Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-30


and wonderful as your own hand
Mighty hand In all its bones anc
muscles and joints learn that God il
good
COMPLEXITIES or TER BODY.
Behold the eye, which, in its photo
graphic gallery, in an instant catches
the mountain and the sea. This per
petual telegraphing OF the nerves; these
joints. that are the only hinges that dc
not wear out; these bones and muscles
of the body. with fourteen thousand
different adaptations; these one hun
dred thousand glands; these two hun
'lred million pores; this mysterious
l.eart, contracting four thousand time:
every hour; this chemical process
of digestion; this laboratory, be.
yond the understanding of the most
skiIlful philosopher; this furnace,
whose heat is kept up from cradle to
grave; this factory of life. whose wheels
and spindles and bands are God di-
ders of our physical organization we
would be hypochondriacs, fearing every
moment that some part of the machine
would break down. But there are men
here who have lived through seventy
years, and not nerve has ceased to
thrill, or a muscle to contract or lung
to breathe, or hand to manipulate.
l take a step higher and look at
mans mental constitution. Behold the
benevolence of God in powers of per
ception, or the faculty of transporting
this outside world into your own mind
gathering into your brain the lnajes-
ty of the storm and the splendors of
the day dawn, and lifting into your
mind the ocean as easily as you might
put glass of water to your lips.
Watch the law of association or the
mysterious linking together of all you
ever thought or knew or felt, and then
giving you the power to take hold OF
the clew line and draw through your
mind the long train with indescribable
velocity-one thought starting up a
hundred, and this again thousand
as the chirp of one bird sometimes
wakes q whole forest of voices. or the
thrum of one string will rouse an Or
chestra
Watch your memory-that sheaf
binder that goes forth to gather the
harvest of the past and bring it into
the present. Your power and velocity
of ght--thought of the swift wing
and the lightning foot; thought that
outspeeds the star, and circles through
the heavens, and weighs worlds, and
from posing amid wheeling constella'
tions, comes down to count the bios
SONS in tuft of mignonette; ther
starts again to try the fathoming of tile
bottomless and the scaling of the in
surmountable, to be swallowed up In
the incomprehensible, and lost in God
MAN ALONE IN REASONING AND UNDER
STANDING.
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 far reaching sight, the rabbit in
quickness of hearing, the honey bee in
delicacy of tongue, the spider in fine
ness Of touch. Mans power, therefore
consisteth not In what he can lift, o.
how fast he can run, or how strong 6
wrestler he can throw-for In these re
spects the OK, the ostrich and the hyenf
are his superior-but by his reason ht
comes forth to rule all through his in
genious contrivance to outrun, out
lift, outwrestle outsee, outhear, outdo
At his all conquering decree the for
est that had stood for ages steps asidt
to let him build his cabin and cultivat'
his farm. The sea which raved anC
foamed upon the race has become 4,
crystal pathway for commerce to marcl
on The thundercloud that slept lazil!
above the mountain is made to comt
down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
satisfied with his slowness of advance
ment, shouted to the water and tn,
fire: "Come and liftW "Come anC
drawn "Come and helpw And the!
answered, "Ay, ay; we comew AnC
they joined hands-the fire and tn,
water--and the shuttles fly, and tn,
rail train ratties on, and the steamship
comes coughing painting, flaming acros
the deep.
He elevates the telescope to til,
heavens and, as easily as through tn,
stethoscops the physician hears til,
movement of the lung, the astronome
catches the pulsation of distant system
of worlds throbbing with life, He take
the microscope and discovers that ther
are hundreds of thousands of animal
cule living, moving, working, dyinl
within a circle that could be covered
with the point of a pin-aninals t.
which a raindrop would be an ocean
a rose leaf a hemisphere and tho flasl
of FREELY lasting enough to give then
light to several generations
MANS MORAL NATURE.
take step higher and look a
mans moral nature. Made In the i'm
age of God. Vast capacity for enjoy
ment; capable at first of eternal Joy
and though now disordered, still
through the recuperative force o
heavenly grace able to mount up Il
more than it's original felicity; facul
ties that may blossom and bear frui
inavhaustibly. Immortality writer