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 BY MRS. ROZINA GATES, 
 
 Bangor, Van Bur en Co., Mich. 
 
 The rijilit wheifof she chiinie a8 autlior in conforming 
 V, ith tlie laws of the United States respecting copyrights. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH, ?*IICH. : 
 
 niEO. L, REYNOLDS, PRLNTER. 
 1871. 
 
A Fanoramic View 
 
 OF THE 
 IN THE 
 
 BY MRS. ROZINA GATES, 
 
 Bangor, Van Bur en Co., Mich, 
 
 The right whereof she claims as author in conforming with 
 the laws of the United States respecting copyrights. 
 
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 ST. JOSEPH, MICH. : 
 
 THEO. L. REYNOLDS, PRINTER. 
 
 1871. 
 
A PANORAMIC VIEW \ 
 
 OF THE 1 
 
 INT THE X^IOUT OF GS-EIOLOG^"^. ! 
 
 By Mrs. Rozina Gates. I 
 
 The great Sahara Desert wild i 
 
 Was once the ocean bed, ' 
 
 And the oasis smiling now \ 
 
 In time will o'er it spread. ; 
 
 Yes, where are now those sandy plains • \ 
 
 Once roll'd the foaming tide, : 
 
 But the ernptions of the earth i 
 
 Forc'd it on another side. i 
 
 Your earth, it widely ope'd its mouth, 
 
 And clos'd above the tide, 
 
 But on the bosom of the same, \ 
 
 Your gallant ships do ride. i 
 
 We write from France and Italy, t 
 
 Places of renown. \ 
 
 And what we know of interest ] 
 
 Endeavor to pen down. • 
 
 Some may deride our history ' 
 
 And <:all it all a hoax, 
 
 But the oasis smiling now 
 
 Once issued fire and smoke. : 
 
PAlfORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATlOJf* 
 
 lu time a river smooth aud deep 
 Will be flowing o'er those sands, 
 Where now is but a waste so wild 
 There liveth not a man. 
 
 And there the white-winged messenger 
 Will be sailing o'er its tide ; 
 You may sneer at our poetry, 
 And you may it deride. 
 
 Those waters there will intersect 
 The Atlantic and Red Sea, 
 And what compose Niagara Falls 
 In time will break-away. 
 
 Some cities then will be ruined quite, 
 For their larks will loose their wings ; 
 They cannot sail as they do now. 
 Another song they'll sing. 
 
 Then you cannot do as yom have done, 
 Ship your freight across, 
 And necessitated you will be, 
 To drive the iron horse- 
 
 And where are now your pleasant lake«, 
 Will be valleys of dry land ; 
 We mean the upper aud lower onea, 
 That bound State Michigan. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 And where also is your Erie Lake, 
 A ralley you will see, 
 When that mij'hty cataract 
 Ceases such to be. 
 
 The sanae grand power that form'd it there 
 Will it in sunder break 
 The waters of those lakes gushed forth , 
 When your earth mightily quaked. 
 
 A mighty earth-quake did pass through, 
 In terrific waves ; 
 Forming the basins of those lakes 
 Where the fishes now do lave. 
 
 But Oh, the doleful news will ring. 
 Will ring from shore to shore, 
 When that mighty cataract 
 Is cataract no more. 
 
 'Twill- sweep its thousands with the flood, 
 Of brute and human too. 
 But your earth will still keep moving ou 
 As they to the ocean go. 
 
 'Twill sweep off mills and hou.'^ea too, 
 With all the goods they own, 
 Leaving whole families in woe 
 In their distress to mourn. 
 
i 
 
 PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. s 
 
 But your earth will still keep movi ag on, * 
 
 In its yearly round, .; 
 
 Until Christs's Kingdom it shall come, i 
 
 And this be hallowed ground. i 
 
 You look for the Millenial morn, j 
 But your earth, so fair and grand, 
 
 Will never be consumed by fire. ^ 
 
 As you may understand. ; 
 
 Sure it will never be destroyed, ] 
 
 As you've been taught no, no, j 
 
 But the electric fires of Heaven .; 
 
 Throughout your earth must glow. ' 
 
 Then jour prison doors will loose their bolta, 
 
 And not be needed there, - 
 
 And orphan children find a home, 
 
 x\ud have a mother's care. 1 
 
 Then plow-shares will be made of swords, j 
 
 And pruning-hooks of spears ; ' 
 
 And the nations will learn war no more, i 
 
 Throughout your earthly sphere- j 
 
 Then Jews and Gentiles will not disagree, j 
 
 Not disagree at all ; * 
 
 But you'll have one church and government \ 
 
 Upon your earthly ball. j 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF TEE CREATION. T 
 
 But you in a fiery chariot 
 To heaven will never go, 
 As you read did good Elijah, 
 In days of long ago. 
 
 But you'll pluck the flowers from life's fair tree, 
 That bloom in Heavenly spheres : 
 And the angels that have past away 
 Will pluck your flowers here- 
 
 Then death in time will loose its sting, 
 And the grave its victory too, 
 When men and angels hand in hand, 
 Throughout life's sphere shall go. 
 
 Then the beauties of the spirit land 
 So resplendant will appear, 
 That when your friends tiey pass away, 
 You will not shed a tear. 
 
 But when you shroud the cold dead form, 
 And fit it for the tomb. 
 You'll feel like dressing up a bride , 
 And presenting to the groom. 
 
 But the valleys of your pleasant lakes, 
 Will be valleys of rich earth, 
 Where teeming nailliona in future time 
 Will have a perfect birth. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 There grass will grow and waving grain, 
 With fruits and flowers so fair ; 
 And the angelic choristers 
 With music fill the air. 
 
