The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-07
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cAil1 stood very still. watching me FeSs
within his hard. And once more a.
looked. the muTEauring q voices ran
through he pavement - ny tset. ana .sle
ANGELS az the gateways took 3 of1shtss
sSr.as.r as II the sun snote on them, and
al - wasts uttered a sound u praise
Thsr one stood beside me whose eyes
Rad my thoughts and o. him / aSAeG
what these things might mean
This IS the weird where life is forever
more ne answered Even IN tne.t WoFla
from which you jeaFusyed --Ana mere g
pointed % a sr7all star burning EsAA4S Al
the aDyss-"all things aved-
But ali things died. too said
They could NOT know death unless they
had first known IFS" he answered
Bat there was that we called animate
and that we called fnanimafe- The mower
OF the fsstd lived. but not as nan hFea.
and the dumb beast lived. but the beast
knew 10 trouble of the soul such as man
knew. By a lgure OF speech, ] went on,
now growing holder. IKE did sometimes
speak OF the leaves Of the forest as 4Ysns
ard dying. bur II was 4 mere metaphor.
They had no conscious life Ana II say
ing this. Il was the wonder ana the COR
tradiction ef these living walls that moved
my thoughts.
And VINO told YOU thate+' he said grave
" Did you think God SO sterile In IN
vention that he was able 10 give 10 man
alone the power of thinking ana OF ioN-
ing? Your wise men told you that mowers
had marriages; did they not also tell you
that flowers had thought Was there
nothing looked out OF the eyes OF DUMP
animals like that which looked from the
eyes of msn2 And why CAL them DUMB,
when il was plain they talked 10 one an
other. YOU perhaps seeming 10 them Just
what they seemed to yoa--dGmb also De-
cause they could not teach you their Ian
go IN
weed at daybreak or AZ nightfan and
hear the leaves speaking? Listen now 10
what you hear. ana say what II resent
bles"
And again the long sigh of life went
through all the place. marvelously like
the sound OF leaves innumeraole shaken
in a forest or OF little waves that talked
along a shore.
You hear" he said. God is not God
of the dead, but of the living. II is Of the
nature of God 10 abhor death. The very
walls and pillars OF this house are living
things that gladly serve him, the very
rivets OF the universe are alive, and have
his pulse In them"
And as the angel spoke my eyes fell be-
fore his glance so that once more l took
note of the pavement at my feet. And
straightway there came 10 me a memory
of how / had once looked down through
clear sea water in a little cove beside a
reef or corat. ana nad seen strange
things: for each instant fishes wonderful
in color. like pieces Of broken rainbow.
swan past: and what had seemed pulp
and sand stirred and took shape; and
great sea-howers opened silently and
closed again, as though they breathed.
and the seas bottom seemed a kingdom,
where a hundred cities in miniature ex-
listed. each one swarming with inhab-
itants And even so. looking down
through this translucent pavement. saw
forms and faces unnumbered. ever and
again floating near the surface. as 1t
might be called, that / withdrew my feet
for fear that / should inJure or dishonor
these submerged flowers of life.
"You marvel much at this" said the an
gel. ''yet In the world from which you
came all things were the same. Trees,
and flowers, and birds and the creatures
you called dumb. all had q spiritual form
and essence. To man God gave five senses
only: but there was sixth. which here
and there wise man possessed, by which
he saw the spiritual that dwelt always in
the earthly. Such men spoke in fables
only, and even then men of the five senses
thought them mad but when they said
they heard the spirit OF the tree lament
ing as the woodman's ak crushed through
the tender bark. or spoke Of fairies dwell