Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-02

down the scale in both directions
adj ~anfnituna. Grand as this con-
ception of nature may appear to
our narrow minds, i. falls far short
Of her wonders, and gives only a
faint idea of her stupendous Crea~
tor. Would that some idea OF the
glory of the. works of our omnip,
otent and omnipresent Creator
could be infused into the minds Of
every living creature. Then no
longer would there be one who
doubted the existence Of a God.
There may be some difficulty in
imagining a molecuie to be any
thing like u earth, and as large
an object IS our stellar system to
be only a particle ; but it should
be remembered that s;ze is only a
relative term, and that, ii you
were gigantic enough to hold our
stellar system in your hand, you
would then wonder how it could be
composed of particles, inhabited By
beings, some Of whom pridcd them
selves on their size and strength.
Follow a little further the argu
meut, and let Ne regard all around
Us in the broad light of this theory.
For aught we know to the contrary,
when we heat an object or dissolve
a substance, we may at that
moment be destroying countless
races If living beings. And who
shall say that, if such minute
creatures exist, they have no souls?
Where is the mar that has attained
to knowledge SO profound as this ?
Yet the Creator of all--pigmies
and giants, worlds and systems, and
space-sees and judges, and cares
for all.
When we contemplate nature,
. riness never overtakes ue, and
it only grieves us that a limit is
put to our Investigations; but we
are solaced by the thought that
when we have Him, the Creator,
for a preceptor, our knowledge
shall be limitless as the universe.
Truly the German poet, Richter,
has spoken we'll in those wonder
full words which the English prose
poet, DeQuincey, has SO nobly
translated. His splendid vision
aptly expresses the feebleness of
mans conception in the presence
Of the infinite wonders of creation :
"God called up from a dream a
man IN the vestibule Of Heaven,
saying Come thou hither and
see the glory OF My house.. And
to the angels which stood around
His throne He said Take him,
strip him from the robes Of flesh,
cleanse his vision, and put a new
breath in his nosfrils, only touch
not within any change of his
human heart-;he heart that weeps
and trembles !! 1t was done, and
with a mighty angel for his guide,
the mar stood ready for his initiate
!, voyage and from the terrace OF
, Heaven, without sound or fare
, well, at once they whirled away
into endless space. Sometimes.
with the solemn flight of angel
, wings,they passed through Zaharas
of darkness, through wildernesses
of death that divides the worlds
r OF life ; sometimes they swept owe,
i, frontiers that were quickening
under prophetic motions from
; God. Then from a distince which
, is counted only in the Heavens
light dawned for a while through g
shapeless film; by u~nutterable pace
3 the light swept to them-they by
! unutterable pace to the light. In
a moment the rushing of planets
was upon them. Then came
, eternities Of twilight that revealed
r but were not revealed. On the
t fright hand and on the left lowered
D mighty consultations, that by self.
t repetition and answers from afar
r that by counter positions built III
A.. triumphal gates, whose architraves
: whose alchways, horizontal, up
! right, rested, rose at attitude BY
|. spans that seemed ghostly from
infnitude, Without measure were
g the architraves, past number were
the archways, beyond memory thu
O Pates. Within were stairs tina
-sca!ed the eternities around; above
$ was below and below was above tx
i the man stripped of gravitatins
body. Depth was swallowed NJ
in height insurmountable; heigh
p Twas swallowed mp in depth I'm
fathomable. Suddenly, as thu
Q they rode from infinite to infinite:
e suddenly, as they tilted. owe
abysmal worlds, a mighty or,