Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-30

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herd that bleats or neighs or lows in the
pasture.
why id God make all these, and why
make them so happy2 How account for
all this singing and dancing and frisking
amid the irrational creation? Why this
heaven for the animalcule in dewdrop?
Why for the condor a throne on Chin
borazof Why the glitter of the phosphorus
in the ships wake on the sea, which is
said to be only the frolic Of millions of in
Bects2 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 aud archangel? Only one So
luton, one explanation, one answer-God
is good "nhe earth is full of the good
ness of the Lord"
take n 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.
LGviathan ruled the deep; the eagle the
air; the lion the field; but where was the
scepter which should rule all? A new
style Of being was created Heaven and
earth were represented in his nature. His
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 a 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.
THE HUMAN BODY.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body, ex
claims, "Fearfully and wonderfully made"
No embroidery so elaborate, no gauze so
delicate no color so exquisite, no mechan-
ism so graceful, no handiwork so divine
So quietly and mysteriously does the hui
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.
Volumes have been written of the hand.
Wondrous instrument With it we give
friendly recognition, and grasp the sword,
and climb the rock, and write and carve
and build. 1t constructed the pyramids
and hosted the Parthenon. 1t made the
| harp, and then struck out Of it all the
worlds minstrelsy In it the white marble
| of Penteican mines dreamed itself away
| into immortal sculpture. 1t rciHs 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 ma.
tions quake with its stupendous achieve
ments
What power brought down the forests
and made the marshes blossom, and bur
dened the earth with all the cities that
thunder on with enterprise and poweri
| Four fingers and a thumb. hundred
million dollars would not purchase for you
machine ~ exquisite and wonderful as
your own hand Mighty handI In all its
bones and muscles and joints | learn that
God is good.
Behold the eye, which, in its photo
graphic gallery, in an instant catches the
mountain and the sea. This perpetual
telegraphing of the nerves; these joints
that are the only hinges that do not veal
out; these bones and muscles or the podA
with fourteen thousand different adapta
tions; these one hundred thousand glands
these two hundred million pores; thl'
mysterious heart, contracting touI
thousand times every hour; TINS chem
ical process of digestion; this laboratory
beyond the understanding OF the mos
skilltul phllosophy; TINS furnace, Whos'
heat is kept up from cradle to grave thl'
factory of lite whose wheels ana spihale
ana bahus are uou ulrecCeu' Al we Coui'
realize the wonders OF our physlcai organ
izaHon we would be hypochondrlacS' rear
ing every moment that some part OF th'
machine would break down Bat ther'
are men here VINO nave llVed through seV
enty years, ana not nerve mas cetseu u
thrill, or muscle TO contract OF lung u
breathe, or n mana TO manipulate
THE MIND OF MAN.
/ take step higher ana look al mans
mental constitution. hehoid Ihe oeheVo
lence of God in powers OF perception o.
the faculty Of Transporting TINS outslu
world into your own mimi Sh'nerlu'
into your brain the majesty OF the storm
and the splendor OF the DAY dawn, ana lllI
Ing into your NINA the ocean as easily
you might put glass OF water TO you
lips.
Watch the law of association, or tn
mysterious linking together OF all yol
ever thought or knew or felt, and then Civ
ing you the power to take hold of the clev
line and draw through your mind the lonj
: train with indescribable velocity-on
thought starting up hundred and thi
again thousand-as the chirp of one bir
, sometimes wakes a whole forest of voices
or the thrum of one string will rouse al
, orchestra. ,-,,,,.,
watch your memory-tna1 Sue'l plnu I9'
that goes tOrthtu gather the harvest OF Tn