The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-28

railroad companies who bring the cat
tie ON trains without food or water for
three or four days in hot weather, a
long groan OF agony from Omaha to
New York. Better look out, you farm
or riding behind that limping horse
with a nail that the blacksmith drove
into the quick. Better look out, you
boys stoning bulifrogs and turning tur
ties upside down and rObbing birds .
nests. But something is wanting in .
Paradise. and the week is almost done. /
Who is there to pluck the flowers Of .
this Edenic lawnl Who is there to .
command these worlds of quadruped .
and fish and bird2 For whom has God !
put back the curtain from the face of
sun and moon" and starr The world !
wants an emperor and empress. 1t is |
Saturday afternoon. No one but the |
Lord Almighty can originate human
being. In the world where there are
in the latter part OF the Nineteenth
century over fourteen hundred million
people, a human being is not curioS~
.ity.
But how about the first human eye
that was ever kindled, the first human
ear that was ever opened, the first
human lung that ever breathed, the
first human heart that ever beat, the
first human life ever constructed?
That needed the crigination of a God.
He had no model to work by. What
stupendous work for a Saturday after
noon! He must originate a style of
human heart through which all the
blood in the body must pass every
three minutes He must make that
heart so strong that it can during each
day lift what would be equal to one
hundred and twenty tons of weight,
and it must be SO arranged as to beat
over thi. six million times every year.
About five hundred muscles must be
strung in the right place, and at least
two hundred and fifty bones con-
structed Into this body must be put
| at least nine million nerves. Over
three thousand perspiring pores must
| be made for every inch Of tieshly sur
face.
The human voice must be SO con-
structed it shall be capable of produc-
ing seventeen trillion five hundred and
ninety two billion one hundred and
eighty-six million forty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds. But
all this the most insignificant part of
the human being. The soul! All, the
construction of that God himself would
not DO equal to if he were any the less
of a God. Its understanding, its WILL
its memory, it's conscience, its capaci-
ties of enjoyment or suffering, its i'm
mortality! What a work for a Satur-
day afternoon! Aye! Before night
there were to be two such human and
yet immortal beings constructed. The
woman as well as the man was formed
Saturday afternoon. Because a deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine
surgery portion of his side was re-
moved for the nucleus of another Gre
alton, it has been supposed that per
haps days and nights passed between
the masculine and feminine creations.
But no! Adam was not three hours
''r..Pact I'd ---- o...s-.y tI,etIcs pIIl
one into deep sleep in three minutes
God certainly could have put Adam
into a profound sleep in short while
that Saturday afternoon, and made the
deep and radical excision without caus
ing distress. By a manipulation of the
dust, the same hand that nodded the
mountains nodded the features, and
nodded the limbs of the father of the
human race. But his eyes did not see,
, and his nerves did not feel, and his
muscles did not move, and his lungs
did not breathe, and his heart did not
pulsate. \ perfect form he lay along
the earth, symmetrical and of godlike
countenance. Magnificent piece of di
, vine carpentry and omnipotent sculpt
uring, but no vitality. A body with
out soul.
Then the source of all life stopped tc
the inaninSSte nOstril and lip, and, a!
many a sllillful and earnest physician
has puthis lips to a patient in comatose
state and breathed into his mouth and
, nOstril, and at the same time compressed
the lungs until that which was artificial
respiration became natural respiration
, SO methinks God breathed into this colt
! sculpture of man the breath of life
< and the heart begins to tramp, and the
l lungs to inhale, and the eyes to oper
and the entire form to thrill, and witt
8 the rapture of Il life just come the
: PROSTATE being leaps to his feet-a man
5 But the scene of this Saturday is mo-
: yet done, and in the atmosphere
/ drowsy with the breath, of flowers, an(
t the song of bobolinks and robin red
S breasts, the man slumbers, and b,
? anRsthetics, divinely administered, the
9 slumber deepens until, without the ooz
= ing of one drop of blood at the time O.
the faintest scar afterward, that portion
: is removed from his side which is to b,
f built up the Queen of Paradise, tn,
J daughter of the great God, the mothe
of the human race, the benediction of al
4 ages, woman the wife, sfterward WON
? an the mother. And as the two ioir
D hands and stroll down along the bank
1 OF the Eupilrates toward a bower O
v mignonette and wild rose and honey
!. suck}e, and are listening to the call O
8 the whip-poor-will from the aromatic
s thickets, the sun sinks beneath the hori
k zon. And the evening and the mornin,
Il were the sixth day."
# THE WORKS OF THE LORD.
81 What do you think of that one week
! wcrk2 | review it not for entertain
ment, but because 1 would have yol
join in David's doxology, Great ant
g marvellous are thy works, Lord Go,
y Almighty" because 1 want you t.
i know what homestead our Fathe
l. built for his children at the start
t though sin has despoiled it, and be
It cause l want you to knos how tn
d world will look again when Christ shall
e have restored it, swinging now betwee,