The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-27


apples and less mutton. The world will
have 10 give dominance TO the fruit diet
OF Paradise before it gets back to the
morals of Paradise. May Gods blessing
come down on the orchards and vine
yards Of America, and keep back the
frosts and the curculio. But we must
not forget that it is Wednesday evening
in Eden, and upon that perfect fruit Of
those perfect ,rees let the curtain drop.
"And the evening and the morning
were the third day"
Now It is Thursday morning Of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be
passed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapors. The atmosphere must be swept
clean. Other worlds are to hove in
sight This little ship of the earth has
seemed to have all the ocean Of immen-
sity to itself But mightier craft are TO
be hailed to-day on the high seas Of
space. First, the moons white sail ap-
pears, and does very we'll 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 other for the
night 1t seemed as II they had all
within twenty -four hours been created.
All, this is great time in the worlds
first week. The moon, the nearest neigh
Dor to our earth, appears, her photo
graph TO be taken in the ninteenth CEN
tury, when the telescope shall bring her
within one hundred and twenty miles
Of New York. And the sun now ap-
pears, afterward to be found eight hum
dred and lightweight thousand miles in
diameter, and, put in astronomical scales,
to be found to weigh nearly four hun
dred thousand times heavier than our
earth; mighty furnace, its heat kept
up by meteors pouring into 1t as fuel, q
world devouring other worlds with Its
jaws of flames. 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! CONSULTATIONS 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."
Now it Is Friday morning in the first
week Of the worlds existence. Water,
but not fin swimming It; air, but not
wing flying it. 1t is silent world
Can 1t be that IL was made only for veg
etables? But, bark! There is a swirl
and splashing in all the four rivers Of
Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates.
They are all a-swim with life, some
darting like arrows through split crys-
tai, and others quiet in dark pools like
shadows. Everything, from spotted
trout 10 behemoth; all colored, all
shaped, the ancestors Of hhny tribes
that shall by their wonders Of con-
struction confound the Agassizs, the
Cuviers and the Linnenses, and the
ichthyologists Of the more than six
thousand years following this Friday
Of the first week. And while /
stand on the banks OF these Para
disaical rivers watching these finny
tribes, hear whirr in the air and |
look up and behold wings-wings Of
larks, robins, doves. eagles Aamingos,
albatrosses, brown-threshers. Ceatures
Of all colors, blue as II dipped in the
skies, fiery as II they had flown out OF
the sunsets, golden as II 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 that they must have heard
at Heavens gate. Yes find them in
Paradise on this the first Friday after
noon 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 a state OF somnolence. "And
the evening and the morning were the
fifth day."
Now II Is Saturday morning of the
worlds first week, and with this day
the week closes But oh, what a eli
macteric day. The air has It's 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 Cat
tie enough TO cover a thousand hills
Sheep shepherded by Him who made
for them the green pastures Cattle SUI
perior 10 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 herceness and all the quadruped
world, 80 gentle, 80 sleek, so perfect.
Look out how You treat this aIfimal
creation, whether they walk the earth
or swim the waters or fly the air. Do
you not notice that God gave them
precedence Of the human race? They
were created Friday and Saturday
morning, NJ man was created Saturday
afternoon. They have right TO be
here. He who gals horse, or exposes
q COW 10 the storm, or beats q dog, or
mauls cat, or CANDLES at the pigeon
shooting, or tortures an insect, will
have 10 answer for IL in the Judgment
day. You may console yourself that these
creatures are not immortal, and they
cannot appear against you, but the God
who made these creatures, and who
| saw the,wronQ YOU did them will be