Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-04

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Of the sick child with its delicate tsuch, and
makes the nations quake with its stupendous
! achievements. What power brought down tho
| forests and made the marshes blossom, and
burdened the earth with all the cities that thun-
| der on with enterprise and powerf -Four fingers
and thumb, hundred million dollars would
| not purchase for you machine as exquisite
and wonderful as your own hand. Mighty
| handl 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
sea- a sSai 81 Ses
| that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body, with 1900 different
20O,0OO,OO0 pores: this mysterious heart,
| contracting 1000 times every hour-this
chemical process OF digestion; this labora-
tory, beyond the understanding OF the
most skilful philosophy; this furnace, whose
heat is kept up from cradle TO grave; this fac
tory OF life whose wheels and spihIddles ana
the wonders OF our physical organization, We
| would be hy1ochcndriacs, fearing every mo-
| ment that some part OF the machine would
break down. But there are men here who have
! lived through seventy years, and not q nerve
has ceased 10 thrill, or muscle 10 contract, or
| lung 70 breathe, or hand to manipulate.
| take step higher, and look at man Is mental
| constitution. Behold the benevolence OF God
IN powers OF perception, or the faculty OF trans
| porting this outside world into our own mind
| gathering into your brain the majesty OF the
| storm, and the splendors OF the day-dawn, and
| lfung into your mind the ocean as easily as
| you might put glass OF water TO your lips.
| Watch the law Of association. or the mysteri-
GUS linking together of all you ever thought, or
| 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 indescribable
velocity-one thought starting up hundred,
and this again thouSand-aS the chirp OF one
| bird sometimes wakes whole forest OF voices,
| or the thrum OF one string will rouse an orohes-
| TIRE.
Watch your memory-that sheafbinder that
goes forth TO gather the harvest OF the past and
! bring IL into the present Your power and
| velocity OF thought-thought OF the swift wing
| and the lightning foot; thought that outspeed5
| the star, and circles through the heavens, and
| weighs worlds, and from posing amid wheeling
consultations, comes down 10 count the bios
| SONS In tuft OF mignonette, then starts again
| 10 try the fathoming OF the bottomless, and the
| scaling Of the tnsurmountable, TO be swallowed
| up in the incomprehensible and lost in Godl
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 farreaching sight, the rabbit In quick
| ness OF hearing, the honey-bee in delicacy Of
| tongue, the spider in flneness OF touch Mans
| power, therefore, consistent 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 ostrich, and the hyena are his superior
! but by his reason he comes forth 10 rule all.
| through his ingenious contrivance TO out.
| run, outfit outwrestle, outsee, outhenr,
| Guido. AT his all-conquering decree, the forest
bd bs ceh i nnd Sps ISL 70 e' MN
| sea which raved and foamed upon the race has
| become crystal pathway for commerce 70
march on. The thundercloud that slept laZily
| above the mountain is made TO come down and
| carry the mail-bags. Man, dissatisfied with his
| slowness OF advancement shouted TO the Water
and Fire, Come and liftl" Come and drawi"
| Come and helpl" And they answered, "Ay.
ay, we come" and they joined hands-the FIRE
and the water-and the shuttles fly
! steamship comes coughing, painting, flaming
across the deep. He elevates the telescope 70
the heavens ,and,as easily as through the stetho-
/ 10 nj ha mn ant Of ha
| lung, the astronomer catches the pulsation OF
\ distant systems OF worlds throbbing with life.
| there are hundreds OF thousands OF animalcule
| living moving, working. dying within circle
| that could be covered with the point OF pin
! animals 70 which rain-drop would be an
ocean, q rose-leaf hemisphere, and the fash CT
| FREELY lasting enough 10 give them light 70
! several generations
take o step higher, and look at mans moral
! nature. Made in the image OF God. Vast ca
pacity for enjoyment: capable ut first OF eternal
Joy, and, though now disordered, STILL through
the rHcuperative force OF heavenly grace, able
| 10 mount up 20 more than It's original felicity:
faculties that may blossom and bear fruit mex
| hauStibly. Immortality written upon every ca
pacity: soul destined to range In unlin Ged
| spheres OF activity long after the world has put
| on ashes and the solar system shall have
snapped it's axle, and the stars that In their
| courses fought against Sisera shan have been
| slain, and buried amid the tolling thunders OF
| the last day.
You see that God has adapted every
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| Pleasant things for the palate; music for the
| ear; beauty for the eye; aroma for the noStril;
| kindred for our affections; poetry for osr taste;
| and told that from all the trees We may eat ex-
| cept here and there one. He gives tho sun TO
shine on us and the waters TO refresh us, and
| food 20 strengthen us; and the herbs yield
| medicine when we are sick, and the forests
lumber when we would build house. or cross
the water in ship The rocks are transported
| for our foundation and metals upturned for
| our currency; and wild beasts must give
| US covering; and the mountains must be
tunneled TO let us pass; and the fish Of the sea
come up in our net; and the birds of the air drop
| at the flash OF our guns; and the cattle on
| thousand hills come down and give uB meat
| For us the peach-orchards bend down their
| fruits, and the vineyards their purple clusters.
To feed and refresh ouI intellect ten thousand
| wonders In nature and proyidence-wonders
| OF mind and body, wonders OF earth, and air,
| and deep analogies and antitheseS; all colors
and sounds, lyrics in the air. idyls in the fields;
| CONGREGATIONS in the sunset; robes OF mist on
| the mountains; aud the "Grand March" OF God
| In the storm.
but for the soul still higher adaptation; a
fountain in which II may wash; ladder by
that It may Sing; q crown Of unfading light that
| II may wear Christ came 10 save it-came
| with cross on his back; came with spikes in
| his feet; came when no one else would come, TO
do n work which no one else would do. See how
| suited 70 mans condition Is what God has done
for himl Man is sinner; here Is pardon. He
| has lost Gods image; Christ retraces It. He ~
| helpless; Almighty grace is preferred He Is q
| lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home, He IL
blind; and at one touch OF him who cured Bar
timeus, eternal glories stream into his soul.
| Jesus, sing thy graoei Cure of worst diseased
| Hammer 10 smite OF heaviest chainl Light
for thickest darknessl Grace divinel Devils
soon at it. and men reject It. but heaven cello
| brates Ill
wisk'you good cheer fer the nation al health
| Pestilense, that in other years has come "
| drive out its thousand hearses to Greenwood
| and Laurel Hill, has not visited our nation II
| IL glorious thing 70 be well. How strange that
| we should keep our health when one breath
from marsh, or the sting OF On insect or the
slipping OF foet, or the falling OF e-brnnch
| might fatally assault cur hfei Regularly the
| lungs work, and their motion seems 10 be q
| spirit within us painting after its Immortality.
| Our sight fails not, though the air Ia so fun OF
| objects which by one touch co aid break out the
| souls window. What ship, after a years toss
ing on the seq, could come In with 50 little dana
| age as ourselves though We arrtve after years
| voyage 70 day.
wish you good cheer for the national harvest
| Keeping machines ncvor swathed thicker rye,
! and corn-huSkers reg never ripped ont fuller
| ear, and s1ov-poles never bent down under
| sweeter hay and wind-mill's hopper never
| shook out larger wheat Long trains Of white
| covered wagons have brought the wealth down
| 20 the great thoroughfaree. The gamers are
| full, the store-houses are svercrowded the
| canals are blocked with freights pressing down