The herald., 1897-07-27
CHAUTAUQUA
Morning Lessons in Bible
History
BOTH BRAINS AND MUSCLE
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION TO
BE DEBATED TODAY
DR.. Bowers and T. D. Kanouse the
Speakers Today-Dr. Lamar's
Evening Lecture

lesson of the morning in Bible study.
Following the course of the instructions
and journey of Jesus, he spoke first of
the strength of spiritual alliances and
bonds, above those of family and kin
dred merely; of unselfishness and good
will among men, as that force and infiu-
ence which must unite protect and make
prosperous society, or it will go in de-
vious and disastrous ways; as the earth
would were the law of gravitation to be
suspended.
He spoke of the throngs that crowded
about Jesus; of the physical conditions
Of those multitudes-ignorant, weak,
poor, sick, lame, helpless, and yet re-
ceiving no protection nor guidance from
church or state. They were, on the con-
trary, the defenseless victims of unjust
discrimination in tributes and taxes and
the extortionate methods used in the col
| lection of them.
With this condition of people, with the
causes clearly in his thought, Jesus be-
came not only the prophet. patriot and
statesman of the ages, but also the ora
tor, speaking as never man spoke.
The class in Old Testament study by
Rev. c. P. Dorland discussed the sub
iect of the date and authorship of the
Pentateuch.
The book is of a composite character,
showing it to have been written by diff
ferent pens in various ages. There are
different provisions concerning the same
subject, viz: The Sabbath is to be OBJ
served in memory of IsraePs deliverance
from Egypt, according to Deuteronomy,
but according to Exodus it is to be OBJ
served as a day of rest, because God
also rested on that day.
According to the prestly code there
could be but one place of sacrifice, but
according to the writer of Exodus men
might sacrifice in many places.
Moses could not have written the ac-
count of his own death and burial, nor of
the condition of the people during the
centuries that succeeded his death. The
priestly ritual for the temple was writ
ten when there was a demand for a rit-
ual and not before.
The history of the rule of the Judges
exemplifies the religious customs and
opinions of this day, showing that
, through the ages following Moses the
sacrificial meal, the sacred oak the sim
pie mounds of dirt for an altar, the STAY
ing of the sacred lamb, the personal
manifestation of Jehovah all are spoken
of the same as before the days of Moses.
Samuel, Saul and the Judges, through
nearly five hundred years, make no ref
erence to the Mosaic legislation nor the
Levitical ritual, which could hardly be-
possible if that ritual had already been
given These things all point to the
composite character, the growth and de-
velopment of the books of the Penta-
touch and to various pens other than
that of Moses.
DR.. Denen, pastor of the Presbyt
church. delivered the lecture of the af-
ternoon. His subject was Brains and
| Muscle"
Dr. Denen said, in part: Labor is a
necessity God ordains it. 1t is a clean,
ennobling and honorable grand thing;
all that is mental is in the workman
not in the work. There may be those
who think with Hazlett that "a business
man is mean person, put in go-cart
yoked in a trade or profession, who has
nothing to do but to go in a beaten
track, without imaginatin or ideas"
We are clothed with fine, vigorous
to direct their wise use. The province
of brain as related to labor is to re-
leve it from exhaustion and drudgery
make it means of inyigorating both
mind and body. They are cola borers
friendly and coordinate factors. Muscle
alone leaves a man savage; brain sim
gle-handed can accomplish nothing. OF
what use We're steam engines, power
looms, spinning jennies, telegraphs an6
telephones, chemical formulas and To-
garithims lying around loose in a hun
cry mans brain? Labor is the midwife
that helps these inventions to the, birth
Gets them at work to enrich and feed
the people. Cultivate muscle alone and
you have the athlete or the savage
Develop only brain and you have the
simpleton or crank.
Brain and muscle, Minerva and Her
cules, lovingly married, beget all man.
her of useful enterprises; science, art
religion, are olive plants about their ia
BILE. Brain elevates labor by alloying ii
with noble thoughts and bringing it into
companionshp with great minds and
hearts.
Labor enlarges the thorax, expands
the throat, aerates the blood, quickens
circulation, feeds and stimulates tbs
brain.
John Ruskin says: ut is only by la,
Dor that thought can be made healthy
and only by thought that labor can be
made happy"
God ordained certain laws and forces
veined the earth with seams of coal and
iron, gold and silver. Man harnesses
these forces, analyses these compounds
unlocks the treasure closet of mother
earth and brings out all her useful and
precious things. We have taken apar.
almost everything the Almighty put
together to see how it was made. We
have analysed and experimental until
there is scarcely compound whose con-
stituents are not known.
Muscle and brain together create, in
the line of manufactures, skilled work
men, diminish human suffering, improve
health and morals, cheer adorn, elevate,
lengthen and enrich human life. Ev-
cry true inventor is the worlds bene-
factor.
Were all our inventions 10 be blotted
out we should die of starvation and
nakedness. Our multiform machinery
whose hum is the music of the spheres
that piles our palatial warehouses with