 But where are now your prairies wide 
 Was once the raging flood; 
 Remember this is possible : 
 Behold you have a GodI 
 
 But some would ask where are the banks 
 
 Which this a basin made, 
 
 They have blown ofi* in particles, 
 
 By winds they call the trade. 
 
 First the ocean then the forest wild. 
 And then it was submerg'd ; 
 But since became the prairies wide, 
 And there the lowing herds* 
 
 But on those prairies vast and wide 
 
 In some places that are dry, 
 
 With springs and brooks and larger streams, 
 
 Will those places be supplied, 
 
 And where water now surrounds the poles, 
 In time there will be land ; 
 Your earth has changes rery great 
 We'd have you understand. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW F THE CREATION. 1 
 
 For it throws oflf and it takes on, 
 As it journeys round the sun ; 
 Differing far from what it was 
 When it's motion first begun. 
 
 But aye or nay it took we know, 
 So firm the Granite Rock; 
 It was not into being spoke ; 
 Atone single shock. 
 
 And there are deserts loan and drear, 
 Where will be trees, shrubs and plants; 
 With fruits and flowers of various hues, 
 And there sparkling streams will dance. 
 
 You may wonder sure, how they can have 
 Streams, trees, shrubs, and plants. 
 They'll be form'd by that intrinsic essence 
 Which some would term by chance. 
 
 The Poles of earth, they long are bound 
 In an icy chain ; 
 
 But they'll have more congenial suns. 
 And assume another name. 
 
 And new continents they will come forth 
 From beneath the ocean bed. 
 And where surging billows now do play. 
 Will vegetation spread. 
 
10 PANOSA MIC yiEW OF THE ORE A TION. 
 
 Your earth convulses day by day, 
 And hour by hour likewise; 1! 
 
 And in this way Islands ara form'd, I 
 
 And new continents arise. 
 
 Islands and continents have rose and iell. 
 
 Since your earth revolved around ; . i 
 
 And there was land once to be i?een, 
 
 Where is now Long Island Sound. J 
 
 A continent did once exist, j 
 
 Having climate fair and mild, 
 
 But a share sunk 'neath the briny deep, j 
 
 Foraiing the Friendly Isles. / 
 
 And where also are some great ravines, I 
 
 Once mov'd the curling foam, ^ 
 
 Dashing, splashing on the beach, I 
 The waves were hurried on. 
 
 But some would ask, where are they now, 
 
 Or have their waters dried, 
 
 They have retired to their sister floods, I 
 
 Through deep tunnels under-side. ] 
 
 And the eruptions of the earth 
 
 Have closed the tunnel's mouths. 1 
 
 The truth of our assertions here, • 
 
 Some perhaps may doubt. ■ 
 
PAAOEA MIC VIEW OF THE OR EA TION. i 1 
 
 There's much that's back, far back we know, 
 Which a inys^erj' would seem, 
 And many educated men 
 Have uever of it dreamed. 
 
 For whole nations have been swallow'd up, 
 In the bowels of the earth. 
 Who, in strength and size did far exceed 
 Some which since have had a birth. 
 
 And traces of them have been found. 
 And implements they used, 
 But love^ and laws of those nations, they, 
 Often did abuse. 
 
 Your now call'd Salt Lake City 
 Will be engult'd in wave ; 
 Not all the salt that's in that Lake, 
 Could n'er the city save. 
 
 For a mighty water-spout will ope, 
 And engulf it all in wave, 
 So all the salt that's in that Lake 
 Could n'er the city save. 
 
 A tunnel it is making through, 
 
 To that briny Lake; 
 
 And all who would their lives preserve, 
 
 Th« city should forsake. 
 
PJJSOEAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 And your Pacific iron road. 
 Must take another route, 
 For it will be eugulfd in wave, 
 By this great water-spout. 
 
 Some valleys will be filled with wave, 
 You may think we'er talking tall, 
 The waters they are changing more, 
 Upon your earthly ball. 
 
 And some passes in your mountains. 
 Will be straits yet in the sea, 
 With mighty promontories. 
 It's truth we'er telling thee. 
 
 Your earth moves in an orbit round. 
 And changes there must be. 
 From land to sea, and sea to lawd, 
 To make all things agree. 
 
 But the beauties of those high lands 
 
 With their trees of evercjreeu, 
 
 In no other region, 
 
 We think could e'er be seen. 
 
 And your now call'd Lake Ontario. 
 And Lake Baikal too, beside, 
 The time will come when jou will leara 
 Their basins will be dry. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION 15 | 
 
 Our statements are no miracles, i 
 But with nature do accord ; 
 There never was a miracle, 
 
 Since roll'd your mighty Orb. i 
 
 But the waters of Ontario, i 
 
 Are sinking many know, j 
 
 And your pleasant Ridge-road, j 
 
 Was it's beach, yes long ago. j 
 
 But between this Lake and ridge there are I 
 Trees of the tallest kind, . ' 
 
 Which seem to bow in reverence, ' 
 To Him who is Divine. 
 
 And there are lakes which are called seas. 
 
 With no outlet plain in view ; 
 
 But they have outlets underneath, j 
 
 Where the water gushes through. | 
 
 Tornadoe? wild, and hurricanes, i 
 
 More frequent will appear, | 
 
 On your western Continent, i 
 
 In the northern hemisphere. j 
 
 Tornadoes wild, and hurricanes, \ 
 
 Strewing wrecks on sea and land : ] 
 
 Their origin perhaps, you all ' 
 
 Do not quite understand. j 
 
14 PAlsORAMlC VIEW OF THE CREAllOK. 
 
 It's the electric combined pewers, 
 Both in the earth and out, 
 And when they burst up through the sea 
 Produce great water-spouts. 
 
