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

his expiring moments exclaimed,
Light! Lightw Heaven itself is only
more light Upon all superstition, upon
all ignorance, upon all sorrow let in
the light But now the light of the
first Monday Is receding. The blaze ia
going out The colors are dimming.
Only part of the earth's surface is visi-
BILE. 1t Is Q o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock;
obscuration and darkness. 1t is Mon
day night, "And the evening and tho
morning were the first day."
Now 1t is Tuesday morning. A deli
cate and tremendous undertaking is set
apart for this day. There was a great
superabundance Of water. God by the
wave of His hand this morning gathers
part of 1t In suspended reservoirs and
part OF II He orders down into the riv-
ers, and lakes and seas. How to hang
whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds
without their spilling over except in
right quantities and at right times was
IN undertaking that no one but 0mnip-
otence would have dared. But God does
1t 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 cirrus clouds and spreads them out
In great white banks as though It had
been showing In heaven. And the GIRO
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
balsncings 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
II up into five elevations which are the
continents With His fingers He makes
deep depressions in them, and these are
the lakes, which at the piling up of the
Alleghenies and Sierra Nevadas and
Pyrenees 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: "Hud-
son 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 nothing but Al
mightiness could have Gagged the three
fourths SO that they could not have de-
voured 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 II through the homes and
make them pnre. Pour II through the
prisons and make their occupants moral.
Pour It through the streets and make
them healthy. There are several thou
sand people asleep in Greenwood, who
but for the filthy streets Of Brooklyn
and New York, would have been to-day
well and in churches. Moreover, there
never was filthy street that remained
moral street How important an
agency Of reform water is, was illus
trated by the fact that when the ancient
world got outrageously wicked, IL was
plunged into the deluge and kept under
for months till It's iniquity was soaked
out Of 1t. 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 AdirondaclSs. "And the
evening and the morning were the
second day."
Now II is Wednesday morning OF the
worlds first week Gardening and hor-
ticultufe will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look, and 50 unattractive
they. seem hardly worth having been
made. But now all the surfaces are
changing color. Something beautifulis
creeping all over them. II has the color
Of emerald. Aye, IL is herbage. Hail
10 the green grass, Gods favorite color
and Gods favorite plant, as Judge from
the fact that He makes larger number
Of them than of anything else. But
look yondef Something starts out sf
the ground and goes higher up, higher
and higher, and spreads out broad
leaves II Is palm tree. Yonder is
another growth, and its leaves hang far
down, and It is willow tree. And you-
der 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 or
chards and forests; their shadows
and their fruit girdling the earth.
We are pushing agriculture and
fruit culture 10 great excellence In the
nineteenth century. but we have moth
ing now to equal what I see on this
first Wednesday OF the worlds exist
ence- take taste OF one of the ap-
ples this Wedn sday morning, and I
tell you II mingles in It's juices all the
navors OF Spitzbergen and Newton pip
pin and Rhode Island greening and DAN
vers winter sweet and Roxbury russet
and Hubbardson nonesuch, but added
10 all, and overpowering all other fla
vors is the Paradisaical Juice that all
the orchards Of the nineteenth century
fail TO reach. take taste OF the pear,
and II has all the luxury of the three