Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-25

OFuefS uOWn lIlIO JDe ElFeTS duu lakes ana
seas. How to hang whole Atlantic oceans
in the clouds without their spilling over
except in right quantities and at right
times was an undertaking that no one but
Omnipotence would have dared But God
does it as easily as you would lift glass of
water There he hoists two Clouds each
thirty miles wide and five miles high, and
balances them. Here he lifts the cirrous
clouds and spreads them out in great white
banks as though it had been showing in
heaven. And the cirro-stratus clouds in
long parallel lines, so straight you know
an infinite geometer has drawn them.
Clouds which are the armory from which
thunder storms get their bayonets of fire
Clouds which are oceans on the wing. No
wonder, long after this first Tuesday of
creation week, Elihu cOnfounded job with
the question, "Dost thou know the bal
ancings of the clouds"
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 elevations which are
the continents. With his finger he makes
deep depressions in them, and these are
the lakes, while at the piling pof the Al
leghanies and Sierra Nevadas 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
lantic; 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
devoured the one-fourth. Thank God for
water and plenty of it, What hint that
God would have the human race very clean
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 OF
Brooklyn and New York would have been
today well and in churches. Moreover,
there never was a filthy street that re
mained moral street.
How important an agency of reform
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 / rejoice that on the
first Tuesday of the worlds existence the
water was taught to know it's 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
Adirondacks. "And the evening and the
morning were the second day."
THE CREATION OF VEGETATION.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and hA-s57-
culture will be born today ~ 1,o4 y,
hills look, and s. - ~" queel One
h..3i i,.l-9 ~. - unattractive they seem
l.aruftSy 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 grassl Gods fla
vorite color and Gods favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that he makes 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 it's leaves hang far down, and 1t is q
willow tree. And yonder is 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
hut hou ,oofbincr np
to equal what see on this first Wednesday
of the worlds existence. | take a taste o.
one of the apples this Wednesday morning
and | tell you it mingles in its juices al
the favors of Spitzbergen and Newtowr
pippin and Rhode Island greening anC
| Danvers Winter Sweet and Roxbury rus
set and Hubbardston Nouesuch, but added
| to all, and overpowering all other davors
is the paradisaical juice that all the or
| chards of the Nineteenth century fail tC
| reach. | take taste of the pear, and il
has all the luxury of the three Thousand
varieties of the Nineteenth century; all the
! Seckel and the Bartlett of the pomologica
| gardens of later times an acidity compared
| with it, And the grapesl Why, this ont
| cluster has in it the richness of whole vine
| yards of Catawbas and Concords and Isa
| bellas Fruits of all colors, of all odors, o
! all f1avors No hand of man yet made Il
! pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banque
! for the human race is being spread befor'
| the arrival of the first guest.
! In the fruit-of that garden was the seeC
/ for the orchards and gardens of the hemis
! pheres. Notice that the first thing tina
| God made for food was fruit, and plenty o
| it. Slaughter houses are of later invention
| Far am from being vegetarian, but al
! almost exclusive meat diet is depraving
! Savages conGne themselves almost exclU
sively to animal food and that is one rea
| son that they are savages. Give your chill
dren more apples and less mutton. Th'
world will have to give dominance to th'
| fruit diet of Paradise before it gets back Z
| the morals of Paradise May Gods bless
! ing come down on the orchards and vine
| yards of America, and keep back the FROST
| and the curculio. But we must not forget
| that it is Wednesday evening in Eden, anC
| 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 il is Thursday morning of TIN
worlds first week. Nothing will b
| created today. The hours will be passeS
! in scattering fogs and mists and vapors
! The atmosphere must be swept clean
I Other worlds are to hove in sight Thi
/ little ship of the earth has seemed TO hav,
] all the ocean Of immensity to itself. Blu
/ mightier craft are TO be hailed today on tn
| high seas of space First, the moons whit
sail appears and does very we'll until IN
sun bursts upon the scene, The light tina
| on the previous three mornings was strucl
/ from an especial word now gathers in tn
/ sun, moon and stars. One for the day, th
| others for the night. Ii seemed as II the