 But when the power loses its force, 
 And the tunnel it is cool, 
 Then the waters they go rushing through, 
 And it becomes a pool. 
 
 The whirlpools in the ocean wide, 
 Are heads of mighty streams, 
 On which do play your gallant ships, 
 As they rush back to the Main. 
 
 The ocea-i bed has tunnels deep, 
 Through which their waters glide, 
 And they gush forth in springs and streams 
 Fresh on the other side. 
 
 But where the distance is bat short 
 From ocean bed to fount. 
 You'll find their waters pure and bright, 
 And there the speckled Trout. 
 
 In mineral waters they could not live, 
 Nor in a mudy stream : 
 But in waters pure and bright. 
 Will the speckled Trout be seen. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATIOX. 
 
 Seas intarspersed with many isles, 
 Called archipelagoes ; 
 Bj the eruptions of the earth 
 Thej have been formed we know. 
 
 Your earth had once a smoother face, 
 But some would this deride ,• 
 The internal fires in their passage through, 
 Have thrown up its rocky sides. 
 
 And on their passage lit the wood. 
 And consumed it into coal ; 
 With a mighty thundering voice, 
 As they through earth hare roH'd, 
 
 A mighty earthquake will pass through 
 Near the rocky range, - 
 And the rich jewels of the earth 
 Become molten veins.J 
 
 Your earth has many veins of gold, 
 Once mixed with earth and sand, 
 Congealed by the internal fires, 
 Now pleaae to underi5tand. 
 
 And visionary minds, they will 
 Discover it in part; 
 Your earth is turning inside out. 
 Time will expose its heart. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 Rich veins of gold lie hid all through, 
 In climates warm and cold, 
 In time like lilly buds, Ihey will 
 Their gulden leaves unfold. 
 
 Its growing now like quarry stones, 
 Or coal that lies in beds; 
 You may wonder at our novelty, 
 They're nourished by the dead. 
 
 Your earth increases in its size. 
 Taking a larger belt, 
 And we will venture for to say. 
 Hath lungs and heart and milt. 
 
 It is composed of v/ebs or strings 
 In its very depths, 
 Being a substance tangible. 
 Which spirit hands have felt. 
 
 If they could penetrate thick walls 
 And your panes of glass, 
 Into the bowels of earth, 
 They likewise could pass- 
 
 This substance is the spine of earth, 
 Serving as electric wires 
 With here and there a switch also, 
 Where pass the electric fires. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 
 
 Likewise a safeguard sure it hath, 
 Running from pole to pole, 
 Serving to keep it in its place : 
 lu its orbit where it rolls. 
 
 And the life-tide of your rolling orb, 
 Chan^'es continually ; 
 Passing through its very heart, . 
 Causing the ebb and flow. 
 
 It changes, yes, continually. 
 Like the tide of human forms ; 
 Perhaps some would debate with us, 
 But we must march along. 
 
 We will not stop for wind or wave, 
 We know 'twill never do ; 
 We've started on our journey straight, 
 And we must travel through, 
 
 It's not composed of miles or leagues, 
 No distance here we trace ; 
 Our journey is of charity, 
 We're a christian race. 
 
 We must describe more minutely 
 Your mighty rolling orb. 
 Which has nerves and sinews too, 
 Nature with it accords. 
 
W PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 The waters flow through it's heart and veinx^ 
 As we have here described ; 
 Though at tim'is appear quite motionless, 
 And calmly seem to lie. 
 
 And your mighty globe has a shell or crusty 
 Which we will term it's hide. 
 And the internal fires have 
 Thrown up its rocky sides. 
 
 And it often has convulsions 
 Which b»rst out in the sea, 
 On your western continent, 
 Near South America, 
 
 And whole countries in that region ^ 
 Will be enfjulf d in wave, 
 The fires are uearing now it's coast,. 
 And nothing will it save. 
 
 And all along the Pacific line 
 Will be tumultuous waves, 
 Caused by eruptions of the earth, 
 Appalling hearts so brave- 
 
 And the ocean bed will be thrown up 
 Near San Francisco Bay, 
 Devastating the country rouud, 
 And it in ruins lay. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 1» 
 
 It must needs be, that earth's fires roll, 
 
 To keep it moviog ou ; 
 
 This is no judgment or miracle. 
 
 We tell you in our song. 
 
 Your earth it is a mighty globe, 
 Formed by a mighty power ; 
 But nature shows it ne'er was formed, 
 In six times four and twenty hours. 
 
 You read 'twas without form and void, 
 And darkness was on the deep ; 
 When suddenly God made one man, 
 And put him fast to sleep. 
 
 But this is a progressive world, 
 Fast moves this rolling car ; 
 Lighted all o'er by the sun and raoon, 
 And little blazing stars. 
 
 But it has changes, changes sure. 
 And some in meter we will tell, 
 For there was land once to be seen, 
 Where the mighty waves now swell. 
 
 On the eastern coast of America, 
 Earth's fiercest fires have rolled, 
 And the flinty rocks raised from their beds, 
 But this was done of old. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATIOy. 
 
 And some are robed ia moss and vines, 
 And trees fair to be seen, 
 Which bow their lovely, gentle heads, 
 And they're called evergreen. 
 
 Those rocks were formed of clay and sand, 
 And a mixture of the brine ; [was. 
 
 But they were not formed as you read the earth 
 In six days of time. 
 
