Connecticut western news., 1891-05-27
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natural light, intellectual light, spirit ual light, everlasting light For lack of it the body stumbles, and the soul stumbles Oh. thou Father of Lights give us lightl
 The great German philosopher in his last moment said, II want more light" A minister of Christ recently dying cried out in exultation, II move into the lightl" Mir. Toplady, the immortal hymnplogist, in his expiring moments exclaimed, 'Lightl Lightr" Heaven itself is only more light. Upon all superstition, upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let in the light. But now the light of the first Monday is reced- ing. The blaze is going out. The col ors are dimming Only part of the earth's surface is visible. Itis 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock; obscuration and darkness. It is Monday night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. s~'-
 THR PARTING OF THE WATERS.
 Now it is Tuesday morning. A'del- 'icate and tremendous undertaking is set apart for this day. There was a great superabundance of water. God by the wave of his hand this morning gathers part of it in suspended reser- voirs, and part of i. he orders down into the rivers and lakes and seas. How to hang whole Atlantic oceans in the clouds without their spilling over, except in right quantities and at right times, was an undertaking that no one but Omnip otence would have dared. But God does it as easily as you would lift glass of water. There he hoists two clouds each thirty miles wide and five miles high and balances them. Here he lifts the circus clouds and spreads them out in great white banks as though it had been showing in heaven And the circus stratus clouds in long parallel lines so straight you know an infinite geometer has drawn them. Clouds which are the armory from which thunder storms get their bayo- nets of fire Clouds which are oceans on the wing. No wonder, long after thisfir Tuesday of creation week, Eli hu confounded Job with the question, ''Dost thou know the balancings 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 it up into five eleva- tions, 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 Hinalayas the rest of the waters start by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in 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 Atlantic; Oregon and Sacramento down to the Pacific. , Three-quarters of the earth being water and only one-quarter being land, noth- ing but Allnightiness could have caged 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 clean! Three-fourths of the world water. Pour it through the homes and make them pure. Pour il through the prisons and make theil o%c h1 streets and make them healthy There are several thousand people asleep i1 Greenwood who but for the filthy streets of Brooklyn and New York would have been today well and ir churches Moreover, there never wa! a filthy street that remained a mora 1 street.
 How important an agency of reform water is, was illustrated by the fac1 that when the ancient world got out rageously wicked it was plunged intt the Deluge and kept under for months till it's iniquity was soaked out of it But rejoice that on the first Tuesda! of the worlds existence the water wa! taught to know it's place, and thu Mediterranean lay down at the feet O Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico Ia, down at the feet of North America and Geneva lay down at the feet O the Alps, and Scroon lake fell to sleel in the lap of the Adirondacks ''Ant the evening and the morning were th' second day"
 GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO GROW.
 Now it is Wednesday morning of th' worlds first week. Gardening and hor ticulture will be born today Hov queer the hills look, and SO unattract i've they seem hardly worth having been made But now all the surface are changing color. Something beauti full is creeping all over them. It ha the color of emerald. Aye, it is herb age Hail to the green grass, God
 favorite color and Gods favorite plant as judge from the fact that he make a larger number of them than of any
 thing else But look yonderl Some
 thing starts out of the ground and zoe
 higher up, higher and higher, an'
 spreads out broad leaves It is g. pain
 tree Wonder is another growth, am
 it's leaves hang far down. and it is
 willow tree And wonder is a growtl
 with mighty sweep of branches. Ant here they come-the pear, and the az
 pie, and the peach, and the pomegran ate, and groves and orchards and fol ests, their shadows and their fruit gird
 ling the earth,
 We are pushing agriculture and frui
 culture to great excellence in the Nine
 teenth century but we have nothin
 now to equal what see on this tirs Wednesday of the worlds existence
 I take a taSte Of one of the aDDleS tn,