The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-02
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nipuIate,l. That Ia the allusion Of the
psalms, TO the woven hangings of tap
estry as they were known long before
David's time. Far back in the ages
what enchantment Of thread end color,
tho Florentino velvets Of silk and gold
and Persian carpets woven of goats
hairi II you have been in the Gobelin
mandatory of tapestry In Paris alas,
now no m~ore!-you witnessed wondrous
things as you saw the wooden needle or
breach going back and forth and in
and out; You were transfixed with adj
miration at the patterns wrought. No
wonder that Louis XIV bought 1t, and
IL became the possession of the throne.
and for a long while none but thrones
and palaces might have any of its work!
What triumphs of loom! What victory
OF skilled fingers! SO David says Of the
heavens that Gods fingers wove into
them tho light; that Gods fingers tap.
estried them with stars; that Gods fin.
gers embroidered them with worlds.
How much Of the immensely Of the
heavens David understood I know not.
Astronomy was born in China 1880
years before Christ was born. During
the reign OF Hoang-Ti astronomers were
put to death IL they made wrong calcu-
lations about the heavens. job under
stood the refraction Of the suns rays
and said they were turned as tho clay
to the SEAL" The pyramids were as
Economical observatories, and they were
80 long ago built that Isaiah refers to
of them in his nineteenth chapter
and calls it the "pillar at the border"
The first Of all the sciences born was
astronomy. Whether from knowledge
already abroad or from direct inspira-
ton, it seems to me David had wide
knowledge of the heavens. Whether he
understood tho full force Of what no
wrote, know not, but the God who
inspired him knew, and he would not
let David writo anything but truth, and
therefore all the worlds that the tele-
scope over reached or Copernicus Or
Galilei or Kepler or Newton or La
place or Herschel or our own Mitchell
ever saw were SO easily made that they
were made with the fingers. AS easily
as with Your fingers you mold the wax,
or the clay, or the dough to particular
shapes, 80 no decided the shape Of
our world, and that it should weigh
six sextillion tons and appointed for
all worlds their orbits and decided their
color-the white to Sirius, the rudy
to Aldebaran, the yellow to Pollux,
the blue to Affair, marrying some of
the stars, as the 2.400 double stars that
Hcrschel observed, administering to the
whims of tho variable stars as their
glance becomes brighter OF dim, pre-
paring what astronomers called, "tho
girdle Of ADdromeda" and the nebula
in the sword handle Of Orion. Worlds
on worlds! Worlds under worlds!
Worlds above worlds! Worlds beyond
worlds! So many that arithmetics are
OF no use In the calculation! But he
counted them as he made them, and no
made them with his fingers! Reserya-
tion Of power! Suppression of omnipo-
tence! Resources rs yet untouched!
Almightiness yet undemonstrated! Now
l ask, for the benefit OF all disheartened
Christian workers, II God accomplished
so much with his fingers, what can he
do when he puts cut all his strength
and when he unlimbers all the batteries
of his o%mnipotence? The Bible speaks
again and again of Gods outstretched
arm, but only once. and that in the text
Of the bare arm of God.
GREAT UNDERTAKING.
Ny text makes it plain that tho rec
LITIGATION Of this world is s%tupendous
undertaking. 1t takes more power to
make this world over again than it took
to mako 1t at first. A word was only
necessary for the first creation, but for
the new creation the unsleeved and un.
hindered fore arm Of the Almighty! The
reaso Of that l can understand. In the
shipyards Of Liverpool or Glasgow or
New York a great vessel is construct
ed. The architect draws out tho plan,
the length Of the beam. the capacity Of
tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw,
the cabin. tho masts and all tho ap.
pointments of this great palace of the
deep. The architect finishes his work
without any perflexity, and the Gar.
penters and the artisans toll on the craft
SO many hours a day, each one doing his
part. until with flags flying, and thou
sands Of people huzzaing on the docks,
the vessel Is launched. But out on the
sea that steamer breaks her shaft and
is limping slowly along toward harbor,
when Caribbean whirlwinds, those
mighty hunters of the deep, looking out
for prey Of ships, surround that wound
ed vessel and pitch it on a rocky coast,
and she lifts and falls In the breakers
until every joint - loose, and every
spar is down, and every wave sweeps
owe the hurricane deck as she parts
midships.
Would 1t not require more skill and
power TO get that splintered vessel of
tho rocks and reconstruct 1t than it re-
quired originally TO build herr Aye!
Our world that God built SO beautiful.
and which started out with all the flags
Of Edenic foliage and with the chant OF
paradisaicai bowers, has been GO cep-
turtles pounding In the skerries of sin
and sorrow, and to get her ont. and to
get her off, and to get her on the right
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