The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-12-10

phasis that the OK ON the threshing-
floor should have the privilege of eating
some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. II young
birds were taken from the nest for
food, the despoiler's life depended on
the mother going free. God would not
let the motherhood suffer in one day
the loss of her young and her own lib
erty. And he who regarded in olden
time the conduct of man toward the
brutes to-day looks down from Heaven
and is interested in every minnow that
swims the stream, and every rock that
cleaves the air, and every herd that
bleats, or neighs, or lows in the pas
turc.
Why did God make all these, and
why make them so happy? How ac-
count for all this singing, and dancing,
and frislting amid the irrational crea-
ton? Why this heaven for the animal
cule in dewdrop? Why for the con-
dor a throne of Chimborazo? Why the
glitter 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 cattle, creeping things, and flying
fowl, permitted to join In the praise
that goes up from seraph and archan-
gel? Only one solution, one explana-
ton, one answer-God is good. 1.-THE
earth is full of the goodness of the
Lord"
l take n 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 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 there was the sceptcr which
should rule all? A new style of being
was created. Heaven and earth were
represented i'll His nature. His body
from the earth beneath; his soul from
the Heaven above. The one reminding
him of his origin, the other speaking
of his destiny himself the connecting
link between the animal creation and
angelic intelligence. In him strange
commingling of the temporal and eter-
nal, the finite and infinite, dust and
| glory. The earth for his floor, and
Heaven for his roof; God for his Father;
eternity fol, his lifetime.
| The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
exclaims: "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery SO elaborate,
no gauze so delicate. no color so cx-
| - r,,l ~
| handiwor< so divine. so quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form its functions, that il was not until
five thousand years after the creation
of the race that the circulation of the
blood was discOvered; and though anat-
omiSts of all countries ard ages have
been so long exploring this castle OF
life, they have only begun h under
stand it.
| Volumes have been written of the
hand. Wondrous instrument! with it
we give friendly recognition. and grasp
| the sword, and climb the rock, AID
write, and carve, and build. 1t cor
structed the Pyramids. and hoisted the
Parthanon. 1t made the harp, and then
struua out Of it all the worlds min
strelsy. In it the white marble of Pen
| telicon mines dreamed itself away into
immortal sculpture. 1t reins in the
swift engine; it holds the steamer to
its path in the sea; it snatches the fire
from Heaven; it feels the pulse of the
sick child with its delicate touch, and
makes the nations quake with it's stu
pcndous achievements. What power
| brought down the forests, and made the
marshes blossom, and burdcnca the
earth with all the cities that thunder
on with enterprise and power? -Four
| fingers and n thumb. A hundred million
dollars would not purchase for you Il
machine as exquisite and wonderful as
your own hand. Mighty hand! In al
its bones and muscles and joints Learn
that God is good.
| Behold the eye, which, in it's photo
graphic gallery, in an instant catches
the mountain and the sea. This per
petual tclcgraphing of the nerves; these
joints, that are the only hinges that dc
not wear out: these bones and muscles
of the body, with fourteen thousand
different adaptations, these one hun
drcd million pores; this mysterious
heart contracting four thousand times
every hour-this chemical process OF
digestion; this laboratory, beyond the
understanding of the most sllillful
| philosophy; this furnace, whose heat is
| kept up from the cradle to the grave;
this factory of life, whose wheels, and
spindles, and bands are God-directed.
| If we could realize the wonders of our
| physical organization, we would be
! hypochondriacs fearing every moment
that some part of the machine would
who have lived through seventy years,
and not q nerve has ceased to thrill, or
"a muscle to contract, or a lung to
| breathe, or hand to manipulate.
| take step higher aud look at mans
mental constitution. Behold the benev-
| olence OF God in powers of perception,
or the faculty Of transporting tins out
side world into your own mind-gath-
ering 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 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 indescriba BILE
| yelOcity-One Thought starting m n