Milford chronicle., 1891-12-04

that are the only hinges that do not wea
out; these bones and muscles of the bod,
with fourteen thousand different ciiaDta
lions; these one hundred thousand glands
these two hundred million pores; this
| mysterious heart, contracting -four
thousand times every hour; this chem.
ical process Of digestion; this laboratory.
| beyond the understanding OF the most
/ skillful philosophy; this furnace, whose
| heat is kept up from cradle to grave; this
/ factory Of life, whose wheels and spindles
and bands are God directed. II we could
realize the wonders Of our physical organ
ization we would be hypochOndriacs, fear.
ing every moment that some part Of the
machine would break down. But there
aIe men here who have lived through seV-
enty years, and not nerve has ceased to
thrill, or muscle to contract, or a lungto
breathe, or a hand to manipulate
THE MIND OF MAN.
7 take a step higher and look at mans
Aentai constitution, iieho!d the bcnspO
lenoo Of God in powers of perception, or
the faculty Of transporting this outside
world into your own mind-gathering
into your brain the majesty of the storm;
and the splendor of the day dawn, aud lift
iAg into your mind the ocean as easily Us
you mlghE put glass o. water TO your
lips.
Watch the law of association, or the
mysterious linking together Of all you
ever thoughtOr knew or felt, and then Civ {
Ing you the power to take hold Of the clew
llne anq AFaw through ypur mind the long
train with indesoribabls velocity-one
thought starting upa hundred and this
again Il thousand-as the chirp Of one bird
r-al- "a h0lat
or the thrum of one string will rouse an
orchestra.
' watch your memory-that sheaf binder.
that goes forth 10 gather the harvest Of the
past and bring it into the present. Your
power and velocity Of thoUght-thoughtO of
'he swift wing and the lightning foot:
hOught that oatspeeds the star aud circles
through the heavens aud weighs worlds,
md, from posing amid wheeling constella-
ions, comes down TO count the blossoms
II a tuft Of mignouctte, then starts again
o try the fathOming Of the bOttomless, !
nd the scaling Of the insurmountable, to
'e swallowed up in the incomprehensible !
nd lost in God
IN reason and understanding, man is
lone The OK surpasses him in strength, :
he antelope in speed, the hound in keen :
ess of nostril, the eagle in far reaching :,
ght, the rabbit in quickness of hearing y
he honey bee in delicacy Of tongue, the :
Dder in iineucss 0f t0uch, Mans power. J.
lerefqre, consistent not ln what he can =
#, or how fast he can run, or how strong y
wrestler he can throw-for in these re-
leets the OK, the ostrich and the hyena \,
'e bis superiors-but by his reason he =
'mes forth 10 rule ALI through his in- I,
snious contrivanee to outrun, outlift, out "
restlo, outsee, Outhear. Outdo. NJ
At bis all conqueriLg decree the forest b
lat bad stood for ages steps aside to let Il
IN build his cabin and cultivate his farm. al
he sea which raycd and fOamed upon the u
ee has become q crystal pathway for "a
mmeroe TO march OH, The thunder Is
1aJ that slept lazily above the mountain ed
made to come down aud carry mail bags II
an, dissatisfied with Lis slOwness of ad.
nccment, shouted TO the water and tho
e, Come and liftp Come and drawlu
lome and helnw And they answered, lo
Aye, aye, we come, and they Joined hands pu
The fire aud the Water--and the shuttles a
=, and the rail train rattles on. and the tic
amshiP comes coughing, painting, fam tri
z aeross the deep, OF
He eleyates the TELESCOPES to the heavens,
d as easily as through the stethoseopal frC
2 physician hears the movement Of the sh
ig the astronomer catches the pulsRtion
distant systems OF worlds throbbing do
Sh life, lie takes the microscope, and me
covers that there are hundreds Of thou poi
IDS OF animalcule living. moving, work, bet
:, dying within a circle that could be Wi
'ered with the point OF 2 pin-animnls Of
which rain drop would bo an ocean, a or
c leaf hemisphere, and the fash Of col
fly lasting enough to give them liQhtto Ger
eral generations. ing
TIE SOUL OF MAN. he'
take a step higher and look %
raj nature. Made IN the inar
st capacity for enioyp-
aa1t.1inaI- .--a NO.