The Dickinson press., 1891-12-12
or amuscle to contract, or a lung to
breathe, or q hand to manipulate.
TAKE A STEP HIGHER

hitting INTO your mind the ocean as
easily us you put q glass OF water to
your lips.
Watch the law of association, or
the mysterious linking together of all
you ever thought, or knew, or felt, and
then giving you the power to take hold
of the clewline, and draw through
your mind the long train with indies
cribable velocity-one thought STIR
ring up hundred, and this again a
thousand-as the chlrp of one bird
sometimes wakes whole forest of
voices, or the thrum of one string will
rouse an orchestra.
Watch your memory-that sheaf-
binder, that goes forth to gather the
harvest OF the past, and bring it into
the present. Your power and velocity
of thought-thought OF the swift wing
and the lightning foot, thought that
outspeeds the star, and circles through
the heavens, and weighs worlds, and,
from poising amid wheeling constella-
tions, comes down to count the bios
SONS in TUT of mignonette, then
starts again to try the fathoming of
the bottomless, and the scaling OF the
insurmountable, to be swallowed up
in the incomprehensible, and lost in
God!
In reason and understanding, man
is alone. At his all-conquering de-
cree, the forest that had stood for
ages steps aside to let him build his
cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which raved, and foamed upon the
race has become a crystal pathway
for commerce to marh on. The thun-
dercloud 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 lift!" "Come and draw"
"Come and help!'
And they answered.
GAY, AY, WE COME;
and they Joined hunds-the fire and
the wuter-and the shuttles fly, and
the rail train rattles on, and the
steamship comes coughing, painting,
flaming across the deep. He elevates
the telescope the physician hears the
movement OF thelung, theastronomer
catches the pulsation of distant sys-
TENS of worlds throbbing with life.
He takes the microscope and discovers
that there are hundreds of thousands
OF animalcula living, moving, work.
ing, dying within circle that could
be covered with the point OF a pin
animals to which rain drop would
be an ocean, q roseleaf q hemisphere,
and the flash OF a FREELY lasting enough
to give them light to several genera
tions.
~ take a step higher and look at a
image OF God. Vast capacity for
enjoyment; capable at first OF eternal
Joy, and though now disordered, still,
though the recupcrative force Of
heavenly grace, able to mount up to
more than its original felicity; facul-
ties that may blossom and bear fruit
inexhaustibly, Immortality written
upon every capacity; soul destined
to range in unlimited spheres OF act
ivity long after the world has put on
ashes and the solarsystem shall have
snapped it's axle, and the stars that,
in their courses, fought against Sisera,
the toling thunders OF the last day.
YOU SEE TlI..T GOD HAS ADAPTED.
erything o ourcomfort and advant-
age. Pleasant things for the palate;
music for the eur; beauty for the eye;
aroma 10" tine nostrils; kindred for
our affections; poetry for our taste;
religion !or Our souls. We are put in
agarden, and tod that from all the
trees we max eat except here and there
one. He gives the sun to shine on US,
and the water TO refresh us. and food
to siren i i,en us, and the herbs yield
medicine when we are sick, and the
fosssts lumber when we would build a
haase, or cross tie water i'll a ship.
Ike rocks a!e transported for our
foundation; and The metals upturned
for our currency; and the wild beasts
ts.:s must be t,,mnclcd to let us pass;
ara The fish OF lie sea come up in our
net; and the birds OF the air drop at
ts>s hash OF our guns; and the cattle
OF a thousand hills come down to give
US meat. For us the peach orchards
be:..d down their fruit, and the vine.
ys.rt:s their purple clusters. 10 feed
and refresh our intellects, ten thou.
sand wonders i'll nature and provi-
dencr-won,lers OF mind and body,
wonders oi earth, and air, and deer
analog:rs and nntii hrses; all color
and so':ml>; lyrics in the air; idyls In
the iirI'!: :rcnl'a.rations in the sunsetI
roles d mist on the mountains; and
the Grand March" OF God in the
storm.
But for the soul still higher adapta,
tion; a fountain in which ls may wash;
a ladder by which it may climb; a
song of endless triumph that it may
sing; crown Of unfading light that it
may Wear.
CHRIST CAME TO SAVE IT
came with cross on his back; came
with spikes in his feet; came when nc
one else would come, to do work
which no one else would do. See how
suited to mans condition is what
God has done for him! Man is a sin.
ner; here is pardon. He has lost Gods
image; Christ retraces it. He is help
less; Almighty grace is proffered. He
is a lost wanderer; Jesus brings him
home. He is blind; and at one touch
OF him who cured Bartimeus, eterna,
glories stream into his soul. Jesus,
sing thy grace! Cure of worst disease
Hammer to smite off heaviest chain
Light for thickest darkness! Grace
divine! Devils scoff at it, and men re
ject it, but heaven celebrates it!
l wish you good cheer for tn.
national health. Pcstilence, that ir
other years has come to drive out iti
thousand hearses to Greenwood anc
Laurel Hill, has not visited ou1
nation. 1t is a glorious thing to b,
well.
! wish you good cheer for henation
al harvest. Reaping machines never
swathed thickerrye, and dcorn-husker'l
peg never ripped out fuller ear, ant
mow-poles never bent down under
sweeter hay, and wind-mill's hopper
never shook out larger wheat. Lon,