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Tiie Comet.—Col. E. 1). Baker, in the course of his very eloquent oration at San Francisco, on Monday last, thus alluded to the comet, which is nightly to be seen in the heavens, and concerning which, if we remember rightly, we have once before alluded. As Ool. Baker has handled the subject in very nearly as good style as we could do ourselves, we give his remarks :Wo have accomplished a great work ; we have diminished space to a point; we have traversed one-twelfth of the circumference of our globe with train of thought pulsating with intelligence and almost spiritualizing matter. But, even while we assemble to mark the deed and rejoice at its completion, the Almighty, as if to impress us with a becoming sense of our weakness, when compared with his power, has set a new signal of his reign in heaven. If to night, fellow citizens, you will look out from the glare of your illuminated city, into the north western heavens, you will perceive, low down on the edge of the horizon, a bright stranger, pursuing its path across the bky. Amid the starry hosts that keep their watch, it shines, attended by a brighter pomp and followed by a broader train. No living man has gazed upon its splendors before, no watchful votary of science has traced its course for nearly ten generations. It is more than three hundred years since its approach was visible from our planet; when last it came, it startled an Emperor on his throne, and while the superstition of his age taught him to perceive in its presence a herald and a doom, his pride saw in its flaming course and fiery train, the announcement that his own light was alout to bo extinguished. In common with the lowest of his subjects, be read omens of destruction in the baleful heavens, and prepar ed himself for a fate which alike awaits the mightiest and the meanest. Thanks to the present condition of scientific knowledge, we read the heavens with a far clearer pcrcep tion. We see, in the predicted return of the rushing, blazing comet through the sky, the march of a heavenly messenger along its appointed way and around its predestined orbit. For three hundred years he has travel ed amid the regions of infinite space. “Lone wandering, but not lost, he has left behind him shining suns, blazing stars, and gleaming constellations, now nearer to the Eternal Throne, and again on the confines of the universe. He returns, with visage radiant and benign; he returns, with unimpeded march and unobstructed way ; he returns, the majestic. swift electric Telegraph of the A1 mighty, hearing upon his flaming front the tidings that, throughout the universe, there is still peace aud order—that, amid the im-immeasurahle dominions of the Great King, His rule is still perfect—that suns and stars and systems tread their endless circle and obey the Eternal law”.
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Marysville Daily National Democrat
Marysville, California, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1858
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