Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-04
nee. We have fish sporting in the

stance. We have fish sporting in the
sea, birds floating in the air. and ami
mails traversing land and sea Some
shel,-fsh, like the crab and lobster,
have their skeleton outside their
flesh; other fish, as the salmon and the
cod, have their skeleton covered by
the flesh. Some trees have their nuts
covered by the feshy fruit; others,
like the tropical cashew, have the nut
outside the feshy fruit. Animals that
occupy the land have invariably, be-
ieve, the skeleton within the body.
The fecundity of nature, too, seems
to be without limit. No circumstances,
no matter how different, prevent her
from giving effect to her operations.
Life springs up on every side-on the
land, in the sea, under the land and in
the air. so that the command given
"Let the waters bring forth abundant
ly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open armament of heaven; and
let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle and
creeping thing, and beasts of the
earth after his kind has been lit
orally fulfilled. Let us consider, too,
how diversified nature is-how, out of
few materials she can produce end
less variety. Take, for instance, the
features of the human face; how few
these are. and yet out OF mill
ions and millions of men how
rarely, if ever, do you find two faces
in every detail alike. Again, consider
in how many ways you can distinguish
one man from another; the voice, the
fall of the foot, the handwriting, all
are different. So, too. with painters.
No two painters paint alike. An ex-
pert connoisseur can easily distinguish
the paintings of one master from an
other. Each man throws naturally
into his voice, his walk, his writing,
his painting, some portion of his own
personality, if he is a true man.. Mr..
Walter Besant, in his Children Of
Gibeon," says that even the lines Of
one mans thumb differ from the lines
of every other mans. Nature never
repeats herself. Consider the birds OF
the air; each species builds its nest
after its own pattern; the eggs of each
are marked differently; their notes are
different; the taste of the flesh is diff
ferent; the plumage is different. But
more wonderful still is the difference
in the vegetable world; no two leaves,
even on the same tree, are exactly the
same. The ordinary observer can see
no difference in the faces of flock of
sheep, but the shepherd can tell one
sheep from another. These dissimi-
larities are endless.
The more we allow our minds to
dwell upon the wonders contained in
this world, the more we are impressed
with the might, the wisdom, the in
telligence of that inscrutable power
to which we give the name of God.
When our wonder eliminates in our
admiration of the complex construc-
ton of man, his hands as instruments
adapted to every variety of work, and
his brain SO adapted as to guide his
hands to the performance OF that work,
we readily exclaim with the poet
Young: ''How wonderful is man!
How passing wonder He that made
him suchr' All that l have written
has reference to this world only.
When we let our minds contemplate
the grand universe of.which our globe
is a mere point in space, and its his
tory a mere point in time, then, in
deed, our wonder should be translated
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