The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-08-30

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canvas on which pictures can be
formed Of just the right size and just
the right distance behind the lens of
the eye, rugged with ligaments and
pulleyss that at moments warning
alter the convexity for objects near
or far; and greater than all, provided
with that means of expressing the
mind itself-scorn, love, alarm and
every mental or spiritual state. Did
some self-constituted 'law' or
"force" plan all these amazing con-
geries of adaptation? Is there no
evidence here Of divine contriver?
Let the reader imagine himself
some fine June, day standing on the
highest point of Mount Hood, with
unobstructed view of the landscape
from the Blue Mountains on the east
withSthe Columbia River like a silver
thread coursing its way to the Paci-
fic Ocean on the west. An untold
variety of mountains, hills, valleys,
brooklets and trees north, south, east
and west, as far as the eye can reach.
What vastness and variety. What
exquisite details of work in all this
landscape!
What refinement of workmanship!
Scan that alder leaf; what exquisite
finish in its minutest parts. Exam
inc the wing and throat of that hum
ming bird. Subject his tinted and
polished antenae to the microscope.
Push the inspection as far as possible
and let the searching continue to
your hearts content. Wonderful!
Now let some master artist from
Mount Hoods summit paint this
landscape. The general effect is
beautiful, but if you examine the
foliage on the trees in his painting or
the green fields the artist has made,
they will prove to be the clumsiest
daubing, Submitted to the miscro-
scope all traces of thoroughness annd
skill are absent. Not so with Gods
work in the real landscape.
Inspect its details critically, aided 4
by the most powerful magnifying APP
paratus, and it becomes more perfect
the further you push the inquiry. The
same minute filling up, as far as the
utmost optical power can carry the
investigation, wrought with the same
boundless outlay of attention and
skill.
Well, the divine artist could with
the same minute perfection of detail
put thousand such landscapes on the
point of cambria needle. The
method of his workings are as opera
tive today as when a few of them
were first observed by Kepler and
Newton. The planets shoot around
the sun and are circled by their own
moons in the same orbits and times
as in the days when Homer lived and
sang. Some of these heavenly bodies
nave winter longer than 40 of our
years. A year on others of them is
onger than 80 of our centuries,
while on some of the suns out in
yonder cault year is 10000 of our
What amazing longevi-
les. What bewildering distances!
Riddles? Yes; profound and high in
every ray of light and in every blade
IT grass. Only. few of the coarser
'acts in a few of these things have h
'een picked up and systematized,
md this is what all this blare of
rumpets over evolution is about
This universe is so choked with
mysteries that science, the handmade
II divine truth, will hardly in the
lext thousand years get over even
he doorstep of the great temple.
All honor to the painstaking, tireless
eekers after light, Darwin, Tyndall,
iujley and Spencer; others, includ-
ng Bergsen, being only secondhand
lealers, but they should not, any of
hem, have. thought to crowd out
# business the Christian God, nor
ajth.
SO FAR astronomers can only ac-
cunt for the movements of system
# two bodies. A system of three is
quite beyond them. And yet since !