The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-05

coior OF emerald Aye, Il II heritage.
nan b green grssA Gods fsvorite
color and Gods favorite plant -
judge from the fact that he mskes \
larger number of them than of suy.
thing else. But look yonder, Some.
thing starts out Of the ground and goes
higher up. higher and higher and
spreads out broad leaves II In . palm
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.
Notice that the first thing that God
made for food WAS fruit and plenty OF
It Slaughter houses are Of later in.
vention. Far am from being . vege-
tartan, but an almost exclusive meat
diet is d~eprsving. Savages confne
themselves almost exclusively 70 ami
NAL food, and that il one reason that
they are savagek Give your children
more apples and less mutton. But we
must not forget that il is Wednesday
evening in Eden and upon that perfect
fruit of those perfect trees let the cur
tain drop. And the evening and the
morning were the third day"
Now it il Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be
passed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapors. The atmosphere must be swept
clean Other worlds are TO heave in
sight This little ship Of the earth has
seemed TO have all the ocean of i'm
mensity to itself. But mightier craft
are TO be hailed to-day 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
hat on the previous three mornings
was struck from an especial word now
gathers in the sun, noon and stars II
seemed as il they had all within TWEEN.
ty-four hours been created. All. this in
a great time in the worlds first week.
The moon. the nearest neighbor to our
earth appears, her photograph to be
taken in the nineteenth century, when
the telescope shall bring her within 100
miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, afterward
to be found SIS, 600 miles in diameter,
and, put n astronomical scales, TO be
found TO weigh nearly 600, 900 times
heavier than our earth; q mighty fur
nace, its heat kept up by meteors pour
ing into il as fuel, a world devouring
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 mu-
sic of the spheres. Enough! And the
evening and the morning were the
fourth day."
Now II is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds existence. Water,
but not q fin swimming it; air, but not
q wing flying it. II Is . silent world.
Can it be that it was made only for
vegetables? But, bark! There is q
swirl and a splashing in all the four
rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and
Euphrstes. They are all aswim with
life, some darting like arrows through
split crystal and others quiet in dark
pools like shadows. Everything from
spotted trout TO behemOth. And while
stand on the banks Of these Paradisaic-
al rivers watching these finny tribes,
l hear the whirr i'm the air and / look
up and behold wings-wings of larks,
robins, doves, eagles, fiamingos, alba
trosses. brown threshers Creatures OF
all color, blue rs il dipped in the skies,
fiery as il they had flown out Of the
sunsets, golden a il they had taken
their morning bath in buttercupS And
! sit down on the bank of the E~uphrateS,
and the murmur of the river, together
with the chant of birds in the sky puts
me into q state of somnolence. ''And
the evening and the morning were the
fifth day"
Now it is Saturday morning Of the
worlds first week and with this day the
week closes But O. what a climacteric
day! The air has its population and the
water its population. Yet the land has
not one inhabitant But here they
come, by the voice of God created
horses grauder than those which in
after time Job will describe as having
neck clothed with thunder; cattle
enough 10 Y a thousand hills; sheep
shePhcrded by Him who made for them
the green pastures; cattle superior 70
the Attorneys and Ayrshircs and Devon
shires of after times; leopards SO
beautiful that we are glad they can
not change their spots; lions with
out their ~fierceness, and all the quad.
ruped world SO gentle, SO sleek, SO
perfect. Look ont how You treat
this animal creation. whether they
walk the earth or swim the waters or
fly the air. lie who gals a horse, or
exposes a COW to the storm, or beats a
dog, or mauls a cat, OF CANDLES at the
pigeon shooting, or fortunes an insect
will have to answer for it in the judg-
ment day. You may console yourself
hat 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. But something Is want
ing in Paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there TO pluck the fow-
ers Of this Edenic lawn? Who Is there
to command these worlds of q~usdrupeo
and fish and bird? For whom has God
put back the curtain from the lace OF
sun and moon and star? 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 nine
teenth century over Il, 0O0. OoO, 900 PEG
pie. q human being is not . curiosity.
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 yer heat the first human
life ever constructed? That needed the
origination Of . God. He had no model
to work by. What stupcndous work
for . Saturday afternoon! He must
originate . 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 il can during each
day lift what would be equal 20 40 tons
Of weight and il must be % arranged
as 10 beat over 81 5000. 900 times every
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