Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-12-18


glitter of the phosphorus in the ships wake
on the sea. which Is said to be only the froilc
of millions Of insectss why the perpetual
chanting of so many voices from the IRA
tional creation in earth and air and ocean
beasts and all cattle creeping things ana ny
ing fowl permitted TO join in the praise that
goes I'D from seraph and archange? only
one solution, one explanation, one answer
God is good. The earth Is full OF the good
ness of the Lord"
| take a step higher, and notice the adap-
tation of the world to the comfort and hap
piness OF man. The sixth day OF creation
had arrived. The palace OF the world Wai
made but there was no king to live In 1t
Lev1athan ruled Il deep; the eagle the air;
the lion the field: but here was the scspter
which should rule all? A new style of being
was created. Heaven and earth were re-
presented in his nature. His ody from the
earth beneath his soul frons the heaven
above. The one reminding hlm OF MS origin,
the other speaking Of his destiny-himselt
the connecting link between the animal crea-
ton and angelic intelligence In him
strange commingling of the temporal ana
eternal, the finite and the infinite, dusO ana
glory The earth for his floor ana heaCen
for his roof; God for his Father; eternity
for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomist gazing upon the
confirmation of the human body. exclalms,
''Fearfuly and wonderfully made" NO
embroidery so elaborate no gauZe so dell
cate, no color so exquisite, no mechanism SO
graceful, no handiwork SO divine. SO quietly
and mysteriouslJ does the human BODY per,
form its functions that it was not until i've
thousand years after the creation of the race
that the circulation of the blood was dlscov-
cred, and though anatomists OF all countries
and ages have been so long exploring this
castle Of life, they have only begun to I'M
derstand it.
Volumes have been written Of the hand.
Wondrous instrument With it we give
friendly recognition, and grasp the SWORD,
and climb the rocks, and write and carve
and build. 1t constructed the pyramids and
hoisted the Parthenon. It made the harp,
and then struck out of it all the worlds
minstrelsy. In it the white marble or rem
telican mines dreamed itself away into I'M
mortal 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 its stupendous achievements.
What power brough hit down the forests, and
made the marshes blossom, ana ourdened Ine
earth with all the cities that thunder on
with enterprise and power? -Four fingers
and thumb A hundred million dollars
would not purchase for you machine as
ouisite and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty hand! In all its bones and muscles
and Joints L learn that God is good.
Behold the eye, which in it's Photographic
gallery in an instant catches the mountain
and the sea. This perpetual telegraphlng
of the nerves; these joints. that are the only
hinges that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body with fourteen thousand
different adaptations; these one hundred
thousand glands; these two hundred million
nores: this mysterious heart, contracting four
thousand times every hour; this chemical
process of digestion; this laboratory, beyond
the understanding of the most sklllful phllos-
ophy; this furnace, whose heat is kept up
from cradle to grave; this factory of life,
whose wheels and spindles and bands are
God directed. If we could realize the Won
ders of our physical organization we would
be hypochondriacs fearing every moment
that some part Of the machine would break
down. But there men here who have
lived through seventy years. and not nerve
has ceased to thrill or a muscle to contract.
or a lung to breathe, or hand to manipu-
late.
I take step higher and look at mans
mental constitution. Behold the benev-
olence of God in powers of perception, as the
faculty Of transporting this outside world
into your own mind-gatherlng 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 association, or the mys-
ferrous 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
indescribab bic velocity-one thought starting
up hundred and this again thousands
tie chirp of one bird sometimes wakes a
whole forest of voices. or the thrum OF one
string will rouse orchestra.
Watch your memory-that sheaf binder,
that goes forth to gather the harvest 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 outspeeds the star and circles
through the heavens and weighs worlds,
and, from posing amid wheeling constella-
tiOns, 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 insurmountable to be swal-
lowed up in the incomprehenslble and lost In
God!
In reason and understanding man is alone
| The OK surpasses him in strength, the ante
| lope i'll speed, the hound in keenness of nos
tril the eagle in far reaching sight, the rab-
! bit in quckness of hearing, the honey bee
in delicacy of tongue, the spider in fneness
| of touch. Mans power, therefore, consist
! eth 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 Os-
! trich and the hyena are his superlors-but
by his reason he comes forth to rule all;
/ through his ingenious cOntrlvance to Outrun,
outfit. outwrestle outsee, outhear, Guido.
At his all conquering decree the forest
! that has stood for ages step aside to let him
! build his cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which has raved and foamed upon the
race has become crystal pathway for COM
MERGE to march on. The thunder cloud that
slept lazily above the mountain is made to
come down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
satisfied with his slowness of advancement,
| shouted to the water and the fire, "Come
! and Iiftr' Come and drawn Come and
helpm And they answered, AYE, aye, we
come" and they joined hands-the fire and
tie water-and the shuttIes fly, and the rail