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Show TnE VIRGINIA ScAFFOLD. RE.\R on high t11e scntT<lld nllarl nll thr world will turn to sco n ow n man has tlnrNI to sufl'l.1r thnt hil'! l>mthcr may l!o frrl' I ]tear it 011 some hill-side lool.lng North, nntl oulh, and Jo:nst, nnd 'Yest, 'Yhero tho wind from cvrry qnartor fresh mny blow upon hi:1 bronst, And tho suu look down uushndcd from tho chill DccemlH•r slcy, Qlad to shine upon the lloro who for J<'rcodom dared to diol .All tho ,vorld will turn to !H'O him ; from the pines of wnve-wnshed Mnin• To tho ~olden rhcrs rolliug ovt•r Cnliforuin's plain; And from clcnr Superior's Wl\tcrs whore tho wild B" nn lovr!:l to snil, 'l'o the Oulf-lnnd~, RllnlllH' t'-bO!Iomcd, f11nn cd by ocean's soflcst gulo; Every heart will bent tho fiu1ter in its ~;orrow or its srorn, }'or tho mnn; nor court11, nor 1•rison, cau nnnoy nnothcr morn I Anti from dit;tnnt climc•s nnd nalion l:l mrn !'hnll wct~twnrd gn7.e, and sny, "llo wllo porillcd all for l<'rocdom on tho Bcafl'oltl dies to-day." Never ofl'oriug wns richrr, nor dirl trmple fairrr riso }'or tho gotls serenely s miling from tho blnc Oiympiun RideR; Jlorphyry or gnwito column dill not l'lntclier cknvo tho air, 1'Lllln tho po:;ts of yondrr gallows with tho cro"s-l!cnm wnitinp; there; And tho Yictim, wrealhed nnd crow nrd, not for Dian nor for Jovo, Dut for Liberty anlll\lnohoou come~, tho SlLCrifkc of J .. ovo. Th<.'y mny hang him on tho p:ibhot; thry may rniso tho victor's cry, When they seo him dnrkly s wing ing lil<o n. sprck against tho sky;Ah, tho dying of a he ro, thnt tho right mny win its way, Is but sowing serd for harvest in o. wnrm nntl mcliow :!\fny I Now hi s s tory shall bo whi ~pt'rtJd hy tho firelight's evening glow, .And in fields of rice and <'Olton, whoo tho hot n oon pnsses slow, '!'ill his n o.mo shall he a watchword from 1\li ~;sou ri to tho sen, And hi!' planting find its renpiog in tho birthdoy of tho }<'reo! Christ, tho crucified, ntlrnd him, weok nnd erring thongh lte be; In his mensnro l1e lws 11trivrn, s ntTcri n ~ Lortl, to lovo liko Thro; ~'b o u tho Yin o, thy frit•IHis the bmnchcs, iii 110 n o t a branch of Thine, 1'hough some drrgs from earthly Yintngo bn.ve defilotl tho lH~nvenly wioor Now his tendrils lie unclnsped, brnii:ed nnd prostrnto on tiH' socl,- Take him to thine upper garden, wboro the lmsbaudman is God. I . SERMON nv REv. GILBERT HAVEN.* A NE'\Y act open in the grcn.t dramn. of the right and dc~Liny of humanity, whi ·his now ueing performed by this nation, in the presence of an a stonished world. It opens with a sound of war, a cry for ulood. Is it the last net of the tragetly, wlwn d-aths arc freqnent; ,...-here the innoc 'nt first fall, the wicked follow; or is it but a slight illt rr11ption to the former movement, and without ffect on that whieh shall come af'ter? Let us consi<lcr it in the great light that falls upon u· fromlleaven; lctu · dwell upon it in no frivolous spirit, but in deep ·olemnity. " Things n ow That hC'nr n. wC'ighty nncl a scriou: brow, P.nd, high, and working, full of stn.lc und woe ; , 'uch noble scrncs as draw the eye to flow, \V e now present." Let us k eep bef'ore us the great fact- the Yiolcnt enslavement of forty hundred~ of thousand" of our kindred in the flesh and in the Lord, in Adam and in Christ. Let u not "' l~ntitlr<l, " Tho flt'p:inning of tho End of 1\ tn <' r it:nn ~lo.Yrt·y;" preached l\t llannrd Strc<'L J\lcthodi:;t J.:pi ~copal C'hurc!J, CalHIJricl~c. N'uv. (i, IS.,G : "f:un•ly oppr ession makl'lh rt wi iit' uwn nmd ." Erd. vii. 7. "I nm not m:td, 1nnst nohlo Fl·Hins .'' Acts xxvi. 2:1. "1-'n 1 n'lur>ll'd, a111l Ctll l ~itl<·n·tl nil th•· nppn·,;~ i< IIIS tlt :d nro 1101111 mHicr tl10 fmn: nnd lu·hoiJ thu tl·al'li 111' s uC'h l\H Wl'l'l' opplL'HiiCd, uno! llu·y hud nn rornfodcr: aud on th o• sitlo of l( u•ir oppl'l'~liO l'li tll CI'l' 11' 1\<j (10\Vl'l', bul lhC,Y hud Ill) I'Olllflll'll' l'. \\ h l'l'l·f'orO j wni:;l•d Lito tk:H.l which l\l'll already dl'tld, moro than the living which aro yet td ivu." El cl. iv. I, 'J. (1:2.3) |
