The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-03

AhU WhilS Il stduu on the DankS Oh tQ6S6
/ paradisaical rivers watching these finny
tribes, hear whirr in the air and look
up and behold wings-wings of larks, rob-
bins, doves, eagles, flamingos, albatrosses,
/ brown-threshers Creatures of all color,
/ blue as If dipped in the skies, fiery as if
7 they had flown out of the sunsets, golden
as If they had taken their morning bath in
| buttercups. And while / am studying the
| colors, they begin to carol and chirp and
COO and twitter and run up and down the
/ scales of music they must have heard at
/ heavens gate. Yes, | find them in Para
disc on this the first Friday afternoon OF
/ the worlds existence. And L sit down on
the bank OF the Euphrates and the muir
muir OF the river, together with the chant
OF birds in the sky, puts me into q state of
somnolence. and the evening and the
morning were the fifth day."
Now it is Saturday morning of the
/ worlds first week and with this day the
week closes. But, oh, what climacteric
] day. The air has its population and the
water its population. Yet the land has
not one inhabitsnt, but here they come
! by the voice of God created Horses
| grander than those which in after time
! Job will describe as having neck clothed
with thunder. Cattle enough to cover a
! thousand hills. Sheep shepherded by
Him who made for them the green pas
| lures. Cattle superior to Attorneys and
| Ayrshires and Devonshires of after times
| Leopards so beautiful, we are glad they
cannot change their spots. Lions without
! their fierceness, and the quadruped world
so gentle, so sleek, so perfect. Look out
| how you treat this animal creation,
| whether they walk the earth or swim the
water fly the air. Do you pot notice
! that God gave them precedence of the
| human race?
They were created Friday and Saturday
| morning. as man was created Saturday af-
! ternOon. They have right to be here.
| lie, who gals horse, or exposes a cow to
| the storm, or beats dog, or mauls a cat.
or CANDLES at the igeon-shooting. or tor
| lures an insect, will have 10 answer for il
| on the judgment day. You may console
! yourself that these creatures arc not i'm
mortal and they cannot appear against
you, but the God who made these
creatures, and who saw the wrong you did
them. will be there. Better look out. you
| stock-raisers and railroad companies who
| bring the cattle on trains without food or
water for three or four DAYS in not weather,
a long groaa of agony from Omaha to New
| York. Better look out, you farmer riding
behind that limping horse with nail
! that the blacksmith drove into the quick.
! Better look out, you boys stonipg the
bull-frogs, and turning turtles 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 lawn?
| Who is there to command these worlds of
| quadruped and fish and bird? For whom
has God put back the curtain from the
face of the sun and moon and star? The
1 IN
| 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 one billion four hundred million
| people a human being is not a curiosity.
| But how about the first human eye that
was ever kindled, the first human ear that
1 was ever opened. the first human lung that
ever breathed, the first human heart that
ever beat, the first human life ever con-
structed? That needed the origination 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 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 l20 tons of weight, and it must
be SO arranged as to beat over 36,000,0O0
| times every year. About 500 muscles
must be strung in the right place, and at
1 least $50 bones constructed Into this
body must be put at least 100000 nerves.
Over 5000 perspiring pores must be made
for every inch of fleshy surface. The
| human voice must be so constructed that
it shall be capable of producing seventeen
| trillion, five hundred and ninety-two bill
lion, one hundred and eighty-six million,
forty-four thousand, four hundred and
fifteen sounds.
But this the most insignificant part Of
the human being. The SOUL All, the con-
struction of that God himself would not
be equal to were He any the less of God.
Its understanding, its will, its memory,
its conscience, its capacities of enjoy
What a work for a Saturday alter
noon! 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
removed for the nucleus of another crea-
ton, it has been supposed that perhaps
days and nights passed between the mas
| culine and feminine creations. But no !
| Adam was not three hours minated. Ii a
| physician can Dy anse5tnetlcS put one into
deep sleep in three minutes, God GER
tainly could have put Adam into a pro-
found sleep in a short while that Saturday
afternoon and made the deep and radical
excision without causing 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
pusate A perfect form he lay along
the earth, symmetrical and of God-like
countenance. Magnificent piece of Divine
carpentry and omnipotent sculpturing,
but no vitality. A body witout a soul.
Then the source OF all life stopped to the
inanimate nostril and lip, and, as many a
| skiilful and earnest physician has put his
lips to patient in comatose state and
breathed into his mouth and nostrils, and
| at the same time compressed the lungs,
until that which was artificial respiration
became natural respiration, so methinks
God breathed into this cold sculpture of a
man the breath OF life, and the heart be-
gins to tramp, and the lungs to inhale,
and the eyes to open and the entire form
to thrill, and with the rapture of a life
just come, the PROSTATE being leaps to his
| feet-a man. But the scene of this Satur-
day is not yet done, and in the