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of Il little knowledge; but ~ it is,
the raising of my arm or the writing
with this pen is greater miracle
than Jonah living three days in the
whales belly. Every seed that gcr-
inmates and makes a flower is a
miracle.to mo. Sometimes I wonder
if l had glass that would magnify
a million times could 500 the ON
bryo oak in q little acorn; could I
500 the orange troo in tho seed of
tho fruit. All nature is full Of
miracles. Winding up the canes in
front Of my veranda are madeira
vinos that climb ono other way and
hop vines that climb tho other way
and jasmine vines that climb both
ways. Evory plant has its own
laws, and thoy arc Interchangeable
inst so with tho boasts and birds
and insects, and | almost envy them
in their happy Ignorance of death
and future state. Hundreds of
katydids are singing in the grove
while | writo. The males arc max
ing music for thoir unmusical mates.
They will sing on and be happy for
throo months and dio. Tho form
and structure of their little body is Il
miracle, for tho utmost ingenuity of
man could not make one. Tho two
little drums that every ciceda carries
for sounding boards and tho tiny
frets Oh thoir wings that scrapo each
othor with inconcoivaclo rapidit.
mako musical note that can be
hoard half milo on still and
quiet night. Aud then their sonse
of hoaring is so wonderfully acute!
For what child has not tiptoed to
tho trco and touched it ever 80
gently and closed tho orchestra. DIR.
Holmes calls tho katyii9s "this testy
little dogmatist," for they never tiro
of saying "katy did" and "kuty
didn't"
| But about this improved man and
woman that theso skeptics would
make if they could. Sometimes
man does fall over wheelbarrow in
tho night and bruiso his shins, and |
remember woll how many hard licks
wo boys got whom wo played skinny
at tho old. schoolhouse Oh top of
tho hill, but tho sores got we'll and
no bones were broken. Ifthe calf was
in front tho bruise would be as bad and
it would mako mans pants bag at the
calf instead of the knee, and n VIC
mans calf when riding bike would
look awful! About that third eyo in
the back of tho head, it would worry
much interfere with our shopping
position and give no room for wo-
mans back hair and utterly paralyze
hor dovotions in church. If wo are
to havo third eyo tho optical nerv-
Oh and muscles should be 80 arrang-
cd that whom tho two in front arc
opon tho ono in tho rear should be
, shut, and vico versa. But this
third oyo would of course necessitate
Il larger corebellum to hold tho
machinery, and that would give q
man tho big head. AS to a double
jointod elbow for scratching pnr-
poses, pvo no particular objections,
though on pinch man can do
like Sidney Smiths pigs: He can
rub up against post or the edge Of
a door and get relief. AS to that
Manchausen business Of summing and
swimming and flying, it is folly to
discuss. Man has no ncod of such
powers, and if ho had four logs like
Il horse and fins like fish and wings
like bird he wouldn't bo man,
but sort Of quadruplox amphiblous
aorolie, too smart for this world and
not good enough for tho next.
i Good gracious! what a world Of
now theories about man and the crea-
, tion those modern thinkers have got
up. Thoy can't fool tho old folks,
bnt | foar thoy do demaralize some
of tho young. Young man, stop
and think before you desert tho
} faith of the fathers. 1t is safe to
, say that such great and good mon
as Calvin and Luther and Knox and
Wesley and Whitfield and Sir Isaac
Newton and Addison and Pope and
hundreds of others who lived and
, died in tho faith were not mistaken.
, Wait until thoso agnostcs and