Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-23
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8Put forth claw and sting an0r
---esk. Birds whet their beak for prey
Clouds troop in the sky. Sharp thorns
shoot up through the soft grass Blastings
on the leaves. All the chords of that great
harmony are snapped. Upon the brightest
horne this world ever saw our first parents
turned their back and led forth on a path
of sorrow the broken hearted myriads of a
ruined race.
Do you not see, in the first place, the dan
ger Of u poorly regulated inquIsitiveness?
She wanted to know how the fruit tasted.
She found out. but 5000 years have deplored
that unhealthful curiosity. Healthful curl
oSity has done n great deal for letters for
art, for science and for religion. 1t has
gone down into the depths of the earth
with the geOlogist and seen the first chap
ter Of Genesis written in the book of nature
Illustrated with engraving on rock and il
stood with the antiquarian while he blew
the trumpet of resurrection over buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii, until from their
sepulcher there came up shaft and terrace
and amphitheater. Healthful curiosity has
enlarged the telescope vision of the as
tronomer, until worlds hidden in the dis
tant heavens have trooped forth and have
Joined the choir praising the Lord; pla let
weighed against planet and widest comet
lassooed with Respondent law. Healthful
curiosity has gone down and found the
tracks OF the eternal God In the pOlypi
and the starish under the sea and the
under the gorgeous curtains of the dahlia
1t has studied the spots on the sun and
the larva in beech leaf, and the light un-
der firetiy's wing, and the terrible eye
glance OF condor pitching from Chin
borazo. 1t has studied the myriads of ami
maiculR that make up the phosphorescence
in a ships wake and the mighty maze of
suns and spheres and consultations and
HalaXies that blaze on in the march of God.
Healthful curiosity has stood by the inven-
tor, until forces that were hidden for ages
come to wheels and levers and shafts and
shuttles-forces that fly the air or swim
the sea or cleave the mountain until the
earth jars and roars and rings and crackie
and booms with strange mechanism, and
ships with nostrils of hot steam and yokes
Of fire draw the continents together.
1 say nothing against healthful curl
osity. May ii have other Leyden jars. and
other electric batteries, and other voltaic
piles, and other magnifying glasses. with
which to storm the barred castles of the
natural world until ii shall surrender its
last secret. We thank God for the geological
curiosity of Professor Hitchcock, and the
mechanical curiosity OF Liebig, AMI the
geological curiosity of Cuyier, and the in
ventive curiosity OF Edison but We must
admit that unheathful and irregular in
quisitiveness has rushed thousands and
tens of thousands into ruin.
Eve Just tasted the fruit. She was
curious 10 Hnu Out now IL tdSttu- anu tiG
curiosity blasted her and blasted al
nations. SO there are clergymen in this
day inspired bp unhealthful inquisitive-
ness who have tried to look through the
keyhole of Gods Observation-Disclosures that
were barred and boited from all human in
spection-aDd they have wrenched their
whole moral nature out oil Joint by trying
to pluck fruit from branches beyond their
reach. OF have come out on limbs of the
tree from which they have tumbled into
ruin without remedy. Athousand trees oi
religious knowledge from which We may
eat and get advantage, but from certain
trees of mystery how many have pluck ed
| their ruinl Election, free agency trinity
| resurrection-in the discussion of these
| subjects hundreds and thousands of people
| ruin the soul. There are men who actually
I have been kept out of the kingdom o.
heaven because they could not understand
who Melchisedec was not.
| Oh, how many have been destroyed b.
an unheaithfui inquisitivenessl 1t is seei
in all directions. There are those wh,
stand with the eye stare and mouth gape o
curiosity. They are the first TO hear
| fa,.'.a, Cd, build it another story high an
| adj tyo wings to 1t. Aboutother people
apparel about other peoples business
about other peoples financial condition
| about other peoples affairs, they are owe,
! anxious. Every nice piece of gossi
| stops at their door, and they fatten an
Mxuriate in the endless found Of the gref
world OF little tattie. They invite an
samptuous;y entertain Mt their hous
Colonel Twiiiie aud Esquire Chitchat an
Governor Snaiitaik. Whoever hath an in
nuendo, whoever hath a scandal, wboeve
iath valuable secret, let him come an
| sacrifice it to thi= goddess OF splv. 81
| Thousands of Adams and Ewes do notnin
but eat fruit that does not belong I
them. Men auits,well known as mathema
Z ticiS& Ms cOmput2tiOn OF mora