News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

countenance. Magnificent piece of di-
vine carpentry and omnipotent sculpt-
uring, but no vitality. A body with
out soul.
Then the source of all life stopped to
the inanimate nOstril and lip. and, as
many a slillful and earnest physician
has put his lips to a patient in comatose
state and brcathed into his mouth and
nostril, and at the same time compressed
the lungs, until that which was artificial
respiration became natural respiration,
so methinks God breathed into this cold
sculpture of a man the breath of life,
and the heart begins to tramp, and the
lungs to inhaie and the eyes to open
and the entire 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
vet done, and in the atmosphere,
drowsy with the breath of flowers, and
the song of bobolinks and robin red
breasts, the man slumbers, and by
anasthetics, divinely administered, the
slumber deepens until, without the ooz-
ing 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
daughter of the great God, the mother
of the human race, the benediction of all
ages, woman the wife, afterward woIn-
an the mother And as the two join
Il, r+p0 4 oil ha no lyS
of the Euphrates toward bower of
mignonette and wild rose and honey
suckle, and are listening to the call OF
the whip poor-will from the aromatic
thickets, the sun sinks beneath the hori-
zon. "And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day."
THE WORKS OF THE LORD.
What do you think of that one weeks
work2 l review it not for entertain
ment, but because | would have you
join in David's doxolOgy, Great and
marvellous are thy works, Lord God
Almighty" because l want you to
know what a homestead our Father
built for his children at the start,
though sin has despoiled it, and be-
cause l want you to know how the
world will look again when Christ shall
have restored it, swinging now between
two Edens; because | want you to
realize something of what a mighty
God ne is, and the utter folly of trying
to war against him; because | want
you to make peace with this chief of
mediates between offended Omnipo-
tence and human rebellion; because |
want you to know how fearfully and
wonderfully you are made, your body
as well as your soul an Omnipotent
achievement; because | want you to
realize that order reigns throughout the
universe, and that Gods watches tick
to the second, and that his clocks
strike regularly, though they strike
once in q thousand years.
A learned man once asked an old
Christian man who had no advantages
of schooling 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 have been in this world |
see the 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 | want you to walk in apprecia-
ton of Addison's sublime sentiment
when he writes:
The spacious armament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangled heav ms, q 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.