Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-12-05
ACCoMAC G, q. VA. SATURDAY.. DECEMBER s. 1891

the chrysalis.
The animal creation also has its army
and navy. The most insignificant ha:
itsmeans Of fcnse-tlle wasp It's sting
the reptile its tooth; the bear its paw
the dog its nuzzle; the elephant its
tus!z; tile fish it's scale; the bird its
swift wing; tho reindeer its :,ntlers; tile
roe its fleet foot. We are repealed al
the thought of sting and tusk and hoof,
but Gods goodness provides them fol
tile defense of the animals rights.
GODS 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 fortitica-
tons for their defense2-Psalm civ, 10,
The high hills are a refuge for tho wild
goats; and the rocks. for the comics. u
Hewatclles the birds nest-Psalln civ,
i - As forzthe stork, the fir trees are
her; house. "a Tesss sees that the cattle
.shaves 1ghs grass alin:ci s. re
causeth the grass to grow for the cat
tlep He. seessto. it.that the COWS and
sheep and horses lave enough to drink
Psalm civ, 10, II: 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 'srllou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite Gill
phasis that the OK on the thrashing
floor should have the privilege of eat
ing some of the grain as lie trod it out
and muzzling was forbidden. If young
birds were taken FROM the nest for
food, the despoilcr's life depended on
the mother going free. God would not
let tile 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 lninnow that
swilrs the stream, and every rock that
cIeaves the ;ir, and every herd that
bleats or ne;ghs or lows in tile pas
ture
Whydid God make MI these and why
make them SO Happy? How account
for all this singing and dancing and
frisking amid the irrational creation9
Why this heaven for the anilnalcule in
a dewdrop! Why for the condor a
throne on CLiinborazo2 Why the gilt
ter Of the phosphorusin the ships wake
on,tlle sea. which is said to be only the
frolic of millions of insects2 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-
United to join in the praise that goes
up from senph and archangcl2 Only
one solution, one explanation, one an
swer-God is good. 1.-The earth is full
of the goodness of the Lord"
THE COMFORTS Or NAN.
: take a-stsp 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 all? A new style of being
YVES 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 strange
colnlningling 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 anatonist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
exclains, "Fearfully and wonderfully
made" No embroidery so elaborate,
no gauzc so delicate, no color so ex-
quisite, no mechanism so graceful, no
handiworlz SO divine. So quietly and
mysteriously does the human body per-
form its 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 it.
Volumes have been written of the
hand. Wondrous Instrument! With it
we give friendly recognition, and grasp
the sword, and climb the rock, and
write and carve and build. 1t COLI
structed the pyramids and hoisted the
Parthenon. 1t made the harp and then
struck out of it all the worlds min
strelsy. In it the white marble of
Pentelicon mines dreamed itself away
into immortal sculpture 1t reins in
the swift engine, it holds the steamer
to its path in the sea, it snatches the
fire from heaven, it feels the pulse OF
the sick child with it's delicate touch,
and makes the nations quake with its
stupendous achievements.
What power brought down the for
ests, and made the marshes blossom,
and burdened the earth with all the
cities that thunder on with enterprise
and powcr2 -Four fingers and thumb.
A hundred million dollars would not
purchase for you a machine as exquisite
and wonderful as your own hand.
Mighty hand! In all its bones and
muscles and joints learn that God is
rood.