The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-06-16

ter.
Wise babbler. thou disclosest
naugflt. save what my own ex-
perienee has taught me. To
which the Genius of the Past
rejoined.
II experience has taught thee
50 much WHY not profit by Its
lessons, and limit thy researches
10 the study Of thy race and the
material universe9
Why bend thy curious gazt
beyond the circle destined foi
the employment ofthy finite pow
ers2 Perfect myself in obtama-
bile knowledge. and thou will
thus more efficiently answer
the purpose of thy present be
ing. than by overStraIng thy ia
entities 10 comprehend the unat
tainable. which is no doubt wise
IN withheld TO be lnfOlded IN
higher grade OF being. Thou can
It not conceive of spiritual eXis
tence without draping them with
material habiliments. Nay, thou
canst not conceive of anything,
without giving it outline III
shape and form; to do so, Is a
mental nnpossibility with mortals
so Intimately are they allied
with earth. that its dust settles
on all of their conceptions. Flow
ers are the beauties of thy exist
ing world and seemleSs earthly
than all other material Objects
yet they are but glowing earth.
and when summer is gone, where
are they They fade wither and
then turn to mould. Birds seem
most spiritual, when, ON gayest
wiring they cleave the air, OF
perched on spray make the
grove musical, yet they are but
earth and TO earth they return
The bow In the clouds, beautiful
rs il is. is but evanescent mist
or falling shower illumined by
solar rays.
Stars. nights jewelled Gems.
are oft obscured by clouds and
mists; and all Of creation Is
doomed to constant vicpSSltud-
es. olatna. somewhat Inundated
by the vision with which at that
moment he was engrossed re
piled: >
Man is curiously constituted
armed to sweep from his mental
Sky every cloud and shadow of
skepticism which fits across the
disc Of his understanding Moth
i sodistinct to his perceptions.
that no NOTES float between the
objects discerned and his mental
vision. He walks under a cloud
treading the dim twilight of the
Future, without dreaming what
events the rambling car of Time
as it dashes onward. shall start
mp from their beds of repose.-
The realities of today are rolled
and crowded into yesterday. dis
solvngi themselves into shadows
andtypeS of things that were
and can never be again. Into on
vast cavern at the mouth OF
which thou standest sentinel. o
Genius of the Past are stored all
that our beloved race has ever
achieved
Look forward yung man. said
the Genius somewhat modified,
by the concessions contained in
Olatha 5 speech, look up the
sireamof time to the origin of
thy race and witness, the tide
of generations as they have fol
lowed, one after another into my
vast cavern. Look and learn. for |
in il is stored all the wisdom, as |
well as all the follies of thy |
race 4 behold cried Ola |
tina, the multitndiroS dead stand
ing in shadowy statuary. chsiek
ed in unsubstantial farms rang |
row after row in unreasonable |
lengths. / behold the whole
race. with few EXCEPTIONS pur-
suing the beaten track of sor-
iidneSs and extreme selfishness.
The turbid mass rolls on i'll slug
gish current, pursuing objects rs
perishing and asfleeting as their
,wn breath They gather, and
heap around them the treasures
Of earth. wasting their energies,
md vigor in their accumulation
ill with haggard gaze at their
they are cut down
~ the reaper. Time. who hnrls |
hem from their cherished idols
nto thy vast receptacle. Gen
.rations succeed generations, and |
tet their successors learn nothingI