Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-05-28

1oaC kept up Dy meteOrS pouring INTO IL as
fuel, 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
music OF the spheres. How bright they
look in this oriental EVENING" Constella-
tionsi Galaxiesl What a twenty-four
hours of this first week-soar, lunar.
stellar appearances! All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed in pull
ing aside the curtain of vapor from these
aushed or pale faced. worlds Enoughl
And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day"
THE FISHES AND THE BIRDS.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds history. Water, but
not fin swimming it: air, but not wing
flying it. 1t is silent world. Can it be
that it was made only for vegetabless But
harkl There is a swirl and splashing in
all the four rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hid
dekel and Euphrates. 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. all colored, all shaped,
the ancestors of fnny tribes that shall by
Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Linn@uses
and the ichthyologists of the more than six
thousand years following this Friday of
the first week.
And while stand on the banks of these
Paradisaical rivers, watching these finny
tribes, | hear whirr In the air and | look
up and behold wings-wings of larks. rob
ms, doves, eagles, fiamingoes, albatrosses,
brown threshers. Creatures of all color
blue, as if dipped in the skies; fiery. as
If they had flown out Of the sunsets
golden, rs if they had taken their morn
ing 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
must have heard at heavens gate. Yes,
find them in Paradise on this the first Fri
day afternoon of the worlds existence. And
sit down on the bank of the Euphrates,
and the murmurof the river, together with
the chant Of birds in the sky, puts me into
a state of somnolence. And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day"
BEASTS AND MEN.
Nowit is Saturday morning of the worlds
first week and with this day the week
closes But oh, what climacteric day.
The air has its population and the water
its population. Yet the land has not one
.nhabitant But here they come, by the
voice of God created! Horses grander than
those which in after time job viii describe
AS having neck clothed with thunder.
Cattle enough TO cover thousand hills.
Sheep shepherded by him who made for
them the green pastures Cattle superior
to the Attorneys and Ayrshires and Devon
shires Of after times Ieopards so beauti-
full we are glad they cannot change their
spots Lions without their 6erceness and
all the quadruped world so gentle. so sleek.
so perfect
Look ont how you treat this animal ere
alton, whether they walk the earth or
swim the waters or 1y the air. Do you not
notice that God gave them precedence of
the human racer They were created Fri
day and Saturday morning, rs man was
created Saturday afternoon. They have
right TO be here. He who gals horse, or
exposes COW to the storm, or beats dog.
or manls 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 rasers and railroad companies who
bring the cattle on trains without food or
water for three or fourdays In hot weather,
a long groan Of agony from Omaha to New
York.
Better look out, you farmer riding be
hind that limping horse with nail that
the blacksmith drove into the quick. Bet
ter look out, you boys stoning bullfrogs
and turning turtles upside down, and rob
bling birds nests. But something is want
ing in Paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there to pluck the flowers
of this Edenic lawns Who Is there TO
command these worlds OF quadruped and
fish and birds For whom has God put
back the curtain from the face Of sun and
moon and starr The world wants an EN-
peror and empress. 1t is Saturday after
noon. No one but the Lord Almighty can
originate human being In the world
where there are in the latter part Of the
Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred
million people. a 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
ever beat, the first human life ever con.
structed9 That needed the orignation of
a God. He had no model to work by.
What stupendous work for a 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 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
he strung in the right place. and at least
two hundred and fifty bones constructed
Into this body must be put at least nine
million nerves Over three thousand per
spring pores must be made for every inch
OF fleshly surface
The human voice must be so constructed
it shall be capable Of producing seventeen
trillion fvehundred 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 An,
the construction Of that God himself would