Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-04

leflt KEPT up by mcteOrs pulIluE INV - -
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 How bright they
look in this oriental evening! Constella-
tionsl Galaxiesl What a twenty-four
hours Of this first week-solar, lunar,
stellar appearaneesl All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed In pull
ing aside the curtain Of yapor from these
flushed 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 a silent world. Can it be
that it was made only for vegetables9 But
harkl There is a swirl and a 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 inny tribes that shall by
their wonders of construction confound the
Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Enneuses
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 inny
tribes, hear whirr in the air and look
up and behold wings-wings of larks, rob-
ins, doves, eagles, flamingoes, 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, as 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 music that they
must have heard at heavens gate. Yes,
find them in Paradise on this the first Fri
day afternoon of the world S existence. And
l 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
state of somnolence. "And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day."
BEASTS AND MEN.
Nowit is Saturday morning of the world s
first week and with this day the week
closes. But oh, what q climacteric dayl
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 grander than
those which in after time Job will describe
as having neck clothed with thunder.
Cattle enough to cover a 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. Leopards so beauti-
full we are glad they cannot change their
| spots. Lions without their fierceness and
all the quadruped world so gentle, so sleek,
so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal Gre
| alton, whether they walk the earth or
swim the waters or fly the air. Do you not
notice that God gave them precedence of
the human race? They were created Fri.
day and Saturday morning, as man was
created Saturday afternoon. They have a
| right to be here. He who gals horse, or
exposes COW to the storm, or beats dog,
or mauls 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
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creatures and who saw the wrong you did
them will be there. Better look out, you
| stock raisers and railroad companies who
bring the cattle on trains without food OF
water for three or four days in hot weather
long groan of agony from Omaha to New
York.
Better look out, you farmer riding be-
hind that limping horse with a nail that
the blacksmith drove into the quick. Bet
ter look out, you boys stoning bullfrogs
and turning turtles upside down, and rob
bing 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 lawn? Who is there tc
command these worlds of quadruped and
fish and bird? For whom has God put
back the curtain from the face of sun and
moon and star? The world wants an EN-
peror and empress. 1t is Saturday after
! noon. No one but the Lord Almighty car
originate a human being. In the world
where there are in the latter part of the
Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred
million people, human being is not {
curiosity.
But how about the first human eye thai
was ever kindled, the first human ear thai
was ever opened, the first human lung thai
ever breathed, the first human heart thai
ever beat, the first human life ever con
structed? That needed the origination o
God. He had no model to work by
What stupendous work for a Saturday
afternoonl He must originate style O
human heart through which all the BLOOD
in the body must pass every three minutes
He must make that heart SO strong that i
can, during each day. lift what would b.
equal to one hundred and twenty tons O
weight, and it must be SO arranged as tt
beat over thirty-siX million times ever.
year. About five hundred muscles mus
be strung in the right place, and at leas
two hundred and fifty bones constructed
Into this body must be put at least nin'
million nerves. Over three thousand per
spring pores must be made for every incl
of fleshly surface.
The human voice must be SO constructed
it shall be capable of producing seventeen
trillion fivehundred and ninety-two billio1
one hundred and eighty-six million forty
four thousand four hundred and f1fteer
sounds. Butall this the most insignificant
part of the human being. The soull All
the construction of that God himself would
not be equal to if he were any the less of ,
God. Its understanding, its will, its mem
ory, its conscience, its capacities of enjoy
ment or suffering, it's Immortality Wha
work for Saturday afternoonl Aye
Before night there were to be two sucl
human and yet immortal beings con
structed. The woman as we'll as the mai
was formed Saturday afternoon. Becaus