A Memorial of O.W. Wight, A.M., M.D.; Sanitarian, Lawyer, and Author baixar o livro de graça

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. A Wise man once said, If you ask me what time is, I don't know; but if you don't ask me, I know what it is. Day after day, year after year, age after age, time passes away. It seems like some great system revolving noiselessly around a mighty centre, whose substance we call eternity. The past converges into the present, and the present expands into the future. We measure time by the rotation and the revolution of the earth, ? amazing journey that we make around the sun! We count time by the events that crowd into the present, where a thousand causes converge into one historic effect after another. Each one of us stands and moves in the present, for eternity is behind us and before us. In the year 1840, the studious boy, theyoung schoolmaster, with his father's family, migrated from the woods and hills of Al- leghany to the slopes and shore of Lake Erie, where a farm was purchased. To others it was a place where shelter, food, and raiment could be had; to him it was some- ' thing more: the mobility and the expanse of the inland sea awakened in the soul the idea of the Infinite. Step by step one climbs to a higher level, and then the imagination speeds beyond the horizon: at last, the limitations are reached; and when the mind returns to the order of things around us, it has a new thought, ? an inspiration of the harmony going through all things created. Lovely is the autumn on the borders of the great lakes in North America! The air is so clear, the heaven is so high, the southward moving sun sheds over land and water such a rich mellow light! Day by day grow more golden the fading leaves that should be emblematic of a soul ripening toward the grave in wisdom. Earth seems so calm, so gravely joyous, waiting with a sobermelancholy smile to be shrouded with a robe o...