The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-12-10
the field. The wild asses qusnch their

.cie" tic ilSltS Oh Catcle ana Sald that
they should have Sabbath. Thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle" lie declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the thrashing floor
should have the privilege of eating some
OF the grain as he trod 1t out, and muz.
zling was forbidden. If young birds
were taken from the nest for food, the
despoier's life depended on the mother
going free. God would not let the moth
er bird suffer in one day the loss
OF her young and her own liberty. And
he who regarded in olden time the con-
duct Of man toward the brutcs to-day
looks down from heaven and is interest
ed in every minnow that swims the
stream, and every rook that cleayes the
ar, and every herd that beats or neighs
or lows in the pasture.
Why did God make all these, and why
make them so happy? How account for
all this singing and dancing and friskiny
amid the irrational creation? WHY this
heaven for the anmalcule in dewdrop?
Why for the condor q throne on CHM
borazo? Why the glitter of the phos.
phorus in the ships wake on the sea,
which is said to be only the trollc Of mil
hons OF insects. Why perpetual chant
ing OF so many voices from the irration-
al creation in earth and air and OCEAN
beasts and all cattle, creeping things and
lying fowl, permitted to join in the
praise that goes up from seraph and
archangcl? Only one solution, one ex.
planatl0n, one answer-God is good.
"The.e is full ofthe goodness of the
Lord"
[ take step higher, and notice the ad-
aptatl0n OF the world to the comfort and
happiness Of man. The sixth day Of
creation had arrived. The palace Of the
world was made, but there was no king
TO live III IL. Icviathan ruled the deep.
the eagle the air; the lion the field; but
where was the sccpter which should rule
all? A new style of being was created.
Heaven and earth we're represented in
his nature. His body from the earth
beneath; his soul from the heaven above.
The one reminding Lin of his origin,
the other speaking of his destiny-him-
self the connecting link between the ami
mai creation and angelic intelligence.
In him strange commingling OF the
temporal 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 lifetime.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
eXclaims, "Fcarfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate,
no 9auZc so delicate, no color so eX-
Qulsltc, no mechanism so graceful, no
i:andiwork SO divine. SO quietly and
mystcrously does the human body per-
form its functions that it was not 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 exploring this caste of life, they
have only begun to understand it.
Volumes have 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 tie
pyramids and hoiste>l the Parthenon. It
made the harp, and then struck ont Of
it all the worlds minstreisy. In it the
white marble Of Pentelcan mines dreana-
Ell itself away into immortal sculpture.
1t rcins i'll 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 nations quake with its
stupendous achievements.
What power brought down the forests,
and made the marshes blossom. and bur-
dencd the earth with all cities that thun.
der on with enterprise and power? Four
fingers and thumb. A hundred mil
lion dollars would not purchase for you
machine as exquisite and ~ wonderful az
your own hand. Mighty hand! In all
its bones and muscles end joints learn
that God is good.
Behold the eye, which, IN its photo
graphic gallery; in an instant catches the
mountain and the sea. This perpetual
telegraphing of the nerves; these Joints,
that are the only hinges that do not wear
out; these bones and muscles ofthc bodv
with fourteen thousand different adapta.
tlons; these one hundred thousand
glands; these two hundred million pores;
this mysterious heart, contracting four
thousand times every hour; this chem
zeal process of Digestion; the laboratory,
beyond the understanding of the most
skllltul philosophy; this furnace, whose
heat is kept up from cradle to grave; this
factory OF life, whose wheels and spin
dies and bands are God din ec,od. If we
could realize the wonders of our physlcal
organization we would be hypochon d.
rlacs, 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 q muscle to oon.
tract, or lung 10 breathe, or hand to
manipulate.
take step higher and look at mans 8.
mental constitut on. Behold the beneyo
lcnce 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 Splendor 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 ass cclation, or the
mysterious linking together OF all you
ever thought or knew or ielt, and then
giving you tic power to take hold of the
cieW line and draw through your mind
the long tram with indcscribable veloci-
ty-one thought starting up hundred