 Your earth it was quite small indeed, 
 When its motion first begun. 
 Imparting less than it took on, 
 As it journeyed round the sun- 
 
 We do admit your past off sires, 
 Sends intellectual rays. 
 Which will be as mighty meteors 
 Causing a perfect day. 
 
 If the waters of your globe were still, 
 All living there would die ; 
 They must have air and motion too, 
 To keep them all alive. 
 
 You earth has lungs, please uaderstand : 
 Through which do fly its fires ; 
 And it all through has passages, 
 Electric as vour wires. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 11 
 
 In Missouri's tributaries, 
 
 Way up in Montana ; 
 
 If you turn their streams, you'll find the ore. 
 
 Deep bedded there it lies. 
 
 Rich veins of gold lie hid all through, 
 Covered by mother earth ; 
 Which time and nature must unface, 
 To the filling of your purse, 
 
 God made the earth ! He made the gold, 
 And He made you and me ; 
 And He made the fishes, great and small, 
 That are swimming in the sea. 
 
 ■I^lit He did not make them all at once. 
 There's no such thing, we know ; 
 And from the very elements. 
 Fishes and man did grow. 
 
 You may strain the waters of the sea, 
 And put in gravel pans ; 
 Soon the fishes will be sailing round, 
 Oh, test us if you can. 
 
 The very air, the breath you breath, 
 Is origin of life ; 
 Oh, you may with us debate. 
 You have no chance for strife, 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 And new species are developed, 
 Upon your earthly shore ; 
 Behold ! it is not finished quite^ 
 "Twill take some six days more. 
 
 Y^our earth has changes, vast and great, 
 On its kingdoms we do know , 
 And your now-called Snake-head Indians 
 Once had neither foot nor toe. 
 
 But crept among the grass and ferns, 
 lake the reptile on the plain ; 
 Although he has progressed we know, 
 The snake shows on the brain. 
 
 Man's origin is not understood ». 
 
 At the present day ; 
 Although your Bible plainly tells, 
 That he was made of clay. 
 
 Man has come forth from animal, 
 Crawling much like the the snail ; 
 Progressing as the poliywog. 
 Which in the water sails. 
 
 And so on up to higher life, 
 'Till he became a man ; 
 What think you of this clay one, 
 Oh tell me if you can. 
 
PANORAMIC VIE^ OF THE CREATION. 
 
 Man once bad hair, much like the beast. 
 And on all fours he crept, 
 The truthfulness of our history, 
 All may not accept. 
 
 He once did creep, he once did hop. 
 Then a species of the frog ; 
 But changed from that development. 
 To a species of the dog. 
 
 And he changes every seven years, 
 So three times twenty-one. 
 And thus keeps changing on 
 'Till life with him done. 
 
 Bat next to man in intellect, 
 
 Is the dog we very well know ; 
 
 And through various forms of development, 
 
 Man has come up also. 
 
 But he was of vegetation formed, 
 Before he crept on earth, 
 And now he is of human, 
 And has a spirit birth. 
 
 You read all things are possible 
 With Him who rules on high ; 
 And from the loliest creeping thing 
 Comes forth the butterflv. 
 
24 PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 
 
 Bat man to God is uear allied 
 God of the Universe. 
 But when ho lays the mortal by 
 His spirit comes to earth. 
 
 But he progresses on and on, 
 And has, since life with him begau ; 
 Belore and since he stood erect 
 Or call'd himself a man. 
 
 But he once in the ocean stood 
 With a flower on his head, 
 And now he is intelligent 
 And earns his daily bread. 
 
 But when he lays the mortal off 
 And puts the immortal on, 
 With him there is a greater change 
 Than we speak of in our song. 
 
 Yes, when his spirit soars away 
 And his form in the coflfiii laid, 
 AVith him there is a greater change 
 Than e'er before was made. 
 
 Just think of this 1 the spirit lives 
 While the body it is dead, 
 Being developed from a lovely stalk, 
 With a flower ou its head. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 'iS 
 
 And well may man say mother earth, 
 When hp forth from it came, 
 Like the blooming fl.)wer in early spring, 
 Not bearing his present name. 
 
 We're reminded of the poet, sure. 
 For truly hath he said : 
 Life's a vapor, man's a flower, 
 For it was upon his head. 
 
 That flower was called sweel Bethlehem, 
 Which in the ocean grew, 
 And the angels bright, receiving light, 
 Are giving it to you. 
 
 We hope to tell you all about 
 Old Adam and his wife, 
 And should you dare us to oppose, 
 We'll comely meet the strife. 
 
 You think that God a spiril- is. 
 
 But what in ancient day, 
 
 He the breath of life in the nostrils breathed, 
 
 Of the man He'd made of clay. 
 
 If this was God, He's changed his sphere, 
 Likewise, He's changed His mode ; 
 You read He is not changeable. 
 Your Father and your God. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 
 
 We do expect to sow some seed 
 That will fall upou good ground ; 
 And the angels, from their spheres above, 
 Will harrow it around. 
 
 And it must spread like prairie fires, 
 With nothing to impede, 
 And we from Heaven, with manna, sure, 
 Will endeavor yea to feed. 
 
 You've often heard, in thunder tones 
 Like the war-cry on the plain, 
 Of this horrid pit, the brimstone lake 
 Where thousands must remain. 
 
 Old theology, from press and desk 
 Preached it in lofty strains. 
 But the uogels, from the spheres above, 
 Have broke its jaws in twain. 
 
 T'was more the dread of the brimstone lakf 
 
 And of your ISLiker's ire, 
 
 Which caused many after holiness 
 
 And heaven to inquire. 
 
 But now that lake has ceasvd to barn, 
 Of brimstone and of fire ; 
 Some do look up, thinking their God 
 Is not of wrath and ire. 
 
