Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-12-05

ders of our physical organization W,
would be hypochondriacs, fearing ever.
moment that some part of the machine
would break down. But there are mel
here who have lived through seventy
years, and not-a nerve has ceased tt
thrill, or muscle.to contract Or a lun:
to breathe, or a hand to manipulate.
take IL step higher and look al
mans mental constitution Behold tlie
benevolence of God in powers of per
ception, or the faculty OF transporting
this outside world into your own mind
gathering into your brain the males
ty of tile storm and the splendors q
the day dawn, and lifting into you'
mind the ocean as easily as you might
put Il glass OF water to your lips.
Watch the law of association or the
mysterious linking together of alfyou
ever thought or knew or felt, and then
giving you the power to take hold Of
TIE clew line and draw through your
mind the long train with indescribable
velocity-one thought starting up 9
Sshurdred, and this again thousand
as as the cHirp Of one bird metines
EEswakesT:a Whole forest of voices, or -tbc
fstiruIu of one e;strin will rousean or
Ichestra
Watch your menory-that sbeat
binder that goes forth to gather The
! harvest of the past and bring it into
the present. Your power and velocity
of thought-thought of the swift wing
and the lightning foot; thought that
.ontspeeds the star, and circles through
the heavens, and weighs worlds, and
from poising amid wheeling constella-
tions, comes down to count the bios.
Suns in tuft of mignonette; then
starts again to try the fathoming of the
bottomless and the scaling of the in
surmountable, to be swallowed up in
the incomprehensible, and lost in God
MAN ALoNEI II REASONING AND UNDER
STANDING.
In reason and understanding, man
lis alone The OK surpasses him in
strength, the antelope in speed, the
hound in kccnness of nostril, the eagle
in far reaching sight, the rabbit in
quickness of hearing, the honey bee in
delicacy of tongue, the spider in fine
ness of touch. Mans power. therefore,
consisteth not in what lie can lift, or
how fast he can run, or how strong a
wrestler he can throw-for in these re-
spects the OK, the ostszch and the hyena
are his superior-but by his reason he
comes forth to rule all through his in
genious continuance to outrun, OIL
Lift, outwrestlc, outsee, outhear, Guido.
At his all conqnering decree the for
est that had stood for ages steps aside
to let him build his cabin and cultivate
his farm The sea which raved and
foalned upon the race has become a
crystal pathway for commerce to march
on The thundercloud that slept lazily
above the mountain is made to come
down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
satisfied with Ills slowness Of advance
lnent, shouted to the water and the
fire: "Come and lift!" Come and
drawl" 'sCome and hclpp And they
answered. SAY. ay; We come" And
they Joined hands-tlle fire and the
water-and the shuttles fly, and the
rail train rattles on, and the steamship
comes coughing, painting, flaming across
the deep.
He elevates the telescope to the
heavens and, as easily as through the
stethoscope the physician hears the
movement of the lung, the astronomer
catches the pulsation Of distant systems
of worlds throbbing with life. lie takes
the microscope and discovers that there
are hundreds of thousands Of animal
cul,e living, moving, working, dying
within circle that could be covered
with tile point of pin-animals to
which q raindrop would be an ocean,
a rose leaf q, hemisphere and the flash
of FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
MANS MORAL NATURE.
1 take a step higher and look at
mans moral nature. Made in the i'm
age of God. Vast capacity for enjoy
ment; capable at first of eternal JOY,
and though now disordered, still
through the recuperative force of
heavenly grace able to mount up to
more than it's original felicity; facul-
ties that may blossom and bear fruit
inexhaustibly. Immortality written
upon every capacity; a soul destined
to reign in unlimited spheres of actrv-
ity long after the world has put on
ashes, and the solar system shall have
snapped its axle, and the stars that in
their courses fought against Sisera
shall have been slain and buried amid
the tolljng thunders Of the last day.
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for tie eye. aroma
for the nostrll, kindred Tor our affec-
lions, poetry for our taste, religion for
our soul. We. are put in q garden and
told that from all the trees we may eat,
except here and there one. He gives
the sun to shine on u.s. and the waters
to refresh us, and food to strengthen
us; and the herbs yield medicine when
we are sick, and the forests lumber
when we would build a house OF cross
the water in a ship.
The rocks are transported for our
foundation, and metals upturned for
our currency, and wild beasts must
give us covering, and the mountains
must be tunneled to let us pass, and
the fish Of the sea come up in our net,
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