The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-05

lie Is reaching out nnd continuing to
reach farther out and is making the
wealth Of the land and of the sen and
Of the air tributary to his wealth and
to his power.
Man looks upon the mighty noun
tains and says. Il must have gold for
the basis of my monetary system. Is
mighty hills. We must open your sealed
vaults and give me your treasures,
Then The miner lifts his piclIax and
begins to tap at the huge doors Of
rock. and they open. Island the minis of
the world send out the gold in coins
stamped with their signs of monetary
value Man comes down to the sen
and says, 80 sea. thou must feed mel
Then the great Matching plants are
built and the small fish are developed
in the same way as the farmers wife
matches out her chickens in the barn
yard. Man says 10 the ficl''a "Ne must
support mel" Then tIle H't 20 forth
to turn over the soil, 1uH 49, harrows
with their steel teeth cIfl1 the big
tiers his seed ana the reaper; ut down
the heavy grain, and the mills grind
the wheat into white flour. and the
ovens are heated. and the bread comes
forth crisp and brown for the table
Man says: Il must have the treasures
of other regions brought 10 me. ]
must sell my goods in foreign lands"
SO he gathers together his iron ore
and melts it and molds ii and tenn
pers it. and the iron rails are laid. and
the steel steamships are launched. and
the Atlantic ocean becomes ferry.
and San Francisco and New York are
made next door neighbors. Wherever
mans magic wand is lifted The beasts
of the field. the birds of the air. the
fish of the sea. are compelled to do his
bidding. Wherever we turn we see
man intellectually supreme over the
animal. vegetable and mineral worlds.
Mans Perfect Hands.
what do you consider the most con
spicuous sign of mans intellectual eul
inencc?' | once asked the most bril-
can do this." he replied, touching each
one of his fingers with the end of his
thumb. "Do you know that man Is
the only animal in the world that has n
perfect hand? At the base of mans
| thumb God has placed little hypothe-
mar bone about the size of the half Of
q small pea This little round ball Of
bone allows man to fashion and to do
All other animals have paws simply
| for motive power. But mans sunrem
acy Is revealed in his perfect hand"
Thus whenever you look upon man S
moving thumb you can see Il sign by
| which God Is saying to him; you can
| now mold iron. tunnel mountains, con
quer the wild beasts of the woods, sail
across the seas. plow fields. build
| cities, lift throne which shall domi-
| nate all the animal and vegetable and
| mineral Kingdoms. BY the joint Of
your moving thumb ! have given you
power to do all these things" Thus
| whenever you see man. even in his
viest and lowest form, you see an an
| imal that by the power of brain and
hand can accomplish what no other
| living creature upon the face of the
earth can do Therefore "honor all
| men," Honor them on account of their
intellectual and physical supremacy
| Honor them wherever they may be
| found.
| But man has more than intellectual
| cn1 Ys1,rr;roI prn tp 1fgtiu-
| guish him from the rest of the animal
| creation. He il the only being alive
| today who. after he has been born. has
| immortality of existence. Man is the
only being to whom God has given the
assurance that when he is born he
shall live on forever The eagle Is sup
posed to be the longest lived bird. The
| elephant Is supposed to be the longest
| lived of the mammals. The deep sen
| turtle has been known TO live hundreds
OF years. In the Galapagos islands. off
| the western coast of South America
there have been found living deer
sea turtles ut least 500 years old
But, though mans earthly life may
seem Insignificant when compared tt
the longevity of turtle. an elephant
or an eagle. yet his immortality stretch
es on through centuries after the
longest lived turtle has died of old age
Man Is immortal; he never dies.
Mans Immortality.
But | am never more impressed will
mans immortality than when ] stud!
his existence in the geological library
Of the rocks. When | tramp along 6
country road through the dirt, as
walk I say: This soil may soon pass
away. The spring freshets may come
and wash it down into the valleys be
low" When / watch the birds tlyint
overhead or the squirrels and the rab
bits scurrying into their holes, ! say
EVERY few years the woods have {
new generation of inhabitants" Whel
I look upon the great trees of Gala
veras grove l say. Even these trees
must die" But when l look upon thu
rocks, old and furrowed and will