It was a startling headline, but the article that followed told a startling story. The Associated Press dispatch was from San Antonio, Texas. The headline was "Snake's Head Bites Man." The news item was as follows: "The severed head of a rattlesnake bit a man here. Olin Dillon, snake handler at a local reptile garden, severed the snake's head yesterday. When he attempted to remove the snake's head from the chopping block, the fangs struck one of his fingers. He was hospitalized. Jack Davenport, garden director, said the bite resulted from muscular reflex action and that Dillon received more venom than from the usual bite."
Enmity was put between Satan and the Lord Jesus (Gen. 3:15). Whenever we contrast these two, the creature and the Creator, the wonders of our Lord Jesus shine out as in no other comparison. This thought occurred to me while I was studying the meanings of some of the names of Satan. He is called "the accuser of the brethren," but our Lord is "the Mediator for the brethren"; Satan is called "the slanderer," but the Lord will find something to praise even in those who at the best are unprofitable servants.
The prism is a light breaker. The pure, clear light passes through the varied facets of the prism and is broken into red, orange, yellow all the shades of color. Science has studied it all out and found that it all works according to cold law. The sun shines through the warm spring rain; the drops of water catch the light, break it to pieces, and throw it across the sky in the glory of a rainbow.
It is not astounding that the world often makes itself foolish. The world works by the rule of knowledge, and God clearly tells us that if the world leaders had "known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory" (1 Cor. 2:8). We have a right, therefore, to pity those who go against God's plan. "The god of this age hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them" (2 Cor. 4:4).
There was a day when men were not worried if weights and measures were only approximate. The inch was the measure of the large joint of the king's thumb. The foot was the length of the royal foot and the yard was the distance between the king's nose when he was looking straight front, and the end of his thumb when his arm was extended to the side.
