A Thousand-Muile W alk 
other plain case of clothing. Iron was made 
for hammers and ploughs, and lead for bullets; 
all intended for us. And so of other small hand- 
fuls of insignificant things. 
But if we should ask these profound ex- 
positors of God’s intentions, How about those 
man-eating animals — lions, tigers, alligators 
—which smack their lips over raw man? Or 
about those myriads of noxious insects that 
destroy labor and drink his blood? Doubtless 
man was intended for food and drink for all 
these? Oh, no! Not at all! These are unresolv- 
able difficulties connected with Eden’s apple and 
the Devil. Why does water drown its lord? 
Why do so many minerals poison him? Why 
are so many plants and fishes deadly enemies? 
Why is the lord of creation subjected to the 
same laws of life as his subjects? Oh, all these 
things are satanic, or in some way connected 
with the first garden. 
Now, it never seems to occur to these far- 
seeing teachers that Nature’s object in making 
animals and plants might possibly be first of 
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