PAJSOBAMK VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 He is all love and goodness 
 That man could e're concede, 
 And if you wish his power to know, 
 In the book of nature read. 
 
 The planets that are rolling through 
 Immensity of space, 
 Of soul and body compose a part 
 Ot Him who did create. 
 
 God is not seated on a Throne, 
 Apart, and high above 
 His earthly children on your pl»in, 
 For all of you he loves. 
 
 Behold ! His Throne is everywhere, 
 In heaven and earth and sea ; 
 In deepest caverns of your earth, 
 Likewise His Throne must be. 
 
 It is not fire high up in air. 
 As many do suppose ; 
 And all that's in creation's plan 
 His body does compose. 
 
 His spirit fills immensity, 
 Immensity of space ; 
 So God the soul and body is 
 Of all He does create. 
 
i>i PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREA TION. 
 
 Well hath this soul enllveuing power 
 Which in Deity exists, 
 And all th.it man on earth can learn, 
 The spirits they can teach. 
 
 Models and drav/ings they can present 
 To some visions on your plain, 
 But if all for this are not organized 
 Do uwt of us complain. 
 
 We more would add to your happiness, . 
 And we would give you light ; 
 Ohl heed our council ye earthly, ones, 
 Though we are out of sight. 
 
 Man hardly knows, now, what he knows, 
 But guesses some, in part. 
 But nature, with its open book, 
 Will soon give him a start. 
 
 He will see God in the mirror 
 
 Plain as he cau anywhere ; 
 
 In the heavens above, the earth beneath. 
 
 Of fruits and flowers so fair. 
 
 The ancients they did not believe 
 That the earth was round; 
 And in consequence of this they Ihoaght, 
 Of course it would'nt drown. 
 
PJ^'ORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATIOX. 
 
 Thej thought it flat just like a board 
 And on the waters moved ; 
 But mariners- who sail'd it round, 
 ^ Its rotundity have proved. 
 
 Truth crushed to earth will rise again, 
 
 No power can it destroy ; 
 
 But Geology proves your Bible 
 
 To be but a mere toy. 
 
 The Bible speaks of Noah's flood 
 As drowning of the world, 
 Which we think was impossible 
 As it on its axis whirled. 
 
 The Ark -was built of Gopher wood, 
 And on the waters it did ride. 
 But all that Noah left behind 
 The bible tells it died. 
 
 Noah had quite a family 
 In the Ark with him to ride, 
 Of toads and frogs and lizzards, 
 And many things beside- 
 
 He must have had the black snakes. 
 The hippopotamus too, 
 The grizzly bears and wolverines, 
 Likewise the buflfalo. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 Ot course, he had the rein-deers 
 Which are so nice to run, 
 The rattle-snakes, the blow-snakes, 
 The hoop and mocasin. 
 
 He must have had the blow-snakes 
 All on the leeward side. 
 For all who took their poison breath 
 We know they must have died. 
 
 So.ne must have crossed the ocean wide 
 From undiscovered isles, 
 Oh, he had the Bengal tigers, 
 Likewise the crocodile. 
 
 He had all kinds of ferocious beasts 
 From countries, too, afar, 
 But he casred them up with Gopher wood 
 Instead of iron bars. 
 
 He must have had, of each, a pair 
 From the islands of the sea, 
 But if all were not discovered then. 
 How, in reason, could it be. 
 
 We hope in time mankind will have. 
 On earth, good, common sense. 
 No matter what he reads in books, 
 He'll stand beside the fence. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREA TION. 
 
 There might have beeu a deluge 
 In a portion of the land, 
 But not such a mighty one 
 As many understand. 
 
 Look at the reason, if you \Till, 
 To thmk the world was drown'd. 
 How, in reason could it be ? 
 For, behold ! you know it's round. 
 
 Attractions, yes, of land and see. 
 There must be on its face, 
 To keep the waters where they are, 
 In their destined place. 
 
 Your God will ne'er destroy his works 
 In such a foolish way, 
 And if all were righteous in the ark, 
 Why not righteous now, to-day ? 
 That's the question ? 
 
 Your Bible is the best of books 
 'Though it some big stories tell. 
 But if you can't believe them, quite, 
 We think it's just as well.. 
 
 Oh ! truly, it is like a harp, 
 
 A harp of many strings, 
 
 No matter where you touch a key 
 
 You any tune can sing. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THECEEATiON. \ 
 
 Though it's thought to he a mighty book, j 
 
 We'll have it all transposed, ; 
 
 And write it all in poetry, \ 
 
 ■ Though it's written now in prose. ^ 
 
 And there are contradictious ' 
 
 And some ideas we spurn, 
 
 For the traveler to the spirit-land 
 
 Back to earth, we know, returns. 
 
 But we think it a mere history, i 
 
 A history of the past, j 
 
 And should you make it examplary j 
 
 Into prison you'd be cast. 1 
 
 i 
 
 It has caus'd more wars and suffering" \ 
 
 Thau all other wars combin'd ; \ 
 Thinkof Adoniram Judson, 
 
 And Ann Hazzletiue. 1 
 
 And those devoted Christians ; 
 
 Who with them sail'd away ! 
 
 To the land of dark Pagodas, ! 
 
 Where they long in prison lay ■ 
 
 Think of the galling fetters, j 
 
 Likewise the galling chains, " 
 
 With bent limbs, all cramped and crippled, ' 
 
 While they in prison long remain' d ! ; 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. SS' 
 
 Think of the knife uplifted 
 To take the breath away 1 
 Likewise the dark brow'd Burmahns, 
 And the tropics' sick'ning ray I 
 
 It was all for the Bible 
 
 Those little feet did trip. 
 
