The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-04

or lows in the pasture
yVhv did God make all these, ana
| why make them 50 happy How ac-
count for ali this singing, and dancing,
and frisking amid the irrational crea-
ton? Why this heaven fer the animal
eule in a de yydrop? Why Tor the con-
| dor a throne on Chin borazo7 Why the
glitter Of the phosphorus IN the ships
wake on the sea. which Is SAID 20 b
only the frOlic Of millions OF tasecssT
/ Why the perpetual chanting CT so many
voices from the irrational creation in
earth. and air, and ocesn-beasts. and
all cattle. creeping things, and flying
| fowl, permitted to join in the prsiae
that goes up from seraph and arch
angel? Only one solution, one ez-
PLANTATION, one anWeF-Gcd is good.
| THE earth is full of the goodness Of
1 tine Lord
take q 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 OF
| the world was made, but there Wss no
king to live in it Lsviathau ruled the
deep; the eagle the airs the lion the
| field; but where was the scePtsr which
should rule all? 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 o + his origin, the other speaking
of his destiny-himsslf the connecting
/ link between the animal creation and
K angelic intelligence. In him a strange
commingling Of the temporal and eter-
nal, the finite and infinite dust and
/ glory. The earth for his floor and
| heaven Tor his roof; God for his father;
/ eternity for his lifetime.
/ The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
| the conformation OF the human body,
exclaims: ''FearfulIy and wonderfully
made" No embroidery SO elaborate,
no game so delicate, no color so ex-
/ quisite, no mechanism so graceful no
/ handiwork so divine. So quietly and
/ mysteriously does the human body per
4 form its functions that 1t was not until
/ Eve thousand years after the creation
/ of the race that the circulation of the
| blood was discovered; and though anat-
/ omists of all countries and ages have
been SO long exploring this castle Of
life, they have only begun to under
stand it,
| Volumes have been written OF the
hand. Wondrous instrument With It
| we give friendly recognition, and grasp
/ the sword, and climb the rock, and
| write. and carve, and build. It con
| structed the pyramids, and hOisted the
Parthenon. It made the harp and then
| struck out of IL all the worlds min
| strelsy. In it the white marble OF
| Pentelicon mines dreamed itself away
| into immortal sculpture 1t reins in
| the swift engine; it holds the steamer
| TO its path in the sea- 1t snatches the
| Ere from heaven; it feels the pulse of
the sick child with its delicate touch.
and makes the nations quake with its
/ stupendous achievements. What power
! brought down the forests, and made
the marshes blossom, and burdened the
earth with ali the cities that thunder
on with enterprise and pOwsr2 Four
/ fingers and thumb. A hundred mill
lion dollars would not purchase for
you a machine as exquisite and wonder
full as your own hand Mighty handi
In all its bones, and muscles, and
| joints, learn that GOD is good.
| Behold the eye, which, in its pho
| tographic gallery, in an instant catches
/ the mountain and the sea This per
petual tslegraphing OF the nerves;
/ these joints, that are the only hinges
| that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body, with Il. 600 differ
! emit adaptations; these 100. 600 glands;
| these 200, coo. OOO pores; this mysterious
| heart, contracting 1000 times every
| hOur-this chemical process of diges-
| ton; this laboratory, beyond the I'M
Outstanding of the most slSillful phiios-
ophy; this furnace, whose heat is kept
up from cradle to gravei this factory OF
q
| bands are GOd-directed. II We could
realize the wonders of our physical or
ganization, we would be hyPochondri-
acs, fearing every moment that some
part OF the machine would break
down But there are men here who
have lived through seventy years, and
not nerve has ceased to thrill, or q
muscle to contract, or a lung to breathe.
or a hand to manipulate.
| take a step higher and look at mans
mental constitution. Behold the
| 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 the storm and the spiendOrs of
the day dawn, and lifting into your
mind the ocean as easily as you might
put glass of water to your lips
Watch the law of association, or the
mysterious linking together of all you
! ever thought, or knew, or felt, and
then giving you the power to take hold
Of the clew line and draw through your
mind the long train with INDISPENSABLE
| velOcity-One thought starting up a
| hundred, and this again a thousands
the chirp OF one bird sometimes wakes
a whole forest of voices, or the thruui
of one string viii rouse an orchestra
Watch your memOry-that sheat
binder that goes forth to gather the
harvest of the past and bring itintO the
present Your power and velocity OF
thought-thought of the swift wing
and the lightning foot; thought that
outspeeds the star and circles through
the heavens, aud weighs worlds. and
; from posing amid wheeling cOnstells-
tons comes down to count the bios
SONS 10 a tuft OF migucnette, then
I starts again to try the fathoming OF the
I bOttOmlsss and the scaling Of the insur-
! mOuntable, to be swallowed up il the
incomprehensible and lost in Godt
treason and understanding man Is
) alone. The OK surpassss him in
strength. the antelope in speed the
hound in keenuess OF nostril, the eagle
in far reaching sight, the rabbit in
) quiclness Of hearing. the honey bee IN
delicacy of tongue. the spider in fine
ness of touch Mans power, there
: fore, CONSISTENT not in what he can lift
5 or how fast he can run, or how strong
} a wrestler he can thrOw-for in These
respects the OK, the ostrich and tbs
hyenE are his superior-but By his
! I .saaeor he rsnwnau forth - III