Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-08
From the Western Christian Advocate.
Beauty Of. the Microscopic werld.

From the Western Christian Advocate.
Beauty of. the Microscopic werid.
i There is field of beauty in the organ
4 ic world too delicate to be seen by un-
aided vision. The microscope furnishesa
revelation as full of Gods wisdom and
wonder as the Bible is of his mercy and
love. =" '''."'.' o'' ' ''@' .'.'''i a'
L. The oak-tree is ia text for life-time
of reflection. Up the trunk. along the
diverging branches, over thetwigs, around
the myriad leaves travels thought. But
here the wonder just begins. Place only
a leaf under the glass. The petiole and
1 its branches spread out into greatness like
the original tree repeated. The Mississi-
ppi and all its tributaries turned to living
green could not be more grand. The leaf
chlorophill invites the veinulets. like the
velvet meadows that tie the brooks. But
ON each leaf, on the fraction of q poor
ineh, infusorial life teens with populous
cities. Whoever eats green leaves muir
! ders innocent millions unawares. The
glass discovers in the dusty pore the min
iature giant oak, Light, heat, and ages
will develop it into greatness in perhaps
thousand years. ia .usea. ,tri isr'f
2. Come down to the buttercup" of
the meadow. Place the nlagni6er upon
its petals Behold glory like the stars
and stripes They are cmblems of Gods
universally, His handiwork has been
hidden by our obtuseness. The downy
surface of petal has no riy al in the yari-
gated and rich mingling of colors. Our
eyes call them little glories, but to God Is
mo great, no small" To him the petal
ofa buttercup is as great as tho globe Of
Jupiter. And the tinges of converging
color in the petal are no less Divine
success than the Aurora Of the NORTH
How delicate how modest how SYM
metricnl the entire flower! lToL ; j
| 3. The infinitely little Of animal life
next meets US. The mite of the cheese.
the ell of the vinegar. the proteus of the
marsh, the monad of the pear-pulp, all
could have world ample enough for
millions of them in a cubic inch. Who
/ would believe that clear, pure water has.
in one drop, a transparent globe Of infuso-
rial life as numerous as the people in this
world ofours? Who would dream that
single green leaf is an empire as broad to-
its living inhabitants as the planet Saturn
would be to race ofgiants? Who would
aver that the wire-edge of an old razor is
constantly worn to smoothness by myri-
ads of steel-loving insects, who mike a
7 highway across it until the wire-edge is
worm away, and the old razor has return
cd to sharpness again5 eH, isrg8ss 49,.
4. There is mighty world reveling in
happiness world too minute for mortal
eyes TO discover until the glass opens to
vision their tiny homes. The common
mind is iaithless upon this tntil convinc-
ed by that prince of logicians. Science
Aud what are these for to man of dull
sight but to strengthen his faith? What
say they to man? Hoar: t..r
Consider the lilies Of the fell, how
they grow they toll not, neither do they
4 spin and yet | say unto you that Solomon
IN all his glory was not arrayed like one
of these" God. the feeding
! Father, the bair-numbcring Father, the
/ lily-arraying Father. the insect-creating
/ Father, is also the tender faitl-inspring
! Father of the soul immortal. Ii God de-
| lights TO reveal life and happiness in such
] profusion 50 far beneath us, will he not
certainly stop to be entreated, nay,
! pleased. at the sacred altars of the pray
ing. believing heart? He will, 20, ye
of little faith - The stars that CLEAN ia
beauty above US may inspire our wonder
and awe, but the infuscrial world that
fits in freedom beneath US, unbosoms our
tiaith and joy Deity stoops thus beneath
us to allay fear, and to- affirm parental
love, nay more, redeeming love, to imam,
mysterious link in beings endless chain"
D.. Again, when the water drops are
bound in ice, and the leaves with their
ephemeral Universe of insect life are dead
under the snow-shrouds of Winter, then.
what shall be ever present like miracle
to feed the faith of man? Get the micro
scope again. Catch that dainty fake of
comes from above, like a revelation. No
man could corrupt it. Deity alone form
ed it. In it he has C., ,stallized wisdom.
beauty. snd truth. AS messenger it
comes from the sky. The lens magni6es
i it, What grandeur aud order what har-
mony and beauty Gods finger fashion
ed these crystals of snow They are the
chariot wheels of faith. Sumper and
Winter these mnlti.ndinons miracles Of
Deity in the infinitely little corners of ma
ture, and these miracles Of magnitude in
upholding starry worlds in their cycles Of
light. all proclaim to the faithless, piuing
soul Of man, that the good Father is a
bove, around, beneath MS with his arms
Of love. X.