The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

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 up of
the Alleghanies and Sierra Nevadas and
Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the rest
of the waters start by the laws of gravlta-
ton to the lower places, and in their run
down hill become the rivers, and then all
around the earth these rivers come into con-
vention 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 Atlantic; Oregon and Sacramento down
10 the Pacific" Three-luarters 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-f ourths of the world
water. Pour it through the homes ard
make them pure. Pour it through the pris-
ons and make their occupants moral Pour
it through the streets and make them
healthy. There are several thousand peo-
pie 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 d moral street.
How important an agency of reform water
is, was illustrated by the fact that when
the ancient world got outrageously wicked,
ii was plunged into the deluge and kept I'M
der 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 its place. and the Med
iterranean 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 Adiron-
dackS. And the evening and the morning
were the second day
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and horti-
culture viii be born to-day. How queer
the hills look, and so unattractive they
seem hardly worth having been made. But
now all the surfaces are changing Color
Something beautiful is creeping all over
them. 1t has the color of emerald. Aye,
it is heritage Hail to the green grass,
Gods favorite color and Gods favorite
plant, as l Judge from the fact that he
makes a larger number of them than OF
anything else. But lock yonder! Some
thing starts out of the ground and goes
higher up. higher and higher, and spreads
out broad leaves. 1t is q palm tree. Gon-
DER Is duDLucT grow III. anu us IcdNeS IIdIiS
far down, and 1t is willow tree. And yon-
der is. growth with mighty sweep Of
branches. And here they come-the pear
and the apple, and the peach, and the pome-
granate, and groves and orchards
and forests, their shadows and
THEIR FRUIT GIRDLISG THE EARTH.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture TO great excellence IL the Nineteenth
century, but we have nothing now to equal
what see on this first Wednesday of the
worlds existence. | take 4 taste of one of
the apples this Wednesday morning, and l
tell you it nineles in its juices all the fla
vorS of SpitZbergen and NewtOwn pippin
and Rhode Island greening and Danvers
winter sweet and RoXbury russell and Hub
bardSton noneSuch. but added to all and
overpowering ali other tlavorS in the Para
disaical juice that all the other orchards of
the Nineteenth century fail to reach. |
take a taste of the pear and II has all the
luxury of the three thousand varieties OF
the Nineteenth century: all the SecSel and
the Bartlett of the genealogical gardens of
later times, an acridity compared with it.
And the grapesi Why, this one cluster has
in il the richness of whole vineyards of Ca
tawbas and Concords and Isabellas. Fruits
of all colors, of all odors, of ali tiavOrs. No
hand of man yet made to pluck it or tongue
to taste it The banquet for the human
race is being spread before the arrival Of
the first guest. In the fruit Of that garden
was the seed for the orchards and gardens
of the hemiSpheres. Notice that the first
thing that God made for food was fruit. and
plenty of it. Slaughter houses are of later
invention. Far am from being yegeta-
rian, but an almost exclusive meat diet is
depraving. Savages confine themselves al
most exclusively TO animal food, and that is
one reason that they are savages. Give
your children
MORE APPLES AND LESS MUTTON.
The world will have to give dominance to
the fruit diet of Paradise before it gets
back TO the morals Of Paradise. May Gods
blessing come down on the orchards and
of America. and keep back the
trosts and the curculio. But we must not
forget that it is Wednesday evening in
Eden, and upon that perfect fruit Of those
perfect trees let the curtain drop. And
the evening and the morning We're the third
day"
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week, Nothing will be created
to-day The hours will be passed in scat
tering fogs and mists and vapors. The
must be swept clean. Other
worlds are to hove in sight. This little
ship of the earth has seemed to have all the
ocean of immensely to itself. But nightier
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 that on
the previous three mornings was struck
from an especial word now gathers in the |
sun, moon and stars. One for the day, the |
others for the night. 1t seemed as if they
had all within twenty-four hours been
created. All, this is a great time in the |
worlds first week. The moon, the nearest |
to our earth appears, her photo |
graph to be taken in the Nineteenth
when the telescope shall bring her |
within l20 miles of New York. And the sun
now appears, afterward to be found |
SIS, 900 miles in diameter, and, put in as
Economical scales. to be found to weigh |
nearly four hundred thousand times heavier
than our earth; mighty furnace, its heat |
kept up by meteorS pouring into 1t rs 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 music of the spheres.
Hiw bright they look in this oriental even
ing! Consultations, Galaxies! What
twenty-four hour of this first week-solar,
lunar, stellar appearances. All this Thurs |
pulling aside the curtain of vapor from
these flushed or pale-faced worlds Enough.
And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day
Now it is Friday morning in the first week !
of the worlds existence. Water, but not |
fin swimming in it: air, but not wing fly
ing it. II is silent world Can it be that |
it was made only for vegetables But,
bark. There is a whlrl and a splashing in
all the four rivers of Pison. Gihon, Hid