The Wayside Pulpit No.10
A Truly Wonderful Building
Howard Hughes may have
amassed a huge fortune through "black gold", but his acquisitions
were a mere nothingness compared with what I own. I am the proud possessor of a
fabulous building in which I live in comfort and security. Let me tell you
about some of its systems and properties. Probably you won't believe me, but
nevertheless I assure you it's all true.
The building is held
together by 202 girders of varying sizes. Inside, there is a fantastically
complicated array of plumbing, measuring in all some 60,000 miles of pipes. The
whole environment is thermostatically controlled to a degree unknown to most of
this world's structures.
Perhaps the most
interesting part of the building is the intelligence and security system,
consisting of a central computer that outshines even the most sophisticated
developments of this world's governments. There are in excess of 13,000,000,000
electrical 'gates' operating a data storage and sorting complex with over
10,000 terabytes of memory. Each day the electrical connections are more
than 100 times as frequent as in all the world's telephone systems put
together.
Furthermore, on the
external walls of the building are stationed some 4,000,000 sentinels to
monitor every change of external circumstances. But within the building, there
are no less than 3,000,000,000 security guards, trained to deal with anything
and everything that might intrude, cause injury, or lessen the total
functioning of the edifice. So highly trained and reliable are they that if
necessary they lay down their lives without a murmur.
Video cameras and
sound-sensing equipment is likewise of a highly sophisticated kind, quite beyond
the capability of most modern-day optical and acoustical agencies.
Finally, I might
mention that I enjoy the facility of self-regeneration of worn out parts, so
that I can sit in comfort and enjoy the whole complex at my disposal. I could
detail many other features, but these will suffice to startle most people into
unbelief at my apparently fabulous and fictitious tale.
Perhaps you've already
guessed. Yes, I have spoken about my own body. I didn't make it. Nobody made
it. Nobody could ever make it. It is too wonderful even to understand. But when
King David said "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" I don't think
he appreciated one percent of the wonders now known to modern science.
And if these wonderful
edifices, created by the hand of God, are provided, free of charge, to each
living human being, then we owe a great debt of gratitude to our Creator for
such wonderful gifts.
How much more should
we care for our bodies when told that they become, to those born from
above, the home of the Holy Spirit of God!
[Information taken from encyclopaedias.]