Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-03

dreamed itself away into immortal sculp-
ture It reins in the swift engine, it
holds the steamer to It's path in the sea,
it snatches the fire from Heaven, it feels
the pulse of the sick child with its deli
cate touch, and makes the nations quake
with its StuDendOuS achievements.
What power brought down the forests,
and made the marshes blossom, and bur-
dened the earth with all the cities that
thunder on with enterprise and power?
-Four fingers ard thumb. A hundred
million dollars would not purchase for
you machine as exquisite and wonder
full as your own hand. Mighty hand!
In it's bones and muscles and joints l
learn that God is good
Behold the eye, which, in it's photo
graphic gallery, in an instant catches
the mountain and the sea. This per-
petua telegraphing of the nerves. these
joints, that are the only hinges that do
not wear out; these bones and muscles
of the body, with IA, 900 different adapta-
tions; these 100, 900 glands; these 20O,-
600, 900 pores; this mysterious heart,
contracting 1000 times every hour; this
chemical process Of Digestion; this labo-
ratory, beyond the understanding of the
most skillful philosopher; this furnace,
whose heat is kept up from cradle to
grave; this factory of life, whose wheels
and spindles and bands are God directed.
If we could realize the wonders OF our
physical organization we would be
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 a
muscle to contract, or lung to BREATHE
or hand to manipulate.
| take a step higher and look at mans
mental condition. Behold the benevo-
lence of God in powers of perception, 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 glass of water to your lips.
Watch the law of association or the
mysterious linking together of all you
ever thought or knew or felt, and then
giving you the power to take hold OF
the clew line and draw through your
mind the long train with indescribable
veIocity-one thought starting up a
hundred, and this again thousand-as
the chirp of one bird sometimes wakes a
whole forest of voices, or the thrum of
one string will rouse an orchestra.
Watch your memOry-that sheaf
binder that goes forth to gather the har-
vest of the past and bring it into the
present Your power and velocity of
thong of the swift wing and
the lightning foot; thought that out
speeds the star, and circles through the
heavens, and weighs worlds, and from
posing amid wheeling consultations,
comes down to count the blossoms in a
tuft of mignonette; then starts again to
try the fathoming of the bOttOmless and
the scaling of the unsurmountable, 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 keen
ness of nostril, the eagle in far reaching
sight, the rabbit in quckness of hearing,
the honey bee in delcacy of tongue, the
spider in fnenesS of touch Mans
power, therefore, consistent not in what
he can lift, or how fast he can run, or
how strong wrestler he can throw-for
in these respects the OK, the ostrich and
the hyena are his superiOr-but by his
reason he comes forth to rule all through
his ingenious cOntrivance to Outrun, out
lift, outWrestle, Outsee, outhear, Guido.
At his all cOnQuering decree the forest
that had stood for ages steps aside to let
him build his cabin and cultivate his
farm. The sea which raved and foamed
upon the race has become a crystal
pathway for commerce to march on
The thundercloud that slept lazilY above
the mountain is made to come down and
carry mail bags. Man, dissatifed with
his slowness of advancement, shouted to
the water and the fire: 'Come and lift.''
''Come and drawn ''Come and help!'
And they answered, SAY, ay; we come!'
And they joined hands-the fire and the
water-and the shuttles fly, and the rail
train rattles on, and the steamship comes
coughing, painting, flaming across the
deep.
He elevates the telescope to the heav-
ems and, as easily as through the stetho
scope the physician hears the movement
of the lung, the astronomer catches the
pulsation of distant systems of worlds
throbbng with life He takes the mi
crOscope and discovers that there are
hundreds of thousands of animalcul4
living, moving, working, dying within a
circle that could be covered with the
point OF a pin-animalS to which a rain |
drop would be an ocean, a rose leaf d
hemisphere and the flash Of a FREELY last
ing enough to give them light to several
generations
l take step higher and look at mans
moral nature. Made in the image of
God. Vast capacity for enjoyment;
capable at first Of eternal joy, and
though now disordered, still through the
recuperatiye force of heavenly grace
able to mountup to more than it's orig
inal felicity; faculties that may blossom
and bear fruit ineXhaustibly. 1mmor-
tality written upon every capacity: a
soul destined to reign in unlimited
spheres of activity long after the world
has put on ashes, and the solar system
shall have snapped its axle, and the
stars that in their courses fought against
Sisera shall have been slain and buried