Connecticut western news., 1891-12-03

the reptile it.. tooth; the bear it's paw :; the dog its muzzle; the elephant it. tusk; the fish its scale; the bird its swift wing. the reindeer its antlers; the roe it's fleet foot. We are repelled at the thought of sting and tuslz and hoof, but Gods goodness provides them for the defense of the animals rights.
 GODS CARE FOR THE LOWER ORDERS.
 Yea, God in the Bible announces his care for these orders of creation. He says that he has heaved up fortif1ca tions for their defense-Psalm civ, IS, ''The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the comics. ' He watches the birds nest--Psalm civ, IT. ''As for the stork, the fir trees are her house." He sees that the cattl>. have enough grass-Psalm civ, 14, "He causeth the grass to grow for. the cat tle." He sees to it that the COWS and sheep and horses have enough to drink Psalm civ. 10, II: ''He sendeth 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 em- phasis that the OK on the thrashing floor should have the privilege of eat ing some of the grain as he trod it out, and muzzling was forbidden. If young food, the despoiler's 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 regarded in olden time the conduct of man toward the brutes, today looks down from heaven and is interested in every minnow that swi,ns the stream, and every rock that cleaves the air. and every herd that bleats or neiells or lows in the pas ture.
 Why did God make all these and why make them so happy9 How account for all this singing and dancing and frisking amid the irrational creation Why this heaven for the aninalcule in a dewdrop! Why for the condor a throne on Chimborazo2 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 cat tie, creeping things and flying fowl, per mitted to join in the praise that goes up from seraph and archangel9 Only one solution, one explanation, one an swer-God is good 'The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord"
 THE COMFORTS OF MAN.
 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 o1 the world was made, but there was nc 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 represented 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 o his destiny--himself the connecting link between the animal creation and an gelic intelligence. In him a strange cotnmingling of the temporal and eter nal, the finite and the infinite, dust ano glory The earth for his floor anG heaven for his roof; God for his father eternity for his lifetime.
 The Christian anatomist, gazing upor the conformation of the human body exclaims, "Fearfully and wonderfully made" No embroidery so elaborate no gauge 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 it's functions that it was not unti fl i've thousand years after the creatio, of the race that the circulation of the blood was discovered, and thougl anatomists of all countries and age: have been so long exploring this castle of 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 grasI the sword, and climb the rock, anC write and carve and build. It con structed the pyramids and hoisted the Parthenon. It made the harp and thel struck out of it all the worlds min strelsy. In it the white marble O. l Pentelicon mines dreamed itself away l into innorta. sculpture. It reins il | the swi"; engine it holds the steamer to it's path in the sea, it snatches the | fire from heaven, it feels the pulse o1 | the sick child with it's delicate touch and makes the nations quake with its stupendous achievements.
 1 What power brought down the for ests, and made the marshes blossom and burdened the earth with all the cities that thunder on with enterprise and power? Four fingers and thumb l A hundred million dollars would moi purchase for you d machine as exquisite and wonderful as your own hand. Mighty hand! In all it's bones and muscles and joints learn that God is good.
 COMPLEXITIES OF THE BODY.
 Behold the eye, which, in it's photo graphic gallery, in an instant catchc' the mount;:in and the sea. This per petual teegraphing of the nerves; these joints, that are the only hinges that dc not wear out; these bones and muscles of the body. with fourteen thousant different adaptations; these one hun dred thousand glands; these two hun dred million pores; this mysteriou heart, contracting four thousand time every hour: this chemical proces