The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-24
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How complicate, how wonderful is man
How passing wonder He. who made him sue
Who centred in our make such strange
tremes.
From different natures marvellously mixed,
Connection ex.. uisite Of distant worlds
Distinguish link in beings endless chain!
Midway from nothing to the Deity!
beam ETHEREAL, sully'd, and absorpt!
Tho sully'd, and dishonour'd, still divinel
Dim miniature OF greatness absolute!
An heir Of gloryl frail child Of DUST
Helpless immortal! insect infinite
worm god
when GOODNESS wraps the suffering ella
All! whittier; strays the immortal mind
1t cannot die, 1t cannot stay,
But leaves its darken'd dust behind
As evening grows on apace an
'leaves the world to darkness and t
me-" the mind enwrapped in though
dwells with peculiar interest upon tn
sentiments INDUCED in by maste
minds, conscieved so in accordance
with nature and expressed so unsteady
as to live forever. Our mind disencum
bered with mortal entanglements rise.
at will into the sublime, grand and vas,
realms of broad conception. We fee
the inspiration of the hour. We, a poor,
frail, isolated human being in all this
mighty expanse of creations upon H.
limitable creations dare 10 commune
with nature aud revel in the infinite.
We view the beautiful starry vault Of
heaven and imagination asks how many
worlds upon worlds beyond the cerulean
blue of cur sky is in the incompreh en-
sible, fathomless beyond. Our heart
pulsates. We breathe, our eyes behold,
and our brain endeavors to conceive the
glory. immensely, system, harmony,
of creations endless,
mystic work, but we recoil baffled,
confused, reeling from the task, and
give thought to our own planet, upon
which as nomadic speck we are being
whirled at such great velocity in
safety, although we are sitting quietly
in our own special, quiet little country
study. Pondering slowly, we again
give wings to our fancy, and are lost in
and admiration when contem-
plating our own planet We see how
Systematically night follows day, and
season season, without discord. error,
Jar or mistake. How our senses for
sake the realms of the brain in sleep,
ret the pulses uncousciously move and
respiration continues and reason re.
turns How the waters continue to
low and the ocean never goes dry.
How the snow never melts on our lofty
peaks and the air never
grows too hot or cold for existence.
How the earth is so full of gold, silver,
copper, brass, iron, coal and oil stored
here, SO deep, so safe, so inexhaustible
md so many myriads upon myriads of
vears ago for mans use. How the
guanodon pleiosaurus, ichthyosaurus,
yreat antideluvian fossils are found i'm
oedded in our earth. How the great
nastodon stands to-day in the Siberian
ce-bound earth. just rs fresh and with
he hair still on him as when he
,rowsed upon tropical heritage. cast in
outline as was the Roman
entinel in the lava-buried cities of
and,Pompeii. How the
majestic and mysterious lightniugs
lash aud dart athwart the skies. car
ying terror, dismay and destruction 10
heir wake, yet tamely by man for his
Use. How the rafting, reverberating
md intonatings of the mighty thunder
oils along the skies and jars the |
mighty earth, and the resistless cyclone
ike a bosom of destruction sweeps the
.lobe in its terrific fury, while we poor
nortals stand awe-stricken like hum
lie pigmies in the presence OF God in
lis majesty, an evidence of his mighty
lower. The brain, the mysterious
rain, the throne of mans reason, tow
ring as it does above all other ANNA
ed nature in the scope and power of
Is workings, wearied, recoils upon it.
elf, and in its utter helplessness seeks
he mystic realms of slumber.