The Globe-republican., 1894-02-16
Thought.

SIS Thought creation or a product OF de-
velopment:''
The mind is the thinking portion OF
the human mental constitutiOn.andc con-
tains three elementary constituents
Emotion or feeling, volitiou or will, in
telligence or thought. Thought is the
act of thinking, the exercise of the mind
i'm anyway except sense. and perception.
Thought is design. purpose or an in
tention. The study of man and his phe-
nomenal organic construction has baf-
fled the broadest intellect and most
learned scholarship of the world. His
peculiar, intellectual anil wonderful as
pirations; his broad sense of religious,
moral and successful government over
all kingdoms has been "A phenomena
with him ever since Adam disObeyed
the command of God and ate of the for
hidden fruit, which brought death upon
all of his pOsterity. and he was driven
from the Garden of Eden Ell account of
his unfortunate transgressiOD. five are
correct in our understanding of the
scriptures, in the beginning God created
the substance out of which were formed
the heaven and earth. And from the
first day of creation until the sixth day,
which ended his work. sacred history is
silent as to how long the period was. 1t
might have been thousand or ten
thousand years. Therefore we calculate
time from the formation of man, and not
from the creation of the werld. And on
the sixth and last day of Gods work of
creation, he said: ''Let tss make man in
ouG image, after our likeness; and let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl Of the air. and
over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing'that creep
eth upon the earth. Aud up to this time
every living thing and every herb had
been created that was created, except
man." And God on the sixth day
through his infinite power and divine
wisdom created man out of the dust of
the groSud, whose body contained all of
the various tissues and avenues of cir.
culation which could be distinctly sep
arated from each other aud recognized
by characteristic properties rs they are
to-day. Aperfect structure Of human
anatomy, containing general, special
and surgical snatomy as it is known to-
day. This wonderful piece of mechan-
ical art, created out of the dust through
and by the divine power of the trisne of
God lay as mooionless upon the ground
as stone. But. God, seeing the COM
pleteness and perfection of his work, in
fused into his nostrils the breath OF life,
and man became "A living soul. And
this wonderful aad phenomenal con-
structicn of humsG anatomy has been in
active motion from that day until oow:.
The soK of man is tie seat of life, the
immortal part of which enables him to
think, and renders him capable of moral
and religious government. Thought, IA
q philosophical usage, denotes the ca
pacity, or tie exercise Of the very high
est intellectual functions of man. Job
says: ''But there is spirit in man.
and the inspiration Of the Almighty
giveek them understandings Another
writer says: ''Then shall che dust re-
turn to the earth as it was, and the spir-
1t shall seturn unto God who gave it."
Therefore the spirit, the Intelligent,
and imHortal part of man
shall return to God who gave it. He
did not create 1t, but Infused it toto the
nostrils of man and he became q living
soul. Therefore we claim that thought
is neither q creation nor product Of de-
yelopment, for it existed with the tri0ne
Of God, before the world vas, or even
man was formed, and We make the az
sertion beyond the fear Of successful
that thought Is not . Gre
alton. and neither Is It . product Of de-
Delivered before the Sociological
Club, Jan. 50, By z. T. Bush.