Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-03

should have a Sabbath. "Thou shalt not
do any work, thou nor thy cattle" He
declared with infinite emphasis that the
OK on he thrasbng floor should have the
privilege of eating some of the grain as he
trod it out, and muz2ling was forbidden.
If Young birds were taken from the nest
for fool the despolers life depended on
the mother going free. God would not let
the mother bird suffer in one day the loss
If her young and her own liberty. And
he Sho regarded in oden time the conduct
of man toward the brutes today looks
down from heaven and is interested in
every ninnow that swims the stream, and
every rock that clcaves the air, aud every
herd that blcats or ucighs or lows i'll the
pasture.
Why did God make all these, and why
make them so happy? How account for
all this singing and dancing and Grisking
amid the irrational creation? Why this
heaven for the animaloue in a deWdrop?
Why for the condor a throne on Chin
borazo? Why the glitter of he phosphorus
in the ships wake on the sea, which is
said to be only the froliC Of millions of in
sects? Why the perpetual chanting of so
many voices from the irrational creation
i'll earth and air and Ocean-DeaNtS and all
cattle, creeping things and flying fowl,
permitted to join in the praise that goes up
from seraph and archaugel? Only one So
luton, 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 was
made, but there was no king to live in it.
Ieviathan ruled the deep; the eagle the
air: the lion the field; but whore was the
scepter which should rule all? a new
style of being was created. Heaven and
earth were represented in his nature. Ills
body from the earth beneath his soul
from the heaven above. The one remind
ing him of his origin, the other speaking
of his destiny-himself the connecting link
between the animal creation and angelic
intelligence In him strange comming-
ling 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 life
time.
TIE HUMAN BODY.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body, eX-
claims, "Fearfuly and wonderfully made"
No embroidery 50 elaborate, no gauze so
delicate, no color SO exquisite, no mechan-
len, co ,,r,cofrl mn b,, diy,orls ca tliviro
aa,ri.fI I'D ,,,.+,rin,,.I,. docs tLo b1'
man body perform 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 an
atomists of all countries and ages have
been so long exploring this castle of life,
they have only begun to understand it.
Uordro,,. in.tr,r,ont, Win IL we diva
frinm,iiv roco.,niiin,, ,,n,l ,,rasn tho sy9rd
, and ,,IiI,,h ,La rocL and u.ri,n and c,,.va
md bniIJ If ror.tr,rt.1 tho nvr.mid.
nrL boi.tad tb. p.r,b.non II m,da the
harn md tban struck ont of il ali the
v.orId,. ,ninc,ral.v In il the v,bi,a marble
or DnntoIic,,, r,ires draonad itealf ,,v,v
into i,,,nnrtai .rrIrtura It. rains in tbe
,,,.ift n,,,,;r,. II boldc rho st.u,,,ar to IT,.
,o,hi, tLo se,. l. .rn,chn. +he five fro,,
hn'.,,an. j. foalS, ,ia ,,,l.a % tho siol. abiId
With H., doIic,to totrh and r,nI,oe tbe na,
tiora ou,le With its s+,,n.ndnus achieve
ments
= What mower brourbt down the forests
. and made tbn marshes blossom and bur
dened the earth with all the cities thai
: thunder on with enterprise and power,
, Fonr firoprs and - thumb A brndre,
a million dollars vould not nurchasa fnr vol
"a
y vopr own hand Nirhtv hand, In all its
: homes. and muscles and Joints learn thai
. God is GOOD
! Behold the eve. which. in its photo
J t,rauIic gallery. in an instant catches IN,
mountain and the sea This nernetl,
telcrrapbjnr of the nerves: these Joints
, that are the only hinges that do not weal
2 out: these bones and muscles of the bod,
with fourteen thousand different adapta
tons; these one hundred thousand glands
2 these two hundred million pores; thi,
! mysterious heart, contracting fouI
} thousand times every hour: this chem
) zeal process of digestion: this laboratory
b. beyond the understanding of the mos
=, slillful philosophy; this furnace. who's,
5 heat is kept up from cradle to grave; thi
e factory of life whose wheels and spindle.
. and bands are God directed If we could
c realize the wonders OF our physical organ
u izatiun We would be Aypochoudriacs. fear
y Ing every moment that some part of TIT
;. machine would break down. But Their,
are men here who have lived through sew
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