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Past the Heavy close-shut door, Through the room that knew no more Light step or cheery call. The triumphant sunshine, Hooding all it saw, Laushed at last her gaze to draw, From where the phantoms of the past An eternal shadow cast ; And her glances fell at last, As m breathless awe. Where the glorious sunshine Danced, suoae, and glowed, Where the treasured picture showed The tall cross that stood above All her best of life and love, And "mid her bitter sorrow strove To point the higher road. And," said the happy sunshine, "Oh ! heavy eyes that mourn. Oh ! heart, from its chief moorings torn, Look at the joy with which he dowers The wakening earth and budding ilowers; Trust to the God ol sunny hours, &or dare in grief's keen scorn. 'To turn away from sunshine : Nor in the sense of loss, With reckless hand aside to toss, The comforting through nature given, The trials of our way to heaven. ?ee how the brightest gleam from heaven Clings longest round the cross." Ad the Year Around. OLD YEAR CELEBRITIES. Emerson as a Writer. No. 2. For The Commonwealth. As an outgrowth of that intellect ual trait which seeks to give name to things and to assign order to phe noinena a trait more scientific than creative much :s said of late about representative men. We are con stantly told that Lowell is our repre sentative man of letters, that Walt. V hitman is our representative poet, Bret Heart is the representative of American humor, and so on, through the whole category, with an air that would persuade us to believe that this fact adds sweetness to their poetry and lends a new charm to that humor. Whatever truth there be in tins classification, and whatever vir tue if it were true, the verdict is ren dered that Emerson is the represen tative of American thought. As a thinker we look to Emerson for that glory which he has added to his country. As an embodiment of this divine gift, he is the centre around which revolve the lesser iignts in the galaxy of letters. Much ot the effulgence of American thought is reflected from him through other minds. But the thought itself, like the whitt light that enters the pris on, is so changed and diversified that it were difficult to recognize ii as the same. To be sure, transmis sion ot light gives it irridescence, so that it more effectually catches the eye. It is thus that E.i erson has reached the people, though those who have won reputation for them. selves bv turniner his texts i ntn spr- mons aud expanding his paragraphs into volumes. An eminent critic. who is taken as authority, and whose work is studied at many seats of learning, says, hat Emerson, "by, a certain quaintness of diction and boldly speculative turn of mind, has achieved a wide popularity." As well say that Longfellow is popular by certain verbal mystification. It is this very "quaintness of diction." as a fit dress for the subtlety of his thought, that has hopelessly prevent ed the popular mind from intimate acquaintance with Mr. Emerson. He is the poet's poet aud the scholar's man ol letters. As a writer he is neither voluminous nor popular. His thoughts, "expiessed either in prose or verse, are packed tight for a long journey," and therefore not lieht enough to find ready passage on the craft which bears the people. His sentences are nuggets, which are hammered out into gold foil by tinkers of thought and thus made to meet popular demand. Many protest ihey cannot under stand him. "If people who write essays about Emerson," says one, -would stop saying fine things about him and tell us what h means, they might persuade some of us scoffers to read him." If he is phenomenal, it is the phenomena of nature. Nature never explains. She writes ner laws on everv page of the uni verse aDd there leaves them for him whose eye is keen enough to read. This kinship to her makes Emerson a revealer rather than an interpreter. From his self poised independence he never condescends to explain. Can this be what he means when the Sage of Concord says, that "he is a fool who makes an apology ?" His words are the responses of an oracle. They are oracular responses ot na- ture, speaking through one whom she has made priest of her mysteries ; and to understand them the reader must put himself in the altitude to ward the author that the author holds towards nature. Let him obey the law which guides Emerson himself as uttered in his verse : 'Throb thine which Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.' Another objects, that as a philoso pher he has no system. What Em erson said of Plato applies as well to himself: "He has not a system. The dearest defenders and deciples are at fault. He attempted a theory of the universe and his theory is not complete or self-evidei t. One man thinks he means this, another that; he has said one thing in one place and the reverse of it in another." True, he is another of no creeu ; he uttered no dogmas ; he formulated no t heories, but this takes not from his virtue. The material he gave us is good, even if he has not become architect and constructed the temple. His woik is crystalline in structure, when taken part by part, and is to be prized no less if it should seem conglomerate as a whole. His genius was more creative than