them light to
several generations
THE SOUL OF MAN.
! l take a step higher and look at mans
moral nature Made in the image OF God
( Vast capacity for enjoyment; capable ut
first of eternal JOY, and though now disor-
: dered, still, through the recuDerative force
/ of heavenly grace, able to mount up to
more than its original felicity; faculties
/ that may blossom and bear fruit incXhaus-
tibly. Immortality written upon every
capacity; "A soul destined to range in I'M
/ limited spheres Of activity long after the
world has put on ashes, and the solar sys-
tenn shall have snapped its axle, and the
stars that, in their courses, fought against
Sisera, shall have been slain and buried
amid the toling thundcrs of the last day.
You see that God has adapted everything
to our comfort and advantage. Pleasant
things for the palate; music for the ear;
beauty for the eye. aroma for the nostril;
kindred for our affections; poetry for our
taste; relig ion for orr soul. We are put in
a garden, and told that from all the trees
we may eat, except here and there one.
He gives the sun to shine on us, and the
waters to refresh rs, and food to strengthen
us; aud the herbs yield medicine when we
are sick, and the forests lumber when we
would build a house or cross the water in
a ship.
The rocks are transported for our foun-
dation, and metals upturned for our cur
rency, and wild beasts must give us cover
ing, and the mountains must be tuuneled
to let us pass, and the fish of the sea come
up in our net and the birds of the air drop
at the flash of our guns, and the cattle on
thousand Mills come down to give us
meat. For us the peach orchards bend
down their fruit and the vineyards theil
purple clusters, TO feed and refresh oul
intellect, ten thousand wonders in nature
and providcucc-wonders of mind and
body, wonders of earth and air, and deer
anaOgies and antitheses, all colors and
sounds, lyrics in the air, idyls in the field
cOnilagrations in the sunset, robes of mist
on the mountains and the Grand March
of Sod in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adaptation
fountain in which it may wash ladder
by which it may climb; song of endless
triumph that it may sing; a crown of un
fuding light that it may wear. Chris
came to save it--came with a cross on ii,
back; came with spikes in his feet cam,
when no one else would come, to do
work which no one else would do. SEE
how suited TO mans condition is wha
God has done for him. Man is sinner
here is IA pardon. He has lost Gods image
Christ retraces it. lie is helpless; Al
; mighty grace is proilered. He is los
+ wandercr; Jcs Us brings him home. He i
, blind, and at one touch of him who cure,
Bartimeus, eternal glories stream into hi
! soul. Jesus, | sing thy grace! Cure o
, worst disease, Hammer to smte off hcavi
est chain Light for thickeat darkness
: Grace dirine Devils scon ut it and mel
reject il, but heaven celebrates it!
GOOD WISHES.