Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-09

cattle" BE declared with infinite en-
phasis that the or on the threshinR.
fioor should have the privilege OF
eating some of the grain AZ he trod Il
out and muzzling was forbidden II
young birds were taken from the nest
for food the despoiler's life depended
on the mother going free. God would
not let the mother bird suffer in one
day the loss of her young and her own
liberty. And He who regarded in old
en- time the conduct of man toward the
brutes. to-day looks down from Heav-
en-. and is interested in every minnow
that swims the stream. and every rock
that c,eaves the air. and every herd
that bleats, or neighs, or lows in the
pasture
Why did God make all these, and
why make them so happy? How ac-
count for all this singing. and dancing,
and frisking amid the irrational crea-
ton? Why this heaven for the animal
Guile in drewdrop? Why for the con-
dor throne on Chimborazo? Why the
glitter of the phosphorus in the ships
wake on the sea, which is said to be
only the frolic of millions Of insects?
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 and arch
angel? Only one solution, one explain
alton. one answer-God is good Tho
earth is full of the goodness of the
Lord"
| 1 take step higher, and notice the
adaptation of the world to the comfort
and happiness of man. The sixth day
OF creation had arrived The palace Of
the world was made, tut there was no
king To live in it Leviathian ruled the
deep; the eagle the air; the lion the
field; but there 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 reminding
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
commingling of the temporal and etern-
al. 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 lifetime.
The Christian anatomist gazing upon
the conformation of the human BODY,
exclaims: "tearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate,
| no gauze SO delicate, no color so ex-
quisite, no mechanism 30 graceful, no
handiwork so divine. So quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form its functions, that it was not until
5000 years after tho creation of the
race that the circulation OF the blood
was discovered; and though ANTAGONISTS
OF I'LL 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 il
we give friendly recognition, and grasp
the sword. and climb the rock, and
write, and carve, and build It con-
structed the pyramids, and hoisted
the Parthenon. 1t made the harp and
then struck out of 1t all the worlds min
strelsy. In it the white marble of Pen
teticon mines dreamed itself away into
immortal sculpture. 1t reins in the
swift engine; it holds the steamer to it's
paths 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 stu
pendous achievements. What power
brought down the forests, and made the
marshes blossom, and burdened the
earth with all the cities that thunder on
with enterprise and powerp Four fin
gers and thumb. A hundred million
dollars would not purchase for you a
machine as exquisite and wonderful as
your own hand. Mighty hand! 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 per-
petual telcgraphing of the nerves;
these joints, that are the only hinges
that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body with II, 900 differ
ent adaptations; these 100 900 glands;
these 100000 pores; this mysterious
heart, contracting 1000 times every
hour-this chemical process of diges-
ton; this laboratory beyond the under
standing of the most skillful philos-
ophy, this furnace, whose heat is kept
up from cradle TO grave; this factory of
life whose wheels and spindles aud
1 JANUS aio pOu"ulItCltu II we could
realize the wonders of our physical or
ganization, we would be hypochondri-
acs, 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 a nerve
has ceasad TO thrill, or muscle 10 con-
tract, or lung TO breathe or hand to
manipulate.
take step higher, and look at
mans mental constitution Behold the
benevolence OF God in powers of per-
ception, or the faculty of transporting
this outside world into your own mind
gathering into your brain the majesty
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 TO your lips
Watch the law of association, or the
mysterious linking together Of all you
ever thought OF knew, or felt, and
then giving you the power 70 take hold
of the clew-line, and draw through
your mind the long train with hides
cribable velocity-one thought starting
up n hundred, and this again a thou.
sandals the chirp of ono bird some
times vvalxea n vvhoIa foro.t - IL.