The Penn's Grove record., 1891-12-04

"Fearsully and wonderfully made.n No
enbroidery so elaborate, no gauze so deli
cate, no color SO exquisite, no taeclanism so
graceful, no handiwork SO divine. So quietly
and mysteriously does the human body per
form its functions that it was not until five
thousand years after the creation Of the race
that the circulation OF the blood was discov-
eredj and though anatomists of all countries
and ages have been so long exploring this
castle of life, they rave only begun 10 I'M
derstand IT.
Volumes AVE been written of the hand.
Wondrous Instrument With it we give
frienfly recognition, and grasp the sword,
and climb the rocks, and write and carve
and build. 1t constructed the pyramids and
hoisted the Parthenon. Il made the harp,
and then struck out OF it all the worlds
minstrelsy. In 1t the white marble of PEN
telican mines dreamed itself away into i'm
mortal sculpture. 1t reins in the swift
engine; It holds the steamer to its path in
the sea; 1t snatchee the fire from heaven;
1t feels the pulse of the sick child with its
delicate touch, and makes the nations quake
with its stupendous 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 powerf -Four fingers
and a thumb. A hundred million dollars
would not purchase for you a machine as ex-
4ahoA - d1 IOut dlu
Mighty hand In all its bones and muscles
and joints learn that God is good.
Behold the eye, which In it's Photographic
gallery, in an instant catches the mountain
and tho sea. This perpetual te~legraphing
of the nerves; these joints, that are the only
hinges that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles Of the body with fourteen thousand
different adaptations; these n hundred
thonsan | glands; these two hundred million
pores; this mysterious heart, contracting four
thousand times every hour; this chemical
process of digestion; this laboratory, beyond
the understanding of the most skiilful philos-
,phy; this furnace, whose heat is kept up
ron cradle to grave; this factory of life
whose wheels and spindles and bands alb
.fod directed. II we could realize the won
lers Of our physical Organization we would
30 hypochondriacs, fearing every moment
hat some part Of the machine would break
Town. But there are men here who have
lived through seventy years, and not q nerve
los ceased to thrill, or a muscle to CONTRACT
,r a lung to breathe, or q hand to manipu-
ate.
7 take a step higher and look at mans
mental constitution. Behold the benev-
,lence Of Col In powers of perception, as the
OF transporting this outside world
the majesty of the storm and the
Of the day dawn, and lifting into
your mind the ocean as easily as you might
1ut q glass of water to your lips.
Watch the law OF association, or the mys-
,erIous linking together Of all you ever
or knew or felt, and then giving you
he power to take hold Of the clew line and
lraw through your mind the long train with
ndescribable v~elocity-one thought starting
;ie chirp of one bird sometimes wakes q
forest Of voices. or the thrum Of one
will rouse an orchestra.
Watch your memory-that sheaf binder
hat goes forth to gather the harvest of the
,ast and bring 1t into the present. Your
,ower and velocity of thought-thought of
he swift wing and the lightning foot;
the heavens and weighs worlds,
and, from posing amid wheeling constella-
ions, comes down to count the blossoms in a
;uft OF m~ignonette, then starts again to try
he fathoming of the bottomless, and the
Of the insurmountabie, to be swal-
owed up In the incomprehensible and lost in
iodi
In reason and understanding man is alone.
The OK surpasses him In strength, the ante
lope in speed, the hound In keenness of nos
tril, the eagle in far reaching sight, the rab-
bit in quickness of hearing, the honey bee
in delicacy of tongue, the spider in ~fineness
touch. Mans power, therefore, consist
eth not in what he a lift, or how fast he
can run, or how strong a wrestler he can
in these respects the OK, the o.
trich and the hyena are his superiors-but
by his reason he ome forth to rule all;
his ingenious continuance to %outrun,
outwrestle, outsse, outhear, Guido.
At his all conquering decree the forest
has stood for ages step aside to let him
build his cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which has raved and foamed upon the
race has become q crystal pathway for COM
uerce to march on. The thunder cloud that
lazily above the mountain is made to
some down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
with his slowness Of advancement,
shouted to the water and the FIRE, 'Come
md iftr' "come and drawn "Come and
And they answered, AYE. aye, we
,ome.s and they Joined hands-the fire and
8 water--and the shutties fly, and the rail
rain rattles on, and the steamship comes
,oughing, painting, flaming across the deep.
He eleyates the telescope to the heavens
md as easily as through the stethoscope the
,hysician hears the movement Of the lung,
he astronomer catches the pulsation of dit
,erent systems of worlds ~throbbing with
life. He takes the microscope, and discov-
RS thai there are hundreds of thousands OF
living, moving, working, dying
within a circle that could be covered with
point of a pin-animals to which a rain
lrop would be an ocean, a rose leaf a hemi-
phere, and the fash of a FREELY lasting
nough to give them light to several genera
ions
l take a step higher and look at mans
moral nature. Made in the image of God.
Fast capacity for enjoyment; capable at first
Il eternal joy. and though now disordersd,
till, through the Operative force Of
ieavenly grace, able to mount up to more
han its original felicity; faculties that may
snd bear fruit ~inexhaustibiy. Im-
mortality written upon every capacity; a
destined to range in unlimited spheres
II activity long after the world has put on
Ishes. AMI the solar system shall have
mapped its axle, and the stars that, in their
,ourses, fought against Sisera, shall have
,een slain me buried amid the toiling
hunders of the last day.
You see that God has adapted everything
o our comfort and advantage. Pleasant
hings for the palate; music for the ear;
,eauty for the eye; aroma for the n~ostril;
'indred for our affections poetry for our
religion for our soul. We are put in
i garden, and told that from all the trees
We may eat, except here and there one.
gives the sun to shine on us, and the
to refresh us, and food to strengthen
Is, and the herbs yield medicine when we
ire sick, and the forests lumber when we
would build a house or cross the water in .
nip.
The rccss are transported for our foun-
lation, aud metals upturned for our cur
rency, aud wild beasts must give us cover
and the mountains must be tunnelsd
q let US pass, and the fish of the sea come
np in our net, and the birds OF the air drop
It the flash of our guns, and the cattle on a
thousand hills come dowa to give us meat.
us the peach orchards bend Town their
.rnit aud the vineyards their purple clusters.
% feed aud refresh our intellect, ten thou
ana wonders in nature and providence
wonders of MN and body. wonders of
aarth and air, and deep analogies and anti
theses. all colors and sounds, lyrics in the
air. idyis in the field, CONGREGATIONS IN the
sunset, robes OF mist on the mountains and
The .girand March, OF God in the storm.
isut ior the soul still higher adaptation:
a fountain in which it may wash; a ladder
by which it may climb; a song of endless
triumph that it may sing; a crown OF I'M
fading light that it may wear. Christ came
to save it-came with a cross or His back;
came with spikes in His feet: came when 10
one elsa would come, to do a work which no
one else would do. See how suited to mans
is what God has done for him.
Man is a sinner; here is a pardon. He has
lost Gods image; Christ r~etraces 1t. He is
helpless; Almighty grace is proferei. He is
a lost wanderer: Jesus brings him nome. He
Is blind, and at one touch OF Him who cured
Bartimsus, eternal glories stresm into his
aoui. Jes1S | sing Thy gracei Cure of worst