Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04
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u snatches the fire from Heaven II fooIs
Cne pulse of the sick child with it's doll.
caIe touch, and makes the nations onal,o
WIN III lts stupendous achievements.
what power brought down tho foros+e
ana made the marshes blossom. and hur.
uehed the earth with all the cities that
thunder on with enterprise and nowerS
four fingers and thumb. A hundred
million dollars would not purchase for
you machine as exquisite and wonder.
1ul as your own hand. Mighty hand,
IN It's bones and muscles and Joints 7
learn that God is good.
Deholu .he eye, which, in its photo
graphic gallery, in an instant catches
the mountain and the sea. This nor
petual telegraphing of the nerves. these
joints, that are the only hinges that do
not wear out; these bones and muscles
OF the body, with ID, 900 different adanta,-
lions; these 100000 glands: these 900
100000 pores; this mysterious heart.
contracting 1000 times every hour: this
chemical process of digestion; this labo
ratory, beyond the UNDERSTANDING If tho
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 dirorted
II we could realize the wonders of our
physical organization we would he
hypochondriacs, fearing every moment
Ihat some part OF the machine would
break down. But there are men here
VINO have lived through seventy years.
ana not nerve has ceased to thrill, or a
muscle TO contract, or a lung to breathe,
or a hand to manipulate
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mental condition. Behold the benevo-
fence 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 tho storm and the
splendors of the day dawn, and lifting
into your mind the ocean as easily as YOU
might put a 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
veloclty-one thought starting up
hundred, and this again a 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
thought-thought 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 considerations
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 quickness of hearing,
the honey bee in delicacy of tongue, the
spider in tineness 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, outdo
1Ao NO dli SOuluC uCClCC UuC 1OICSU
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 crystal
pathway for commerce to march on
The thundercloud thatslept lazily above
the mountain is made to come down and
carry mail bags. Man, dissatifed with
his slowness of advancement. shouted to
no tay RI hn firn. GsCn,,o o,,J e.
"Come and draw!" "Come and help!''
And they answered, SAY, ay; we come!'
And they joined hands-the fire and the
train rattles on, and the steamship comes
deep.
ems and, as easily as through the stetho-
scope the physician hears the movement
of the lung, the astronomer catches the
| throbbing with life. He takes tine mi
croscope and discovers that there are
hundreds of thousands of animalcul9
living, moving, working, dying within a
circle that could be covered with the
point of a pin-animals to which rain
drop would be an ocean, rose leaf u
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ing enough to give them light to several
generations.
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
recuperative force of heavenly grace
able to mountup to more than it's orig
inal felicity; faculties that may blossom
and bear fruit nexhaustibly. Immor-
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
Siscra shall have been slain and buried
amid the tolling thunders of the last
day.
You see that God has adapted every.
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant. things for the palate, music for
the ear beauty for the eye, aroma for
the nostril, kindred for our affections,
poetry for our taste, religion for our soul.
I've are put in a garden and told that
from all the trees we may eat, except
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