The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-27


hundred million people. human being
Is not curiosity. But how about the
first human eye that was ever ldndled,
the first human ear that was ever
opened, the first human lung that ever
breathed. the first human heart that
ever beat, the first human life ever con-
structed? That needed the origination
OF God. He had no model to work
by. What stupendous work for Satur-
day afternoon! He 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 tons Of weight, and
1t must be so arranged as to beat over
thirty-six million times every year.
About five hundred muscles must be
strung in the right place and at least
two hundred and fifty bones constructed.
Into this body must be sent at least
nine million nerves. Over three thou
sand perspiring pores must be made for
every inch Of heshy surface. Tho
human voice must be sd constructed II
shall be capable Of producing seventeen
trillion five hundred and ninety-two bill
lion one hundred and eighty-six million
forty-four Thousand four hundred and If
teen sounds. But all this the most insig-
nifcant part of the human being. Tho
SOUL All, the construction of that God
Himself would not be equal TO IL II He
were any the less Of God. It's under
standing, its will, its memory, its con-
science, its capacity of enjoyment or
suffering, its Immortality What q work
for a Saturday afternoon! Ayei Be-
fore night there were TO be two such
human and yet immortal beings con-
structed. The woman as well as tho
man was formed Saturday afternoon.
Because deep sleep fell upon Adam,
and by divine surgery portion Of his
side was removed for the nucleus of
another creation, 1t has been supposed
that perhaps days and nights passed be-
tween the masculine and the feminine
creations. But mol Adam was not
three hours minated. II physician
can by any an@sthetics put one
into deep sleep In three minutes, God
certainly could have put Adam into a
profound sleep in a short while that
Saturday afternoon and made the, deep
and radical excision without causing
distress. By manipulation Of the dust,
the same hand that nodded the noun
tains nodded the features and nodded
the limbs of the father OF the human
race. But his eyes did not see, and his
nerves 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
metrical and of God-like counteuance.
Magnificent piece Of Divine carpentry
and omnipotent sculpturing, but no
Vitality. A body without soul. Then
the source Of all life stopped to the in
animate nostril and lip and, as many
skillful and earnest physician has
put his lips TO a patient in comatose
state and breathed into his mouth and
nostril, and at the same time compressed
the lungs, until that which was artificial
respiration became natural respiration,
somethinlxs God breathed into this cold
sculpture Of man the breath Of life,
and the heart begins TO tramp, and the
lungs TO inhale, and the eyes to open
and the entire form TO thrill, and with
the rapture OF life Just come, the
PROSTATE being leaps 10 his feet-a
man! But the scene Of this Saturday Is
not yet done, and in the atmosphere,
drowsy with the breath of how-
ers, and the song of bobolinks,
and robinredbreasts, the man slum-
bers, and by anesthetics, divinely
administered, the slumber deepens until
without the oozing OF one drop of blood
at the time, or the faintest scar after
ward, that portion is 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
benediction OF all ages, woman the
wife, afterwards woman the mother.
And as the two join hands and stroll
down along the banks Of the Euphrates
towards 4 bower Of mignonette and
wild rose and honeysuckle, and are lis
tening TO the call OF whip-poor-will from
the aromatic thickets, the sun sinks be-
meath the horizon. "And the evening
aud the morning were the sixth day"
What do you think Of that one weeks
work? | review II not for entertain
ment, but because would have you
Join in David's doxology: Great and
Marvellous are Thy Works, Lord God
Almighty" because want you TO know
what 4 homestead our Father built for
His children at the start, though sin
has despoiled II; and because ! want
you TO know how the world will look
again when Christ shall have restored
II, swinging now between two Edens;
because want you torealize something
Of what q mighty God he Is and
the utter folly OF trying 10 war against
Him; because / want you 70 make peaos
with this chief Of the universe through
the Christ who Inediates between
offended omnipotence and human rs-
bellion; because want you 70 know
how fearfully and wonderfully you are
made, your body as well rs your soul
an omnipotent achievements; because
want you TO. realize that order reigns
throughout the universe, and that Gods
watches tick 70 the second, and that
His clocks strike regularly, though they
strike once In n thousand, years A
learned man once asked an old Christian
man who had no advantage Of schooling
why he believed there was God, and
the good old man, who probably had
never heard an argument ON the sub