News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

put In aSUrOnOlnicdi scales, TO Dc IOulu
| to weigh nearly four hundred thousand
| times heavier than our earth; mighty
furnace, its heat kept up by meteOrs
pouring into it as fuel, a world devour-
ing other worlds with its jaws 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 look
| in this oriental evening! Constella-
| tionsl Galaxies! What twenty-four
hours of this first weeE-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"
| FLYING AND SWIMMING CREATURES.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds existence Water,
| but not a fin swimming it; air, but not
a wing flying it. 1t is silent world.
| Can it be that it was made only for
| vegetables2 But harkl There is a
swirl and a splashing in all the four
rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and
Euphrates They are all aswim with
| life, some darling like arrows through
| split crystal, and others quiet in dark
pools like shadows Everything from
| spotted trout to behemoth; all colored,
all shaped, the ancestors of finny tribes
| that shall by their wonder of construc-
| ton confound the Agassizes, the Cuviers
| and the Linnieuses and the ichthyolo-
| gists of the more than six thousand
years following this Friday the first
| week. And while | stand on the banks
of these paradisaical rivers watching
| these finny tribes hear a whirr in the
air, and look up and behold wings
| wings of larlzs, robins, doves, eagles,
| famingoes, albatrosses, brown thresh-
| ers. Creatures of all color-blue as if
| dipped in the skies, fiery as if they had
flown out of the sunsets, golden as if
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 a music that they
Yes find them in Paradise on this
the first Friday afternoon OF the worlds
existence. And l 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 state
of somnolence. And the evening and
the morning were the fifth day"
THE LAST DAYS WORK.
Now it is Saturday morning of the
worlds first week, and with this day
the week closes. But oh, what a eli
macteric dayl The air has its popula-
ton and the water its population. Yet
the land has not one inhabitant. But
here they come, by the voice of God
created Horses grander than those
which in after time Job will describe as
having neck clothed with thunder.
Cattleenough to cover a thousand hills
Sheep shepherded by him who made
for them the green pastures. Cattle
superior to the Attorneys and Ayrshires
and Devonshires of after times. Loop
ards so beautiful we are glad they can
not change their spots. Lions without
their fierceness, and all the quadruped
world so gentle, SO sleek, so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal
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, as man was created Saturday
afternoon. They have a right to be
here. He who gals horse, or exposes
a COW to the storm, or beats a dog, or
mauls a cat, or CANDLES at the pigeon
shooting, or tortures an insect will have
to answer for it 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 wrong you did them will
be there
Better look out, you stock raisers and
railroad companies who bring the cat
tie on trains without food or water for
three or four days in hot weather,
long groan of agony from Omaha to
New York. Better look out, you farm
er riding behind that limping horse
with nail that the blacksmith drove
into the quick. Better look out, you
boys stoning bullfrogs and turning tur-
ties upside down and robbing birds
nests. But something is wanting in
Paradise, and the week is almost done.
Who is there to pluck the flowers of
this Edenic lawn? Who is there to
command these worlds of quadruped
and fish and bird? For whom has God
put back the curtain from the face of
sun and moon and starr The world
wants an emperor and empress. 1t is
Saturday afternoon. No one but the
Lord Almighty can originate a human
being In the world where there are
in the latter part of the Nineteenth
century over fourteen hundred million
people, human being is not curios-
ity.
But how about the first human eye
that was ever kindled, the first human
ear that was ever opened, the first
human lung that ever breathed, the
first human heart that ever beat, the
first human life ever constructed2
That needed the origination of a God.
He had no model to work by. What
stupendous work for u Saturday after
noonl He must originate a style of
human heart through which all the
blood in the body must pass every
three minutes. He must make that
heart so strong that it can during each
day lift what would be equal to one
hundred and twenty tons of weight,
and it must be so arranged as to beat
over thirty-six million times every year.
About five hundred muscles must be
strung in the right place. and at least
two hundred and fifty bones con-
structed. Into this body must be put
at least nina million nerves Over
three thousand perspiring pores must
be made for every inch of fleshly sur
face.
The human voice must be so con-
structed it shall be capable of produc-
ing seventeen trillion five hundred and |
ninety-two billion one hundred and !
eighty-six million forty -four thousand |
four hundred and fifteen sounds. But |
all this the most insignificant part of
the human being. The soul All, the
construction of that God himself would |
not be equal to if he were any the less
of God. It's understanding, it's will, |
its memory. its conscience, its capaci-
ties of enjoyment or suffering, its i'm
mortaIitvi What q work for q Satur- |
day afternoon! Aye! Before night |