that out? Don’t yoti see there was a God in heaven who thought it all out! Q. Dr. Wilson, will you tell the folk about the eels and let them get a won derful sermon from these little “preach ers out of the deep.” A. Yes, theirs is a fascinating story. The eels go from the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, Eng land, Scotland, Norway, France etcet era, down to one place in the Caribbean Sea, where there is a very deep hole in the earth above the ocean and there the babies are bom. After they are bom —and are about six inches long—the mother and father eels go back to where they came from. Those from Canada go back to Canada; those from Maine go back to Maine and so on. Even those from France and Norway go right back to those distant points. Then when the babies grow to be about 12 inches in length, they go back where the parent eels are: They do not have a compass or map—how do they know where to go? Then there is an interesting history of the salmon bom right here in our own country. They are bom in fresh water and four years after they are bom they go out in the ocean and stay for four years, then they come back to the very place they were bom and there they spawn. Of course they die when the babies are bom and then these babies begin the same cycle. It is a strange thing that while they remain in the ocean for four years they do not become salty—why not? This is somewhat like the thousands of folk who live in our various communities where faithful ministers of the Gospel preach year in and year out and these folk are in the midst of this teaching and yet none of it ever gets into their souls. They are just poor fish, so to speak. God’s great love is reaching out toward these men and women, boys and girls and yet they steadfastly re fuse Him. (More "Marvels of Creation) on page 33) 26
build one? You see, the atheist and in fidel are hard pressed to answer these questions. When in Mobile, Alabama, address ing a Kiwanis Club, I was discussing some of these wonders of God’s crea tion, and afterward a dentist came to me and said that when fishing down in Mobile Bay the day before, he saw a gull fly down into the reeds not too far away and he rowed over cautiously to see what her destination was. It was a nest about as big as a denture and on three sides of that nest she had woven a loop around an upright reed so that when the tide came in the nest would float up. When the tide went out the nest floated back down. I found in some of my bird books that this one is called the American gull. It feeds on land and nests on tidewater. Tell me, who taught the bird to anchor that nest with three loops around upright blades of the reed? He had to learn it from someone. There is a God in heav en who teaches these birds and animals what to do. When we look at the birds such as the owl, hawk, and the eagle, that eat animals—we find in them a different leg structure; all have legs 1/3 longer than other birds in proportion. They have four tendons which grow entirely separate up the leg so that they can close their claws when their legs are extended full length. In doing so they can keep the captured animal from hurting their breast. In the blue bird or red bird, for example, there is a tendon on the back toe and one for all front toes and when they sit on a limb these two tendons automatically grasp around the limb tightly and the wind cannot blow them off. These birds all have double eyelids; a transparent one right over the eye and then a regular eyelid, like ours, on the outside. That is so they can fly in the sun and through the rain and snow and keep their eyes open for the trans parent lid lets them see without getting the rain in their eyes. Who made them with a double eyelid? Who thought
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