 And those babes pass'd on so merrily 
 
 T(J see the gallant ship," 
 
 Think of a mother's feelint^s 
 When that ship it left the bay,' 
 Giving it's canvass to the breeze, 
 Beating her babes away. 
 
 She wep't, she prayed, 
 
 She wriiDg her hands, 
 
 You may imagine how, [now. 
 
 Saying : so dear a sacrifice I never made 'till 
 
 And think, too, of the martyrs 
 Who by thousands' havebeen slain ; ' 
 But on your good, old Bible 
 Is left the bloody stain. 
 
 1 1 calls God good, it Calls Him bad, 
 Yes, angry every day ; 
 Your Bible's like a Fiddle, 
 You any tune can play. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 
 
 God, truly, is a God of love 
 And as Father we Him claim, 
 But, oh I your good, old Bible 
 la a libel on His name. 
 
 It calls your God a tyrant, 
 And likewise a fool ; 
 Think you, did the Bible writers 
 Erer go to school ? 
 
 Or if they were inspired 
 The Bible for to write, 
 Then why such contradictions, 
 Put^down in black and white ? 
 
 God. truly, is all wisdom ! 
 He's provided everywhere 
 For the keeping of the Nations 
 Sprinkled here and there. 
 
 There is no virus in the land, 
 We eare not where it floats, 
 But God, in his providence, 
 Has for it an antidote. 
 
 It gushes forth from mother earth, 
 la found in roots and herbs. 
 In flowers, too, and barks of trees, 
 And in mineral waters stored. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. ^ 
 
 But Heaven we think a dangerous place, 
 If Satan from it came, 
 Here to be bound a thousand years, 
 Then to be loos'd again. 
 
 But just think of the serpent 
 Which tempted Mother Eve, 
 And her eyes they being opened, 
 She aprons made of leaves, 
 
 For God was in the Garden, 
 And Eve and Adam heard Him there, 
 And they thought that Fig-tree aprons 
 Would be proper for to wear. 
 
 It seems that God was a person then, 
 Not present everywhere, 
 For He walked out in the Garden 
 To take the morning air. 
 
 But he form'd Adam out of dust, 
 And in his nostrils breath'd, 
 And he became a living soul, 
 So many do believe. 
 
 But Adam was quite lonely 
 
 While in the garden there. 
 
 So God of children bethought himself, 
 
 That he would have a pair. 
 
S6 PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 And, if the Bible it be true. 
 Took a rib from Adams' side, 
 Of which He did a Woman make 
 Aud gave her as a Bride. 
 
 Be sure it warf au easy thing, 
 
 For he was put to sleep. 
 
 And we suppose he closed the wound. 
 
 And then did him awake. 
 
 God was not Omnipresent then, 
 Nor Omuipoteot, i:o, no, 
 He'd just commenced in the Garden 
 Our first parents for to grow. 
 
 They were a little family, 
 
 Having but little strife, 
 
 While Cain went off to the land of Nod 
 
 To hunt him up a wife. 
 
 God has progressed some, since that time, 
 As we shall plainly, show, 
 He's built a Throne for Himself on high, 
 And a Hell for man below. 
 
 But Hell is not feared quite as much 
 As it was in by-gone days, 
 So your paper fences have tumbled down, 
 And your lambs have gone away. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 87 
 
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 You thouo:ht that God did make all things, 
 
 So beautiful aud errand, 
 
 And when He had made Adam and Eve, 
 
 The stars together sang. 
 
 And you thmk that God did make your earth, 
 Of rotundity so great, 
 And when He'd finished up his work, ' 
 'Made Adam, as they state. 
 
 Your world has been iu darkness 
 For centuries, you see, 
 But when the light of Heaven shines^ • 
 Then darkness it must flee. 
 
 You thought you should not love the earth 
 Nor anything below, 
 But your affections placed above, 
 Which Godliness would show. 
 
 Oh, you should love your earthly plaiu, 
 For God hath made it fair, \'.-' U-^mo'^ 
 No matter if you worship it, ■ 
 For He is everywhere. • 
 
 And if you love your Maker, God, 
 You love everything you see. 
 For He pervades matter aud space, 
 Then everywhere must be. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 
 
 Sure, He is in the mountains high 
 And the bowels of the earth, 
 And every little floweret 
 That ever did have birth. 
 
 He's in lofty trees that wave 
 
 And in grains of sand, 
 
 And he formed the models of your ships 
 
 Which sail at your command. 
 
 They, truly, had their origin 
 In spirit, in Deity, 
 The models of your mighty ships 
 Which are sailing far at sea. 
 
 Jf God could form your earthly ball 
 And roll it high in space, 
 Then he could plan your ships at sea, 
 To carry round your freight. 
 
 Some think God deficient in 
 Things of a simple kind. 
 But think he made the sun and moon 
 And little stars that shine. 
 
 He made all that is beautiful, 
 Made everything you see. 
 But do you think the Ark contained 
 All living, as they say. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREA TION. 
 
 We do not wish to censure 
 That gracious, good, old book, 
 Thej wrote as they did understand, 
 Or so to us it looks. 
 
 But man, he surely has progress'd 
 In eighteen hundred years, 
 [f, truly, this were not the case, 
 We think it would be queer. 
 
 Some think that God is afar otf. 
 But once He was so near 
 He made one man, Adam, of clay, 
 And a woman made so queer. 
 
 And another time he was so near 
 He was heard by this young pair, 
 As He in the garden walked 
 To take the cooling air. 
 