constructive, and what we loose in symmetry of form we gaiu in richness of substance. To build is the part of ordinary man ; 'tis godlike to create. He was a poet in the Greek sense ot the word, and was more a maker than a buiider. Substance.not form, is what we want. Xo new stock is added to the sum of human knowledge by formulating the old. Nothing new is put into the treasury of human wisdom by classifying and arranging what is already there. With the ken of a philosopher Emerson looks on the universe as a celestial poem whose essence and rvthm are attributes of Supreme Mind ; and if he gives us only frag ments thereof, they are among the best thftcome from finite conception. One is baffled who seeks to trace the lines in which his genius has wrought. He has no rationale, and utters the revelations of nature without telling us how or where he found them. He is a sharp-sighted reasoner, who leaves out the "since," the "because," the -therefore," by which his propo sitions march along one after another in coy disguise. He does not give us the logical processes by which he gets his conclusions. Leaving ham mer and chisel in the shop, he pre sents only the finished statue. In a word, if he is enigmatical, it is be cause nature, his guide, is so. Emerson is a poet who sees the spiritual essence of things and cares little for the form. He despised mere jingle; and, carrying this to extreme, was thus led to undervalue Shelley, the great master of rythm and metrical harmony. He was un willing that any artifice should ever "his brain encumber With the coil of rythm and number." Emerson's Muse vas sprun g from the forest of Arcadia, or nouri3hed in some grove of Dodona. She loved mountain dales where pine trees waved, or bhaded rill whose music was accompanied bv notes of thrush or sparrow, and she taught him that "No jingling serenader's art, Nor tinkle of pious strings, Can make the wild blood start In its mystic springs." If the office of the poet be to trans late the language of nature into I. 1. II. A I iiuiuuu speecu, men mis man is en titled to a place among the highest order ot noetic minds. Rut the speech into which his translation is made is not the common dialect. It is the classical style, freighted with high thought after the manner of Olympian gods, it is that of "the .1 Ml: T a i i , - iiiniuug ueipnic oracie ; ana as subtle, evasive, and sometimes ob scure. Lowell, to be sure, has already leveled his plaj'ful humor at those who want a version of Emerson "in words of one svliable, for infant minds." W. H. Osborne. Talmage on Evolution. AN ANTI-BIBLE, ANTI-SCIENCE, AiNl-v;UAl:lUiNBl!iiNSl!i DUUTRLNH. The Tabernacle Pastor Pays His Re spects to Spencer, Darwin and Huxley Science Arrayed on the Side of Infidelity. New York, Jan. 14. At the Brook lyn Tabernacle this morning the Rev T. DeWitt Talmage preached upon "Evolution" from the text to be found in I Timothy, sixth and part of the twentieth verses : "O.Timotuy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding opposition of science. falsely so-called At the present time the air is filled with social and platform and pulpit talk on the subject ot evolution, and it is high time that the people who have but little opportunity to inves tigate for themselves understand that evolution, or the theory advocat ed by Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin, is, in the first place, up and down, out and out infidelity ; and secoidly, that it is contradicted by science and brutalizing in its effects. I do not to-day argue that the Bible is true, or that it is in any way to be relied on as a trustworthy book. These subjects are for other Sab baths. But I wish you to understand that Thomas Paine and Voltaire and Hume no more disbelieved the Bible than do the leading scientists who promulgate evolution. When I say scientists,I do not mean literary men who discuss this matter in essay or sermon and without investigation, look at it from this side or that, but mean the men who through labora tories and aquariums and geological gardens and astronomical observato ries, give their life to the study of the physical earth and its plants and! animals, and to the exploration of regions bej'ond, so far as by optical inventions they may be explored All these evolutionists, without one exception, reject the Bible, and I will put them on the witness stand, the iving and the dead. Ernst Haeckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley Tyndall, Darwin and Spencer, ye. men of science, stand there and solemly an swer afevvquesitons ! Do you believe in the holy Scriptures ? "No." And so they say all. Do you believe in the storv of the garden of Eden ? No." And so they s:i' all. Do yon believe in the miraclts of the Old and New Testament ? "No." Do you believe that Christ was the Sa vior of the world ? No." Do you be lieve in the doctrine of the atone ment ? "No." Do you believe in the enerating power of the Holy Ghost t "No." Do you believe that God answers prayer ? "No." Ernst Haeckel on the first page of his three great volumes sneers at the Bible as a "so called" revelation. Tyndall defies all Christendom by his prayer test to prove that suppli cation to God would ever be answer ed, Stuart Mill, after elaborately writing against