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An Islander's Reasoning. The Great Hinge Maker. 



to my hands, and even to my fingers, to do it 

 with. If my heart thinks, and I want to make 

 others think with me, I use the hinges to my 

 jaws, and they help me to talk. I could nei- 

 ther walk nor sit down if I had not hinges to 

 my legs and feet. All this is wonderful. None 

 of the strange things that men have brought 

 from England in their big ships are at all to be 

 compared to my body. He who made my body 

 has made all those clever people, who made the 

 strange things which they bring in the ships; 

 and he is God, whom I worship. 



But I should not know much more about 

 him than as a great hinge-maker, if men in 

 their ships had not brought the book which 

 they call the Bible. That tells me of God, who 

 makes the skill and the heart of man likewise. 

 And when I hear how the Bible tells of the old 

 heart with its corruption, and the new heart, 

 and a right spirit, which God alone can create 

 and give, I feel that his work in my body and 

 his work in my heart fit each other exactly. I 

 am sure, .then, that the Bible, which tells me 

 of these things, was made by him who made 

 the hinges to my body. I believe the Bible to 

 be the word of God. 