 It seems the serpent did a feat 
 Which a blessing is to all. 
 He ope'd the eyes of this young pair 
 Or yoa could not see at all. 
 
 And you, surely, should show him respect 
 For this blessing on your race j 
 If the serpent had not ope'd their eyes 
 You'd all been blind to-day. 
 
PJKOKAillC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 So good, you see, throngh evil comes, 
 Or proved so, in this case, 
 And Adam's sin, a biessiug is 
 To all his sinful race. 
 
 The generations weaker grew 
 And wiser, so they say, 
 If you do not understand the phrase 
 We'll explain it, by the way. 
 
 They weaker grew in fiiith which they 
 Have had in by-gone days, 
 They know a living Father rules 
 O'er heaven and earth and sea. 
 
 They have been taught, an angry God 
 Was their Heavenly If-i-ther, sure, 
 And that the anger of his wrath 
 They, forever, must endure. 
 
 But they became more wise, now, still. 
 Since angels came to earth, 
 Concerning Christ, the principle, 
 Which knew no death or birth. 
 
 Thev learn that Jesus was a man 
 And earthly parents had. 
 But the Christ principle was with 
 The, so called, Son of God. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 This principle was before the world 
 Had its foundation laid, 
 But eighteen hundred years ago 
 Some, of it, were afraid. 
 
 Some were afraid the world would be 
 Filled with this light, Divine, 
 But man, he was progressing, sure, 
 Before he counted time. 
 
 But he progresses faster now 
 Than he did in days of yore, 
 For he has teachers from on high, 
 Who scan creation o'er. 
 
 But now they come, as teachers true, 
 On your plain below. 
 And them, no earthly powers can 
 Their teachings overthrow. 
 
 For nature, yes, and nature's God, 
 Show their teachings to be true, 
 Corroberating with it all, 
 The old as well as new. 
 
 Old age and illness they come on. 
 As you are well aware. 
 But the sooner in the spirit-land 
 It's blessings you will share. 
 
it PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 Your earth, it undergoes a change 
 In one eternal round, 
 And what is plenty in your sphere, 
 In time it can't be found. 
 
 The fruits and flowers that now you have 
 
 In your zones so mild, 
 
 In time, they will desert you here 
 
 And on other climes they'll smile. 
 
 You know that prophets were to come 
 In theae later, days, 
 Now try to test them, if you can, 
 Remember what they say. 
 
 They'll turn your earth all upside down, 
 To use a common phrase, 
 But He that rolls it in its orb 
 Perhaps, can keep it straight. 
 
 In time, the bowels of your earth 
 Will turn inside out, 
 What think you, skeptics, now, of this ? 
 Oh ! you may have your doubts. 
 
 Y^'ou once did doubt the earth was round 
 And in an orbit roU'd, 
 Remember God the ruler, high, 
 He doth all things controll. 
 
\PAJSOEAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION, 43 
 
 And if He could make sucli a ball 
 And roll it high in air, 
 Then he could turn it inside out, 
 It's true, we do declare ! . 
 
 The internal fires that now do burn 
 In the bowels of your earth, 
 Serve as steam to the iron horse, 
 Driving the engine forth. 
 
 They serve to turn your earthly ball 
 And keep it in its place, 
 In it's orbit whore it moves. 
 Rolling high in space. 
 
 When thousands of years have rolled away. 
 Mankind will surely see, 
 The torrid will be frigid then, 
 And the frigid torrid be. 
 
 But away, among the rocky heights, 
 Where gold mining is begun. 
 You'll go in mighty companies 
 And gather by the ton. 
 
 The ore, we mean, the shining ore, 
 The gold-God of the ear'h, 
 The God whom many worship. 
 The o-old-God of the earth. 
 
44 FAJS'^ORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREA TION. 
 
 But where there are no waving trees, 
 Though I tell it now in rhyme, 
 Yon'U plant as mighty orchards, 
 The maple and the pine. 
 
 For sawing and for wood-lands, 
 And for sugar-making, too, 
 And learn to make an eden 
 Where is but desert now. 
 
 You'll set thick hedges round your fields 
 Of fruit and strain and graas, 
 Then thickly set the evergreens 
 To protect from chilling blasts. 
 
 You'll plant your seeds from grafted fruit, 
 Then let them natural grow. 
 You'll learn they'll better stand the winds 
 Which o'er the prairies blow. 
 
 You every day learn something new 
 If angels do you teach. 
 And what you call your gospel now 
 You'll be ashamed to teach. 
 
 The wisest lived iu olden time. 
 
 Pray do not at us rail, 
 
 You can't compete with their fishing, no, 
 
 Neither their catching quails. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 The quails that fell around the camp, 
 Camp of the Israelites, 
 If you bhould see them all compact 
 Oh, thej might you affright. 
 
 They'd make a wall around your earth 
 Equal to the Chinese, 
 Sufficient, yes, in thickness for 
 Several to ride abreast. 
 
 The mountains you volcanoes call, 
 Were seen of ancient date. 
 And thouejht to be the mighty mouths 
 Of the burning brimstone lake. 
 
 But we think that it has ceased tt burn, 
 For we hear not of late 
 From press or desk, of this horrid pit, 
 The burning, brimstone lake. 
 
 Some mothers, dear, have wept aloud 
 When their children have cross'd o'er. 
 Thinking the torments of this lake 
 They'd endure forever-more. 
 
 But now they come, like Noah's Dove 
 Who left the Ark unfold, 
 And to this dark, benighted land 
 They many truths have told. 
 
PA NO E A MIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 We shall reveal so much to jou 
 
 Yonr Convents they will ope', 
 
 Breakino- the shackles of the Romish Church 
 
 With curses to thQ Pope. 
 
