The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-02-23


dropped ON them and is not built around
them. The material for il exuies from Tn cir
own bodies and is adorned witl n colorei
mud from the pores or their own nscS. IL
is most interesting thing to Sc, these crus-
tscean animals fashion their own homes out
o. CARBONATE OF lime and msmorans.
Ana all OF this is a mighty lesson to those
who are waiting for others to build their
fortunes wnen they oa;nt to go to WORK
aud, Ike the mo!lusks, build their own
fortunes out o. tleir Own brain, out OF their
own sweat, out OF their own industries
Not molusk on all the beaches of all the
seas would have q house OF shell IL it had
not itself built one. Do not wait for others
TO shelter you or prosper you. All the
crustaceous creatures OF the earth from
every fake OF their covering and from every
ridge OF their tiny castles on Atlantic and
Pacific AMI Mediterranean coasts say,
Help yourself, while Col helps you to help
yourself"
Tuose people who ars waiting for their
father or rich old uncle 70 die an leave them
fortune are as silly asa moliusk wouli be
to wait Tor sons other nollusk TO drop on
1t shell equipment. L. would kilt the mol.
lusk as IN most cases IL destroys mau. Not
ons person out OF a hun irsl ever was stroae
enough To stand a large estate by Inherit
ance dropped on him in a chunk. Have
great expectations from only two persous
Got ami yourself Let the onychi OF my
text become your precsptnr.
But the more | eXamIn. the shells the
more l am impresSe tdat TO is a God OF
emotion. Mtuy scof at emotion and seem
to thIns that q 81 is "A Go | OF cold geom etry
and IRON laws and eternal apathy aud en-
throned stoicism. No No! rhe shells with
overpowerlng emphasis deny it. While law
and order reign in the universe, you have
but to see the lsvishuess OF color on the
crustacea, all shades OF crimson from faint.
est blush TO blood OF battlefield, all shades
OF green, all shades OF all coors from deepest
black to waitest light just callsl out on the
shells with no more order than mother
premeditates or calculates how many kisses
and hugs She shall give her babe waking up
in ths morning sunlight
Yes, my God is an emotional Col, aud He
says, 1--WE must have colors aud let tho sun
paint all OF them on the scroll OF that shel
and We must have music an here is u carol
tor the robin, and a psalm for man, AN u
doxolosy Tor the seraphiu, ant resurrec-
ton call for the archangel." Ave- He
snowel Himself a God OF sublime en- Ioton
when He flung Himself on this world Ia the
personality of Christ To save It, without re-
gard To the tears 10 would take, or the blood
IL would exhaust or the agonles IL would
crush out.
When see the Louvres and the Luxem-
bourgs and the Vaticans OF Divine painting
strewn aloag ths $500 miles OF coast, aud
hear in forest on a summer morning mus
cai academies and Handel societies OF full
orchestras, say Goi is God OF emotion,
aud II He observes mathematic, II Is msth.-
mstics set 10 music. and His figures ars writ
ten not in white chalk on blacSooRris, but
written by finger OF sunlight on walls ot
jasmine and trumpet creeper.
In my study OF the conchology OF the Bible
this ouycha OF the text also impresSes me
with the fact that religion is perfumed.
What else couli God have meant waen tie
said 70 Moses, take unto thee sweet spices,
stacts and onychap Moses took that shell
OF the onycha, put 1t over the tire, aud as 1t
crumbled into ashes IL exhalet an odor that
hung in every cnrtain AMI filled the ancient
tabernacle, and its sweet smoke ESCAPED
from the sacred precincts and saturate the
outside air.
Perfumel That Is what religion Is. But
instead OF that some make IL u malodor
They serve God in rough and acero way.
They box their child's ears because he docs
not properly keep Sunday instead OF making
SUNDAY SO attractive the chlld could not
help but keep IL. They make him learn by
heart difficult chapter In the book OF ExQ>-
dus, with all the hard names, becausa-hs has
been naughty. How many -eifsagresable
good people there arel Nerons doubts their
pisty, and they will reach heaven. but they