Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-25

miles high and balances them Here
he lifts the CIRCUS clouds and spreads
them out in great white banks as
though it had been showing in heaven.
And the CIRCUS stratus clouds in long
parallel lines 50 straight you know an
infinite geometer has drawn them.
Clouds which are the armory from
which thunder storms set their bayO-
nets of fire. Clouds which are oceans
on the wing. No wonder, long after
this first Tuesday of creation week, Eli
hu COMPOUNDED Job with the question,
''Dost thou know the balancings of the
cloudsN
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 packs it up into five eleva-
lions, which are the continents With
his finger he makes deep depressions in
them. and these are the lakes, while at
the piling up of the AlIeghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps
and Hinalayas 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 Atlantic. Oregon
and Sacramento down to the Pacific
| Three-quarters of the earth being water
and only one-quarter being land, moth
ing but AImghtiness could have Gagged
the three-fourths SO that they could not
| have devoured the one-fourth. Thank
| God for water and plenty of it. What
a hint that God would have the human
race very cIean 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
| Greenwood who but for the filthy
streets of Brooklyn and New York
would have been today well and in
| churches. Moreover, there never was
filthy street that remained moral
| street.
| How important an agency of reform
water is. was illustrated by the fact
| that when the ancient world got out
| rageOusly wicked it was plunged into
| the Deluge and kept under for months
| till it's iniquity was soaked out of it.
| But | rejoice that on the first Tuesday
| of the worlds existence the water was
| taught to know its place, and the
Mediterranean lay down at the feet of
Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico lay
| down at the feet of North America
and Geneva lay down at the feet of
the Alps, and Scroon lake fell TO sleep
| in the lap of the Adigondacks And
| the evening and the morning were the
| second day.
GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO GROW.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week Gardening End hOr-
| ticulture Will be born today. How
queer the hills look, and so unattract-
| i've they seem hardly worth having
been made But now all the surfaces
are changing color. Something beauti-
full is creeping all over them. 1t has
the color of emerald Aye, it is herb
age Hail to the green grass, Gods
favOrite color and Gods favorite plant,
as Judge from the fact that he makes
a larger number OF them than of any
thing else. But look yonder! Some
thing starts Out of the ground and goes
higher up, higher and higher, and
spreads out bread leaves. 1t is a palm
tree Yonder is another growth, and
its leaves hang far down, and it is
willow tree And yonder is Il growth
with mighty sweep of branches. And
here they come-tne pear, and the APP
pie, and the peach, and the pomegran-
ate, and groves and orchards and for
es3s, their shadows and their fruit grid
ling the earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nine
teenth century, but we have nothing
now to equal what l see on this first
Wednesday of the worlds existence.
take a taste of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and | tell you it
mingles in its juices all the fiavOrs of
Spitzbergen and Newtown pippin and
Rhode Island greening and Danvers
winter sweet and ROXbury russell and
HubbardstOn nOnesuch but added to
all and Overpowering all other fiavors
is the paradisaicaI juice that all the or
chards of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach.
[ take Il taste OF the pear, and it has |
all the luxury of the three thousand |
varieties of the Nineteenth century; |
all the Seclel and the Bartlett of the |
genealogical gardens of later times an |
acidity compared with it. And the |
grapes Why, this one cluster has in |
it the richness of whole vineyards of |
Catawbas and Concords and Isabellas. |
Fruits of all cOlOrs, of all OdOrs, of all |
fiavOrs. 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 hemispheres. Notice that the |
first thing that God made for food |
was fruit, and plenty of it. Slaughter |
houses are of later invention. Far am |
| from being a vegetarian, but an al /
most exclusive meat diet is depraving. |
Savages cOnfine themselves almost ex-
clusively to animal food, and that is
one reason that they are savages.
Give your children more apples and
less mutton. The world will have to |
give dominance to the fruit diet of Par
adise before it gets back to the morals
of Paradise. May Gods blessing come
down on the orchards and vineyards of |
America, and keep back the frosts and
the curcuGo. 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 evening and the morning
were the third day"
THE SUN AND MOON APPEAR
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 oil tho Oooo1 Of i,,