Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-30

of heavenly grace, able to mount up to
more than its original felicity; faculties
that may blossom and bear fruit inexhaus-
tibly. Immortality written upon every
capacity; "A soul destined to range in UNI
limited spheres Of activity long after the
world has put on ashes, and the solar sys-
TEN shall have snapped its axle and the
stars that, in their courses, fought against
Sisera, shall have been slain and buried
amid the tolling thunders 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 religion for our 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 us. and food to strengthen
us; and the herbs yield medicine when we
are sick, and the forests lumber when we
would build house or cross the water in
a,ship.
The rocks are transported for our foun-
dalton, and metals upturned for our cur
rency, and wild beasts must give us cover
ing, and the mountains must be tunneled
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
a 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 providence-wonders of mind and
body, wonders of earth and air, and deep
analogies and antitheses, all cOlors and
sounds, lyrics in the air, dyls in the field,
conhagrations in the sunset robes of mist
on the mountains and the Grand March"
| of God in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adaptation;
fountain in which it may wash; a ladder
by which it may climb; song of endless
triumph that it may sing; a crown of UNI
| fading light that it may wear. Christ
! came to save it-came with a cross on his
back; came with spikes in his feet; came
when no one else would come, to do a
| work which no one else would do. See
how suited to mans condition is Yhat
God has done for him. Man is a sinner;
here is pardon. He has lost Gods image;
Christ retraces it. He is helpless; Al
mighty grace is proffered, He is a lost
wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He is
Bartimeus, eternal glores stream into his
soul. Jesus l sing thy gracel Cure of
worst diseased Hammer to smite off heavi
est ehainI Light for thickest darknessl
Grace divinel Devils scott ut it and men
reject it, but heaven celebrates It'll
GOOD WISHES.
wish you good cheer for the national
health. Pestilence, that in other years has
| come to drive out it's thousand hearses to
Greenwood and Laurel Hill, has not visit
ed our nation. 1t is a glorious thing to be
WE'LL How strange that we should keep
our health when one breath from marsh
or the sting of an insect or the slipping of
a foot or the falling of tree branch might
fatally assault our lifel Regularly the
lungs work. and their motion seems to be
a spirit within us painting after its immor
tally. Our sight fails not, though the air
is so full of objects which by one touch
could break out the souls window. What
ship, after years tossing on the sea,
B could come in with so little damage as
ourselves, though we arrive after years
voyage today?
}, wish you good cheer for the national
harvest. Reaping machines never swathed
thicker rye and corn husker's peg never
+ ripped out fuller ear, and NOV poles never
bent down under sweeter hay, and wind
mills hopper never shook ont larger wheat.
; Long trains of white covered wagons have
5 brought the wealth down to the great
r thoroughfares The gamers are full, the
storehouses are overcrowded, the canals
are blocked with freights pressing down to
t the markets. The cars rumble all through
3 the darkness and whistle up the hagman
) at dead of night to let the western harvests
Il 10 ha If "a
| cities. A race of kings has taken posses.
sion of this land-King Cotton, King Corn,
King Wheat, King Rice, King Grass, King
e Coal.
Q CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
. wish you good cheer for civil and re-
D ligous liberty No official spy watches our
0 entrance here, nor does an armed soldier
interfere with the honest utterance of
truth. We stand here today with our arms
, free to work and our tongues free to speak.
This Bible-it is all uncasped. This pull
= pit--there is no chain around about it.
g There is no swapping Of musfetry in the
, street. Blessed be God that today we are
! free men, with the prospect and determine
+ ton of always being free. No established
8 religion-Jew and Gentle Arminian and
r Calvinist, Trinitarian and Unitarian Prot
estant and Roman Catholic on the same
e footing.
l If persecution should come against the
= most unpopular of all the sects, believe
y that all other denominations would band
= together and arm themselves, and heart
e would be stout, and blood would be free,
: and the right of men to worship God &C
4 cording to the dictates of their consciences
:. would be contested at the point of the bay
n onet, and with hood flowing up to the bits
of the horses brides.
r. For mercies temporal and spiritual let
q consecrated lives be offered. Wherever
r Gods light shines and Gods rain descends
# and Gods mercy broods let the thanks
+; giving arisel