Christianity, showed that his rejection of it was complete by ordering for his tombstone the inscription: "Most Unhappy." Hux ley says that when he first read Mr. Darwin's book what struck him most forcibly was the conviction that tele ology, by which he means Christian thtology, as commonty understood had received its death blow at Mr. Darwin's hands;- I put in opposition the Bible theo- orv and the evolutionists' theory of now the human race started. The Bible account says : "Let us make man in our image tor our likeness. So God created man in His own image. He breathed into him the breath of life. A perfect man. Not a perfect kangaroo or a perfect chim panzee, but a perfect man. Evolu tionist' account. Infinite ages ago there existed ftur or five primal orerms or plant pores, and these d- vp nneri all the livmsr creatures oi the ages. Fiist there was a vegeta ble stuff, perhaps a mushroom. 'I hat mushroom developed by its innate force into something like a jeiiy-nsn, and the ielly-fish by innate force de veloped into a tadpole. The tadpole developed into a snail. The snail by innate force developed into a turtle. The turtle by innate force developed into a wolf, and the won into a aog, and the dog developed into a baboon, and the baboon developed into a man. Darwin says our lungs are a swi-n-bladder, showing that we ojee floated and were amphibous, and the ears were once movable as easily as those of a horse, when he lifts them at some frightful object. From plant to nollvwosr. irom pollywog to insect, from insect to fish, from fish to rep tile, from reotile into monkey, from monkev into man. JNow any one wno says that this evolutionist account of . - A. l.hft nrp.ation ot man is not amerent from the Bible account makes an ap nnllincr misreDresentation. Preler 1 -O . m 1 whir.h account vou Diease. xaKe Darwin's oraain of species in prefer the book of Genesis, if so j vou will, but understand that you are an infidel. As lor myseit, since ner bert Spencer was not present at the creation of the world ana tne ioru God was. I shall take the divine ac- nnnnr. nf what reallv haDDened on that occasion. Let me see how honest these evol utionists are, and see whether it is not a strategem by which to reject the Creator. You tell me that the monkey made man and the dog the monkev and the reptile the quadru ped and the pollywog the reptile and the primal germ the pollywog. Please, sir, tell me who made the nrimal eerm ? Thev sav "we don't know," or "probably it made itself," or "it was a case ot spontaneous gen eration." I cannot find one of these pvolntionist scientists who will sauarelv. openly, and emphatically answer God. Herbert Spencer comes nearest to a direct answer when he savs it was made by the great unknowable mystery. Huxley brmsrs a pall of protoplasm which is thp lifp.D-ivinor material out of which the race was started. But, Mr. Hux ley, who made the protoplasm ? I put in opposition to the evolu tionists' account the Bible account of how the animals were made, the birds at one time, th cattle another time, the fish another time, by the hand of God, and th.it then th?y brought forth each after its kind. Evolutionists' theorv : Some of them say that there were four primal germs and others one germ, but from this development a'.l the innumerable species of birds and beast and , rep tiles and insects and fish hundreds ot thousands of different kinds frorii one or four primal germs. Thus they not only contradict the Bible but con tradict all the facts of all the centu ries. Bird or beast or reptile or fish of one species never developed into any other species. A shark never comes of a whale, nor a sheep from a cow, a pigeon from a vulture, nor a butterfly from a wasp, The Evolu tionists' statements that all the crea tures that swim in the sea or fly in the air or walk the earth, come of one of four primal germs would have been laughed out of the universe if it were not for the fact that in ordT to crush the bible and drive God out of the world, infidel Scientists and their disciplas are willing to do anything. even though it takes them into idiotic absurdity. On the walls of cities buried thou sands of years ago there ha'-e been found representations of horses and cattle and birds, showing that these creatures of God at that day were as they are now. The mummies of croc odiles and dos:s and cats exhumed from the tombs of Egypt, are just like what those creatures are now. Agassiz says he found in the reefs of Honda remains of insects 30,000 years old precisely like the insects now. They never developed into anything except their own kind. All the facts of observation of ornitholo gy and zoology and ichthyology and conchology echoing genesis, l : 21 : 'Have winged fowl after its kind.' As universal observation and science corroborate the bible statement in re gard to the animal creation, I will not stultify my self to surrendering to the very elaborate guess of the evol utionists. I nut the Bible account of how the j; worlds were made in opposition to L L the evolntionists' account. Bible ac count : "God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also." Evolutionists account : "Awav back in the aeres - o- there was fire mist or star dust, and that has cooled off into granite, and