Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-12-11

presented in 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 crea-
ton and angelic intelligence. In him a
strange commingling of the temporal a n
eternal, the finite and the infinite, dust aIll
glory. The earth for his floor and heaven
for bis roof, God for his Father; eternity
for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomist gazing upon the
confirmation of the human body exclaims
"Fearfully and wonderfully made" No
embroidery so elaborate no gauze 50 deli
cate, no color SO exquisite, no mechanism so
graceful. no handiwork SO divine. So quietly
and mysteriously 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 discov-
cred, and though anatomists of all countries
and ages have been so long exploring this
castle Of life, they have only begun to un-
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. IL constructed the pyramids and
hoisted the Parthenon. 1t made the harp,
and then struck out Of it all the worlds
minstrelsy In it the white marble Of PEN
telican mines dreamed itself away into i'm
mortal sculpture. 1t reins in the swift
engine; it holes the steamer to its path in
the sea. 1t snatches the fire from heaven;
it feels the pulse OF the sick child with its
delicate touch, and makes the nations quake
with its stupeudous achievements.
What power brought down the forests, and
made the marshes blossom, and burdened the
earth with all the cities that thunder on
wit nd
and thumb. A hundred million dollars
would not purchase for you machine AS ex-
quisite and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty haudl In all its bones and muscles
and joints learn that God is good.
Behold the eye, which in its Photographic
gallery, in an instant catches the mountain
and the sea. This perpetual telegraphing
Of the nerves; these joints that are the only
hingesthat 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
pores; this mysterious heart contracting four
thousand times every hour: this chemical
process OF digestion; this laboratory, beyond
the understanding Of the most skillful philos-
ophy; this furnace whose heat is kept up
from cradle to grave; this factory OF life,
whose wheels and splndles and bands ara
God directed. II we could realiEo 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 are men here who have
lived through seventy years, and not nerve
has ceased TO thrill, or a muscle to contract,
or lung to breathe, or hand to manipu-
late.
7 take step higher and look at mans
mental constitution. Behold the benev-
olence OF Col in powers of perception, as the
faculty of transporting this outside world
INTO your own mind-gathering into your
brain the majesty Of the storm and the
splendoe 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
lndescribable velocity-one thought starting
up hundred and this again a thousand-as
the chirp Of one bird sometimes wakes
whole forest of voices. or the thrum of one
string will rouse an orchestra.
Watch your memory-thRt 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;
through the heavens and weighs worlds
and, from posing amid wheeling constella-
tons, comes down TO count the blossoms in
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 incomprehensibie aud lost In
Godl
In reason and understanding man is alone.
The OK surpasses him In strength, the ante.
lope in speed, the hound in keenness of nos.
tril, the eagle in far reaching sight, the rab-
bit in quickness Of hearing. the honey bee
in delicacy Of tongue the spider in fineness
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 superiors-but
by his reason he comes forth to rule all !;
through his ingenious contrivancs to outrun,
outfit, outwrsstle, outsee, outhear outdo.
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 a crystal pathway for COM
merce to march on. The thunder cloud that
slept lazily above the mountain is made to
come down and carry mail bags Man, dis
sati sfied with his slowness of advancement,
shouted TO the water and the fire. Come
and hftr' Come and drawn "Come and
helpr' And they answered, "Aye, aye, we
come" and they joined hands-the fire and
the water-and the shuttles fly, and the rail
train rattles on, and the steamship comes
coughing, painting flaming across the deep.
He elevates the telescope to the heavens,
and as easily as through the stethoscope the
physician hears tho movement OF the lung,
the astronomer catches the pulsation OF dif-
ierent systems Of worlds throbbing with
life. He takes the microscope, and discov.
AIRS that there are hundreds of thousands OF
animalcule living, moving, working, dying
within a circle that could be covered with
the point of pin-animals TO which rain
drop would be an ocean, rose Leaf hemi'
sphere, and the fash of a firefy lasting
enough to give them light to several genera
tions
take step higher and look at mans
moral nature. Made in the image OF God.
Vast capacity for njoyment; capable at first
of eternal ioy, and though now disordered,
still, through the cuperative force oi
heavenly grace, able to mount up to more
than its original felicity; faculties that may
blossom and bear fruit inexhaustibly. I'M
mortality written upon every capacity; &
soul destined to range in unlimited spheres
Of activity long after the world has put or
ashes, and the solar system shall hav'
snapped its axle, and the stars that in thel
courses, fought against Sisera, shall hav
been slain and buried amid the toilinI
thunders Of the last daJ.
You see that God has adapted everything
TO our comfort and advantage. Pleasan
things for the palate; music for the ear
beauty for the eye; aroma for the nostril
kindred for our affections; poetry for on
taste; religion for our soul. We are put
a garden, and told that from all the tree
we may eat, except here and there one
He gives the sun to shine on us, aud tt
waters TO refresh us, and food to strengthe
us; and the herbs yield medicine when v
are sick, and the forests lumber when v
would build house or cross the water in
ship.
The rccks are transported for our fou
dation, and metals upturned for our Gu
rency, and wild beasts must give us cove
ing. and the mountains must be tunnelt
to let us pass and the fish Of the sea con
up In our net and the birds of the air dr.
at the fash Of our guns, and the cattle on