 Your Government it is all base, 
 Imperfect, mean, and .low, , ... 
 
 But we, from Heave n'ij Eternal Throne,., 
 A perfect one will show. 
 
 We'll raise a flagr that Sft?*^ must flaunt 
 In jQH blue ether air, 
 And the Nations all for it will shout, 
 So never more dispair. 
 
 For centuries gone bv. 
 
 And those v»rho"ve past to higher life, 
 
 Against you they do cry. 
 
 We want your world for to progress 
 
 Faster than it does now, 
 
 And if you with our counsel heq(i^ j^'ypj'']; 
 
 We'll try to tell you how. 
 
 Now if you wish for to progress 
 We'll tell-yon what tp do, ■ 
 Just keep the angels paramount 
 And crash the brute below. 
 
PAN0EA3JIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
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 All try for to coufine yourselves 
 To what is just and good, " 
 And then your sight will fee so clear 
 You'll see beyond the flood. 
 
 Then you'll attract the augels bright 
 To such a high degree, 
 That when mankind steps on earth's plane 
 Better organized they'll be. 
 
 Then you'll progress to higher life, 
 Higher and still higher, 
 Until the animal in man 
 There wholty does expire. 
 
 And then you'll see Christ's Kingdom come, 
 But not Jesus in the air 
 As many christians they have thought, 
 You ne'er will see him there. 
 
 But you wiU see peace on your earth, 
 And an pxercised good will, 
 And as the waters cover the earth 
 It with righteous will be fill'd 
 
 Then you'd learn to live with labor less. 
 But our idea never scorn, 
 You'll be busy as the little bee 
 Which blows his tiny horn. 
 
48 PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATJOIf. 
 
 You'll study arts and sciences, 
 All the raind could ever scan, 
 Likewise the highest interests 
 Of the god-part of man. 
 
 You're in your Alphabet to-day 
 Concerning spirit life, 
 And the very lines we here do pen 
 They will create a strife. 
 
 Some will think it's all the Medium 
 That we are writing through, 
 For their visions are too limited 
 To understand it now- 
 
 But such can feed on milk a while, 
 If they're to weak for meat ; 
 If they can't understand us quite, 
 When we attempt to speak. 
 
 When a few more revolutions, 
 Your earth makes round the sun. 
 Perhaps you'll better understand 
 Us spirits when we come. 
 
 For soon you'll see, yes eye to eye, 
 And face to face we say; 
 All things will be transform'd anew, 
 And the old be done away. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 49 
 
 Then your paper fences will tumble do\Tn, 
 And Christ will be the wall 
 Which will surround the church of God, 
 This is the one and all. 
 
 There will be no bigots in his church, 
 Nor sectarians, no, no ; 
 
 But peace from Heaven, like a mighty stream 
 Throughout your earth must flow. 
 
 Some think the world it retrogrades, 
 But it's nonsense thus to speak j 
 And those who think this is the case, 
 Their minds they must be weak. 
 
 But everything it must progress, 
 In heaven, and earth, and sea ; 
 Animals, birds, and fishes all, 
 Mankind and Deity. 
 
 But this may seem quite novel sure, 
 To think God does progress ; 
 The holy, loftv and the high. 
 Who gives you food and rest. 
 
 He surely must progress, we know 
 To be ahead of man ; 
 Although he is the Deity, 
 Who does creation scan. 
 
50 PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREA TION. 
 
 There's nought on earth that dormant lies, 
 There's no such thiup^ we know ; 
 All must progress or retrograde, 
 As nature plainly shows. 
 
 Perhaps the motion of your earth, 
 You all do understand ; 
 Knowing the power of Him who rules, 
 Who holds it in His hand. 
 
 Your earthly ball, a spirit hath, 
 As much as morta 1 man ; 
 Connected with the mighty flood, 
 Which serves to roll it on. 
 
 The attractions of the moon ne'er made, 
 The tides to ebb or flow, 
 For out they go, and in they com^, 
 As the earth turns round we know. 
 
 You're taught the mountains are to melt. 
 And seas are to retire, 
 And this earthly ball on which yon live. 
 All be consumed by fire. 
 
 But we think that God would foolish be. 
 To make so fair a ball. 
 And then turn round and burn it up. 
 Having no cause at all. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 51 
 
 His works he never will consume, 
 He maketh no play-toys 
 To use a while, then tear in bits. 
 Like many foolish boys. 
 
 Your earthly ball a Paradise, 
 Will be sure below : 
 No matter what you read in books, 
 The angels they do kdow. 
 
 But you should rightly organize, 
 Yes, make all right the brain. 
 And if you step in virtues path. 
 Try there for to remain. 
 
 No boltrf or locks you then will wQe.il^ 
 To s.'ifely keep your doors ; 
 But Heaven, will its windows ope. 
 And its blessings on you pour. 
 
 Then wars will cease throughout your lands. 
 And nations no more it learn. 
 Your spears be used for pruuing-hooks, 
 And yoLir swords to plow-shares turn. 
 
 We do expect to war awhile. 
 With none or little praise, 
 But when you rightly organize. 
 The flag of truce you'll raise. 
 
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CREATION. 
 
 Our history is not finished quite, 
 We'll give thousands of verses morr, 
 Connected with the spirit-land, 
 Pen'd from that lovely shore. 
 
 When we've described your rolling orb, 
 Telling its changes through ; 
 Then we'll describe the spirit-land. 
 Telling its chancres too. 
 
 Mankind was born on earth to die. 
 The bodv, not the soul ; 
 But the spirit can return to earth, 
 And other forms control. 
 
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