The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-03-10

| SIe nero eSto0meO great 0eltc1Cy.
They are 50 plentiful In this valley that
it NAV be literally said that It - difficult
to take one step without treading on
them"
So the shelled creatures saved the host
OF Israelites on the march to the prom
ised land. and the attack of infidelity at
this point is defeated by the facts. rs in
fidelity is always defeated by facts, since
1t IS founded on ignorance. In writing
and printing our Interrogation point has
at the bottom q mark like period and
over it . flourish like the swing of .
Transfers whip. and we put the inter-
rogation point At the end of q question,
but in the Spanish language the interro-
cation point is twice used for each Ques-
ton. At the beginning Of the question
the Interrogation point is presented up
side down. and at the close of the ques-
ton right side up When infidelity puts
ways indicates ignorance. the question
ton points. one at the beginning and one
| at the close, but both upside down.
The Royal Families of Nature.
Thank God for the wealth of mollusks
all up and down the earth. whether feed.
! ing the Israelites on their way to the
| land flowing with milk and honey. or, as
we are better acquainted with the mol
| lusks, when flung to the beach of lake
| or sea. There are three great families
of them. If should ask you to name
| three of the great royal families of the
earth, perhaps YOU would respond. the
| house of Stuart. the house OF Hapsburg,
the house of Bourbon. but the three
royal families of mollusks are the uni
valve, or she'll in one part; the bivalve,
| or she'll Of two parts, and the multivalve.
| or she'll in many parts, and l see God in
| their every hinge, in their every tooth,
| in their every cartilage, in their every
ligament, in their every spiral ridge, and
in their every color. prism on prism, and
their adaptation Of thin shell for still
ponds and thick coatings for boisterous
seas. They all dash upon me the
thought of the providential care of God.
What is the use of all this architecture
of the shell, and why is it pictured from
the outside lip clear down into its laby-
rinths of construction? Why the infinity
Of skill and radiance in q she'll? What
Is the use of the color and exquisite
curve Of thing so Insignificant as a
shellfish? Why, when the cOnchologist
BY dredge or rake fetches the crustOceous
specimens to the shore, does he find at
his feet whole aihambras and coliseums
and parthenOhs and crystal palaces of
beauty in miniature, and these bring to
light only an infinitesimal part of the
opulence in the great subaqueous world.
Linnaus counted 9, 800 species of shells.
but conchOlogy had then only begun its
achievements.
While exploring the bed of the Allan
tic Ocean in preparation for laying the
cable shelled animals were brought up
from depths of 1000 fathoms. When
lifting the telegraph wire from the Med
iterranean and Red Seas, shelled crea-
lures were brought up from depths of
1000 fathoms. The English admiralty,
exploring in behalf of science. found
mollusks at depth Of 9. 435 fathoms, or
IA, 21O feet deep. What q realm awful
for vastness!
As the shell is only the house and the
wardrobe of insignificant animals of the
deep, why all that wonder and beauty Of
construction? Gods care tor them is the /
only reason. And il God provide so
muniicently for them, will he not see
that you have wardrobe and shelter?
Wardrobe and shelter for a periwinkle!
Shall there not be wardrobe and shelter |
for man? Would God give coat Of
mail for the defense of q nautilus and !
leave you no defense against the storm?
Does He build stone house for a crea-
ture that lasts season and leave with |
out home soul that takes hold on CEN !
turtles and cons?
Hugh Miller found ''the Footprints of
the Creator in the old red sandstone"
and hear the harmonies of God in the
tinkle of the sea shells when the tides
come in. The same Christ who Grew a !
lesson of providential care from the fact |
that God clothes with grass the field in
structs me to draw the same lesson from !
the shells.
Gods Care and Mans Freedom.
But while you get this pointed lesson !
of providential care from the sheIled |
creatures OF the deep, notice in their con-
structiOn that God helps them to help |
themselves. This house Of stone in which |
they live is not dropped on them and is !
not built around them. The material
for it exudes from their own bodies and
is adorned with colored fluid from the
pores Of their own neck. 1t is a most in
teresting thing to see these crustacean
animals fashion their own homes out of
Of lime and membrane.
And all Of this is a mighty lesson to
those who are waiting for others to
build their fortunes chen they ought to
go to work and, like The molIusk, build
their own fortunes out of their own
brain, out OF their own sweat, out Of
their own industries. Not a moIlusk on
all the beaches of all the seas would
have q house of shell if it had Lot itself
built one. Do not wait for others to
shelter you or prosper you All the
creatures Of the earth from
every fake Of their covering and from
every ridge of their tiny castles On At
lantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
coasts say, "Help yourself, while God
helps you to help yourself"
Those people who are waiting for their
father or rich old uncle to die and leave
them fortune are as silly as q .nollusk
would be to wait for some other mollusk
to drop on IL shell equipment 1t
would kill the mollusk as IN most cases
It destroys the man. Not one person
out O. a hundred ever was strong enough ,
to stand large estate bv Inheritance
dropped on him in chunk. Have
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