Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-05

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was created. Heaven and earth wore
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 u 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.
The Christian anatomist, gazing up
on the conformation OF the human body
exclaims: "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate, no
ganze so delicate, no color so exquisite.
no handiwork so divine. SO quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form its functions that 1t was not until
5000 years after the creation OF The race
that the circulation OF the blood was
discovered; and though anatomists OF
all countries and ages have been so long
exploring this castle OF life, they have
only begun TO understand 1t.
Volumes have been written OF the
hand. With 1t we give friendly recog-
milton, and grasp the sword, and write,
and carve, and build. 1t constructed
the Pyramids and hoisted the Par.he-
non. 1t made the harp and then struck
ont OF 1t all the worlds minstrelsv.
In 1t the white marble OF Pentelicon
mines dreamed itself away into immor-
tai sculpture. 1t reins in the swift en-
CINE; 1t holds the steamer to its path on
the sea;it snatches the fire from heaven.
1t feels the pulse OF the sick child with
its delicate touch, and makes the ma
tions quake with its stupendous achieve
ments. What powerbrought down the
forests, and made the marshes blossom,
and burdened the earth with all the
cities that thunder on with enterprise
aud power? Four fingers and thumb.
A hundred million dollars would not
purchase for you machine so exquisite
and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty hand! In all its bones, and
muscles, and joints, l learn that God is
good.
Behold the eye, which, in its photo
graphic 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 different adap-
tons; these 100, 600 glands: these 300
900, 600 pores; this mysterious heart
contracting 1000 times every hour-this
chemical process OF digestion: this
laboratory. beyond the understanding
OF most skilliul philosophy: this furna e
whose heat is kept up from cradle to
grave: this factory OF life, whose wheels
and spindies and bands are God direct
ed. II we could realize the wonders OF
our physical organization, we would he
hypochondriacs, 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 nerve has ceased to thrill, or
muscle to contract. or lung to breathe
or hand to manipulate.
take step higher and look at q
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 majesty
OF the storm and the splendors OF the
day dawn, and lifting into your mind
the ocean as easily as you might put a
glass Of water to your lips.
Watch the law OF association, or the
mysterious linking together OF all you
ever thought or knew, which gives
you the clew line and draws through
your mind the long train with indie
scribaole velocity, one thSught starting
up hundred, and this again a thou
sand, as the chirp Of one bird some
times wakes q whole forest of voices.
Watch your memory-that sheaf
binder that gathers the harvest OF the
past and bring it into the present. Your
power and velocity OF thought-though
that outspeeds the star and circles
through the heavens, and weighs worlds,
and leaving wheeling consultations
comes down to count the blossoms in a
tuft OF mignonette, then turns to faith
ON the bottomless and scale the insur-
mountable, to be swallowed up in the
incomprehensible, and lost in God.
In reason and understanding man is
alone. The OK surpasses him in
strength, the antelope in speed, the
hound in keenness OF nostril, the eagle
in far reaching Sight the rabbit in
quickness OF hearing. the honey bee in
delicacy Of tongue, the spider in fine
ness OF touch. Mans power, therefore,
CONSISTENT not in what he can lift, or
how fast he can run, or how strong a
wrestler he can throw-for ia these re-
spects the OK, the ostrich and the hyena
are his superior-bdt by mis- reason he
comes forth to rule all; through his in
genious contrivance 10 outrun, outfit,
Outwrestle, Outsee, outhear, Guido.
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant things for the palate, music
for the ear, beauty for the eye, aroma
for the nostrils, poetry for our taste, re-
ligion for our soul =.
We are put in garden and told that
from all the trees we may eat except
here and there one. He gives the sun
to shine on us. and the waters to re-