The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-01

standing OF the most skillful philos
ophy, this furnace, whose heat Is ken,
up from cradle TO grave; this factory OF
Iiie whose wheels and spindles and
bands are God directed. II we could
realize the wonders of our physical or
ganization, we would be hypochondri
acs, fearing every moment that some
part OF the machine would break down
hut there are men here who have lived
through seventy years, and not n nerve
has ceasad to thrill, or n muscle 10 con
tract or lung to breathe, or q hand to
manipulate.
take step higher, and look n,
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 majesty
of the storm, and the splendors of the
day-dawn and lifting into your mind
the ocean as easily as you might put a
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-linc, and draw through
your mind the long train with indies
cribable velocity-one thought starting
up a hundred, and this again thou
sandals the chirp of one bird some
times wakes n whole forest of voices,
or the thrum of one string will rouse
an orchestra.
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 thought-thought of the swift wing
and the lightning foot; thought that
outspeeds the star, and circles through
the heavens, and weighs words, and.
from posing amid wheeling constela-
tions, comes down TO count the
blossoms in a tuft of mignonette, then
starts again to try the fathoming of the
bottomless, and the scaling of the in
surmountable, to be swallowed up in
the incomprehensible, and lost in God!
In reason and understanding, man is
alone. The OK surpasses him In
strength, the antelope in speed, the
hound in kcenness of nostril, the eagle
in far-rcaching sight, the rabbit in
quickness of hearing, the honey-bee in
delicacy of tongue, the spider in fine
ness of touch. Mans power, therefore,
consistent not in what he can lift, or
how fast he can run, or how strong n
wrestler he can throw-for in these re-
spects the OK, the ostrich and
the hyena are his superior-but
by his reason he comes forth to
rule all, through his ingenious
continuance to outrun, outfit out
wrestle, outsee, outhear, Guido. At his
all-conquering decree, the forest that
had stood for ages steps aside to let him
build his cabin and cultivate his farm.
The sea which raved and foamcd upon
the race has become n crystal pathway
for commerce to march on. The thun-
der cloud that slept lazily above the
mountain is made to come down and
carry mail-bags. Men, dissatisfied
with his slowness of advancement,
shouted to the Water and the Fire,
''Come and lift" Come and draw"
Come and help!" And they answered,
cay, ay, we come;" and they joined
Fire and the Water-and
the shuttles fly, and the rail train rat
ties on, and the steamship comes cough
ing, painting, flaming across the deep
He elevates the telescope to the heav-
ems, and as easily as through the steth-
oscope the physician hears the move
ment of the lungs, the astronomer
catches the pulsation of distant systems
of worlds throbbing with life. He
takes the microscope and discovers that
there are hundreds of thousands of
animalcul@ living, moving, working,
dying within circle that could be COW
cred with the point of pin-animals to
which raindrop would be an ocean,
a rose-leaf hemisphere, and the flash
of FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
Italse step higher and look at a mans
moral nature. Made in the image of
God. Vast capacity for enjoyment;
capable at first of eternal JOY, and,
though now disordered. st.ll, through
the recuperative force of heavenly
grace, able TO mount up to more than
its original felicity; faculties that may
blossom and bear fruit inexhaustibly.
Immortality written upon every capac-
ity; soul destined TO range in unlimit-
ed spheres of activity long after the
world has put on ashes and the solar
system shall have snapped It's axle, and
the stars that, in their courses, fought
against Sisera, shall have been slain
and buried amid the toiling thunders OF
the last day ..
You see that God has adapted every
thing to our comfort and advantage.
Pleasant things for the palate; music
for the ear; beauty for the eye; aroma
for the nostril; kindred for our affec-
tions; poetry for our taste; religion for