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


orders down into the rivers aud lakes and
seas How to hang whole Atlantic oceans
in the clouds without their splitting over
except in right quantities and at right
times was an undertaking that no one but
Onnipotence would have dared. But God
does it as easily as you would lift glass of
water Thets he hoists two clouGs, each
thirty miles wide and live miles high, and
balances them. Here he lifts the CIRCUS
clouds aud spreads them out IN great white
banks AS though it had been showing in
heaven And the cirro-stratus clouds in
long parallel lines, so straight you know
an infinite geometer has drawn them
Clouds which are the arnory from which
thunder storms get their bayonets of fire
Clouds which are Oceans on tue wing. No
wonder. long after this first Tuesday of
creation week. Elihu COMPOUNDED Job with
the question, "Dost thou know the bal
ancings of the clouds9''
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 il 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 upof the AL
leghanies and Sierra Nevadas and Pyre-
nees and Alps and Hinalayas the rest Of
the waters start by the law of gravitation
to the lower places, and ia 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 Hudson
and James and Amazon, down to the At
lantic. Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacific"
Three-quarters 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 a hint that
God would have the human race very cleanl
Three-fourths of the world water Pour
it through the homes and make them pure.
Pour it through the prisons and make their
occupants moral Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy There are
several Thousand people asleep in Green
wood who but for the filthy streets Of
Brooklyn and New York would have been
today well and in churches. Moreover.
there never was a filthy street that re-
manned moral street.
How important an agency OF reform
water Is, was illustrated by the fact that
when the ancient world got outrageously
wicked il was plunged into the deluge aud
kept under for months till its niquity WAS
soaked out of it, But | rejoice that on the
first Tuesday Of the worlds existence rle
water WAS taught 10 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
Adiroudacks And the evening and the
morning were the second day"
THE CREATION or VEGETATION.
Now il is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and horti.
culture will be born today. How queer the
hills look, and so unattractiye they seem
hardly worth having been made. But now
all the surfaces are changing color. Some
thing beautiful is creeping all over them.
It has the color of emerald. Ay. il is herb
age Hail to the green grass Gods ia
vorite color and Gods favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that he makes larger
number OF them than OF anything else.
But look yonderl Something starts out OF
the ground and goes higher up. higher and
higher, and spreads out broad leaves. 1t
is palm tree. Yonder Is another growth,
and its leaves hang far down, and it IS
willow tree And yonder Is growth with
mighty sweep of branches And here they
some-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.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence 10 the Nine.
zenith century, but we have nothing now
Co equal what ! see on this first Wednesday
of the worlds existence. take taste OF
one OF the apples this Wednesday morning,
and ! tell you it mingles in its juices all
the fiavors Of Spitzbergen and Newtown
pippin and Rhode Island greening and
Danvers Winter Sweet and Roxbury rus
set and Hubbardston Nonesuch, but added
to all, aud overpowering all other iayors,
is the paradisaical juice that all the or
chards OF the Nineteenth century fail TO
reach. | take a taste OF the pear, and It
has all the luxury of the three thousand
varieties Of the Nineteenth century. all the
Seek Of aud the Bartlett of the pOmolOQical