The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-25

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a. If they had taken their morning bath IL
buttercups And while am studying th,
oolors they begin to carol and chirp and coC
and twitter and run up and down the scale:
OF a music that they must have heard al
heavens gate Yes, 1 find them in Paradise
on this the first Friday afternoon Of the
worlds existence. And / sit down on the
bank Of the Euphrates, and the murmur Of
the river, together with the chant OF birds
IN the sky, puts me into a state Of somno-
lence And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day"
Now it is Saturday morning Of the
worlds first week, and with this dav the
week closes. But oh, what a climacteric
day. The air has its population and the
water its population. Yet the land has not
one inhabitant. But here they come, by
| the voice OF God created Horses grander
than those which in after time Job will
describe as having neck clothed with thun-
der. Cattle enough to cover a thousand
hills. Sheep shepherded by him who made
for them the green pastures. Cattle supe-
rior to the Attorneys and Ayrshires and
Devonshires of after times. Leopards so
beautiful we are glad they cannot change
their spots. Lions without their fierceH
ness and all the quadruped world so gentle
so sleek, SO perfect. Look out how you
treat this animal creation, whether
they walk the earth, or swim the waters, or
gave them precedence Of the human racel
They were created Friday and Saturday
morning, as man was created Saturday
afternoon. They have right to be here.
| He who gals a horse, or exposes a COW to
the storm, or beats dog, or mauls a cat,
! or CANDLES at the pizeon-shooting, or tor
lures an insect, will have to answer for it
| in the judgment day. You may console
yourself that these creatures are not i'm
mortal, and they cannot appear against you.
but the God who made these creatures and
who saw the wrong you did them will
be there. Better look out, YOU stock
raisers and railroad companies, who bring
the cattle on trains without food or water
for three or four days in hot weather, a
long groan Of agony from Omaha to
New York. Better look out, you farmer
riding behind that limping horse with a nail
that the blacksmith drove into the quick.
Better look out, you boys stoning bull
frogs and turning turtles upside down, and
| robbing birds nests. But something is
wanting in paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there TO pluck the flowers of
this Edenic lawn? Who is there to COM
| msnd 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 aud
empress. It is Saturday afternoon. No one
but the Lord Almighty can originate a
human being. In the world where there
are in the latter part of the nineteenth
century over fourteen hundred million
people, human being is not
curiosity. But how about the first
human eye thatswas 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 constructedl That needed the
origination of God. He had no model to
work by. What stupendous work for a
Saturday afternoonl He must originate
style of human heart through which all the
blood Of the human body must pass every
three minutes He must make that heart 80
strong that 1t can during each day lift what
would be equal to one hundred and twenty
tons of weig ut, and it must be SO arranged as
TO beat over thirty~six millions times every
year. About five hundred muscles
must be strung in the right place
and at least two hundred and f1fJy bones
constructed. Into this body must be put
at least nine million nerves. Over three
thousand persplring pores must be made for
every inch of feshlv surface. The human
voice must be so constructed it shall be
capable OF producing seventeen trillion Ave
hundred and ninety-two billion one hun
dred and eight six million forty-four
thousand four hundred and fifteen sounds.
But all this the most Insignificant part of
the human being. The soul! All, the COM
struction of that God himself would not be
equal to If he were any the less of q God.
Its understanding. its will, its memory, its
conscience. its capacities of enjoyment or
suffering, its Immortality What a work
for Saturday afternoonl Ayel
Before night there were TO be two such
human and yet immortal beings construct
ed. The woman as we'll as the man was
formed Saturday afternoon. Because a
deep sleep fell upon Adam and by divine
surgery portion of his side was removed
for the nucleus of another creation, it has
been supposed that perhaps days and nights
passed between the masculine and feminine
creations. But mol Adam was not three
hours minated. II a physician can by an
aesthetics put one into deep sleep in three
minutes. God cei tainly could have put Adam
into profound sleep in a short while that
Saturday afternoon aud made the deep and
radical excelsior without causing 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 bis muscles did not move, and his
lungs did not breathe and his heart did not
pulsate. A perfect form he lay among the
earth, symmetrical and of God-like couu-
tenauce. Magnificent piece of divine car
pentry and omnipotent sculpturing, but no
Nltahtys - uOuJ WlpuOub d SOUL. linen Gl6
source Of all life stopped to the inanlmate
nostril and lip, and, as many skillful and
earnest physician has put his lips to
patient in oomatose state and breathed into
his mouth and nostril, and at the same time
compressed the lungs. until that which was
artinclal respiration became nat
ural respiration, SO methinks God
breathed into this cold sculpture
of q man the breath of life, and the heart
begins TO tramp, and the lungs to inhale,
and the eyes to open aud the entire form to
thrill. and with the rapture of life Just
come. the prostrate being leaps to mis- 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 robinredbreasts, the man
slumbers, and by anesthetics, divinely adj
ministered, the slumber deepens until with
out the ooziDg of one drop of blood at the
time, or the faintest gear 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 Euphra-
ties toward bower of mignonette 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
the horizon. "And the evening aud the
morning were the sixth day"