Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-30

Paradise, and the week is almost done.
Who is there to pluck the flowers of
this Edenic lawn7 Who is there to
command these worlds OF quadruped
and fish and bird2 For whom has God
put back the curtain from the face Of
sun and moon and starr The world
wants an emperor and empress. 1t is
Saturday afternoon. No one but the
Lord Almighty can originate human
being. In the world where there are
in the latter part of the, Nineteenth
century ever feaIts ens; Istsss
epeop Aaniia ISL BED
'ity.
But how absat the first human eye
that was ever kindled, the first human
ear that was ever opened. the first
human lung that ever breathed. the
first human heart that ever beat, the
first human life ever constructed
That needed the origination of God.
He had no model to work by. What
stupendous work for q Saturday after
noon! He must originate style OF
human heart through which all the
blood in the body must pass every
three minutes. lie must make that
heart so strong that it 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 OF least
two hundred and fifty bones con-
structed. Into this. body must be put
at least nine million nerves. Over
three thousand perspiring pores must
be made for every inch Of heshly sur
face.
The human voice must be SO con-
structed it shall bc capable of produc-
ing seventeen trillioa five hundred and
ninety-two billion one hundred and
eighty-six million forty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds. But
all this the most Insignificant part of
the human being The soull ALI, the
construction of that God himself would
not be equal to if he were any the less
of a God. Its understanding, its will,
its memory. its conscience, its capaci-
ties of enjoyment or suffering, its inn
mortality! What q work for Satur-
day aftcrnoonl Ayel Before night
there were to be two such human and
yet immortal beings constructed. Tho
woman as well as the man was formed
Saturday afternoon. Because o deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine
surgery a 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 no.! Adam was not three hours
minated.
fla physician can by annsthetics put
one into deep sleep in three minutes,
God certainly could have put Adam
into a profound sleep in q short while
that Saturday afternoon, and made the
deep and radical excision without caus-
ing distress. b. manipulation of the
dust, the same hand that nodded tho
mountains nodded the features, and
nodded the limbs of the father of tho
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 d.
vine carpentry and onnipotent sculpt-
uring, but no vitality. A body with
out a soul.
Then the source of all life stopped to
tho inanimate nostriI and lip, and, as
many s.lillful and earnest physician
las put his lips.to patient in comatose
state and breathcd into his mouth and
nostril, and at the same time compressed
the lungs, until that which was artificial
respiration became natural respiration,
SO methiaks God breathed into this cold
sculpture of O man the breath of life,
and the heart begins tn 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 man!
But the scene of this Saturday is not
vet 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
anasthetios divincly administered, the
sumber deepens until, without the ooz.
ing of one drop of blood at the time OF
tho 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 WON
an the mother. And as the two join
hands and stroll down along the banks
of the Euphrates toward bower Of
nlignonette and wild rose and honey
suckle, and are listening to the call OF
the whip-poor-will from the aromatic
thickets, the sun sinks beneath the hori.
zon. "And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day."
THE WORKS OF TIE LORD.
What do you think of that one weeks
work? I review it not for entertain.
mcnt, but because l would have you
join in David's doxology, Great and
marvellous are thy works, Lord God
Al,niphtv." because | want YOU to