The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-12-04


II, "As for the storll, the fir trees are
her house." He sees that the cattle
have enough grass-Psalm civ, IA, He
causeth the grass to grow for the cat
tle." He sees to it that the cows and
sheep and horses have enough to drink
Psalm civ, 10, IL: He sendeth the
springs into the valleys which run
among the hills; they give drink to
every beast of the field. The wild
asses quench their thirst"
Amid the thunders of Sinai God ut
tered the rights of cattle, and said that
they should bave a Sabbath. Thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the thrashing
floor should have the privilege Of eat
ing some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. If young
birds were taken from the nest for
food, the despoiler's 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 own
liberty. And he who regarded in olden
time the conduct of man toward the
brutes, today 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 pas
ture.
Why did God make all these and why
make them so happya How account
for all this singing and dancing and
frisking amid the irrational creation2
Why this heaven for the animalcule in
a dewdrop! Why for the condor a
throne on Chimborazo2 Why the gilt
ter of the phosphorus in the ships wake
on the sea, which is said to be only the
frolic of millions of insects2 Why the
perpetual chanting of so many voices
from the irrational creation in earth
and air and ccean-beasts and all cat
tie, creeping things and flying fowl, per-
mitted to join in the praise that goes
up from seraph and archangel3 Only
one solution, one explanation, one an
swer-God is good. ''The earth is full
of the goodness of the Lord"
THE COMFORTS OF MAN.
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 ala 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-himselft the connecting link
between the animal creation and an
gelic intelligence. In him strange
commingling of the temporal and eter-
nal, the finite and the infinite, dust and
glory. The earth for his floor and
heaven for his roof; God for his father
eternity for his lifetime.
| Liz OlHiSul ttlatcihico, gazing uIoll
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 it's 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
ANTAGONISTS 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, 1t feels the pulse of
the sick child with its delicate touch,
and makes the nations quake with its
stupendous achievements.
What power brought down the for
ests, and made the marshes blossom,
and burdened the earth with all the
cities that thunder on with enterprise
and power9 Four fingers and thumb.
A hundred million dollars would not
purchase for you machine as exquisite
and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty hand! In all its bones and
muscles and joints learn that God is
good.
COMPLEXITIES OF THE BODY.
Behold the eye which, in its photo
I graphic gallery, in an instant catches
: the mountain and the sea. This per-
q 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 fourteen thousand
different adaptations; these one hun
. fred thousand glands; these two hun
l dred million pores; this mysterious
heart, contracting four thousand times
, every hour; this chemical process
= of digestion; this laboratory, be
& yond the understanding of the most
!. skillful philosopher; this furnace
6 whose heat is kept up from cradle tc
: grave; this factory of life, whose wheels
!. and spindles and bands are God di
A rected. If we could realize the won
a ders of our physical organization We
4 would be hypochondriacs, fearing ever!
moment that some part of the machine
II would break down. But there are mel
here who have lived through sevent!
years, and not nerve has ceased tt
thrill, or a muscle to contract, or a lunl
to breathe, or hand to manipulate.
l take a step higher and look a
mans mental constitution. Behold tn,