Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-31
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CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATH AN.
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WHY MADE /?

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WHY MADE?
70 the rejecting mind, the works Oh I1od
afford q prolific theme. No matter where
we are, our senses bring us in contact with
countless varieties of objects. we see crea-
lures of all forms, of all sizes, OF all colors,
/ and of all modes of existence. we see the
grass springing out of the ground; the water
winding it's way through the valleys; the air
is full of tiny insects and feathered song
sters: the ocean is alive with fish OF endless
varieties. Each one of our five senses pre-
sents to our minds the works of creation in
different aspect. The blush of the rose IS
discovered by sight, but we gain a knoWl-
edge of it's delicious odor by the sense OF
smell. The gaudy color of some birds is in
striking contrast with their harsh notes.
The color of their feathers charms our eyes,
but their discordant notes CRATE upon our
ears. Is=.s - - - =
Why all this endless variety? Why were
all these creatures brought into existence?
Some of them live for many years while
others exist but fora very short time, Why
| was SO much beauty bestowed upon flower
which blooms in the morning and Wlthers
and dies in the evening? Why are the
| wings of the butterfly so gaudy since the
creature which they adorn is doomed to live
but for an hour We need not pause to an
swer these questions, no matter how impor-.
tant, but pass on to make another inquiry,
| in which we all are far more interested.
That other question is, why did God make
man? From good authority, we learn that
man was made lord of the lower world.
This high prerogative we still claim. We
cherish, with delight, the thought that we
are superior to all those things we see or hear.
Such being the case, "what object" we may
ask, chad the Creator in view in bringing
us into existence, and what does he propose
to accomplish by preserving us in being?
No one, who has just conception ofGod,
will, for a moment, entertain the thought
that the Divine being had no object in view,
but that he made man without any purpose,
end or design. God must have had some
object in view in bringing into existence
the smallest creature that creeps upon the
ground or floats in the air. We cannot con-
ceive of the opposite as true. The greater
always includes the less. The whole is
equal to all the parts. IfGod had a purpose
to accomplish in creating worm, surely ne
had purpose in creating man. What was
| that purpose ? we may inquire.
To this question number of answers, no
doubt, will be returned by the thoughtless.
The man, whose soul is temporarily abb
sorbed in the acquisition of wealth, replies,
"God made man to accumulate riches" Is
it probable that Ged had no other object in
view in bringing man into existence? Is it
even possible? Can we believe that man
was designed to subserve no higher purpose
than to toll and struggle, night and day, for
few years, that he might gather together
great number of perishable objects, and then
grow old, lie down and die? If this is all,
why does not the acquisition of these things
satisfy the cravings within our throbblng
breasts? No one ever yet had gold sutfi-
Gent to fill the aching void within him.
In physical strength and animal enjoy
! ments, the OK is superior to mau. Some of
| the lOWeranimals are endowed with Instincts
| which are truly marvellous. Solomon, with
all his knowledge, could 60 to the ant to
| learn lessons of wisdom. If to accumulate
wealth was the only object God had in view
| in bringing man into existence, then man
| is not superior, but greatly inferior to the
meanest worm that crawls. The wants of
the worm are few and easily supplied, and
| it can say at all times, II am satisfied" The
wants of man are many and hard to be sat-
| isfied.
The worm and man were made and are
preserved for the same purpose. Ask the
Matchmaker, "Whatis the ultimate end or
design of the smallest cog in the smallest
wheel?" His reply, if sensible, will be
that it subserves the same purpose and was
designed to accomplish the same end as the
hands upon the dial plate. 1t takes all the
wheels and all the cOgs in all the wheels, all
the springs, and all the piyots, and all in
their proper places, to constitute watch.
| Each subserves particular purpose but the
combined purpose of all is to mark the pro-
gress of time.
So it is in creation: Everything in the
universe was designed by God for the same
purpose. The end to be effected or accom-
plished by each and all is the same. A
grand harmony was designed to run through
| the whole. Each creature has its particular
work to accomplish, but that particular work,
| be it what it may, is only part of one grand
and glorious whole.
The chief end or object which the Creator
had in view in bringing man, as well as all
other things, into existence was his own
glory and the good Ofhis creatures. Through
out the whole of creation there is grand
gradation. The vegetable kingdom con-
| tains all that is contained in the mineral
kingdom and something more. The animal
kingdom contains all that is contained in
the Vegetable kingdom and something more.
No matter how much wisdom and power
there may be displayed in the rocks, there
| is more displayed in a single blade of grass.
Great as NAV be the exhibition of wisdom
and power in the delicate tints of the rose
there is far greater exhibition in the small
est creature endowed with animal life.
| In the creatures constituting the three
kingdoms of nature, there is also a grand
graduation. There are steps from the lowest
| to the highest. They rise in regular grada-
| ton until we reach man. Each is separate
and distinct-a perfect world in itself-but
at the same time a part of a grand whole
Each higher in this scale of graduation, pos
sesses all that was possessed by all the pre-
ceding grades. At length we reach man.
Here we find all that is contained in the
mineral kingdom, all that is contained in
the vegetable kingdom, and all that is pos
sessed by the orders Of animals which pre-
cede him in the scale of graduation. Man is
all that is contained in the mineral, Vegeta-
BILE and animal Kingdoms, and something
more. What that something is we may not
be able to tell. The difference between the
lowest and highest creatures Of the same Or
der is very great, but the difference between
the highest creature of one order and the
lowest creature in the following order is so
minute that it cannot be discerned.
In this graduation Of creation we pass from
man, an animal and something more, to an