The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-04-12

ming fingers put them together, every Wheel
knows its place, and every pivot and every
screw its home, though it be picked "ith'.i
from a dish containing ten
Yet among these parts th' "rt
screws of which it takes one hundred and ff
ty thousand to make a pound, and shafts and
bearings which are so delieately turned that
five thousand shavings will only extend
lineal inch along the steel. This is the way
American watches are made, and this is the
way in which the highest practicable perfec
ton is reached in the manufacture of these
pt cket monitors.
Here We have small work, organized and
great elaboration of related details. When
DR. Scott wrote his passages on the card, his
work was very simple. He did only one
thing-he made letters. VIII II he had made
letter after letter until the little space was fill
ed, his work was done. II was no, part OF
some complicated and inter-dependent whole
related to a thousand other parts in other
hands. suppose it may be as delicate work
to drill a jewel with hair of steel, armed
with paste of diamond-dust as to write "Our
Father under microscopes; but when the
Jewel has to be drilled with relation to the
reception of a revolving metallic pivot, the
process becomes very much nicer. SO here
are hundred processes going on at the same
time. in different parts of building, all re-
lated to each other, each delicate almost be-
yond description, and effected with such pre-
cision that a mistake is so much an exception
tina; il is surprise have seen the huge
steam engines at Scranton which furnish
power for the blast Of the furnaces there, and
their magnitude and power and most impress
Sive majesty OF movement have made me
tremble: Vet as works Of man they are no
greater than Wa!tham watch
1t seems 10 me- that a man occupies posi-
ton Just half way between infinite greatness
and infinite liitleness, and that he can Meth
er ascend nor descend to any considerable
degree without bringing up against wall
which shows where man ends and God be-
gins. IL seems. too. that that kind of human
power which can reach dowr. deeply into the
infinite littleness is more remarkable than
that which rises highest toward the infinite
greatness. II is more difficult and a more
remark able thing to write the Lords PRAYER
on single line less than an inch long. than j,
WOUIt. az ~ t''i4iAl II WI idNt VI tllt
>ades, upon Il line Il mile long, IN letters the
length of the painters Ladder. | have heard
of watch so small that il was set in ring
and worn upon th- finger: and such watch
seems very much more mar, elous To me than
The engines Of the Great Eastern.
Illumination upon the memories which
rave recalled has brought 10 my mind sub
icct that has very important bearing upon
my own lie ana the life of the world. and
il is for this reason write about them. We
are in the habit Of regarding God as the au-
thor of all the great movements of the uni
VERSE, but as having nothing to do direct,
with the minor movements. Mr. Emerson
becomes equally tiippant and irreverent wher
ne speaks of "pistareeu Providence.- W,
kindly take the Creator and upholder of al
things under our patronage. and say. "it i
very well for hum TO swing star into space
ana oct bound, t" the Goa" and order The -
Ings of great systems, and even Ia mnis,e
70 the lives of great men, but when ii come
to meddllng with the little affairs of the dali,
!ite Of thousand millions of men, wome,
and chilCren-pshaw. He's above all that.
Not So fast. Mr. Emerson The real r,a
son why YOU and all those who are like yol
10 not believe i'll Gods intimate cognizanc
,nd administration of human affairs is tha
YOU cannot comprehend them Yol hav
not faith enough N God TO believe that h
IS able to maintain this knowledge of huma,
affairs. his interest in them. and the nowe
and the disposition to mouls: them to divin
issues. lou ale willing 70 admit that Go,
can Go few great things, but You are no
willing to admit that he can do great man
little things. II is gh.according to YOU
notion. for God to make a mastodon or me
satheruE. but quite undignifed for him t
undertake mosquito or horse-fiv.
would not compromise his reputation wit
YOU were youto catch him lighting a sun. G
watching with something of interest the rs
and fall of great nation, but actually to Ii:
ten to The prayer of a little child, and to ar
swer that PRAYER with disiinctness of purpos
and definite exercise of power, would rot. i
: Your opinion, be diSnitied and respeetabl
business tor being whom You are proud /
have the honor OF worShipping.
DO not know how these people who d
, not believe in the intimate special provident
of God can believe in God at all. | can co,
ceive how God could rear Mont Blanc. b,
| cannot conceive how He could make ho,
= ey bee, and endow that honey bee with a
: inStnct-tranSmltted since the creation ,ro
: bee to bee, and swarm to swarm-whit
j binds il in membership to commonweal
+; and enables it to build its waxea cells W:
: mathematical exactness. and gather hon,
: from all the ilowers OF the field. 1t is VIII,
t we go into the infinity below US tn
:, the Infinite power and skill become the mo
evident. Wien the microscope shows
e life in myriad forms, each of which exhibi
e design; when we contemplat. vegetable Ii
|, in its wonderful details when chemistry r
/ veas to us something of the marvellous pr
{ ceSSeS bv which vitality is fed. WI get u.u
l. impressive sense of the power and SIX
|, Of the Creator than we do when We turn I!
t telescope toward the heavens. Yet Mr. Er
- erson would have US believe that the Bel,
g who saw fit to make all these little thing
e to arrange and throw into relation all the
Il masses of detail, to paint the plumage of
Y bird and the back of fly as richly as
$ paints the drapery of the descending su
k does not condescend to take practical intere
e in the affairs of men and women. Nv Go
!. what blindness. Bird. bee. blossom
If MY teacher. l DO not like Mr. Emerson's |.
;. son.
e The logical sequence of disbelief in VIII
1t MIR Emerson Call, 'pistareen Providenc
e is belief IN pantheism or polytheism. The
i IS certainly nothing ridiculous in the fai
: that the Being who oontrived and ar-ang
n and adjusted the infinite littleness of creatio
e and ordained their laws, and who continu
j. their existence, maintains an intimate int
1t est In the only intelligent creatures he h
IS placed in this world. The little bird tn
sings to me, the bee that bears me hone
n the blossom that brings me perfume, all t.
u tifY To me that IL xhn creatnd fhor,, NJ; =,