The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-05

and upon that perfect fruit OF those
perfect trees let the curtain drop
sand the evening and the morning
were the third day"
THE SUN AND MOON APPRAR.
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week, Nothing will be
created today The hours will be
passed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapors. The atmosphere must DO swept
clean, Other worlds are to hove in
sight, This little ship of the earth has
seemed to have all the ocean of i'm
mensity to itself, But mightier craft
are to be hailed today on the high seas
of space. First the moons white sail
appears and does very well until the
sun bursts upon the scene. The light
that on the previous three mornings
was struck from an especial word now
gathers in the sun, moon and stars,
One for the day, the others for the
night. 1t seemed as if they had all
within twenty-four hours been created.
All, this is a great time in the worlds
first week. The moon, the nearest
neighbor to our earth, appears, her
photograph to be taken in the Nine
tenth century, when the telescope
shall bring her within one hundred and
twenty miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, afterward
to be found eight hundred and eighty
eight thousand miles in diameter, and,
put in astronomical scales, to be found
to weigh nearly four hundred thousand
times heavier than our earth mighty
furnace, its heat kept up by meteors
pouring into it as fuel, world devour-
ing other worlds with its jaws of flame.
And the stars come out, those street
lamps of heaven, those keys of pearl,
upon which Gods fingers play the music
of the spheres. How bright they look
in this oriental evening! Constella-
tionsl Galaxies What twenty four
hours of this first week-solar, lunar,
stellar appearances. All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed in
pulling aside the curtain of vapor from
these flushed or pale faced worlds.
Enoughl 'And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day"
FLYING AND SWIMMING CREATURES.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds existence. Water,
but not a fin swimming it; air, but not
a wing flying it. 1t is a silent world
Can it be that it was made only for
vegetables But harkl There is a
swirl and splashing in all the four
rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and
Euphrates. They are all aswim with
life, some darling like arrows through
split crystal, and Others quiet in dark
pools like shadows, Everything from
spotted trout to behemoth all colored,
all shaped, the ancestors of tinny tribes
that shall by their wonder of construc-
ton confound the Agassizes, the Cuviers
and the Linneuses and the ichthyolo-
giSts of the more than six thousand
years following this Friday the first
week. And while l stand on the banks
of these paradisaical rivers watching
these finny tribes hear whirr in the
air. and look up and behold wings
wings of larks, robins, doves, eagles
famingoes, albatrosses, brown thresh-
ers. Creatures of all color-blue as if
dipped in the skies, fiery as if they had
flown out Of the sunsets, golden as if
they had taken their morning bath in
buttercups And while | am studying
the colors they begin to carol and chirp
and coo and twitter and run up and
down the scales of music shat they
must have heard at heavens gate
Yes. l find them in Paradise on this
the first Friday afternoon of the worlds
existence. And / sit down on the bank
of the Euphrates, and the murmur of
the river together with the chant Of
birds in the sky, puts me into state
of somnolence. "And the evening and
the morning were the fifth day"
THE LAST DAYS WORK.
Now it is Saturday morning of the
worlds first week, and with this day
the week closes. But oh, what eli
macteric day. The air has its popula-
ton and the water its population. Yet
the land has not one inhabitant. But
here they come, by the voice of God
createdl Horses grander than those
which in after time Job will describe as
having neck clothed with thunder
Cattle enough to cover a thousand hills.
Sheep shepherded by him who made
for them the green pastures. Cattle
superior to the Attorneys and Ayrshires
and Devonshires of after times. Leop.
ards so beautiful we are glad they can
not change their spots Lions without
their fierceness, and all the quadruped
world so gentle, so sleek, SO perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal
creation whether they walk the earth
or swim the waters or fly the air. Dc
you not notice that God gave then
precedence of the human racer They
were created Friday and Saturday
morning, as man was created Saturday
afternoon. They have a right to bt
here He who gals horse, or exposes
COW to the storm, or beats dog, OF
mauls a eat, or CANDLES at the pigeor
shooting, or tortures an insect will hav,
to answer for it in the Judgment day
You may console yourself that thes'
creatures are not immortal and the,
cannot appear against you, but tn,
God who made these creatures ant
who saw the wrong you did them will
be there.
Better look out, you stock raisers ant
railroad companies who bring the cat
tie on trains without food or water fo
three or four days in hot weather,
long groan of agony from Omaha t
New York. Better lock out, you farm
er riding behind that limping hors
with a nail that the blacksmith drov
into the quick. Better look out, yol
boys stoning bullfrogs and turning tul
ties upside down and robbing bird.
nests. But something is wanting i