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THE TWO SCALES

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

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THE TWO SCALES.

By Charles P. Nettleton

BY CHARLES P. NETTLETON.
I THINK this strange, sweet scale of sounds we know, This wondrous swell from highest starlight roll To lowest thunder bass, is to God's whole Vast music realm as one short note, one glow Of light from his great sun, whose wider flow Shall for God's own voice be known by the soul. Then shall no jarring note the rest control, For discord dies with other earthly woe.
If but one note, fragmental thus for man, So awfully can draw a soul confined, What feels the soul when free? Who can foretell? Some mountain tops of truths we may not scan Till spirit sees but spirit, or if defined In some wondrous hour, silence speaketh well.
—Rural Press.