Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-25


and twenty tons of weight and it must
be so arranged as to beat over thirty-sx
million times every year. About i've
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 fieshy sur
surface. The human voice must be so
constructed it shall be capable of pro-
ducing seventeen trillion five hundred
and ninety-two billion one hundred and
eight-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 thai God himself would
not be equal to it if he were any the
less of God. Its understanding, its
will, its memory, its conscience, its
capacities of enjoyment or suffering, its
immortality! What work for 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 deep
sleep fell upon Adam and by divine
surgery portion of his side was re-
moved for the nucleus Of another crea-
ton, it has been supposed that perhaps
days and nights passed between the
masculine and feminine creations. But
no Adam was not three hours unmat-
ed. If / physician can by an1 sthetics
put one into deep sleep in three min
utes, God certainly could have put
Adam into profound sleep in short
while that Saturday afternoon and
made the deep and radical exciSon
without causing distress. BY a manip-
ulatiOn Of the dust, the same hand that
moulded the mountains moulded the
features and moulded 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.
THE CREATION OF MAN.
A perfect form he lay along the earth,
symmetrical and of God-like counte-
nance. Magnificent piece OF Divine
carpentry and Omnipotent sculpturing,
but no vitality. A body without soul.
Then the Source of all life stopped TO
the inanimate nostrl and lip, and, as
many a skiIful and earnest physician
has put his lips to a patient in a coma
tose state and breathed into his mouth
and nOStril, and at the same time com
pressed the lungs until that which was
respiration, so methinks God breathed
into this cold sculpture OF man the
breath of life, and the heart begins TO
tramp and the lungs to lnhale, and the
eyes 20 open and the entire form TO
thrill, and with the rapture of life just
come, the PROSTATE being leaps TO his
feet-a man. But the scene OF this
Saturday is not yet done, and in the at
mosphere, drowsy with the breath of
flowers, and the song of bobolinks, and
robin redbreaSts, the man slumberS,
and by anISthetics, divinely admins
tered. the slumber deepens until with
out the oozing Of one drop OF blood at
the time, or the fainteSt scar afterward,
that portion is removed from his SIDE
which is to be built up the Queen OF
Paradise, the daughter Of the great
God, the mother the human race, the
benediction of all ages, woman the wife,
afterward woman the mother. And as
the two Join hands and stroll down
along the banks of the Euphrates
toward a bower of mignonette and wild
rose and honeysuckle, and are listening
to the call of the whip-poor-will from
the aromatic thicketS, the sun sinks be-
meath the horizon. And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day"
What do you think of that one weeks
work? Ireview it not for entertainment,
but because | would have you join in
David's Doxology: Great and Marvel
Gus are Thy Works, Lord God
Almighty:" because | want you TO know
what homestead our Father built for
his children at the start, though sin has
despoiled it: and because | want you to
know how the world will look again
when ChriSt shall have restored IL,
swinging now between two Edens; be-
cause want you to realize something
of what a mighty God he is and the
utter folly of trying to war against
him; because l want you to make
peace with this Chief OF the
Universe through the Christ who
mediates between offended Omnipo-
tence and human rebellion; because |
want YOU TO know how fearfully and
wonderfully you are made, your body as
we'll as your soul an Omnipotent achieve
ment: because | want you to realize
that order reigns throughout the uni
verse. and that Gods watches tick to
the second, and that His clocks strike
regularly, though they strike once in
thousand years. A learned man once
asked an old Christian man who had no
advantages of schooling, why he be-
lieved there was a God, and the good
old man, who probably had never heard
an argument on the subject IN
all his life, made this noble reply:
.Sir, have been here going hard
upon fifty years. Every day since have
been in this world see the sun rise IN
the east aud setn the west. The north
star stands where it did the first time l
saw it: the seven stars and Jobs collin
keep on the same path in the sky and
never tnrn out. 1t isn't so with mans
work. He makes clocks and Watches;
they may run well for awhile, but they
get out of fix and stand stock still. But
the sun, and moon, and stars keep on
this same way all the while. The heav-
ems declare the glory of Cod Yea,
preach this. because | want you to walk
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