The Newtown bee., 1905-03-24
THOUGHT.
BY F. E. STURGES BETHEL, CONN

BY F. E. sTURGEs, BETHEL, CONN
 Mind and matter are the two in- gradients of the entire world. This factor matter is the production of chaos; from chaos did the Lord God create the heaven and the earth. Mind did not exist until the Lord God created man and the inferior animal. When God breathed into the nostrils of Adam the breath of life, Adam be- came living soul; this soul is the mind. The one feature, the only feature of the mind is thought. Had not Adam been endowed with thought the world would never have been peOpled. Passion arises from thought and without thought there would have been no passion, and if no passion, no people. Travel the whole world over and behold the works of man; they are the fruitage of thought. Cast your eyes on the posoms of the great oceans, rivers and lakes, ana you will see the fruitage of thought. Ocean steamers blowing the mighty oceans in all di- rections. Commercial business going on with every nation on the face of the globe. Were there no thought there would be no commerce. We come now to land and take view of the large cities, it's magnificent structures, it's elevations, it's deep ravines, it's gorgeous embellishments, its costly cathedrals, it's churches, its colleges and schools, it's railroads, it's telegraph and it's telegraphy in other forms, it's harbors, it's dry-docks, it's bridges, it's manufactures, it's mercantile business, etc. Yea, all of these and thousands of more grand industries are made and carried on by thought. Man could do nothing without thought. Adam could not have dressed and titled the garden of Eden, had not the Lord God endowed him with thought. Cain would not have murdered his brother A bel had he not thought the Lord favored him.
 Had there been no thought, there would have been no Saviour, because man can not bless the Lord Jesus Christ without thought. The divine wisdom of God instituted this most glorious feature in man, and mans highest ambition should be to exercise that thought to the blessing of bis Heavenly Father.
 God has endowed man with reason. which means to recon, to think; now this reasoning or thinking is thought or consideration as bearing on a determination or an' opinion. Simply a faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the inferior animals. Due exercise o1 the reasoning faculty, as propriety justice, order, etc. Laws by which the Universe is supposed to be constructed and governed.
 God had endowed the inferior ani mals with instinct. Unconscious, in voluntary or unreasoning prompting to action is instinct; it's faculty is in tuition, or immediate knowledge, : truth that cannot be acquired by, but assumed in experience. The various minerals in the Earth would nevel have been placed there, had there beer no thought; because where there fl no thought, there is no ingenuity ol inventive power, and without in genuity in man, the minerals could no
 have been of any use whatsoever. Bu1
 when this God-given thought becomes exercised, then their use becomes O.
 untold value. Should those mineral
 remain in the earth undiSturbed b,
 man, there would never have been an,
 manufacturing, nor any commercial
 business, and but little agriculturin,
 business in the world.
 Cut off the minerals and though
 and you have cut off tools, and cut of
 tools and you have cut off all. Thi
 word all embraces nearly every wan
 of man, food, clothing, shelter, fue
 and mind food. Timber would cove
 the land surface of the earth and citie etc., would be thing unknown, an
 the wild beasts roam at random, hay
 ing no fear for man, for man withou thought could not have dominion owe
 the beasts of the field, the birds of tn air, nor the fish of sea.
 Gold would have no more value t
 man than the unclaimed shells on tn beach, if the thought of man did no place a value thereon, and likewis this same rule holds good throughou every thing that exists, either on tn } surface or in the bowels of the earth Even the beautiful which gladdens tn eye, and is so fragrant to the smell
 would not come within the desire