The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-13

substances which were supposed
until recently, to exclude all light
The miracle is not more mysterious
than many of the things with which
man now deals - il is simply diff
terent. The miraculous birth of
Christ is not more mysterious than
any other conception - il is sim
ply unlike it; nor is the resurrec-
ton of Christ more mysterious
than the myraid resurrections which
mark eac ch annual seed time
1t is sometimes said that God
could not suspend one of His laws
without stopping the universe. but
DO we not suspend or overcome the
law OF gravltation every day? Every
time we move foot or lift a weight
we temporarily overcome one Of the
most universal of natural laws
and yet the world is not disturb
ed.
Science has taught US SO many
lnlngs that we are tempted to con-
clude that we know everything. but
there is really a great unknown
which is still unexplored and that
winch we have learned ought to in
crease our reverence rather than
our egotism. Science has disclosed
some OF the machinery of the uni
verse, but science has not yet re-
vealed to us the great secret-the
secret of life. 1t is to be found in
every blade of grass. in every insect.
In every bird and in every animal,
as well as in man. Six thousand
years of recorded history and yet
we know no more about the sec
ret of life than they knew i'm the
beginning. beginning. We live, we
plan; we have our hopes, our
tears; and yet in moment
change may come over anyone OF
us and this body will become
mass of lifeless clay. What is it
that. having, we live, and having
not, we are as the clod?. The
progress Of the race and the civ
ilization which we now behold are
the work of men and women who
have not yet solved the mystery of
their own lives.
And our food. must we under
stand il before we eat it? If we
refused to eat anything until we
could understand the mystery of
It's growth, we would die of starva-
ton. But mystery does not both
er us in the dining room: it is only
In the church that il is stumb-
ling block
L was eating piece OF watermel-
on some months ago and was struck
with its beauty. | took some of
It's seeds and dried them and weigh
ed them, and found that it would
require some five thousand seeds
TO weigh pound; and then | ap-
piled mathematics to the forty
pound watermelon. One of these
seeds, put into the ground. when
warmed by the sun and moisten-
ed by the rain. takes off it's coat
and goes to work; it gathers from
somewhere two hundred thousand
times its own weight, and forcing
this raw material through a tiny
stem, constructs a watermelon 1t
ornaments the outside with a COW
erlng of green; inside the green it
puts layer OF white, and within
the white a core of red, and all
through the red it scatters seeds,
each one capable of continuing the
work of reproductin. Where does
that little seed get its tremendous
power? Where does it finds its col
orinS matter? How does it collect
flavoring extract? How does it
build watermelon? Until you
can explain watermelon do not be
too sure that you can set limits to
the power of the Almighty and say
Just what He would do or how He
would do it. l cannot explain the
watermelon, but | eat it and enjoy
it.
The egg is the most universal of
foods, and its use dates from the
beginning but what is more mys-
terious than egg? When an egg is
fresh it is an important article of
merchandise; a hen can destroy it's
m1rkat Valnn in SC, hat
in two weeks more she can bring
forth from it what man could not
find in it. We eat eggs but we can
not explain an egg.
Water has been used from the
birth of man; we learned after it
had been used for ages that it is
merely a mixture of gases, but it
is far more important that we have
water to drink than that we know
it is not water.
Everything that grows tells a
like story of infinite power. Why
should l deny that divine hand
fed multitude with a few loaves
and fishes when / see hundreds of
millions fed every year by a hand
which converts the seeds scattered
over the field into an abundant
harvest? We know that food can
be multiplied in a few months
time; shall we deny the power o
the Creator to eliminate the ele-
ment Of time, when we have gone so
far in eliminating space? Who am
| that should attempt to measure
the arm of the Almighty with my
puny arm, or to measure the brain
of the Infinite with my finite
mind? Who am l that l should at
tempt to put metes and bounds to
the power of the Creator?
But there is something even
more wonderful still - the myster-
ious change that takes place in
the human heart when the man be-
gins to hate the things he loved
and love the thin ps he hatad-the O.