The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-02-27
Some Rambling Thoughts.
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B1 HEmO.
Possibly the reading of Rambling
Thoughts" last week, at those points
where they urge each of us to effort.
may really have tended toward a
contrary effect because OF very
common feeling of insufficiency for
great things. We must not feel
that way.
If we go out under the skies at
night and gaze up to the heavens
and reflect upon the huge bodies
that there are moving with resistless
force, and yet rhythmical order,
through space, bodies on which our
own round earth would scarcely be
more than a blotch il then we re-
fleet further that this earth is so
vastly greater than we, that we are
no more to the whole than a grain of
sand is to the output of quarry,
we shrink within ourselves and
recognize our puny insignificance.
A good dose OF this severe medicine
takes the boastfulness and Growing
out of most of us and we can spare
them, for If ever there were a roost.
er with throat of brass and II
larynx of platinum, he could hardly
keep up with some peoples self
satisfied noise and clatter. This
kind of belittlement is wholesome as
IL corrective, but no one lives and
thriyes morally if we are i'll n con-
stant state of shrink in your-shell-
and.c curl.up.
No follower of trembling pen
This Universe may be infinitely
great the Infinitely Great made it.
1t is also infinitely small in its de-
tails the Infinitely Microscopic Al.
mighty made it. The detail of nm
oyster is as wonderful in its adapt
ability. its evidences of forethought, |
its completeness, as is the detail of
tho planetary system. Nothing is
wasted around you, nothing too
small for attention. Then just as
necessary rs food is to us, so neccs-
sary may we be TO the whole body |
polite Your physician can demon
strate to you the effect upon the sys-
tenn of your various foods, some 60
ing to feed the brain, other to
the bones. other TO make
the finger nails, other to lengthen
the hair, and other to weaken and |
degenerate the body: just so posi-.
lively can the philosopher tell if the
civilization of to-day is being
strengthened or weakened by your
existence whether it were better
that you ad never beor born, or
"he.liel 40 longer you hvs is pro
]onged the better for your living is
the world that you tread as moral
monarch. No food can be entirely
without influence on the body that
absorbs it; no individual can be nil
in his influence.
Let us think no more of ourselves
than we ought to think but, for
Heaven 5 sake, don't let us think !
nothing of ourselves. Stop crying
to your heart that you are nobody, |
and be somebody. Nobody is every
body, but everybody may be some
body, filling some niche, carrying on
some work; iustifying the care and
wisdom that framed us and the Al
mighty Intelligence of whom we are
a part Naturally we cannot all do
the same thing. Old Paul knew
that. The toe cannot fix n collar
button, the heel cannot hold Il book
some of us are the downtrodden,
the heels aud toes of civilization, yet
we are rs essential to the whole as
steam is to an engine.
Let MS then stop star gazing and
shell-shrinking and get into gear. In
the physical world it ic demonstrat-
ed beyond peradventufe that matter
is indestructible. Why not equally
true that action and thought are in
destructible? ? The little coral insect
gathers around him his calcareous
cyst; he dies, but his work remains
others build it; he is literally buried
out of sight. Ages roll on and cor
al island, clothed with verdure, Il
gem of the Pacific, stands ready for
Nature-conquering man. Poor little
insect, away down below the surface,
nobody remembers you now, and
yet in your way you were essential
to the superstructure
SO it is worth while to repeat mo
individual can be nil in his influ-