The Brookhaven leader., 1891-06-04

origination of God. lie had no model
to work by. What stupendous work for
Saturday afternoon He must origi-
nate style of human heart through
which all the blood in the body must
pass every three minutes. He must
make that heart so strong that it can
during each day lift what would be
equal to one hundred and twenty tons
of weight, and it must be so arranged
as to beat over thirty-six million times
every year. About five hundred muscles
must be strung in the right place, and
at least two hundred and fifty bones
constructed. Into this body must be put
at least nine million nerves. Over three
thousand perspiring pores must be made
for every inch of fleshy surface. The
human voice must be so constructed
that it shall be capable of producing
seventeen trillion five hundred and
nincty-two billion one hundred and
eighty-six million forty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds.
But all this the most insignificant
part of the human being. The soul!
All, the construction of that God Him.
self would not be equal to if He were
any the less of God. It's understand
ing, its will, it's memory, its conscience,
its capacities of enjoyment or suffering,
its Immortality. What a work for a
Saturday afternoon! Aye! Before
night there were to be two such human
and yet immortal beings constructed.
The woman as well as the man was
formed Saturday afternoon. Because
deep sleep fell upon Adam and by
Divine surgery portion of his
side was removed for the nu-
cleus of another creation, it has
been supposed othat perhaps days
and nights passed between the masculine
andfeminine creations. But no! Adam
was not three hours minated. If a
physician can by an@sthetics put one
into deep sleep in three minutes, God
certainly could have put Adam into a
profound sleep in short while that
Saturday afternoon and made the deep
and radical eXcision without causing
distress. BY manipulation of The dust,
the same hand that nodded the noun
tainS nodded the features and nodded
the limbs of the father of the human
race. But his eyes did not see, and his
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not move, and his lungs did not breathe,
and his heart did not pulsate. A per-
feet form he lay along the earth, SYM
metrcal and of God-like appearance.
Magnificent piece of Divine carpen-
try, and Omnipotent sculpturing, but
no vitality. A body without soul.
Then the source of all life stopped to
the inanimate nostril and lip, and, as
many skillful and earnest physician
has put his lips to a patient in coma
tose state and breathed into his mouth
and nostril, and at the same time COM
pressed the lungs, until that which was
artificial respiration became natural
respiration, so methinks God breathed
into this cold sculpture of n man the
breath of life, and the heart begins
to tramp, and the lungs to in
hale, and the eyes to open and
the entire form to thrill. and
with the rapture of n life Just come, the
PROSTATE being leaps to his fcet-a
man! But the scene of this Saturday
is not yet done, and in the atmosphere.
drowsy with the breath of flowers, and
the song of boboiinks, and robin-red
breasts, the man slumbers, and by
anRsthetics, Divinely administered, the
slumber deepens until, without the
oozing of one drop of blood at the time,
or the faintcst scar afterward that por
tion is removed from his side which is
to build up the Queen of paradise, the
daughter of the great God, the mother of
the human race, the benediction of all
ages woman the wife, afterward wom-
an the mother. And as the two join
hands and stroll down the banks of the
Euphrates toward bower of mignon-
cite and wild rose and honey ysuckle,
and are listening to the call of the whip
poor-will from the aromatic thiclets,
the sun sinks beneath the horizon.
And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day"
What do you think of that one weeks
work? | review it not for entertain
ment, but because I would have you
join in David's Doxology: Great and
marvellous are Thy works, Lord God
Almighty" because 1 want you to
know what homestead our Father
built for His children at the start,
though sin has despoiled it; and because
l want you to know how the world
will look again when Christ shall have
restored it, swinging now between
two Edens; because l want you
to realize something of what mighty
God He is and the utter folly of try
ing to war against him; be-
cause l want you to make peace with
this Chief of the Universe through the
Christ who mediates between offended
omnipotence and human rebellion; be-
cause / want you to know how fearful
ly and wonderfully you are made, your
body as well as your soul an omnipo-
tent achievement; because l want you
to realize that order reigns through
out the universe, and that Gods
watches tick to the second, and
that His clocks strike regularly,
though they strike once in a thousand
years. A learned man once asked an
old Christian man who had no advan-
tages of schooling why he believed
there was God, and the good old man,
who probably had never heard an argu-
ment ON the subject in all his life, made
this noble reply: "Sir, l have been
here going hard upon fifty years.
Every day since have been In this
world l see the sun rise in the
east and set in the west. The north
star stands where it did tho
first time l saw it; the seven stars
and Jobs coffin keep on the same path
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