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THE PLACE OF PLACES D r . F. E. M arsh ’ The place called Calvary" Luke 23:35
The Doctrine of Man The Wonderful Structure o f the Human Body DR. F. E. M A R S H London, England
There is a Place where sin will cease to charm, Where fears will die and doubts no more alarm, Where self is dead, and world cannot allure,— It is at Calvary’s Cross,—Divine and sure. There is a Place where Peace was made with God, ‘ Twos made with Christ’s, own blood on Calvary’s sod; There Christ was wounded sore with chast'ning rod, And I am freed from wrath and brought to God. There is a Place where sin and self are slain, And I am dead with Christ on Cross o f Pain; By faith I reckon I have died with Him, I see the Conquest’s won, and He doth win. From that same Place, I wait my Lord’s return, For radiance from that cross doth shine and burn; I look towards the East, for glory bright To gladden all my soul with endless light. • brainless of us will only think of the miracle that is pro duced in every child that is born, we can with a casual glance see the wonder of our wonder-working God! Ponder the following facts: 1. The creation of mankind, and giving to man and woman the power to propagate the race. 2. The mysterious process, after conception, of the development of the implanted life, and its progress until birth. 3. The wonderful union between mother and child while gestation is going on. The two lives distinct in their individuality, and yet so intimately one that the one depends upon the other for its sustenance. 4. The perfect form produced in the normal child, and the perfect organs seen in the new-born infant. Look at its beautiful eyes, its pearl-shaped ears, and listen to its cry for food! 6. The latent capacity of the Infant’s brain is made patent as the child grows, and is pioulded by education and environment. The man was in the child, as the oak is in the acorn. 6. The genius of man is made possible by the genesis of God. The skill of an Edison and the poems of a Tennyson need to be traced to the God who made it possible to pro duce such possibilities. The miracle of the ordinary individual proves the extra ordinary God who can go beyond the ordinary, and gives us to understand that He who can produce the miracle of the ordinary, can produce the extraordinary. Therefore we are not surprised that He who produced a woman from a motherless man, as He did Eve from Adam, can also pro duce a fatherless man from woman, as He did Christ from Mary. Recognize God, and impossibilities become possible. (Continued on page 491)
The eighth in a remarkable series of articles by this eminent and gifted Bible Teacher, Author and Editor. Dr. Marsh has con sidered in previous articles man’ s genesis: his indestructibility: his identity with his Cre ator; his authority and accountability: his constitution; definition o f the terms “ spirit” and “ soul,” and, in this article, “ body.” Dr. Marsh is a frequent visitor to this country, being at this time engaged in Bible Confer ence work in the Eastern States. Pray for God's blessing on his ministry.
Syllabusi Three things to recognise regarding the body: Its Minute Complexity, Its Brittle Frailty, and Its Consecrated Possibility—Lord .«.vebury on “The Wonderful and Complex Organization.*’— Some Facts to Ponder: A motherless woman from man, and fatherless man from woman! The frailty of the body—man more than “dust;** The elements which form the body; The young men and the jars containing a man, "Where is the man? A problem for a scientist, namely, to make a man out of the materials In the Jars! "Dustology” ; The Possibilities of the Body; The Mission of Dust; Ruskin on “The slime of a damp, over-trodden path.” HREE thoughts are suggested by Divine Revelation as we think of the wonderful structure of man’s body; namely, Its Minute Complexity, its Brittle It is too vast a study to give anything like an adequate resume on the physiology and anatomy of the human body in this short space, but the following summary by the late Lord Avebury indicates' something of the wonderful and complete structure of the body. He says: “ What a marvelous and complexYorganization we have! We are wonderfully and fearfully made. It is strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long. It seems a miracle we should live at all! We have in this hpman body more than two hundred bones of varied and complex forms; we have over five hundred muscles, each nourished by almost innumerable blood-vessels, and regu lated by nerves. One of our muscles, the heart, beats over 30,000,000 times in a year. “ In the skin are wonderful, varied, and complex organs. For instance 2,000,000 perspiration glands, which regulate the temperature, communicating it to the surface by ducts, which have a total length of some ten miles. Think of the miles of arteries and veins, of capillaries and nerves. “ Think of the blood, with the millions and millions of blood corpuscles, each a microcosm in itself. Think of the organs of sense— the eye, with its cornea and lens, vitreous humour, aqueous humour, and choroid, culminating in the retina, no thicker than a sheet of paper, and yet consisting of nine distinct layers, the innermost composed of rods and cones, supposed to be the Immediate recipients of the undulations of light, and so numerous, that in each eye, the cones are estimated at 3,000,000, the rods at over 30,000,- 000. Above all, and the most wonderful of all, the brain itself. Meinert has calculated that the grey matter contains no less than 600,000,000 cells; each cell consists of several thousand visible molecules, and each molecule again of many millions of atoms.” The above quotation will give some idea of the wonder ful mechanism of the body, and the marvelous skill of the Heavenly Potter, who has made it what it is. If the most Frailty, and its Consecrated Possibility. The Wonderful Structure o f the Body
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