Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-11

/ knowledge and the betterment OF the
condition of the human race 1 do not
now stop to discuss, but he who use
| 1essly harms any of Gods living crea-
| ton insults the Creator. Alas, for the
horrors Of vivisectioni 1 have no con-
| hdence in the morality of man or
woman who would harm a horse or
dog or cat or a pigeon Such men
and women, under affront. if they
dared would take the life of a human
being. You cannot make me believe
that God looks down indifferently upon
the CALLED neck of the OK or the cruel
ly curbed bit of the, horse or the un-
sheltered cattle in the snowstorm or
the cockpit or the bear batting or
the pigeon shooting or the laceration
of fish that not used. Go to the
ant. thou miscreant, and see how God
honors it, In the great college of the
universe it has been appointed your
professor. All over the land and all
over the world there are over-driven
horses that ought to be embarrassed,
Gagged birds that ought to be put
their wings in the free air of heaven,
droves of cattle agonized of thirst on
the freight trains where they ought
to be watered and crustacea being
broiled alive that ought to be lifted
apostles for the human race in the
first century, and you know their
names, but in the nineteenth century
he chose his thirteenth apostle, who
wrought for the relief of the brute Gre
alton, and his name was Henry Bergh.
In my text the ant is not impaled, is
not dead, but alive, and in the warm
fields providing her meat in the sum-
mer and gathering her food in the har-
vest
Furthermore, go to the ant and
learn the lesson of God appointed Or
der. The being who taught the insect
how to build was geometer as well as
architect The paths inside that lit
tie home radiate from the door with
as complete arrangement as ever the
boulevards of a city radiated from
triumphal arch or a fiowered circle.
And when they march they keep per-
feet order, moving in straight lines,
turning out for nothing. If a timber
lie in the way, they climb over it. If
there be a house or barn in the way,
they march through it. Order in ar
chitectural structure, order in gov
ernment. order of movement, order of
expedition. So let US all observe this
God appointed rule and take salts
faction in the fact that things are
not at loose ends in this world. If
there is a divine regulation in a colony
or republic of insects. is there not a
divine regulation in the lives of i'm
mortal men and women? If God cares
| for the least of his creatures and shows
| them how to provide their meat in the
summer and gather their food in the
harvest, will he not be interested in
matters of human livelihood and in
the guidance of human affairs? /
| preach the doctrine of a particular
providence. Are not two sparrows
sold for a farthing, and yet not one
of them is forgotten before God? Are
ye not of more value than many spar
rows?" Let there be order in our in
dividual lives order in the family, Or
der in the church, order in the state.
In all the world there is no room for
| anarchy.
All Under Gods Care.
We live in times when there are so
many clashings. There seems almost
universal unrest. Large fortunes swal-
low up small fortunes. Civilized ma
tions trying to gobble up barbaric ma
tions. Upheaval of creeds and people
who once believed everything now be-
lieving nothing The old book that
Moses began and ST. John ended bonn
barded from scientific observatories
and college classrooms. Amid all this
disturbance and uncertainty that
which many good people need is not a
stimulus, but sedative, and i'll my tex1
l find it-divine observation and guild
ance of minutest affairs. And nothing
is to God large or small-planet or ant
hill-the God who easily made the
worlds. employing his infnity in the
wondrous construction of spiders
foot.
Before we leave this subject let us
thank God for those who were willing
to endure the fatigues and self-sacri-
fees necessary to make revelation of
the natural world, so reinforcing the
Scriptures. If the microscope could
speak, what a story it could tell of
hardship and poverty and suffering and
perseverance on the part of those who
employed it for important discovery,
1t would tell of the blinded eyes of NJ.
Strauss, of the Hubers and of scores
of those who, after inspecting the
gered out from their cabinets with
vision destroyed This hour in many
a professors study the work of put
ting eyesight on the altar of science
is going on And what greater loss
can one suffer than the loss of eye
sight. unless it be loss of reason?
While the telescope is reaching farther
up and the microscope is reaching far
ther down. both are exclaiming:
ia God and ha infinitely