The food, however, contains impurities so the blood must pass through the liv er and the kidneys to be cleansed and enriched. Then, of course, since there are about twelve miles of blood vessels in the body there must be an adequate pumping arrangement to force the blood through all the parts regardless of the posture. When standing upright the pump must force the blood to the top of the head and pull it up from the bottom of the feet. Sometimes people stand on their heads and then the operation is reversed. The heart does not fail, God has made that wonderful pump. It nev er needs to have the valves ground and it never needs watching. It just keeps on faithfully serving and we have noth ing to do with it. Surely our wonderful God is a miracle-working God. He makes the heart give its first beat. The mother has nothing to do with it. He will command it to give the last beat and no one can prevent it. This is the God who says, “My son, give me thine heart.” DR. TALBOT: Tell us something about the peculiar habits of plant life, Dr. Wilson. DR. WILSON: Dr. Talbot, do you know that green beans are lefthanded? These beans that climb a pole always wrap themselves around the pole from left to right, while hops and morning- glories climb the pole from the right to left. No one knows at all why the vine does it. If one should unwrap a bean vine and wrap it up again from the right to left it will die on the third day of a broken heart because it can not have its own way. On one occasion I was giving an address up in Michi gan and mentioned this fact in the course of my remarks. I saw a lady in the audience give a jump and be come so excited, speaking quickly to P L A N T L IF E
Who taught these babies where to go and how can they tell the directions down deep in the sea? All of this is a miracle. Who but the living God, could ever bring about such a marve lous miracle as this? Surely, Dr. Tal bot, this proves that there is a wonder ful living God who is running this uni verse.
for otherwise these beautiful creatures could never behave as they do. Let me give you one very pleasant illustra tion. A gentleman obtained a pair of sparrows. They were kept in a cage in his house for a while, carefully shel tered and protected from the outside life and from any other birds. They had never seen an egg; they had never seen a bird sitting on eggs. These baby birds were placed in a large cage about twelve feet square in which there were leaves, grass, a few small bushes and a ledge built way up on one side, simi lar to the eave of a house. When these birds grew to maturity, each one built a beautiful nest upon the ledge. In these nests, these two female birds placed their eggs. After a while they sat on them, endeavoring to hatch them, which of course they could not do since the eggs were not fertile. How did these birds learn to build a nest? Who taught them to place their eggs therein? How did they know they should sit on them? This, that we call instinct, is a gift from God placed there by the One who made the birds originally. The blue jay builds her nest in a hollow tree in the forests of Europe since she must hide them from maraud ing boys who would rob the nests. In this country, she builds them out on the fork of a limb as other birds do, for she is not afraid of being robbed. In the Amazon forests, the blue jay changes her method and builds a nest like an oriole, which hangs on the end of a small twig, out of reach of snakes and other animals that would like to steal the eggs'. Who taught the blue jay to build her nest in three dif ferent ways in different parts of the world? Only the God of Heaven who made the blue feathers of the blue jay and the yellow feathers of the canary. DR. TALBOT: That is most interest ing, Dr. Wilson. Tell us some more about God’s work. DR. WILSON: Yes, I shall be glad to do so. Here is a phenomenon: The par ent eels, during the breeding season, swim down from various parts of the earth into the Caribbean Sea. There is a very deep hole in the ocean there and the eels somehow prefer to have their little ones born there. In this place the baby eels are born. After the birth the parents go back to their home base — some to the coasts of France, some to the rivers of Canada. Some go to Norway and others to England. All the babies are left behind down in the Caribbean Sea. After some weeks the babies decide that they too will follow their parents and off they go. The babies who have Canadian parents swim back to Canada; those who have French parents swim back to France.
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DR. TALBOT: Yes, that is a most unusual fact. Perhaps you could tell us whether you have found any proofs of God’s power and wisdom in the human body. How about this, Dr. Wil son? DR. WILSON: Yes, there are a great many such proofs, Dr. Talbot. Let me mention for instance that the air which we breathe is composed of 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen, mixed together but not combined. This is exactly what is needed by the lungs which God has made. Where does God make the oxy gen and where is the nitrogen formed and where are these two mixed to gether in this correct proportion? No one controls it. No one understands it. We simply enjoy breathing and God does the rest. The lungs are so formed that they extract the oxygen and put it into the blood without any effort on our part. God keeps the supply con stantly coming, even though we con stantly use it. This is one of the marks of His loving care. Since there are three or four other combinations of oxygen and nitrogen and all of these are injurious to the body, we may see at once the gracious loving-kindness of our God in giving us the proper mixture which produces health and vigor. Another excellent proof of God’s kindness is found in that God has given us a one-shot system of lubrication. Our bodies are filled with many joints. These must be lubricated. We put the food in our mouths and all the joints are lubricated without effort. Suppose that each one of us had to carry a grease can with him to oil the joints. What a job we would have! We would always overlook some of them and we would squeak and get stiff and have a terrible time of it. Who but the liv ing God of Heaven, would ever have thought out and arrived such a one- shot system of keeping all the joints properly oiled? Then again, the arrangement of the blood stream proves that a wonderfully intelligent and careful God had charge of that part of our bodies. The blood must go through the lungs to receive oxygen. It must also pass through the district of the bowels to receive food.
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