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Show The Potter and His Wheel. Myron V. Reed. The potter's wheel is, I believe, the oldest machine in existence. It has changed less than any. You have seen In old commentaries pictures of the workers of clay in Egypt. By the Platte in Denver you can see essentially what could be seen 8000 years ago by the Nile. The power is a man's left foot. By that he turns a treadle that works a wheel with his hands he takes clay and makes of the clay what he pleases. One of my neighbors drove me out to the pottery tho other evening. Work had ceased, but he put on an apron, rolled up his sleeves, borrowed some clay. Ho pounded it for awhile until the air was out of it, then he took half the wad and placed it on the wheel; then his left foot began to work and with his skillful lingers be made that clay take any shape he pleased. Of one of the pieces of clay he made a jug, of another a vase. One was decorated dec-orated aud the other was plain. Of the same clay he made what he pleased. A vessel of use or a vessol of ornament. I saw what Jeremiah saw and what St. Paul saw that "tho potter has power over the clay." But does the prophet, and the apostle after him, mean to say that we are as clay, that God says to ono man, "carry a' hod," and to another, "be a great general," to one wemau, "you make overalls at 50 cchIs a dozen," and to another, "you play the lino lady at Cape May?" No, neither prophet nor apostle say that. Scripture must be corrected by scripture. |