The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-05
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5. 1891.


structed. Into this body must be put
at least nine million nerves Over
three thousand perspiring pores must
be made for every inch of ileshly sur
face.
The human voice must be so con
structed it shall be capable OF produc,
ing seventeen trillion five hundred and
ninety-two billion one hundred and
eighty-siy million forty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds. But
all this the most insignificant part of
the human being, The SOUL All, the
construction of that God himself would
not be equal to if he were any the less
of God. Its understanding its will,
its memory, its conscience, its capaci-
ties of enjoyment or suffering, its i'm
mortality! What a work for a Satur-
day afternoon Ayel 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 n deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine
surgery portion of his side was re-
moved for the nucleus of another Gre
alton, it has been supposed that per
haps days and nights passed between
the masculine and feminine creations.
But mol Adam was not three hours
unmated
If a physician can by anesthetics put
one into deep sleep in three minutes,
God certainly could have put Adam
into a profound sleep in short while
that Saturday afternoon, and made the
deep and radical excision without caus
ing distress. By manipulation of the
dust, the same hand that nodded the
mountains 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 perfect form he lay along
the EARTH symmetrical and of godlike
countenance. Magnificent piece of di.
vine carpentry and omnipotent sculpt
uring, but no vitality. A body with
out 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 a patient in colnatose
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
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 to his feet-a mani
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
anasthetics, divinely administered, the
slumber deepens until, without the ooz-
ing of one drop of blood at the time or
the faintest 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 wom-
an the mother And as the two join
hands and stroll down along the banks
of the Euphrates toward bower Of
mignonette and wild rose and honey
suckle, and are listening to the call Of
the whip-poor- from the aromatic
thickets, the sun sinks beneath the hori
zon. "And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day"
THE WORKS OF THE LORD.
What do you think of that one week S
work2 l review it not for entertain
ment, but because l would have you
join in David's doxology, "Great and
marvellous are thy works. Lord God
Almighty" because l want you to
know what homestead our Father
built for his children at the start,
though sin has despoiled it, and be-
| cause | 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 mighty
God he is, and the utter folly of trying
to war against him; because | want
you to make peace with this chief of
the universe through the Christ who
mediates between offended Omnipo-
tence and human rebellion; because |
want you to know how fearfully and
wonderfully you are made, your body
as well as your soul an Omnipotent
achievement; because | 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 believed there was
a God, and the good old man, who
probably had never heard an argument
on the subject in all his life, made this
noble reply: 'Sir, 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
it did the first time saw it; the seven
stars and Jobs coffin keep on the same
path in the sky and never turn out. II
isn't SO with mans work. He makes
clocks and watches; they may run wei
for awhile but they get out of fix an6
, stand stock still But the sun anC
moon and stars keep on this same wa,
all the while The heavens declare the
glory of God" Yea, preach this be
cause | want you to walk in apprecia
ton of Addison's sublime sentiment
when he writes:
, The spacious armament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangled heav' ms, shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim.