The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-30

food. the despoiler's life depended on the
mother going free. God would not ies Ins
mother bird suffer in e day the loss OF
her young and her own liberty a a De
who regarded in olden time the conduet OF
man tow ard the bruts, to-day looks "h
from heaven aud is interested IN every mi =
noss that swims {. e St eam, and every rook
that cleayes the air. and every herd that
bIeats. or neighs, or lows 10 the pasture.
Why did God make ali ,hese, ana why
make them so happy! no" account lor
all this singing. and dancing, ana Irl~khg
amid the Irrational crestioni Why this
heaven for the animalcule IN dewdropf
Whv for the condor throne on Chimbo-
raz9q Why the glitter OF the phosphorus
IN the ships wake on the sea, which Is stid
to be only the frolic OF millions ~ lnsectsf
WHIT e perpetual hantlng Of so many
voices from the irrational creation In earth,
and AR. and ocean-beasts, and all cattle,
creeping things and flying fowl, permitted
TO ioin in & praise that es up from
seraph and archangell Ony one luton,
one explana ION. one ans er-dod Is COCO
''The earth is full OF the goodness OF tue
Lord
take a step higher, and notice the
adaptation of the world to tue comfort end
bappir ess of man. The sixth day Of crea-
tlon mad 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 a
scepter which should rule all A new style
OF being vas created. Heaven and ca tn
were represented in his nature His body
from the earth beneath; bis soul from the
heaven above. The one reminding him of
his origin, the other speaking OF hissdestiny
himself the connecting link between the
animal creation and angelic intelligence.
In him q strange oomming ling Of the tenn
poral and eternal, 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 life
time.
The Christian snatomist, gazing upon the
conformation of the human body, exclaims:
"Fearfully and wonderfully II ade." No
embroidery 80 elaborate. no gauze as deli
cate, no color 30 exquisite, no mechanism so
graceful, no handiwork so divine. So
quietly and mysteriously does the human
body perform its functions. that IL was OF
until five thousand 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 expl ring this castle Of life, they
have only begun to understand it.
Volumessbave been written OF the hand.
WondroUs Instrument With it we give
friendly recognition, and grasp the sword
and climb the rock, and write, and carve,
and build. 1t constructed the pyramids,
harp, and then struck out OF it all the
worlds II instresy. In 1t the white marble
Of Pentelicon mines dreamed itself away
into immortal sculpture. Ii reins in the
swift engine; it holds the steamer to its
path in the sea; it snatches the fire from
heaven; 1t feels the pulse Of the sick child
with Its delicate touch, and makes the ma
lions quake with it's stupendous achieve
ments. What power brought down the
forests, and made the marshes blossom, and
burdened the earth with all the cities that
thunder on with enterprise and powerl
Four fingers and a thumb. A hundred
million dollars would not purchase for you
q machine as exquisite aud wonderful as
your own hand Mighty hand In all its
bones, and muscles, and joints. learn that
God is good.
Behold the eye, which, in it Photographic
gallery, in an inst ant catches the mountain
and the sea. This perpe .ual telegraphing
Of the nerves; these joints, that are the only
hinges that do not wear out; these bones
and muscles Of the body, with fourteen
thousand different adaptai ms: these one
hundred thousand glands; these two hum
dred million pores; is mysterious heart,
contracting four thousand times every
hour-lhis chemical process Of digestion A;
this laboratory, beyond he understanding
Of the most skillful philosophy; this fur
mace. Z" no heat is kept from cradle to
grave; this factory of life; whose wheels
aud spindles and bands are God-directed.
Ii we could realize the wonders OF our phys
ical organization, we would be hypochon-
driscs, 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 a nerve has
ceased to thrill, or a muscle to contract. or
a lu z to breathe, or a hand to manipulate.
take step higher. and look at mans
tai
lence Of God in powers of perception, or the
faculty OF tran porting this outside world
into your own mind-gatheriDg 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 mys-
FERROUS 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 indescrlbable velocity-one thought
starting up 9 humid ed and this again a
thousand-as the cbirp Of one bird some
times 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 harvest of the
past, and bring IL into the present. Your
power and velocity of thought-thought of
the swift wing and the lig thing foot;
thought that outspeeds the star and CT Giles
through the heavens. and weighs worlds,
and. from posing amid wheeling constella
tions, comes down to count the blossoms in
tnft Of mignonette, then starts again to
try the fathoming of the bottomless and
the scaling of the insurmountable, to be
swallowed up In the incompre lensible and
lost In Godl
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,
khe rabbit in quickness of hearing, the
honey-bee In delicacy Of tongue the spider
In f1neness of touch. Mans power, there.
fore, CONSISTENT not in what he can lift. OF
how fast he can run, OF how strong {
wrestler he can throw-for in these respects
the OK, the ostrich, and the hyena are nil
superior-but by his reason he Genes forth
to rule all; through his Ingenious
contriYance to outrun, outfit, out
wrestle, outsee, outhear, outdp
At his all conquering decree
the forest that had stood for ages steps asid,
to let him build his cain and cultivate hi
farm. The sea which raved and foamec
upon the race has become a crysi al pathw
for commerce to march on. The thunder
cloud that-sept lazily above the mountain
is made to come down and carry mail-bags
Man, disss tisfied with his slowness of ad
vancement, shouted TO the water and fire
"Come and lift" Come and draw ?