Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-25
omnipotent sculpturing, but no vitality.

Omnipotent sculpturing, but no vitality
A body without a soul.
Then the source of all life stopped to the
inanimate nostril and lip, and as many a
skillful and earnest physician has put
his lips TO a patient in cOmatose state
and breathed into his mouth and nostril,
and at the same time compressed the
lungs, until that which was artificial res
pration became natural respiration, so
methinks God breathed into this cold
sculpture of a man the breat i of life, and
the heart begins to tramp, and the lungs to
inhale, and the eyes to open, and the en-
tire form to thrill, and with the rapture of
a life just come the PROSTATE being leaps
to his feet-a man!
But the scene of this Saturday is not yet
done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy with
the breath of flowers, and the song of bobo-
links and robin redbreasts, the man slum-
bers, and by anesthetics, divinely admin
istered, the slumber deepens until without
the oozing of one drop of blood at the time
or the faintest scar afterward, that portion
is removed from his side which is to be
built up the Queen of Paradise, the daugh-
ter 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 Eu-
pirates toward bower of mignonette and
wild rose and honeysuckle, and are listen
ing to the call of the whip-poor-will from
the aromatic thickets, the sun sinks be-
meath the horizon. "And the evening and
the morning were the sixth day"
A GREAT WEEKS WORK
What do you think of that one weeks
work? | review it not for entertainment,
but because l would have you join in
Davids doyology, Great and marvellous
are thy works, Lord God Almighty" be-
cause l want you to know what home
stead our Father built for his children at
the start, though sin has despoiled it, and
because | want you to know how the world
will look again when Christ shall have re-
stored it, swinging now between two
Edens; because want you to realize some
thing of what a mighty God he is, and the
utter folly of trying to war against him;
because | want you to make peace with
this Chief of the Universe through the
Christ who mediates between offended
Omnipotence and human rebellion; be-
cause want you to know how fearfully
and wonderfully you are made, your body
as well as your soul an Omnipotent
achievement; because l want you to real
ize that order reigns throughout the uni
verse, and that Gods watches tick to the
second, and that his clocks strike regular
ly, though they strike once in thousand
years.
A learned man once asked an old Chris
tian man who had no advantages of school
ing, why he believed there was a God, and
the good old man, who probably had never
heard an argument on the subject in all
his life, made this noble reply; "Sir, have
been here going hard upon fifty Years.
Every day since hasaA-has--S'' :"
COO -, -, la5,=lf7-.,tNe Deen III this world
~ siie sun rise In the east and set in the
west. The north star stands where it did
the first time | saw it; the seven stars and
Jobs coffin keep on the same path in the
sky and never turn out. 1t isn't so with
mans work. He makes clocks and watches;
they may run well for awhile, but they get
out of fix and stand stock still. But the
sun and moon and stars keep on this same
way all the while. The heavens declare
the glory of God" Yea, preach this, be-
cause l want you to walk in appreciation
of Addison's sublime sentiment when he
writes:
The spacious armament on high,
With all the blue ETHEREAL sky
And spangled heav'ns, a shining Frame
Their Great Original proclaim.
In reasons ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth glorious voice,
Forever singing, as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.