The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-16

THE high hills are a refuge for the
wild goats. and the rocks for the
comics" He watches the birds nest
Psalm CIV, 1S: ''As for the stork, 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 cattle" He sees to it that the
cows and sheep and horses have enough
to drink-Psalm CIV 10, IL: HE send
eth 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 have a Sabbath. "Thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the threshing-
should have the privilege of eating some
of the grain as he trod it out, and muz-
cling was forbidden. If young birds
were taken from the nest for food, the
despoilers 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 regard ed in olden time the con-
duct of man toward the brutes, to-day
looks down from Heaven and is inter
ested in every minnow that swims the
stream, and every rock that cleaves the
| air, and every herd that beats, or
neighs, or lows in the pasture.
Why did God make all these, and
why make them SO happy? How account
for all this singing, and dancing, and
frisking amid the irrational creation?
Why this Hea ven for the animalcule in
dewdrop? Why for the condor q
throne on Chimborazo? 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 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 to archangel?
Only one solution, one explanation. one
answer-Goda is good. 1.-THE earth is
full of the goodness of the Lord"
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
repre- scented 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 81
his destiny himself the connecting
link between the animal creation and
angelic intelligen ce. In him strange
commingling Of temporal and eternal,
the finite and the infinite, dust and
glory. The ear tn for his floor, and
heaven for his roof; God for his Fa
ther; eternity for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
exclaims: "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No EN- broidery so elaborate
no gauze so delicate, no color so ex
quisite, no mechanism SO graceful, nc
handiwork SO divine. So quietly anc
mysteriously does the human body per
form its functions that it was not until
five thousand years after the creation
of che race that the circulation of the
blood was discovered; and although an
atomists of all countries and ages have
been so long exploring this castle o.
life, they have only begun to under
stand it.
Volumes have been written of the
hand. Wondrous instrument! With il
we give friendly recognition, and grasl
the sword, and climb the rock, ant
} write and carve. and build 1t con
structed the Pyramids and hoisted the
Parthenon. 1t made the harp and theI
struck out of it all the worlds min
; strelsy. In it the white marble of Pen
, telicon mines dreamed itself away il
; immortal sculpture. It reins in the
swift engine; it holds the steamer to it,
J path in the sea; it snatches the fire from
heaven; it feels the pulse of the sicl
child with it's delicate touch, and make
the nations quake with its stupendou
achievements. What power brough
down the forests and made the marshe
blossom, and burdened the earth witt
| all the cities that thunder on with en-
terprise and power? Four fingers and
thumb. A hundred million dollar
t would not purchase for you a machin
, as exquisite and wonderful as your owl
: hand Mighty hand! In all it's bones
and muscles, and joints learn that Co
, is good.
5 Behold the eye, which, in its pho
1 tographic gallery, in an instant catche
5 the mountain and the sea. This pei
, petual telegraphing of the nerves: thes
, joints, that are the only hinges that
f not wear out; these bones and muscle
: of the body, with fourteen thousan
S different adaptations; these one hun
, dred thousand glands; these two hur
: bred million pores; this mysteriou
: heart, contracting four thousand time
n every hour-this chemical process of d
r gestion; this laboratory, beyond tn
0 understanding of the most skillfr
4 philosopher; this furnace, whose hea
e is kept up from cradle to grave; thi
S factory of life, whose wheels, and spir
Y dies, and bands are God-directed.
C we could realize the wonders of on
o physical organization we would
o hypochondriacs, fearing every momer