The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11


the grain as he trod it out, and muzzling
was forbidden If young birds were
taken from the nest for food, the de-
spoilers life depended on the mother
going free. God would not let the
mother bird suffer in one day the loss
of her young and her liberty. And he
who regarded in olden time the conduct
of man toward the brutes, to-day looks
down from Heaven and is interested in
every minnow that swims the stream,
and every rock that cleaves the air,
and every herd that bleats, or neighs,
or lows in the pasture.
Why did God make all these, and
why make them SO happy? How ac-
count for all this singing, and dancing,
and friskiug amid the irrational crea-
ton? Why this heaven for the animal
cule in dewdrop? Why for the con-
dor throne on himborazo? Why the
glitter of the phosphorus in the ships
wake on the sea, which is said to be
only the frolic of millions of insects?
Why the perpetual chanting of so many
voices from the irrational creation in
earth, and air, and ocean-beasts, and
all cattle. creeping things, and flying
fowl, permitted to join in the praise
that goes up from seraph and arch
angel? Only one solution, one ex'
PLANTATION, one anwer-God is good.
''The earth is full of the goodness OF
the Lord"
l take 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 was no
king to live in it Leviathan ruled the
deep; the eagle the air; the lion the
field; but where was the scepter 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 of his origin, the other speaking
of his destiny-himself the connecting
link between the animal creation and
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 for his roof; God for his father;
eternity for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
exclaims: "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate,
no gauze so delicate, no color so ex-
quisite, no mechanism so graceful, no
handiwork so divine. So quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form its functions that it was not until
five 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. 1t con-
structed the pyramids, and hoisted the
Parthenon. 1t made the harp and then
struck out of it 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; it snatches the
fire 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
l.. IL l.
the marshes blossom, and burdened the
earth with all the cities that thunder
on with enterprise and power? Four
fingers and thumb. A hundred mil
lion dollars would not purchase for
you a machine as exquisite and wonder
full as your own hand. Mighty hand!
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 telegraphing of the nerves;
these joints, that are the only hinges
that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body, with $4,000 differ
ent adaptations; these 100 600 glands;
these 200. 600, 600 pores; this mysterious
heart, contracting 1000 times every
hour-this chemical process of diges-
ton; this laboratory, beyond the un-
derstanding of the most skillful philos-
ophy; this furnace, whose heat is kept
up from cradle to grave; this factory of
life, whose wheels and spindles, and
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 a nerve has ceased to thrill, or a
muscle to contract, or lung to breathe,
or 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 majes-
ty of the storm and the splendors 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 indescribable
velocity-one thought starting up a
hundred, and this again thousand-as
the chirp of one bird sometimes wakes
a whole forest of voices, or the thrum
of one string will rouse an orchestra
Watch your memory-that sheaf
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 ljphtninp foot. thouphf that