ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



less that the transition to fields Elysian will 

 be no abrupt change to totally different con- 

 ditions, but a natural and easy gradation to 

 a blessed country where even the jarring 

 sounds audible only to the spirit will be 

 absent. Rubber-footed tires, asphalt pave- 

 ments, and the subdued hum of the modern 

 sewing-machine (compared with the fearful 

 threshing-tread of those of other days), all 

 tell the same story. Man has begun to dis- 

 cover that no machine is perfected until it 

 makes no noise. 



In nature's world, which is God's, the un- 

 surpassed model for noiseless perfection of 

 mechanism is the human body, in which all 

 the parts are fitly joined together so that a 

 hundred complex processes are going on 

 simultaneously in this marvelous labora- 

 tory, and yet no sound is heard. Bones, 

 blood, hair, nails, tissues, and countless 

 secretions are being manufactured in abso- 

 lute silence. Even the semi-voluntary move- 

 ments of the body involved in breathing, 

 bending the fingers, legs, and toes, are noise- 

 lessly performed; but in the still finer forces 



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