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Vol. 11.
Worship.
Among all ages and among
all peoples, no matter how
civilized or how degraded,
there seems to be one under
lying principle, which,, al
though sometimes in one
form and sometimes in an
other, still is sure to manifest
itself; that is, the principle
of worship.
Call it superstiticn; call
it paganism ; call it worship
of the true God, call it by
whatsoever name you will,
the mind of man seems to
turn instinctively towards a
deference to a higher power.
It is interesting to notice
the various phases which this
principle assumes in its practice..
This little article, of course, can
not go into any review of this, but
merely states the general fact.—
The worship of imaginary deities,
such as prevailed among the Greeks
and Romans, even in the highest pin
nacle of their civilization ; the worship
of the old oaks by the Druids in the
dim, misty ages of the past, before
England rose to her present power
and glory, and the worship of the only
true God by the Jews, and their apos
tasy to the belief of the pagan nations
around them, all recognized the pro
priety and necessity of the existence of
a higher power than theirs.
The present age, notwithstanding all
the carping and criticism of infidels, is
that in which the power of religion has
attained its highest development. We
believe that there are, this year, more
true believers; that there is a greater
spread of the influence of true worship,
and there is more genuine good being
done than there was twenty years ago,
forty years ago, one hundred years
ago, or one thousand years ago.
To talk about the “good old days”
is very pretty, as matter of sentiment;
but as matter of fact, we do not believe
the proposition can be sustained that
there was any purer Christianity fifty
years ago, than there is to-day; that
there were any more devoted and self
sacrificing worshippers than there are
.A. humorous dare-clevil—tire very man. to su.it my purpose. Bulwer.
THE SPRING FLOWERS NUMBER.
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to-day. We believe that the pure re
ligion, taught in the Scriptures, is to
day on a higher plane of power and
influence than ever before in the world’s
history, and we believe that twenty
years hence will show a very marked
advance over that of to-day.
The erection of churches is a most
notable and decided manifestation of
worship, and the number of churches
in the United States is a fact which
must inspire the infidel with awe, and
which must cheer the heart of the be
liever.
We give, herewith, a view of a pret
ty little church in Marietta, which can
be seen from the car by those who pass
through that beautiful little city over
the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
While admiring the beauties of the
city in its oak trees, in its tasty dwel
lings and in its elegant park, the mind
is also delighted by the view of the hous
es of worship. There are several of these
in Marietta, and that which we give is
notselected in any denominational feel
ing; but because of its impressive
view with its stone-walls, and ivy climb
ing over them, which are suggestive of
an idea of veneration and almost of
awe.
There is no change of- cars between
Cincinnati and Marietta, Ga.
The u Kennesaw Route is the quickest.
ATLANTA, CA., APRIL I, 1887.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, MARIETTA, GA.
Kennesaw’s Cross.
A Globe of Crimson, With Radiating Shafts,
Forming a Blazing Cross, Hangs Over the
Mountain—No Optical Illusion, but
Seen by Marietta’s People—
A Remarkable Sight.
Marietta, Ga., March 17. —The
report in the Constitution of the phe
nomenal darkness in London on the
15th induces me to call attention to
a peculiar phenomenon observed here
on the evening of the same day, be
tween 5 and G o’clock. A lady, an
observer, thus describes it:
“We were out driving; were com
ing down Cherokee street. I had been
looking eastward for sometime, when
turning my eyes suddenly to the west,
I was struck with the peculiar ap
pearance of the sun.
“Kennesaw lay dimly outlined in a
purple enveloping haze, and above it
hung the low sun, a globe of crimson,
and radiating/frcin it at right angles
were four broad shafts of light, the
whole forming
A GREEK CROSS
upon whose sun centre a clearly de
fined disc of shadow moved up and
down, leaving a crescent-shaped line
of light alternately above and below.
“Thinking the appearance might be
an optical illusion, that my eyes were
playing me a trick, I called the atten
tion of the lady with me and asked if
she noticed anything unusual in the
western sky.
“ ‘Yes, how very strange,’ she said,
and while we both tooked the car
riage turned a corner and, swiftly, yet
gradually, too, the transom shaft or
beam of the cross was shortened, the
u pright proport ion a 11 y
lengthened, the whole became
more clearly defined, and be
fore us in startling vividness,
hung obliquely in the sky,“a
cross, its base
reaching almost to the hori
zon line, the disc of shadow
still vibrating across the sun’s
centre, much ns I have seen
it in a partial eclipse. This
was no dim, vague, illusory
phantom, but a distinct form.
Thejheams of the cross were
ofthe -ame width as the ap
parent diameter of the sun’s
centre; were fashioned to a
line, but of course, at the
ends merging into and losing
themselves in the surround
ing haze. These
DIVERGING SHAFTS OF LIGHT
had something the appear-
EEBHB ance of the natural phe
nomenon commonly spoken of as sun’s
‘drawing water,’ differing only in its
brilliancy of coloring and in the per
fect regularity and symmetry of the
figure.
“Such appearances may be nothing
unusual, but I do not remember to
have seen anything like it, and I am
something of an observer. Longitu
dinal reckoning has always been ut
terly beyond me, so I do not know
whether in point of time, it could have
any connection with or relation to the
London phenomenon. Neither do I
know anything of the atmospheric in
fluence upon light, nor whether or not
it be possible that, owing to a peculiar
conformation of hill and valley, at
mosphic conditions might be engen
dered which would make the phenom
enon purely local. Ido certainly hope
that some other than just us two ‘lone,
lorn women’ saw this beautiful and
impressive spectacle, which lasted sev
eral minutes, or so long as we drove,
not rapidly, the length of two or three
squares. I hope this, because I want
an explanation of it, and I cannot
hope by any description of mine to
give a correct idea of its appearance.”
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Being unable myself to give such
explanation or solution, I refer the
matter to you. — Atlanta Constitution.
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you go to Elizabeth, “the
marble city of Georgia,” where there
is the most wonderful marble cutting
machinery in the world. Tourists
will'mlss it if they do not stop at Ma
rietta and go up to Elizabeth, only
two miles*distant, immediately at the
foot of the famous KennesawMountain.
NO. 7.