Connecticut western news., 1891-12-03

here who have lived through seventy years, and not ;t nerve las ceased to thrill, or a muscle to contract, or a lung to breathe, or a hand to manipulate. 1 take step higher and look at mans mental constitution. Behold the benevolence of God ill powers of per ception, or the faculty of transporting this outside world into your own mind gathering into your brain the majes ty of the storm and the Splendors of the day dawn, and lifting into your mind the ocean as easily as you might put a glass of water 10 your lips.
 Watch the law of association or the mysterious 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 indescribable 1 velocity-one thought starting up a | hundred, and this again 8 thousand as the chirp of one bird sometimes | wakes whole forest of voices. or the | thrum of one string will rouse an or | chestra.
 Watch your memOry-th sheaf | binder that goes forth to gather the harvest of the past and bring it into | the present. Your power and velocity l of ought--thought of the swift wing and the lightning foot; thought that | outspeeds the star, and circles through | the heavens, and weighs worlds, and l from poising amid wheeling constella- | tions comes down to count the blos- soms in a tuft of mignonette; then starts again to try the fathoming of the bottomleSs and the scaling of the in surmouutable, to be swallowed up in the incomprehensible, and lost in God !! MAN ALONE IN REASONING AND UNDER STANDING.
 In reason and understanding, man is alone. The OK surpasses him in strength, the antelope in speed, the hound in keenness of nostril, the eagle in far reaching sight, the rabbit in quickness of hearing, the honey bee in delicacy of tongue, the spider in fine ness of touch. Mans power, therefore. consistent not in what he can lift, or how fast he can run, or how strong a 1 wrestler he can throw--for in these re- spects the OK, the ostrich and the hyena comes forth to rule all through his in genious contrivance to outrun, out lift, outwrestle, outsee, outhear, outdo
 At his all conquering decree the for est that had stood for ages steps asids' to let him build his cabin and cultivate his farm. The sea which raved and foamed upon the race has become a crystal pathway for commerce to march on The thundercloud that slept lazily above the mountain is made to come down and carry mail bags. Man, dis satisfied with his slowness of advance ment, shouted to the water and the fire: Come and lift" Come and draw" Come and help!" And they answered, "Ay, ay; we colnew And they joined hands-the fire and the water-and the shuttles fly, and the rail train rattles on, and the steamship comes coughing, panting flaming across the deep.
 He eIevates the telescope to the heavens and, as easily as through the stethoscope the physician hears the movement of the lung the astronomer catches the pulsation of distant systems of worlds tlrobbing with life He takes the microscope and discovers that there are hundreds of thousands of animal cula living, moving, working, dying within circle that could be covered with the point of a pin-animals to which r;,indrop would be an ocean, a rose leaf a hemisphere and the flash of firety lasting enough to give them light to several generations.
 | MANS MORAL NATURE.
 take a step higher and look at mans moral nature. Made ill the inl- age of God Vast capacity for enjoy ment; capable at first of eternal joy and though now disordered, still through the recuperative force of heavenly grace able to mount up to more than it's original felicity; facul- ties that may blossom and bear fruit inexhaustibly. Immortality written upon every capacity; soul destined to reign in unlimited spheres of activ- ity long after the world has put on ashes, and the solar system shall have snapped its axle, and the stars that in their courses fought against Sisera shall have been slain and buried amid the tolling thun,lers of the fast day.
 You see that God has adapted every thing to our comfort and advantage Pleasant things for the palate, music for the ear be;uty for the eye. aroma for the nostril, kindred for our affec- tions, poetry for our taste, religion for our soul. We are put in a garden and told that fIpnn all tie trees we may eat, except here and there one. He gives the sun to shine on us, and the waters to refres. us and food to strengthen Us; and tEe herbs yield medicine when we are sick. and tho forests lumber when we would I>niIa n house or cross the water in ;t ship.
 The rocks are transported for oar foundation, and metals upturned for our currency, and wild beasts must give us cover ..G and tine mountains must Lc ;unneled to let lis pass and the fish of tile sea come up in our net, and the birds of the air drop at the flash of our guns, and the cattle on a thou sand hills come down to give us meat. For us the peach orchards bend down their fruit and the vineyards thcir purple clusters. To feed and refresh our intellect ten thousand wonders in nature and providence wonders of mind and b,dy, wonders of earth and air and deep analogies and antitheses all colors and sounds; lyrics in the air idyls in the field; conllagrations in the sunset; robes of mist on the mountainS and the "Grand March" of God in tht storm.