The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-12-04

on. The thundercloud that slept lazily
above the mountain is made to come
down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
satisfied with his slowness of advance
ment, shouted to the water and the
fire: Come and lift" Come and
draw" "Come and hell And they
answered, GAY, ay; we Gomez And
they Joined hands-the fire and the
water-and 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 pulsation of distant systems
of worlds throbbing with life. He takes
the microscope and discovers that there
are hundreds of thousands of animal
cule living, moving, working, dying
within circle that could be covered
with the point of a pin-animals to
which raindrop would be an ocean,
a rose leaf hemisphere and the flash
of FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
MANS MORAL NATURE.
/ take step higher and look at
mans moral nature. Made in the I'M
age of God. Vast capacity for enjoy
ment; capable at first of eternal Joy,
and though now disordered, still
through the recuperative 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 reign in unlimited spheres Of activ-
ity long after the world has put on
ashes, and the solar system 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 every
thing 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 affec-
lions, 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 ship.
The rocks are transported for our
foundation, and metals upturned for
our currency, and wild beasts must
give us covering, 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 thou
sand 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
idyls 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 adapta
tion-a fountain in which it may wash
a ladder by which it may climb; song
of endless triumph that it may sing; g
crown of unfading 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 work which
no one else would do See how suited
to mans condition is what God ha,
done for him! Man is sinner; here il
pardon. He has lost Gods image
Christ retraces it. He is helpless; AL
mighty grace is proffered. He is a los,
wanderer; Jesus brings him home HI
is blind; and at one touch of him who
cured Bartilneus eternal glories stream
into his soul. Jesus, l sing thy grace
| Cure of worst disease! Hammer tt
smite off heaviest chain! Light To-
thickest darkness! Grace divinel Devil
scott at it and men reject it, bu
heaven celebrates til
HEALTH, PLENTY AND LIBERTY.
wish you good cheer for the nation
al health. Pestilence, that in othe
years has come to drive out its thou
sand hearses to Greenwood and Laure
Hill, has not visited our nation. 1t i
glorious thing to be we'll How
strange that we should keep our healtl
when one breath from a marsh, or tn
sting of an insect, or the slipping of I
foot, or the falling of tree brancl
might fatally assault our life Regular
ly the lungs work, and their motion
seems to be spirit within us painting
after its Immortality. Our sight fail
b iOtr thOuSu tilC on 10 81 VI ObJCtt
which by one touch could break on
the souls window. What ship, after
years tossing on the sea, could come il
with so little damage as ourselves
though we arrive after a years voyag
todayl
| wish you good cheer for the ma
tional harvest. Reaping machine
never swathed thicker rye, and cor
husker's peg never ripped out fulle
ear, and NOW poles never bent dow
under sweeter hay, and windmill's hoI
per never shook out larger wheat
Long trains of white covered wagon
have brought the wealth down to tn
great thoroughfares. The gamers ar
full, the storehouses are overcrowded
the canals are blocked with freight