Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-30

and the squirrels have filed their cellar
with nuts. God shows the hungry ich-
neumon where it may find the croco-
dies eggs; and in arctic climes there
are animals that God so lavishly clothes
that they can afford to walk through
snowstorms In the finest sable and err
mine and chinchilla, and no sooner is
one set of furs worn out than God
gives them a new one. He helps the
spider in it's architecture of its gossamer
bridge and takes care of the color OF
tile butterfy's wing and tinges the
cochineal and helps the moth out OF
the chrysalis.
The animal creation also has its army
and navy. The most insignificant has
its means of defense-the wasp its sting;
the reptile its tooth; the bear its paw;
the dog its muzzle; the elephant its
tusk; the fish its scale; the bird its
swift wing; the reindeer its antlers; the
roe its feet foot. We are repelled at
the thought of sting and tusk and hoof,
but Gods goodness provides them for
the defense of the animals rights.
GODS CARE FOR THE LOWER ORDERS.
Yea, God in the Bible announces hiF
care for these orders of creation. He
says that he has heaved up fortifica-
tions for their defense-Psalm civ, 1S,
THE high hills are a refuge for the wild
goats; and the rocks for the comics ;"
He watches the birds nest-Psalm civ,
II. Gas for the stork, the fir trees are
her house." He sees that the cattle
have enough grass-PsalIn civ, IA, HE
causeth the .grass to grow for the cat
tie" He sees to it that the COWS and
sheep and horses have enough to drink
Psalm civ, 10, IL: HE sendeth the
springs into the valleys, which run
among the hills; they give drink to
every beast of the field. The wild
asses quench their thirst"
Amid the thunders of Sinai God ut
tered the rights of cattle, and said that
they should bave a Sabbath. '"Thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the thrashing
floor should have the privilege of eat
| ing some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. If young
birds were taken from the nest for
food, the despoiler's life depended on
the mother going free. God would not
let the mother bird suffer in one day
the loss of her young and her own
liberty. And he who regarded in olden
time the conduct of man toward the
brutes, today looks down from heaven
and is interested in every minnow that
swims the stream, and every rook that
cleaves the air, and every herd that
| bleats or neighs or lows in the pas
| ture.
Why did God make all these and why
make them so happy2 How account
for all this singing and dancing and
frisking amid the irrational creation9
Why this heaven for the animalcule in
a dewdropl Why for the condor q
throne on Chimborazol Why the gilt
ter of the phosphorus in the ships wake
on the sea, which is said to be only the
frolc of millions of insectsl Why the
perpetual chanting of so many voices
from the irrational creation In earth
and air and ocean-beasts, and all cat
tie, creeping things and flying fowl, per-
mitted to join in the praise that goes
up from seraph and archangel4 Only
one solution, one explanation, one an
swer-God is good. "The earth is full
of the goodness of the Lord"
THE COMFORTS OF MAN.
take a step higher, and notice the
adaptation of the world to the comfort
and happiness of man. The sixth day
of creation had arrived. The palace ol
the world was made, but there was nc
king to live In it. Levlathan ruled the
deep, the eagle the air, the lion the
field, but where was the scepter which
should rule alll A new style of being
was created, Heaven and earth were
represented In his nature. His body
from the earth beneath; his soul from
the heaven above. The one reminding
him of his origin, the other speaking o
his destiny-himself the connecting linl
between the animal creation and an
gellc intelligence. In him a strang'
commingling of the temporal and eter
nal the finite and the infinite, dust anC
glory. The earth for his floor ant
} heaven for his roof God for his father
eternity for his lifetime
The Christian anatomist, gazing upoI
} the conformation of the human body
, exclaims, "Fearfully and wonderful!
, made" No embroidery so elaborate
no gauEe so delicate, no color so ex
, quislte, no mechanism SO graceful, M
, handiwork SO divine. So quietly anC
mysteriously does the human body per
form It's functions that II was not unit
Z Ave thousand years after the creation
, OF the race that the circulation of tn
blood was discovered, and though
, anatomists OF all countries and age
have been so long exploring this castl
! OF life they have only begun to under
stand H.
Volumes have been written OF TIN
hand Wondrous instrument With
I We give friendly recognition, and grasI
! the sword, and climb the rock, anC
write and carve and build. II con
structed the pyramids and hoisted th'
Parthenon. IL made the harp and thel
struck out of II all the worlds min
strelsy. la Il the white marble o
, pentelioOn mines dreamed itself awal