then earthquake and storm, and light solidified and shaped everything into vallev. and mountains, and seas, and that fire-mist became the earth. Who made the fiir-mist ? What set the fire-mist to world-making ? Who cool ed the firemist into granite ? You nave pushed God back from the earth sixty or seventy millions of miles, but lie is too near lor the health of evolution. For a long while evolutionists, and particular' Herbert Spencer, thought that through the telescope they saw the - i . i it very stun out oi wnicn tne woncts made themselves, asking no helping hand from God; the nebulae of gas the same as that out of which this world and all worlds were made. They lookod at it, laughed in triumph and found it was tb factory where the worlds were male, and that tnere was no God anywhere near the fac tory. But alas, in an unlucky hour for infidel evolution.the spectroscopes of Frauenhofer and of Kirchoff were invented and they saw that the neb- ulae, the stull out ot wnicn tney naa said the worlds were made, was not a simple gas as they thought, but a compound, and that it had to be sup plied from some other source, and their theory burst into everlasting demolition. So thev sro. guessing all over the universe. Anything to banish Jehovah from His empire, and make the one hook of God's direct communication to the soul of the human race obso lete and a derision. But while a few infidel scientists take the anti-bible view of it, on our side are Agassiz, the greatest scientist we have ever had in this country, who in the last year of his life uttered his contempt of evolution in the following woras ; "The manner in which the evolution theory of zoology is treated , would lend those who are not especial zoolo- eists to suppose that opservations imve been made bv which it can be inferred that there is in nature such a t.hinor as change among organized beings actually taking place. There ia no such thing on record. It is shifting the ground from one field of observation to another, to make this statement, and when the assertions wo so far as to exclude from the do main of science those who will not be dragged into this mire of mere assertion, then it is time to protest. Just as vehement against the hum- hna nf evolution have been Hugh Miller, and Faraday, and Dana, and Dawson, and Brewster, and a vast multitude of astronomers and scien tists in our learned institutiojs. But a dozen men in favor of the evolu tionists theory make more noise than a thousand able men who utterly re ject it. The Bothnia carried 500 pas sengers in safety from New York to Liverpool and not one of them made any excitement ; but one morning after we had been four days out the hat and vest and boots of a passenger were found on deck, showing that the night before a man had jumped overboard, and all the rest of the voyage he was the one subject of dis cussion. What made him jump ? When did be jump ? Did he want to get back after he jumped ? Did he go to the bottom, or did a shark catch him ? Well, here is the theory that God made man by the direct act of Ins .omnipotence, and that he made the animal creation by the same act and all the, worlds bv the same act. and on board that theory 5,000 Amer ican and European scientists have taken passage, and smie night ten men jump overboard inra-the sea of infidelity and atheistic thinking, and the ten men overboard draw out more discussion than the 5,000 that do not jump 1 am politely asked to jump with them. Thank vou, gentlemen. am verv much oblidged, but I think I shall stick to the old Cunarder. Before you choose evolution to the Pible, I want 'ou to understand that evolution is most dishonest and de ceptive. Its first step is a misrepre sentation when it claims evolution as an originalit3 with Darwin and Spen cer. Liong centuries before either of these gentlemen were evolved, the Phoenicians argued that the human race wobbled out of the mud. Dem- ocritus, who lived four hundred and sixty years before Christ, wrote these words : "Everything is composed of atoms or infinitely small elements. each with a definite quality, form and movement, whose inevitable union and separation, shape all dif ferent things and form law3 and ef fects and dissolve them again for new combinations. The gods them selves and the human mind originated from such atoms. Anaximander declared that the humau race came from where the sea saturated the earth. Lucretius assumed the same idea in his poems. Evolution is an old dead heathen corpse, which set up in the morgue Spencer and Dar win are trying to galvanize. These evolutionists are dragging this old putrefaction three or four thousand years-old around the earth, bragging that they are the authors of it in ig norance of the fact that the idea was centuries old when Herbert Spencer found . it. A dinner was given at Delmouico's last November in honor of the great discoverer ot evolution. And the guests sat around the table eating beef and turkey and roast pig ; according to the doctrine of evolu tion, eating their own relations, slic ing their own cousins, picking the bones of their own uncles, and thrusting the carving fork into the bosom of their own blood relations, dashing Worcestershire sauce and bedaubing mustard all over mem bers of their own