The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-22

that he worketh all things after the counsel OF
HE own will. And We say that it heie htens
the interest of the Christian to feel that Provi-
dence 10 always moving in the right direction,
70 forward the accomplishment of His wn great
purposes, the amelioration and redemption of
humanity.
Now that the country. the continent on which
we dwell, is designed TO play q most magnificent
part in the history of the future, in the unfold
ment of Divine Providence, IS very clear and
very apparent, whether we look at its physical,
its historical Its political or it's religious aspect
We comprehend that all terrestrial develop
ment needs embodiment. 1t 1s spirit OF birth
and being into time. 1t affords an avenue
through which materiality can operate upon Il.
Now, If we have judged rightly upon this sub
iect, what the body is TO the spirit, the conti
nent is to society and mans terrestrial deye,
lopment. This Is Che main idea which we shall
illuminate and impress upon your minds In the
peculiar discourses that we may present to you
tonight and the two succeeding Sabbath nights.
What is this body? 1t is a union of the circu-
latOry the respiratory, the assmiative, the
absorbent the muscular, and the nervous
systems.
They are all governed by laws-al move by
laws. Each one of these systems has its own
peculiar functions to perform, and yet they all
move forward together, building up this COM
plicated wonderful machinery-the human body.
This is pervaded and preserved by one liie that
is actuated and governed by one sole Judge of
the world. II one of these systems be detective
or deficient, the whole system is changed.
Let there be an arrest placed upon one of these
systems, and there is an arrest placed upon the
whole.
This is true in vast majority of cases, per.
maps IN every case, OF some one OF these systems.
And this is what constitutes in iact the tenn
peTament OF the individual. The first man that
classified temperaments classified them upon the
wrong basis. 1t is true that this was based upon
tbe wrong basis, and yet 1t is true that the tenn.
Herament has an infinite amount to do with the
manifestations of the mind.
Arrangements of the contract system have
very much the same relationship TO society that
tpmDarament does human
Tie amount is manifested from that body.
There may be deficiency, and development
correspondent to that deficiency. We wish to
impress that upon your mind as we pass along.
There may be little mystery. For instance,
you have the Desert OF Sahara. There may
be lack OF heat, and you have the snow
capped mountain.
There may be a growth, and yet you may
haYe no regular development of vegetation. To
gather the idea that we wish to Impress that
IN this regard the continent sustains very much
the relationship to society that the human body
does to the soul, and that the continent is de-
Veloped SO 1t developes, and untolds, and ex
pands in that continent.
NOW let me illustrate. We wish to lo0k for
moment at the magnifcentd domain, in one single
aspect that the Divine Being has kindly per-
mitted ss to call our home, and contrast it with
one or two continents in the same regard.
In regard to the surface OF the North Amer
can continent, We find that we have 5,472,0 900
square milec OF this we have in the United
States ], $4,000. In the South American conti-
nent we have 5,l36, 900 combined, we have
10,60s,0O0 square miles. Now Europe has
2,6sS,Oo0. The United States of America-not
20 speak OF the American continent-has nearly
MY per cent; more square miles than the whole
EUROPE. III mas nearly the same amount as
-. - Australia combined. Africa has
s,720,000.
Inc Joint to which we wish to call your
attention in reference to that relationship Is
this.-In the United States of America, or rather
IN tha North I'm continent. Z4,UU
miles lying along the coast, which give Izo
square miles to every mile of coast line. In tne
South American continent you have l3,60O
square miles, which give 376 square miles to
every line of coast. Now, see the contrast In
Africa Where you have miles, there are 623
square miles to every mile of coast line. Not
One-third the amount in Asia, wnica mas 4oS
square miles to every mile of coast line.
You may not see just no the bearing Of this
upon the question; but, by-and-by, you will see
it, We have produced the statistics before you.
The mind developes from the body, for the body
is but one of the senses, or an imperfect sense.
Development is corresponding. Ii an organ of
vision is defective, the Development correspond
ingly defective. If the organ of hearing i, de-
stroyed, the development Is corresponding.
When yop see mana man OF noble bearing
standing erect, with an expanded forehead and
flashing eye, and muscular physical develop.
ment you say there is man. every inch OF
aim; and you look for an intellect correspond
ing in this respect.
God has placed man at the head of the ter
restrial creation. He has given him dignity;
He has written it upon his brow. Man should
not bow to ANYTHING, save to his Creator, in
alteration; and there is no power in nature that
can degrade man, unless it be himself, when he
voluntarily degrades himself, as he stoops to
things beneath him and serves himself rather
than the Creator.
Go over to Europe. There is the little country
of Switzerland. The bright mountain maid has
always had her home in that land. The legions
OF Rome again and again carried their eagles
over the SUBMITS of her hills and through her
valleys; but liberty, unconquerabe in Switzer-
land, the Roman legions could not subdue.
" France tried 1t, and upon certain occasion,
IN the graveyard Of SAINT Jacob and Basle,
seVenty-four hundred of her soldiers held back
and conquered twenty-four thousand of the
imperial army of France. And yet what has Swift
Zerland made? There is no sea coast. There is
mighty soil gathered around her, but then the
machinery Is wanted.
In regard to America, God has given us
grander field of development. Now look, for
instance, as distinct from Switzerland, at the
Islands of Great Britain; see how wondrously
they are placed away up at the North, and yet
the Teutons and Angles, finding in Germany no
proper field for their DEVELOPMENT. guided by
the band OF Divine Providence, passed over to
England from the fourth to the eighth CEN
turies. where they succeeded in establishing
monarchical form of government. What ha:
be- the result? Why, Britain has had he,
boast for years, for centuries, that She wa,
mistress of the sea, and the royal standard haI
heen floating on every gale, and she has proudI,
sgid that her march was on the mountain wave
They maintained the dominancy for lon
time, until America came in, and she mas bee
Obliged to resign the sceptre, and America no.
has the most nGmerous tonnage on the earth
Well, now in regard to the magnificent Govern
Il Ir;,nSn shores are washed on the east o
the Atlantic, and OH the far west by the Pacific
we shall baye occasion u UNFOLD tnis more
large in our succeeding discu, ses'
Nav we not interpret the Dlnne intention