The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-05-26

Iy pure, and untainted with the
stencil and decay of therubbish,
and refuse which boasted Time
has hurled into my capacious
nav as thou art pleased to
term. And yet thou spokest truth
fully. for the rubbish and refuse
Of Time deserves no higher con-
sideratiOn than to be crammed in
to my NAV, and well for it thy
race, if my NAV could digest,
and obliterate the trash.
Cease thy babblings, hoary-
headed hoarder,'' exclaimed Ola
tina incemed; mortal though /
am, yet a something stirs with
in me, which whispers that l am
link in the chain of that eter-
nal duration which spans thy
realm, possesses the Present, and
reaching INFO the Future is fast
ened to the throne of some in
visible supreme being, whose ON
aipotence upholds the universe.
My father, the wise and renOwn-
ed Montezuma, wOrships him I'M
der the symbol of Fire. l adopt
his religion, and give to that be-
ing such attributes as | deem
la God should possess. Whence
come these reverential feelings
these hopes and desires for eter-
nal duratione and why these
yearnings draw me, daily, near
ar and nearer to anternal be-
ing If | am only dust. and no.
thing but mortal, inflated NOR
tai, as thou art pleased tocall me
tell thee, hoarv headed boast
er, thou mayst swallow up my
earthly senses, and in thy cow
ard NAV digest them. obliterate
| them even, for aught ] care, but
| the sacred spark of divinity,
| which stirs within me, holds the
Present as its birth right. rumi-
mates the Past, with view to
comprehend the Future, and re-
CARDS thee and thine, all that
thou gloatest over, as merely an
cillary to its higher destiny.
With that sacred spark. of
which thou speakest. | have no.
thing TO do, replied the Genius
My office is to arrange in me-
thodical order all and everything
which rolls into my store house.
If it holds the Present as its
birth right, as thou averest. and
never falls behind, but ever trav-
els with the Present as the Pre-
sent travels ever encroaching on
the Future, yet never diminish
ing its immensely, that portion
Of thee can never be mine.
| know my power, and / was
aot against the law of my being
Thou wouldst know more, and in
the lustt of thy inordinate desire
to know too much, thou mayst
fail to learn that which it is thy
duty to know, that which is now
placed within the compass Of thy
infinite powers
| The impetuous Olatha would
have retorDd. had not another
scene burst npon his vision, and
he exclaimed: 20 Genius, thy
mirror discloses to my view, a.
never ending vista extending mp
ward and upward, along the end
les pathway of an immensely OF
eternities, piled mp in thy vast
and boundless cavern. o. Great
Spirit, God of my wis and rec
n0wned father. who sitst enthon-
ed a Divinity in the bright pal
aces of the glowing sun, where
was thy habitation before the
sun was created? for my vision
reaches far back era in past
duration when even thou gloriou
sun did not exist. Darkness. the
thickest darkness, like ebon night
covers the illimitable deep, and
checks my curious gaze. hear
thee cbnckle again Genius Of the
Past, and well thou mayst, since
thy infinite mirror Is powerless
to penetrate where mortal as /
am, | would push my intrepid vi
SION, and pry into the secrets of
that inscrntable abysm.
VAN and senitive mortal, if
thou art what thou claimst to
be. an inheritor of the Divine af-
flatns. rejoined the Genius. "a
partaker of the ethereal essence
OF immortality. destipd to a new
er ending future, what hast thou
lost Of the mighty past is seal
eds knowst thon not that there
are more things hidden in the