The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09
BEAUTY.

written about this most attractive OF
subjects, the half has not yet been told.
Searching for it, travellers explore
the mountains, traverse the plains,
follow the courses of rivers to their
sources, where bubblir g springs gush
forth, and bubbling brooks leap from
rock to rock, and rainbows dance in
the rising mist.
The adventurer with his torchlight
revels amid the fantastic scenery
found in the caves that conceal so
much of natures hidden beauty.
The diver descends the ocean depths
seeking the pearls on it's bed. The &C.
ologist secs wonders which the IN.
taught eye sees not. The botanist sees
beauty in the tiny howers which the
microscope reveals.
There are treasures of beauty in the
snow and ice, in the rain and hail.
Insect life is full Of beauty. In the
higher forms of life, beauty is seen in
tho silky hair, the gay feathers, the
beaming eye, the symmetrical form
and the graceful carriage.
The beautiful harmonies of music de
light the soul as nothing else can They
reach the innermost chambers of the
heart, and wake emotions that lie slum
bering there.
The true poet lives in a world of
beauty, and his poems give us glimpses
- H. olo~So- -LSoL ,---o,,-I LS~o
Music is said to be the poetry of sound,
but, to me, it is the counterpart of
p etry, for the two r so closely allied
by nature that they often go together.
Art CLOVIS with the ideal forms of
beauty which live and grow in the soul
of the painter or sculptor.
Music, poetry and art are SO init
mately connected with the truest,
purest, sweetest and best sentiments
that dwell in the human heart, that
thinking of them naturally leads us to
contemplate the living beauty of those
whose lives are governed by the sweet
influences of those things which are in
themselves beautiful.
There is no doubt that the prevailing
emotions so govern the expression of
the features, that, as the face grows in
size it exhibits more or less of beauty,
according to the kind Of feelings which
are allowed to govern the thoughts,
words and actions of boy or girl.
Old age and the cares of life do not
destroy the beauty that illumines the
face of a good old man or woman. We
gaze with delight on their gray hair
and wrinkled features, because we
know that the soul that lives within,
is full of gentleness and love, and the
beauty of holiness shines with a living
light that others can see.
When the morning sun gilds the east
with rosy light, a scene of wonderous
beauty meets the eye. Again, when
he is sinking behind the western hills,
his last rays softened by light, hazy
clouds, a fl cd of celestial glory seems
to stream Owe all things terrestrial.
The bosom of night sparkles with
myriads of gems, each gem, a sun or
planet.
If, to our eyes the ''footstool' of our
King is so decked with beautiful things
and the foor of heaven" so gorgeous
in its dazzling beauty, what must be
the beauty of the Paradise of G)G7
In the paradise where Adam dwelt,
grew every tree that was pleasant to
the sight and good for food" In the
heavenly paradise is the tree Of life,
whose leaves are f r the healing of the
nations" There is the city of pure gold
and it's walls of jasper, with gates Of
pearl and foundations of precious
stones. There the lily of the valley
and the rose of Sharon bloom together,
there are apples of gold in pictures of
silver. The blood washed dWellers
there are clothed in linen pure and
white, crowns of gold are on their
heads, and in their hands are palms Of
vi;tory and harps of gold. A rainbow
Of everlasting peace encircles the
throne, and the river of life flows
through the green pastures into the
crystal sea.
If now the sweet harmonies of music
are so charming to u ears, what will
it be to listen to the songsof the b essed,
their harps tuned to the octaves Of
heaven, voice after voice taking up the
strain until the glorious anthem like a
mighty Ccao rolls from peak to peak of
the everlasting hills forever and for