The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-04

world wants an emperor and empress.
II is Saturday afternoon. No one but
the Lord Almighty can originate hui
man being. In the world where there
arc i'll the latter part of the Nineteenth
century over fourteen hundred million
! people, human being is not curiosity.
! But how about the first human eve
that was ever kindled, the first human
car that was ever opened, the first hui
man lung that ever brcathed. the first
human heart that ever beat, the first
human life ever constructed? That
needed the orgination of God. lie had
no model to work by. What stupcndous
work for a Saturday afternoon! lie must
originate style OF human heart through
which all the blood in the body must
pass every three minutes. He must
make that heart so strong that it can,
during each day, lift what would be equal
to one hundred and twenty tous of
weight, and it must be SO arranged as to
beat over thirty-sX million times every
year. About five hundred muscles must
be strung in the right place, and at least
two hundred and fifty bo.cs constructed.
Into this body must be put at least nine
pcrspiring pores must be made for every
inch OF tlcshly surface.
The human voice must be so construct
cd it shall be capable producing seven
teen trillion iive-hundrcd and ninetv-two
billion one hundred and cighty-siX mil
lion tOrty-iour thousand four hundred
and fifteen sounds. But all this the
most insignificant part of the human be-
ing. The soul! All, the construction
OF that God himself would not be equal
to il he were any the less of God. It's
understanding, its will, its memory, its
conscience, its capacities Of enjoyment
or suffering, its immortality! What Il
work Tor Saturday afternoon! Aye!
Before night there were to be two such
human and yet immortal beings con-
Structcd. The woman as well as the
man was formed Saturday afternoon.
because deep sleep fell upon Adam,
ana by divine surgery Il portion of his
SIDE was removed for the nucleus OF an.
OTHER creation, it has hccn supposed that
perhaps days and nights passed between
the masculine and feminine creations.
But no! Adam was not three hours
unmated.
If & phyrlcian can by an;rsthctics put
one into 4 dccr sleep in three minutes,
God certainly could have put Adam into
a profound sleep in short while that
Saturday afternoon, aud made :hc deep
and radical cXClsiOn without causing dis
trcsS. by manipulation Of the dust
the same hand that molded the noun
talns nodded the features and nodded
the limbs of the father Of the human
race. But his eyes did not see, and his
norves did not feel, and his muscles did
not move, and his lungs did not breathe,
and his heart did not pulsate. a per-
feet form he lay along the earth, SYM
mctrical and O; godlikc countcnancc.
Magnificent piece Of Divine carpentry
and Omhipotcnt sculpturing, but no
vitality. ~ body without a soul.
Then the source Of all life stopped to
the lnanimate nostril and lip, and as
many Il skilllul and earnest physician
has put his lips TO a patient in comatOse
state and brcathcd into his mouth aud
nostril, and at the same time compress
cd the lungs, until that which was arti-
fetal respiration became natural rcspira-
ton, so mcthinks God brcathcd INTO this
cold sculpture OF a man the breath ofliic,
and the heart begins to tramp, and the
lungs to inhalc, and the eyes to open,
and the entire form to thrill, and with
the rapture Of a life just come the
PROSTATE being leaps to bis tcct-a man!
But the scene OF this Saturday is not
yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy
with the breath ofllowcrs and the song Of
bObolinks and robin rcdbrcasts, the man
slumbcrs, and by anHsthctics, divnely
administered, the slumbcr dccpcns until
without the OOzing Of one drop OF blood
at the time or the iaintest scar aftcrward,
that portion ls removed from his side
which is to be built up the Queen of
Paradise, the daughter OF the great God,
the mother OF the human race, the bcnc-
diction Ofall ages, woman the wife, after
ward weman the mother. And as the
two join hands and stroll down along
the banks of the Eupnratcs toward a
bower Of mi@nOncttc and wild rose and
honcysucklc, and are listening to the call
OF the whip.pOOr-will from the aromatic
thickcts the sun sinks beneath the hori-
zon. And the evening and the morn
ing we've the sixth day"
GREAT WEEKS WORK.
What do you think of that one weeks
work: | review it not for cntcrtain-
men!, but because | would have you Join
IN David's doXolOgY, "Grcat and marvel
Gus are thy works, Lord God Almighty;"
because | want You to know what a
homestead our Father built for his chll-
drcn at the start, though sin has dcs-
pollcd 1t, and because | want YOU to
know how the world Will look again when
Christ Shall have restored it, swinging
now between two Edcns; because want
you to realize something of what a
mighty God he is, and the utter folly Of
trying to war against him; because
want you TO make peace with tins Chief
of the Universe through the Christ who
mcdlatcs between offended OmnipOtcncc
and human rebellion; because | want
You to know ,how fcarlully and wonder
iully you are made, your body as well as
your soul an Omnipotcnt achievement;
because ! want you to realize that order
rci9ns throughout the universe, and that
Gods watches tick to the second, and
that his clocks strike regularly, thougl,
they strike once in a thousand years.
y learned man once asked an old
| (hriS tjon man who boI pn o,lv pt