The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-11-08

mar bone about lue Hl1t Va tH' H"'A -
. .mou pea. This little round ball OF
l.n. allows man 70 fashion and TO do.
Ae other animals have paws simply
rar motive power. But mans suprem'
nav Is revealed IN his perfect hand.
Thus whenever YOU look upon mans
,.a,inr thumb You can see Sign by
(which God IS saying 10 him: "Hou can
..,, mold ifon. tunnel mountains, con-
amor fhc Wild beasts of the woods, san
..r,>s the seas. pillow fields, buiid
.ri.s uft q throne which shall domi'
..t, au the animal and vegetable ana
...f,.ral kingdoms. by the joint OF
,onr moving thumb have given you
.,oer 20 do all these things" Thus
.r..eyer YOU see man, even In his
...,...t and lowest form. you see an an
.mal that by the power Of brain ana
t.nl cam accomplish what no other
liking creature upon the face OF the
earth can do.
raf man has more than intellectual
ond physical precmlnence TO distin.
,rd.h h.m from the rest Of the animal
.r..fon lie IS the only being alive
today who. after he has been born mas
i,,nortalltv of existence Man Is the
.rly being 90 whom God has given the
..srrauco that when he Is born ne
Shall five ON forever The eagle Is sup
..sod TO be the longest lived bird. The
.ierhant IS supposed TO be the longest
lived of tue mammals. The deep sea
turtle has been known to live hundreds
~ years I'm the Galapagos Islands, on
tns western coast of South America
.rar, have been found living deep
son mrties at least 500 years old
prt though mans earthly life may
s.on r.lrIifcant when compared 10
+ .ta longevity of a turtle, an elephant
.r.n eagle. set bis immortality stretch
s on through centuries after the
longest lived turtle has died OF old age.
/ Man IS immortal: he never dies.
But am never more impressed win
mans Immortality than when study
his existence I'm the geological library
~ fhe rocks. When I tramp along q
country road through the dirt as
walk I say: This soil may soon pass
AWAY. The spring freshets may come
and wash il down into the valleys be-
low" When ! watch the birds flying
overhead or the squirrels and the rab'
/ BIS scurrylng into their holes, l say
/ .Every few years the woods have q
now generation Of inhabitants" When
/ T look upon the great trees Of Gala
reras grove ] say, Even these trees
must de-" But when I look upon th'
rocks. old and furrowed and Will
many mdentations from the storms anC
| the Hehtnlngs Of centuries, I seem L
see them forever standing there In al
fhoir majestic grandeur. ! look upoI
them and say: These rocks were JUS
.be same thousands upon thousands OF
rears ago. These rocks may be stand
mq there IN an their grandeur thou
sands unon thousands Of years hence
Long after ! have been laid In th'
grave my descendants may be camp
Ing under their shadow as | am doinl
now" But longer than even thos'
rocks viii endure | shall live. Loni
rcr the mighty heights Of the Hima
lovas are melted IN the last cOntagra
ton Of q burning world the meanes
md the poorest and the most insignin
can't of human beings who was eve
. eiasued In a mothers arms shall live
! We honor the vases and the ring
and the stones which have been eH
humod from the ruins Of Memphis
nnlylon and Niuevch because they ar
} old. nO matter how filthy and deface
+ nar may be. Shall we not honor hu
man lie wherever it is found when W
roa.izs That man. once born, will neV
b up cease TO exist. no matter how Ion
r fine may bef Shall we not honor tn
e ffe which shall last throughout etei
lity1
. But there IS another fact for whic
we should honor the human race. Go
. has placed within every human hear
ia conscience by which man, TO a grea
9 or or less extent Is able to distinguls
b risht from wrong. This conscience
b 10 man what the mariners compass
s. fo the sailor at sea. II tells him wha
s. he should do and what he ought nc
TO do where he should 60 and wher
s. he ought not to 90. what he shoul
say and what he ought not to sa!
And the more the man truly follow
d Ifs conscience the more 1t will poir
b out the true ways Of life to protect hii
from the shadows and the destroyin
2 rocks of error and sin.
D. Have you ever watched the whee
man I'm the pllothouse steering th
shpi To al probability he will NJ
Il see you or heed your presence viii
n. sou are watching him. His who
s mind and thought win be concentrate
% upon the quiyering needle in the squal
D box just ahead Of him. Every wav
o. every current, every gust Of wind thI
a. throws the PROV Of that boat even
c few feet of its course, that tremblif
o needle at once shows the change. 4
once his strong hands grasp the ha
g dies of his wheel. and the boat is pu
] cd back upon its right course. The
% currents and winds and waves Al
% continually causing the PROV OF Il
boat to head wrong. Thus the qua
q termaster has to be always heediI
% the warning Of his compass. So wi
the human heart. God has place
D within every human breast a NOR
li compass called conscience. That co
h science is increasingly at work. 1t
e perpetually showing man the error
~ his way and pointing TO the rig
Dr. course Conscience Is continually sa
s iug. you ought to do this because
ii is right You ought not to do that ;
p cause 70 IS wrong" And no man,
% care not how low he may be in Il
ol scale of humanity. IS without th
li flaming torch Of conscience showiI