The Bossier banner., 1891-07-30

a saturday afternoon! he muSI O41S
nate a 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 1t can
during each day lift what would be
equal to one hundred and twenty tons
of weight, and it 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 put
at least nine million nerves. Over three
thousand perspiring pores must be made
for every inch of fieshy surface. The
human voice must be so constructed
that it shall be capable of producing
seventeen trillion five hundred and
ninety-two billion one hundred and
eighty-six million forty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds.
c But all this the most insignificant
part of the human being. The soul!
All, the construction of that God Him
self would not be equal to if He were
any the less of God. Its understand
ing, its will, its memory, its conscience,
its capacities of enjoyment or suffering,
its Immortality! What work for
Saturday afternoon! Aye! Before
night there were to be two such human
and yet immortal beings constructed.
The woman as well as the man was
formed Saturday afternoon. Because a
deep sleep fell upon Adam and by
Divine surgery a portion OF MS
side was removed for the nu-
cleus of another creation, it has
been supposed othat perhaps days
and nights passed between the masculine
andfeminine creations. But no! Adam
was not three hours minated. If
physician can by an9sthetics put one
into a deep sleep in three minutes, God
| certainly could have put Adam into
profound sleep in 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-lille appearance.
| Magnificent piece of Divine carpen-
try, and Omnipotent sculpturing, but
no vitality. A body without a soul.
Then the source of all life stopped to
the inanimate nostril and lip, and, as
many skillful and earnest physician
has put his lips to patient in coma
tose state and breathed into his mouth
and nostril, and at the same time COM
pressed the lungs, until that which was
artificial respiration became natural
respiration, so methinks God breathed
into this cold sculpture of man the
breath of life, and the heart begins
to tramp, and the lungs to in
hale, 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 his feet-a
man! But the scene of this Saturday
is not yet done, and in the atmosphere,
drowsy with the breath of flowers, and
the song of. -bobolinks, and robin-red-
breasts, the man slumbers, and by
an@sthetics, Divinely administered, the
slumber deepens until, without the
/ oozing of one drop of blood at the time,
or the faintest scar afterward, that por-
ton is removed from his side which is
to build 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, afterward WON.
an the mother. And as the two join
hands and stroll down the banks of the
Euphrates toward bower of mignon-
cite and wild rose and honeysuckle,
and are listening to the call of the whip
poor-will from the aromatic thickets,
the sun sinks beneath the horizon,
''And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day."
What do you think of that one weeks
work? Ireview it not for entertain.
ment, but because / would have you
join in David's Doxology: "Great and
marvellous are Thy works, Lord Goo
Almighty;" because want you tc
know what homestead our Father
built for His children at the start
though sin has despoiled it; and because
l want you to know how the worlG
will look again when Christ shall have
restored it, swinging now between
two Edens; because I want you
to realize something of what a mighty
God He is and the utter folly of try
ing to war against him; be
cause want you to make peace with
this Chief of the Universe through the
Christ who mediates between offended
omnipotence and human rebellion; be
cause want you to know how fearful
ly and wonderfully you are made, youl
body as well as your soul an omnipo
tent achievement; because l want yor
to realize that order reigns through
out the. universe, and that God:
watches tick to the second, anC
that His clocks strike regularly
though they strike once in a thousand
years. A learned man once asked an
old Christian man who had no advan
tages of schooling why he believed
there was God4 and the good old man
who probably had never heard an argu
ment on the subject in all his life, made
this noble reply: "Sir, I have beer