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that they must have heard athsaven's gate.
Yes find them in Para1iss on this the 6rst
Friday afternoon Of the worlds existence.
And I sit down on the bank OF the Euph-
rates, and the murmur Of the river, to-
gether with the chant Of birds In the sky. puts
me into a state Of somnolencs. "And the
evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Now it Is Saturday morning of the worlds
drst week and with this day tns week closez.
But. oh, what clImacteric day! The air
has its populatiou and the water it's pooula-
tion. Yet the land has not one inhabitant.
But here they coma. by the voice Of God ere.
atsdl Horses grander than those which in
after time Job will describe a. having neck
clothed with thun Ter. Cattle enough to
cover a thousand hills. Sheep shepherdei
by him who made for them the green pas
turss. Cattle superior to tina Alderneys and
Ayershires and Devonshires of after timss.
Lsopards so beautiful We ara glad they eau.
not change their spots. Lions without their
fiercsness and all the quadruped world 80
gentle, so sleek, so perfect.
But something is wanted in Paradise and
the week ia almost done. Who is there to
pluck the flowers of this Edenic lawn2 Who
Is there to command these worlds Of quadru-
ped and fish and bird? For whom has God
put back the curtain from the face Of sun
and moon and star? The world wants an
emperor and empress. It Is Saturday after
noon. No one but the Lord Almighty can
originate a human being. In the world
where there are In the latter part Of tbs
Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred
million people, q human being Is not curl
osity.
Before night there were to be two human
and yet immortal beings constructed. The
woman as we'll as the man was formed Sat-
urday afternoon. Because deep sleep fell
upon Adam, and by divine surgery q por-
tion Of his side was removed for the nucleus
Of another creation, 1t has been supposed
that perhaps days and nights passed be-
tween the masculine and feminine creations.
But mol Adam was not three hours un-
mated.
God breathed into this cold sculpture of
q man the breath Of life, and the heart be-
gins to beat, and the lungs to inhale, and
Che eyes to open. and the form to thrill,
and with the rapture OF life just come
the prostrate being leaps to his feet-a
man!
But the scene of this Saturday Is not yet
done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy with
the breath Of flowers, and the song OF bobo-
links and robin rsibreasts, the man slum-
bers, and by enasthetics, diviusly admins
tered, the slumber deep,ns until without the
oozing Of ons drop Of b.oo1 at tns time or
the faintest scar afterwari, that portion is
removed from his side which is to be built
up the Queen of Paradise. tle daughter OF
the great God, the mother Of thu human
race, the bsnediction Of all ages, woman the
wife. afterward woman the mother.
What do you think Of that one weeks
work? review it not for entertainment,
but because would have you join il David's
doxology, "Great and marvellous ara Thy
works, Lord God Almighty" because want
you to know what homestead our Father
built for His children at the start though sin
has despoiled it, and because want you to
know how the world will look again when
Christ shall have restored it swinging now
between two Ed ems; because I want you to
realize something of what mighty God Hefs,
and tina utter folly Of trying to war against
Him; because I want you to make peace
with this Chief Of the universe, the Christ
who mediates between offended Omnipotence
and human rebellion; because I want you to
know how fearfully and wonderfully you
are made, your body as well as your soul an
Omnipotent achievement; because / want
you to realize that order reigns throughout
the universe, and that Gods watches tick
to the second, and that His clocks strike
regularly, though they strike once in q
thousand years.