family, and while Herbert Spencer reads a patronizing lecture on the American servants,de- clare it is the voice of a god and not of a man. There is only one thing worse than English snobbery and that is American snobbery. I like democracy and I like aristocracy, but there is rapidly evolving in this country a detestable ocracy which Charles Kingslev, after witnessing it himself, called snobocracy. Is it honest to palm off this old heathen notion as a modern discovery ? But I find that when I come to speak of the dishonesties of modern evolution 1 must take another Sab bath morning for that phase of ii, and thei I must take a Sabbath morning to discuss the objections to the Bible made by an Episcopal minis ter in New York, who wants the Bible expurgated. This morning I bring my remarks to a close by say ing that I am not a pessimist, but an optimist, and instead of thinking everything is going to ruin I think everything is going out to salvation. and instead ot it being 11 o clock at night for our suffering and dying world it is 5 o'clock in the morning. But not through infidel evolution is the race to be saved and the world made arborescent, but through Christianity, which has. directly or indirectly, effected all the good al ready wrought, and which is to com plete the world's reconstruction LooKthare in the offing! A ship gone on the locks at Cape Hatteras and breaking to pieces, the storm in lull blast and the barometer vet sinking: Now. what does that ship want? Development! that is all. Let her develop her cargo, develon her rudder, develop her broken masts, develop her part ing hulk, develop her pas.senger, devrtlon her dying crew. iNo;l am mistaken. What that ship wants is a life boat from the shore. Leap into her ye men at the life station ! Steady now ! till you reach the wreck and fetch the women and children first and then the freezing and dytng men and wrap them in flannels and kindle a crackling, roaring fire, till their frozen limbs are thawed out and between their chattering teeth you can pour restoration. The world is on the rocks ! God launch ed it well enough, but through mis pilotage and the sweeping of the storms of 6,000 years the old hulk is in the breakers. What does it want? Development ! The old hulk had got enough Evolution in her to-guard masts and sails and helm, put herself toward a quiet harbor. No, no. She wants the life-boat, and it is coming. Cheer, my 1 ids, cheer ! Coming from the shores of heaven, taking the crest of ten waves at one sweep of the shining paddles, Christ is standing in it, with many bleeding wounds of brow and hand and side, showing that he has been long engaged in this work of rescue. Yet mighty to save ! To save one, to save all, to save them forever ! My Lord and my God, help us all uto it ! Away with your rotten, worn-out, deceptive infidelity and blasphemous evolution, and giro us Bible salvation. "Salvation ! let the echo fly The spacious earth around, While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.,r, Warmth of feeling is one thing permanence another. A heart overflowing with feeling draws love like a magnet. Ihe deepest feeling often lies in silen ce ; the lightest in words. A NEW DEPARTURE, FROM THE SAME OLD STAND. 'Competition is the Lire of Trade I TAKE this method of informing my Friends, Present and Former Patrons and the public generally, that 1 am still at the SAME OLD STAND at GREEN. W OOD, where I am still doing all kinds of work usually done in a Country Shop, and at as Low Figures as any Good w orsman will ao it. VEHICLES CONSTANTLY ON HAND, MADE TO ORDER. REPAIRIG NEATLY, QUICKLY and CHEAPLY DONE. NICE PAINTING A SPECIALTY. UNDERTAKING AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. COTTON GINS REPAIRED, AND SAWS WHETTED AT BOT TOM PRICES. Fire Arms Neatly Repaired Also Agent for the Excelsior Cook Stove. 1 mean business, if you don't believe me just call and see for yourself. Very respecttully, JT. Y. SAVAGE, Scotland Neck, N C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. II. KITCHIN & W. A. DUNN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS-AT-LAW- T-(: o :) SSrOfnce on 10th Street, first dor above Mam. DOLUO.V WHITEHEAD, I rTONSORAL ARTIST, Main St, Near 10th. TKEEP a first-class house and sharp rainra Tho na.trona.Gre of mv aa customers and the public generally so licited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Give me a call. JOHN H. SPEED, Contractor and Bnilier, Solicits orders from the town and adjoin ing counties. Satisfaction guaranteed. References given if required. Scotland Neck. N. C. Aug, 29th, 1882. j si 'z 'oa pasaBJBnS uoipvj -siis -oiiqnd air jo a3Buand S)i3tl6g 0 N aNVHOOS Dr. R. M. Johnson. eSr-Offioe over Bryan & Whitehead's Drng Store. Scotland Neck, N. C. Office hours from 8 to 5 o'clock. VINE HILL MALE ACADEMY. THE SPRING TERM of thi school will begin on Monday, January 22, 188S. We have succeeded in getting as sistance for the next term, wi". n" deavor to do faithful and earnt work. Board may be had under the direct supervision of the Principal. Tuition 315.00 to 17.50 per term or five months. Languages $5.00. One-half of tuition at middle, tie "balance at the close of terra. W. H. RAGSDALE, Principal, Scotland Neck, N. C, Jan. 10, '83, 19 tf. i 1