The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-12-04

and the squirrels have filed their celia
with nuts, God shows the hungry icl
neumon where it may find the croco
dies eggs; and in arctic climes ther
are animals that God SO lavislily clothe
that they can afford to walk through
} snowstorms in the finest sable and eI
mine and chinchilla, and no sooner /
one set of furs worn out than Got
gives them a new one. He helps tn
spider in its architecture of its gossame
bridge and takes care of the color O
he buttepay's wing and tinges TIN
t'chinsal and helps the moth out o
the chrysalis.
The animal creation also has its army
and navy. The most insignificant ha.
Its means of defense-the wasp its sting
the reptile its tooth; the bear its paw
the dog its muzzle; the elephant it,
tusk; the fish its scale; the bird its
swift wing; the reindeer it's antlers; the
roe it's feet foot. We are repealed al
the thought OF sting and tusk and hoof,
but Gods goodness provides them fol
the defense Of the animals rights.
GoD's CARE FOR THE LOWER ORDERS.
Yea, God in the Bible announces his
care for these orders of creation. He
says that he has heaved up fortified.
tions for their defense-Psalm civ, 18,
"The high hills are refuge for the wild
goats; and the rocks for the comics. "
He watches the birds nest-Psalm civ,
II. "As for the stork, the fir trees are
her house." He sees that the cattle
have enough grass-Psaln civ, IA, "He
causeth the grass to grow for the cat
tle." He sees to it that the COWS and
sheep and horses have enough to drink
Psalm civ, 10, ."He sendeth the
springs into the valleys, which run
among the hills; they give drink to
every beast of the field. The wild
asses quench their thirst"
Amid the thunders of Sinai God ut
tered the rights of cattle, and said that
they should have Sabbath. 'Thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the thrashing
floor should have the privilege of eat
ing some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. If 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 olden
time the conduct of man toward the
brutes, today looks down from heaven
and is interested in every minnow that
swims the stream, and every rock that
cleaves the air, and every herd that
bleats or neighs or lows in the pas
ture.
Why did God make all these and why
make them SO happy9 How account
for all this singing and dancing and
frisking amid the irrational creation9
Why tins heAvan for thaSfifo0laslle in
dewdrop. Why for
throne on Chimborazo2 -.
ter of the phosphorus in the SIN l(
on the sea, which is said to be only the
frolic of millions of insects9 Why the
perpetual chanting of so many voices
from the irrational creation in earth
and air and ocean-beasts, and all cat
tie, creeping things and flying fowl, per-
mitted to join in the praise that goes
up from seraph and archangel9 Only
one solution, one explanation, one an
swer-God is good. ''The earth is full
of the goodness of the Lord"
THE COMFORTS OF MAN.
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, but there was no
king to live in it. Leviathan ruled the
deep, the eagle the air, the lion the
field, but where was the scepter which
should rule ALI 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 an
gelic intelligence. In him a strange
commingling of the temporal and eter-
nal, 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, "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate,
no gauze so delicate, no color so ex-
quisite, no mechanism so graceful, no
handiwork so divine. So quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form it's functions that it was not until
five thousand years after the creation
of the race that the circulation of the
blood was discovered, and though |
ANTAGONISTS of all countries and ages
have been SO long exploring this castle
of life they have only begun to under
stand IL