The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-12-10
ire his superior-bu, by his reason he

ontwrestle, outsee, outhear out
do. At his all-conquering decree, the
forest that had stood for ages steps
aside to let him build his cabin and cui-
tiVate his farm. The sea which raved
and foamed upon the race has become
crystal pathway for commerce to
march on. The thunder-cloud that
slept lazily above the mountain is made
to come down and carry mail-bags.
Man, dissatisfied with his slowness OF
advancement, shouted to the water
and the fire: ''Come and liftw
Come and drawn Come and
helpY' And they answered.: "Ay, ay.
we Gomez" and they Joined hands
the fire and water-aId the shuttles
fly, and the rail-train rattles on, and
the steamship comes coughing, painting,
flaming across the deep. He elevates
the telescope to the heavens, and, as
easily as through the stethoscope the
physician hears the movement of the
lung, the astronomer catches the pulsa.
ton of distant systems of worlds
throbbing with life. He takes the
microscope, and discovers that there
are hundreds of thousands of animal
cula living, moving, working, dying
within circle that could be covered
with the point of n pin-animals b
which rain-drop would be an ocean,
FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage
Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for the eye, aroms
for the nostrils, kindred for our atfec
tions, poetry for our taste. religion for
our soul We are put in 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 tie waters
to refresh us, and food to strpngthc
us; and the herbs yield medicine when
we are sick, and the forests lumber
when we would build a hsuse, or
cross the water in ship. The
rocks are transported for our foun-
dation; and metals upturned for our
currency; and wild beasts must give MS
covering; and the mountains must be
tunneled to let us pass; and the fish of
the sea come up i'll our net; and the
birds of the air drop at the flash of our
guns; and the cattle on thousand hills
come down to give us meat. For us the
peach orchards bend down their fruit,
and the vineyards their purple clusters.
TO feed and refresh our intellect ten
thousand wonders in nature and provi-
dencc-wonders of mind and body,
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ogies and antitheses; all colors and
sounds; lyrics in the air; idyls in the
field; confiagrations in the sunset; robes
of mist on the mountains; and tho
Grand March" of God in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adoption;
der by which it may climb; a song of
endless triumph that it may sing; a
crown of unfading light that it may
wear. Christ came to save it-caml
with n cross on His back; came with
spikes in His feet; came when no ono
else would come, to do work which no
one else would do. See how suited to
mans condition is what God has dona
for him. Man is sinner; here is par.
retraccs it. lie is helpless; Almighty
grace is proffered. He is a lost wan.
dN-cr; Jesus brings him home. lie il
bli,31; and at one touch of Him whd
cured Bartimeus, eternal glory streams
into MS soul. Jesus, | sing Thy gracel
Cure of worst disease! Hammer to
smite off heaviest chain! Light for
thiclleat darkness! Grave divine! Devil.
scoff at it, and men reject it, bat HEAVIER
celebrates it.
wish you good cheer for the national
health. Pestilcnce, that in other yeari
has come to drive out it's thousand
hcarses to Greenwood and Laurel Hill,
has not visited our nation. 1t is .
glorious thing to be we'll How strangi
that we should keep our health when
one breath from a marsh, or the sting
of an insect, or the slipping of Il foot,
or the falling of q tree branch might
fatally assault our life! Regularly the
lungs work, and their motion seems ia
be a spirit within US painting after ita
immortality. Our sight fails not,
though the air is SO full of objects
which by one touch could break out tho
souls Uindow. What ship, after a
years t. sing on the sea, could come in
with SO little damage as ourselves,
though W. arrive after years voyage
to-day?
| wish y. good cheer for the nationa,
harvest. Reaping machines never
swathed thicker rye, and corn-husller's
peg never !ipped out fuller ear, and
mow-poles ever belt down under
swcetcr hay, and wind-mill's hopper
never shook 2ut larger wheat. Long
trains of whte-ccvered wagons hava
brought the we llth down to the great
thoroughfares. The gamers are full,
the stOre-hOuseG are overcrowded, tho
canals are blocktd with freights press
ing down to TIE markets. The cars
rumble all through the darkness, and
whistle up the fla2man at dead of night
to let the western harvests come down
to feed the mouths of the great cities.
A race of kings has taken possession Of
this land-King 9tton, King Corn,
King Wheat, King Rice, King Grass,
King Coal.
wish you good ci.eer for civil and
religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does
an armed soldier Interfere with the
honest uttcrance of truth. We stand
here to-day with our arms free to
work, and our tongues free to speak
This Bible-it is all unclasped. This
pulpit there is no chain around about
it. There is no swapping of mus
kerry in the street BleSSed he God