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says that He has heaved up fortifca.
tions for their defense--Psalm civ. 10:
''The high hills are refuge for the
wild goats, and the rocks for the
conies." He watches the birds nest
Psalm CIV, II: 'As for the store, the
fir trees are her house" He sees that
the cattle have enough grass-Psalm
civ, IA: HE causeth the grass to
grow for the cattle" He sees to it
that the cows, and sheep and horses
have enough to drink-Psalm civ, 1o-1l:
''He sendeth the springs into the val
leys, which run among the hills; they
give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild asses quench thir thirst"
Amid the thunders of Sinai God ut
tered the rights of cattle, and said that
they should have Sabbath. Thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
cattle" He declared with infinite en-
phasis that the OK on the threshing-
floor should have the privilege of eating
some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. If young
birds were taken from the nest for
food, the despoiler's life depended on
the mother going free. God would not
let the mother-bird suffer in one day
the loss of her young and her own lib
erty. And he who regarded in olden
time the conduct of man toward the
| brutes to-day looks down from Heaven
and is interested in every minnow that
swims the stream, and every rock that
cleaves the air, and every herd that
| bleats, or neighs, or lows in the pas
ture.
Why did God make all these, and
why make them so happy? How ac-
count for all this singing. and dancing,
and frisking amid the irrational crea-
ton? Why this heaven for the animal
cule in dewdrop? Why for the con-
dor a throne of Chimborazo? Why the
glitter of the phosphorus in the ships
wake on the sea, which is said to be
only the frolic of millions of insects?
Why the perpetual chanting of so many
voices from the irrational creation in
earth, and air, and ocean-beasts. and
all cattle, creeping things, and flying
fowl, permitted to join in the praise
that goes up from seraph and archan-
|
ton, one answer-God is good. 1.-The
earth is full of the goodness of the
Lord"
l take a step 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 nc
king to live in it. Leviathan ruled the
deep; the eagle the air; the lion the
field; but there was the scepter which
should rule all? A new style of being
was 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 anC
! angelic intelligence. In him strang,
! commingling of the temporal and eter
, nal the finite and infinite, dust ant
glory. The earth for his floor, ant
Heaven for his roof; God for his Father
: eternity for his lifetime.
, The Christian anatomist, gazing upol
the conformation of the human body
exclaims: "Fearfully and wonderful,
made No embroidery so elaborate
t no gauze SO delicate. no color so eX
. quisite, no mechanism so graceful, n
, handiworlz SO divine. So quietly an
{ mysteriously does the human body PEI
form it's functions, that it was not unit
e five thousand years after the creatio
of the race that the circulation of tn
a blood was discovered; and though anat
: omists of all countries and ages hav
S been SO long exploring this castle O
| life, they have only begun to under
, stand it.
e Volumes have been written of tn
s hand. Wondrous instrument! With
S we give friendly recognition, and gras
, the sword, and climb the rock, an
e write, and carve, and build. 1t cor
f structed the Pyramids, and hoisted tn
: Parthenon. 1t made the harp, and the
a struck out Of it all the worlds mir
S strelsy. In it the white marble of Per
D telicon mines dreamed itself away int
= immortal sculpture. 1t reins in tn
swift engine; it holds the steamer t
f its path in the sea: it snatches the fir
), from Heaven; it feels the pulse of tn
0 sick child with it's delicate touch, an
/ makes the nations quake with it's str
e pendous achievements. What powe
:; brought down the forests, and made th
f marshes blossom, and burdened tn
t earth with all the cities that thunde
S on with enterprise and power? Fou
S fingers and a thumb. A hundred millio
dollars would not purchase for you
4 machine as exquisite and wonderful a
e your own hand. Mighty hand In a
e it's bones and muscles and joints l lear
t that God is good.
e Behold the eye, which, in it's photo
, graphic gallery, in an instant catche
: the mountain and the sea. This Del
5 petual telegraphing of the nerves; thes
4 joints, that are the only hinges that d
1 not wear out; these bones and muscle
: OF tbs body, with fourteen thousan
s different adaptations; these one hur
4 dred thousand glands; these two hur
r dred million pores; this mysteriou
D heart, contracting four thousand time
1 every hour-this chemical process G
e digestion; this laboratory, beyond tn