The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

nipulatiOn OF the dust the same hand that
moulded the mountains moulded the feat
ures and moulded the limbs of the father of
the human race But his eyes did not see
and mis- nerves did not feel and his muscles
did not move and his lungs did not breathe
and his heart did not pulsate. A perfect
form he lay along the earth, symmetrical
and of God-iike countenance. Magnificent
piece of divine carpentry and Omnipotent
sculpturing, but no vitality body with
out a soul. Then the source of all life
stopped to the inanimate nostril and Lip,
and, as many a skillful and earnest ply
stefan has put his lips to patient in coma
tose 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, so
methinks God breathed into this cold sculpt-
ure 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 beng leaps to
his feet-a mani But the scene of this Sat
urday is not yet done, and in the atmos
phere, drowsy with the breath of flowers
and the song of bobolinks and robin red
breasts, the man slumbers, and by an9S-
thetics divineiy administered the slumber
deepenS until, without the oozing of one
drop of blood at the time or the fantest
scar afterward, 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, afterward woman the mother And
as the two join hands and stroll down along
the banks of the Euphrates toward bower
of mlgnOnette and wild rose and honey
Suckle, and are listening to the call of the
whip-poor-wil 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! l review it not for entertainment,
but because 1 would have you join in Da-
vid'S doXology: Great and marvellous are
Thy works, Lord God Aimighty;' because
l want you to know what homestead our
Father built for his children at the start,
though sin has despoied II; and because l
want you TO know how the world Will look
again when Christ shall have restored it.
swinging now between two Edens; because
| want you to realize something of what a
mighty God he is and the utter folly of try
ing TO war against him; because / wantyou
to make peace with this Chief of the Uni
verse through the Christ who mediates be-
tween offended Omnipotence and human
rebellion; because l want you to know how
fearfully and wonderfully you are made,
your body rs well as your soul an Omnipo-
tent achievement; because l want you to
realize that order reigns throughout the
universe, and that Gods watches
tick to the second, and that his
clocks strike regularly, though they
strike once in thousand years. A learned
man once asked an old Christian man who
had no advantages of schooling. why he be-
Heved there was a God, and the good old
man, who probably had never heard an ar
gument on the subject in all his life, made
this noble reply: Sir, 1 have been here
going hard upon fifty years. Every day
since / have been in this world see the sun
rise in the east and set in the west. The
north star stands where il did the first time
| saw it: the seven stars and Jobs coffin
keep on the same path in the sky and never
turn out. 1t isn't so with mans work He
makes clocks and watches; they may run
well for awhile. but they get out of fix and
stand stock still But the sun, and moon.
and stars keep on this same way all the
while. The heavens declare the glor7 Of
God" Yea, L preach this because / want
you to walk in appreciation of Addison's
sublime sentiment when he writes:
The spacious armament on high
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim.
In reasons ear they all rejoice
And utter forth glorious voice
Forever singing as they shine,
The hand that made US Is divine.