The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-27

We find nature is the first revelation or the God-poWer, and therefore in the natural jaw there can be no real anta- gonisn. Nothing can break the essen- tial harmony between God and His andiwork-hetween this rair earth and heaven.
 Natural law has never been fully un- derstood, not even by the different or- ders of wise men and philosophers, for it was never transcribed nor translated for the benefit of selfish men.
 It was not established by the Inti- nite to sanction the schemes of selfish dogmatizers, or to build up commercial relations to enrich tho head ones In commerce. .. .....s
 The trees speak softly of creative force through their quivering leaves and point their outspread branches to- ward the sanctuary of natures God.
 The vines heavily ladened with pur- pie fruit and the berry bearing plants upon mountain and plain, utter silently | their testimony of creative law, and the soul forces manifested through their simple lives in spring time and harvest. The grasses, grains and vegetable kingdom proclaim that nature was and | is the prior revelation of Gods handi- works. and the power underlying it is | natural law. It is imueasurably be- yond the utmost limits of human req son and thought. Reason is the foun- dation of all law, and it Is also the eye i of revelation, and therefore it is | through reason that science has un- | earthed the grand mysteries of nature 1 and discovered the exhaustless foun- tains of knowledge by which man can avail himself of all the productions of the soil, and utilize all things created | from the oak to the violet, and from the apple to the purple grapes and plums that grow on the plains. Without wisdom and agricultural knowledge and power to experiment | and analyze the materials from which 1 springs the spontaneous productions Of the soil, what would life be, or how would the human intellect grasp and utilize the products of the earth?
 The flowers of the field did not paint their own brilliant colors. The lily would be unconscious of it's own rich beauty and fragrance The golden ap- pie, ripening upon it's stem in the au- tumnal sunshine, would fail to reach perfection were it not for the wisdom of that law which demands perfection for all things connected with nature.
 Where the human mind becomes di- vested of all selffshness and can recog- nize the fact that the earth's produc- tions are intended for the food and nourishment of man and beast and not for the enriching of a chosen few
 there will be a more willing spirit man.
 ifested on the part of different classes of men to engage in tilling the soil as a noble branch of industry.
 The beast as well as the human may
 gaze upon the hills and the heavens
 They may admire the etherial blue
 without tongue or powers to express it's
 splendor, and therefore it is reasonable
 to suppose that the OK or horse may
 delight in life and existence through
 the silent enjoyment of the physical
 senses. They eat, drink and are con-
 tent; mankind possessing all the
 knowledge of which nature can im-
 part through sensation and natural in-
 telligence, which is as we know, Cod
 like in capttity and limitless in power
 connected with earth and its produc- I llOHS. IuGTR1UFet men SflOulQ De SdIlS-
 fled when we think that earth was crea-
 ted almost wholly for the human race.
 Earth's productions all become ser
 wants to mans needs and ambitious de-
 sires; their nourishrnent and pleasure
 for mankind are the only creatures that
 express admiration and delight.
 The paradse-like valleys and the
 rich grass-covered plains call forth no
 expressions from the animal kingdom.
 Man with power to see and compre-
 bend, and with higher knowledge
 which proves that all the wants of the
 human are amply supplied, yet are nev-
 CT content, never satisfied or grateful
 for natures plentiful supplies. Life
 and all it's treasures are nothing but
 building materials with which man } fashions his temple, and if he is req
 sonable architect he will fashion his
 house for eternity and on a solid basis
 The arts and sciences embellish the hu-
 man existence. Reason and power to
 use it lifts the human above the brute
 creation. The OK passes by temple of beauty giving no expression of admira- } ton at it's magnificence, but hurries on
 in search of it's own food and shelter
 and when found is happy, or so we seem to see them. But who knows what they
 see or hear, or what avenues of revela- ton may have been opened between the } Creator and his inferior order of physi- cal organisms The animal is guided by instinct which it blindly follows and
 is satisfied to do as instinct directs Man in the strength of his mental faculties subdues, the higher assump- , tion of the senses and through natural
 law claims to be infinitely beyond and above the animal world, and though hll- man pride and conceit rise above, or tc the highest pinnacle of wisdom and virtue, without nature and moral agen- cies the human would be not much
 above the animals of the field !. Through reason and the power to think
 men have opened vast arena of per
 petual improvement. And this proves that reason or soul force places man , above the brute that perisheth. Mans
 destiny is eternal.
 We have come to a period where az ricultural chemistry illustrates the vast
 difference between the human and ami nal kingdoms. The grand march ot arts and sciences during the past cen. tury has illustrated the power of the human over the brute instincts, which