The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-10
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There "a a God All living things demand
The constant succOr Of some guardian hand:
The smallest fow'r that by our pathway blooms
Exncts It's sustenance, yet none consumes;
Each mortal thing within Itself contains
A magnet force which outward force sustains;
II was not, Is not, In itself complete
Tho made with all hfe's attributes replete;
From something else than IT, tho high or low
Tnat thing derives the strength which makes
Dependent thus upon some higher pow'r,
The doctrine OF its death lives not the hour;
II self-created, self sustained 'twould be-
A thing unlike the heavens earth or sea,
From outward force receives the vigor spent;
Within itself IL were pathless clod--
Becoming more II must depend on-God
The earth derives its food from sea and sky,
And, self dependent. in itself would die;
The very ocean is the unit whole
OF all the streams that to its bosom roll;
Earth Is dependent on the pow'r IL gives,
And by and with and thro' It's succor lives;
The sea, In turn, depends upon the earth.
And so reelaims what there impaired birth.
The inter-dependence OF all sepeTate things
Proves one dependable, 10 which each clings;
One on the other could not long rely
Were there not something to at first supply;
That Something on whose pow'r all things de-
pend
Must be indeed the starting and the end
Inhnity-tne universal Womb
The Mother and the Manna--and the Tomb
Thus infinite the pow'r that all things makes
Becomes omnlPotent. and gives and takes;
Sunice 10 know-n is Divinity
The blushing rose comes forth By magic laws
Revealing Beauty, but not Beauty's cause:
We breathe its fragrance watch its little hour,
Yet learn no cause nor reason for the ffOW'r;
II has beauty which inspires the heart.
And doth our sense OF loVeliness impart;
Death can alone its tint of beauty dull
The Cause OF creating must be beautiful
Since life and color in its petals blend,
OF such It's made-so being, so must end;
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The source supplying must be likewise fair;
The thing designed-crested-cann well
The great Creator Of Designs excel;
Behind the blossom there is something more
The Cause conceptive must have lived before
There is God. Grim Chance may rule the spot
Where Madness rampant runs, and God is not.
Creations symmetry, all things designed,
Proclaim the presence of Master Mind;
Having created or conceived this Plan,
The Mind becomes the Master OF the Man;
Shaping the substance and supplying life,
II must supply the reason for his strife;
For, without reason, Madness would remain.
And Madness, without reason. could not reign.
Having no cause, nor purpose, to create,
Chaos alone would govern Gods estate;
Chaos, If King. eliminates all Cause,
And Chance. blind idiot. would respect no laws;
Being supreme. sans mind. or pow'r, or soul,
What shall be left these systems 10 control
n ChdEee Created this all perfect Plan,
There stiH remains God-and that is. Man
Man, in himself becomes the highest pow'r.
Tho but the passing creature of an hour;
Self made, self-raised, senwilled TO self
supply,
Consumption follows and creations die
Perpetual motion is beyond the mind
II would be self-dependent il designed.
Therefore is not. nor can be, for all earth
Relies upon the substance OF its birth,
One thing upon another, each on all.
Else every orb from solar systems fall.
Our inter dependence with the Unit-Whole
Makes each allied with that Creative soul,
And gives 10 each an entity which lives
In one collective Mind that takes and gives.
We are portion of the soul and sod,
A kin to earth and yet part of God
Dependent ever on the Father Force
Which shapes our substance and controls our
course;
Man thus becomes an Individual god,
Tho but himself an animated clod.
One. sans the other could no powr control
The death of either would remove the Whole
The mind OF man. tho banished by breath.
Must needs survive the SeemingnesS of death.
II dissolution should destroy one part,
The Mind supplying could no more impart:
Death must replenish. or the source OF birth
Consumes itself, and life consumes the earth.
II death gives back the fractions of the Whole
There can be but One Etemal Soul;
This being true. 1 care not what the name
To One go, for from the One came.
Man has but Que identity. All life
Is with a same and single essence rife;
We differ but in details. Glass and clan
Are merely institutions OF the man.
The world of physics Is the work OF clay,
But all alike come from common mass
Whose first condition will permit no class.
Our elemental substance is the same
Despite the metamorphoSis or name;
Man. brute aud dow'r OF common earth are born.
And, dying, are OF differences shorn;
Earth is the true identity of all
Which Mind doth into shape or meaning call;
IL is the Mother and the first design,
Hence its identity, in part, is mine
All rivers have their unit-that. the sea;
All streams are one, and thOu art part of me
What tho our lives in one direction roll =
Death shall replace the fractions Of the Whole,
We are a part and parcel OF that Mind
With one identity-the mother-kind;
Hence all the shapes which round us soar or
Are fellow-fraotions of the mighty All.
Mere't not for death, naught but the dead
Death takes a part of what the whole mus,
Living or dead, our sU0stdHes is the same
The parts component must survive the tiame
No pow'r is found in Nothing. Life's strange
The grand assimilation OF its force
Exists In carnal matter E'en the Mind
OF latent, subtle substance is designed
All things not substance can be naught but nil
Pow'r Is material tho in man or mill;
'Tis an adjustment of the molecules,
Produced by that great Mind which all things
Hence Mind is pow'r and every Thought Thino
Which will its curse or blessing take or bring.
Our mem'ry is the mirror Of the mind,
Where every deed leaves its effect defined;
Deeds are the shadows OF the inner soul
Which doth our actions by the mind control;
Hence Mind is master Of our lot and fate,
With all the pow'r and wisdom TO create.
Man is the moulding of his mind-a deed
Self-perpetrated thro' a self made need;
He comes like chance. like water from the sea,
Bur cause ana reason must behind him be:
Why then did God create for him a causet-
Conditions make, themselves, providing laws
What Nature. or Condition. may desire,
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What mauy minds in one accordance will,
Their wishes or desires fulhns
Where many trees or gardens deck the earth.
There is no drouth. or other want, or dearth.
The desert may be arid. Lack OF life
Admits no element of need or strife.