Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-05-29

creation week. Emu cOnlOuuueu Jul VIII
the question, "Dost thou know the bal
ancings Of the clOudsf"
Half Of this Tuesday work done, the
other half is the work Of compelling the
waters to lie down in their destined places
So God picks up the solid ground and
pacbs it up into five elevations, which are
the continents With his finger he makes
deep depTessions in them. and these are
the lakes, while at the piling upof the Al
hghanies and Sierra NevadHs and Pyre-
nees and Alps and Himalayas the rest OF
the waters start by the law Of gravitation
to the lower places, and in their run down
hill become the rivers, and then all around
the earth these rivers come into convention
and become oceans beneath, as the clouds
are oceans above. How soon the rivers got
to their places when God said: Hudson
and James and Amazon, down to the At
lsntic: Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacific"
Three-Quarters of the earth being water
and only one-quarter being land, nothing
but Almightiness could have Gagged the
three-fourths so that they could not have
deyoured the one-fourth. Thank God foT
water and plenty of it. What hint that
God would have the human race very eleani
Three-fourths Of the world water. Pour
it through the homes and make them pure.
Pour it through the prisons and make Their
occupants moral Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There are
several thousand people asleep in Green
wood who but for the filthy streets oil
Brooklyn and New York would have been
today well and in churches. Moreover,
there never WAS filthy street that re
NAMED a moral street.
How important an agency of reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact that
when the ancient world got outrageously
wicked it was plunged into the deluge and
kept under for months till its iniquity was
soaked out of it. But 1 rejoice that on the
first Tuesday of the worlds existence the
water was taught to know its place, ana
the Mediterranean lay down at the feet oil
Europe, and the Gulf.of Mexico lay down
AZ the feet of North America, and Geneva
law down at the feet OF the Alps, and
Scroon lake fell to sleep in the lap OF the
Adirondaeks "And the evening and Che
morning were the second day"
TIE CREATION OF VEGETATION.
Now it is Wednesday morning OF the
worlds first week. Gardening and horti-
culture will be born today. How queer the
hills look, and so unattractive they seem
hardly worth having been made. But now
all the surfaces are changing color. Some
thing beautiful is creeping all over them.
1t has the color of emerald. Ay, it IS herb
age. Hail to the green grassi Gods IA
yorite color and Gods favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that he makes a larger
number of them than of anything else.
But look yonder! Something starts out OF
the ground and goes higher up, higher and
higher, and spreads out broad leaves. II
is a palm tree. Yonder is another growth
and its leaves hang far down, and it is a
willow tree. And yonder is q growth with
mighty sweep of branches. And here they
come-the pear, and the apple, and the
peach, and the pomegranate, and groves
and orchards and forests, their shadows
and their fruit girdling the earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nine
tenth century, but we have nothing now
to edual what / see on this first Wednesday
of the worlds existence. l take taste OF
one of the apples this Wednesday morning,
and / tell you it mingles in its juices all
the havors of SpiUzbergen and Newtown
pippin and Rhode Island greening and
Danvers Winter Sweet and Roxbury rus
set and Hubbardston NOnesuch, but added
to all, and overpowering all other havors,
is the paTadisaical juice that all the or
chards of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach | take taste of the pear, ana II
has all the luxury of the three thousand
varietieg of the Nineteenth century; all the
Seckel and the Bartlett of the genealogical
gardens of later times an acidity compared
with it. And the grapesi Why, this one
cIuster has in it the richness of whole vine
e fN.,rn rtsrNe
bellas. Fruits of all cOlors, of all Odors, OF
all aavors. No hand of man yet made to
pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banquet
for the human race is being spread before
the arrival of the FIRST guest.
In the fruit of that garden was the seed
for the orchards and gardens of the hemis-
pheres Notice that the first thing that
God made for food was fruit, and plenty OF
it. Slaughter houses are later invention.
Far am from being a vegetarian, but an
almost exclusive meat diet is depraving.
Savages confine themselves almost exclu-
sively to animal food and that is one rea-
son that they are savages. Give your chill
dreu more apples and less mutton. The
world will have to give dominance to the
fruit diet of Paradise before it gets back to
the morals of Paradise. May Gods bless
ing come down on the orchards and vine
wards 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
trees let the curtain drop. "And the even
ing and the morning were the third day."
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS.
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 be swept clean.
Other worlds are to hove in sight. This
little ship of the earth has seemed to have
all the ocean of immensely 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 il 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 photo
graph to be taken in the Nineteenth cent
ury, 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 lightweight
thousand miles in diameter, and, put in
astronomical scales, to be found TO weigh
nearly four hundred thousand times heav-
| Ter than our earth; a mighty furnace its
heat kept up by meteOrs pouring into It az
fuel, a world devouring other worlds with
| its laws 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
1 look in this oriental evening! Constella'
| tionsl Galaxiesl What twenty
| hours of this first week-solar, lunar,
stellar appearances! All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed in pull
| ing aside the curtain Of vapor from these
\ flushed or pale faced worlds. Enough
"And the evening and the morning were
! the fourth day"