Show 8 THE PEEP 0’ DAT— A LITERARY MAGAZINE ' rr:vT '( OUE TITLE This morning we herald forth to the world the first number of the PEEP O’DAY a' title by which we by no means refer to any supposed light about to be shed by our individual efforts on a darkened world but to the damning of a brighter civilization which will spread its glorifying influence over the earth We are great believers in what Carlyle would call the “Latter Day Glory” not simply because Mormon 4 cachings have led our bedazzled imaginations to look for a future millennial splendor but as much as anything because the hard facts of history as we will endeavor to show point undeviatingly that way From a condition of wandering tribes dwelling in tents the world was introduced to the forms peculiar to organized cities and communities and were taught the simplest outlines of social life by the raising up of the gr'at Egyptian Empire One great Empire then succeeded another each teaching in its experience and history some principal of governmental control or displaying some phase of the necessities of national life If o ugh Rugged and Barbaric it is true While these progressive moveimyits were occupying the main world the great Jewish Theocracy in a corner by itself was producing in the lives of its prophets and many sublime and ennobling doctrines necessary to be interwoven into the faith and practice of all future civilized life Society then received a mighty upheaval — Greece and Rome arose Two great national apostles of order and beauty were they one to lay a foundation for the world’s civil code and the other to teach the principles of art and beauty While they were impressing society with their higher forms of civilizod life as conceived in the hearts of their sons by the Almighty thus developing man intellectually Jesus the Great Teacher in another part of this same globe was establishing the doctrines of a purer life and teaching the great principles that regulate the heart But before intellectual liberty can be properly appreciated or judiciously enjoyed the opposite — a time of intellectual bondage — must be felt Hence the great spiritual despotism arose This brought out the disciples of liberty in every land Hubs Wickliffe Calvin and Luther appear to do battle for humanity Still further developers and consolidators of liberty arise each in their turn breaking down some tyrannical institution under which in the providence of God they had intentonally been made to smart The Invisible Linger then sends Columbus across the seas to open the new continent urisoilcd by King-craHere on new ground the children of a providence prepared by their past experience for the business and inspired for the occasion give birth to principles which accepted by a nation lay the broadest platform of all for civil and social life While so much was thus being done with an eye to the great future in civil and social matters the world was being developed to perfection in the arts of music sculpture painting etc Greece and Rome had' left behind them their conceptions to swell the perfections law-give- ! ft ( of the great culminating Latter Day period Italy came out as the apostle of song and spread the influence of music abroad Germany took up metaphysics and theory while the great practical sciences were grasped by England and America and thus the work of preparing for linage in which all that is good great and glorious of all previous ages should be culminated in one majestic civilization went unconsciously but swiftly along And how what of our time? The currents of mjrrxrpr n'J' a inftbroken and sent are flooding over the world thought up Movements abound each seeking to bring to the birth something4 higher and holier than before among which the voluntary gathering of over sixty thousand people from all parts of the earth leaving father mother and all — the joybus attractions of home and country— with the avowed intention of building' up in an almost trackless desert a higher state of society whether4 illusion or not is still the mightest token of all It that many of the humanizing efforts of our times fail before the greatness of the task attempted yet 'great and small indicating still the purpose of the over- ruling hand Like a multitude of widely scattered volcanic eruptions prove the existence of some mighty" subterraneous force seeking to get vent so these manifold manifestations of the yearnings of society for something better —something higher and holier — prove that the great better is coming towards which the Invisible Force is driving the whole It is a grand thought that the world never ha apostatized from the great purpose of itsDirectorv Temporary and partial apostacies have it is true prevailed particular principles have temporarily been submerged God always works by opposites The extreme of the papacy gave birth to protestant liberty- - English tyranny planted in mens minds the conception of the Amerii can Constitution and so of every form of corruption Society likea gladiator has stepped back but it has always been to plant the heavier blow It has occasionally rolled back like the waves from the beach but to return with redoubled force and vigor higher up tlic shore The great building of humanity Was commenced with man and the work has never been but temporally laid aside All apostles all reformers all inventors have toiled tlieir day upon its walls The foundation has been laid the pillars have been reared e and shall not the come ? And now for the grand argument of the whole inasmuch as in the past history better has always in the long run succeeded better better is therefore frtill to come Let every heart rejoice society moves upward under the hand of the controlling God If every past age lias been toiling to produce something to enlarge man’s mind to direct his heart to enrich his genius to charm liis taste to cultivate his rich invention or artistic skill depend upon it there is an age coming ' that Will use them all of the wc that stand thrcshhold Of that S' Upon age all comprising all culminating era of civilization Truth Art Science and Immortality wc behold the dawn a dawn gently rising on every nation kindred ' and tongue so manifestly clear so innocently bright that every one whose reflecting eye is turned towards its glorious uprising will say with us — II AIL TO THIS cap-ston- ! 4 4 H Peep O’ Day — - PURE BENEVOLENCE - “ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen' No ono credits what a world of help this really is Some amiable gentlemen of this city with a view of course towards increasing our subscription list have generously saved us the trouble and expense of advertising by going round —unknown to us —under tho pretence of being opposed to ourypaper Knowing of opposition that dwells in human nature they have hit upon this expedient as tlie best method of helping us fully calculating that human like will always go the contrary way to the one you pull it In liis enthusiasm in our cause one of these persons went so faj as to say some very hard things about our unborn sheet and did it so naturally pig-hatu- re |