Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-05

ders OF our physical organization we would
be hypochondriacs, fearing every moment
that some part of the machine would break
down. But there are men here who have
lived through seventy years and not a nerve
has ceased to thrill or a muscle to contract,
OF lung to breathe or hand to mauipu-
late
mental constitution. Behold the beney-
oience OF TO | in powers OF perception, as the
faculty of transporting this outside world
into youc own Misunderstanding into your
brain tbs majesty of the storm and the
splentor Of the day diwa. AMI lifting into
your mind the ocean as easily as you might
put glass OF water to your lips.
Watch the law Of association, or the mys-
ferrous linking together OF all you ever
thought or knew or felt, aud then giving you
the power to take hold OF thu clew line and
draw throu gh your mini the long train with
lndescriba1la yelocity-one thought starting
up hundred and this again a thousani-as
tae chirp of one bril- sometimes wakes
whole forest of voices, or the thrun OF one
string will rouse an orch sstra.
Watch your memorv-th it sheaf binder.
that goes forth to gather the harvest o. the
past and bring it into the present. Your
power and velocity of acknowledgements OF
the swift wing ami the lightning foot;
thought that outSpeeds the star and circles
through the heavens and weighs worlds,
aud, fro n posing amid wheeling c1nstella-
tons, comes down to count the blossoms in
tuft OF mignonette, then starts again to try
the satho uing of tue botto Mess and the
scaling of the insurmountable to be swal-
lowed up in the incomprehensible and lost in
God!
In reason and understanding man is alone,
The OK SURPRISES MIN in Strength the ante
lope IN iced, the hound in keeunass OF nos.
9g-il flRsaa f0t-
bit in qaie.;ness OF hearing the honey bee
in delicacy of tongue, the spider in fnaness
of toucd. Mans power, therefore, consist
eth not i'll wnat he can lift, or how fast he
eau run, or how strong a wrestler he can
throw-for in these respects the OK. tne os.
trich and ths hyena are his superiors-5ut
by his reason he comes forth to rule all;
through his ingenious contrivance to outrun,
outfit, outwrestle. outsae, outhear outdc.
At his all conquering decree the forest
that has stood for ages step aside to let him
build his cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which has raved and foamed upon the
race has become a crystal pathway for coln-
merce to march on. The thunder cloud that
slept lazily above the mountain is made to
come down AMI carry mail bags Man, dis
satisfied with his slowness of advancement.
shouted to the water and the fire, Come
and iiftw Come AMI drawn Come and
helpH And they answered, AYE, aye We
come and they joined hands-the fire and
water-aud the shuttieS iiy, and the rail
train rattles on, AMI the stea nship comes
coughing, painting, flaming across the deep.
lie elevates tae telescope to the heavens,
and as easily as through the stethoscope the
physician hears the movement of the lung,
the astronomer catches the pulsation of diff
ferent systems of worlds throbbing with
life. He takes the microscope, and discoy-
ers that there are hundreds OF thousands Of
animalcu'R living, moving, working, dying
within a circle that could be covered with
the point OF pin-animals to which rain
drop would be an ocean, rose leaf hemi.
sphere, and this fash OF a FREELY lasting
enough to give them light to several genera
tionS.
] take step higher and look at mans
moral nature. Made in the image of God
Vast capacity for enjoyment; capable at first
of eternal joy, ami though now disoriered,
still, through the Operative force of
heavenly grace, able TO mount uD to more
than its original felicity; faculties that may
blossom snd bear fruit inexhaustibly. I'm
mortality written upoa every capacity: a
sonl destiuet to range in unlimited snheras
of activity long after the world has put on
ashes. AMI the solar system shall have
snapped its axle, and tae stars that in their
courses, fought against Sisera, shall have
been slain and buried amid the toling
thunders of the last day.
You see that Col 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 Tor our soul. We are put in
a garden, and told that from all the trees
we may eat, except here aud there one.
He gives the sun to shine on us, and the
waters to refresh us, and food to strengthen
us; and the herds 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 upGurned for our cur
rency, and wild beasts must give US cover
ing, and the mountains must be tuuuslei
to let us pass. and the fish of the sea come
up in our net, and the birds of the air drop
at the fash 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
i feed and refresh our intellect ten thou
sand wonders in nature and providence
wonders OF mini AMI body, wonders OF
earth and air, and deep analogies and anti
theses, all colors and sounds lyrics in the
air, idyls in the field, confa yrations in the
sunset, robes OF mist On the mountains aud
the Grand March Of God in the storm.
But for tho soul still higher ade- tat.on,
fountain in which it may wash; ladder
by which it may climb a song of endless
triumph th1* it may sing, crown of I'M
fading light that it may wear. Christ came
to save it-came with a cross on His bacz;
came with soiSes 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 what God has done for him.
Man is a sinner; here is pardon. He has
lost COTS image; Christ retraces it. He is
he p.ess; Almighty grace is proifere1 He is
a lost wanderer; Jesus bring him home He
s blind, and at one touch of Hi II who cured
Bar5imeus, eternal glories stream into his
sou. Jesus sing Thy grace! Cure of worst
disease! Hammer to smite of heaviest
chain! Light for thickest darknessi Gracs
divinel Devils scoff at it AMI men reject it,
hutheaven celebrates It'll
visa you good cheer for the national
health. Pestilence that in other years has
CONS to drive out its THOUSAND hesrses to
GREENWOOD and Laurel Hill, has not visited
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 sli ping of foot or
the falling of a tree branch might fatally
assault our If. Regularly the lungs WORK.
and their mo ton seems to be a spirit within
us painting after its immortality. Our sight
fills not. though the air is so full of objects
which by one touch could break out the
SouPs winio What ship, after years
tossing on the SCI, could come in with so
little IA mage as ourselves, though we arrive
after years voyage to-day.
wish you good cheer for tha national har-
vest. Reapiug machines never swathed
thicNerrye ami corn husksr's peg never ripped
out fuller ear, an NOW poles never bent
down under sweater hay, and windmilpS
hopper never shook out larger wheat. Long
tr inS OF white covered wagons have brought
the wealth down to the great tn orou ghfares
The gamers are full the StorehouseS are
overcrowde1. the canals are blocked with
freights pressing down to markets. The cars
rumbie all through the darkness and whistle
up the fiagnan at dead of night to let the
western haryests come down to feed the
mouths of the great cities. A race-of kings
has taken possession OF this land-King Cot
ton, King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice,
King Grass, King Coal,
wish you good cheer for civil and relig-
ious liberty. No official spy watches our en-
trance here, nor does an armed soldier inter
fere with the honest utterance of truth. We
stand here to-day with our arms free TO
work aud our ton ,ues free to speak. This
6ioe-it is all unclaspeI. This pulpit-there
is no chain around ABOUT it. There is no
swapping OF muske.ry in the street. Blessed
je Go1 that to-day we are free men, with the
prospect and deter nination of always being
free. No established reiigion-Jew and Gem
tile, Arminian AMI Calvinist, Triutarian and
Unitarian, Protestant ant Roman Catholic
on tue same footing.
II persecution should coma against the
most unpopular of all the sacts, | believe
that all other denominations would band to-
gether and arm themselves aud heart would
be stout. an blood would bs fra, and the
right of men to worship Col according to
the Dictates of their consciences would be
contestei at the point of the bayonet, and
with blood flowing up to the bits of the