Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-30

an Undertaking JlnV ~ OAO 49,
otence would have dared. But Sod
does II as easy as you would I'LL q glass
of water. There he HOSTS two CLOUDS
each thirty miles wide and hve miles
high and balances them. Here ne Illus
the cirrus clouds and spreads them Out
in a great white bank as though IL nao
been showing in heaven. And the CIR
ro-stratus clouds in long parallel lines
SO straight you know an infinite geome-
ter has drawn them. Clouds which are
the armory from which thunderstorms
get their bayonets OF fire. Clouds which
are oceans on the wing. No wonder,
long after this first Tuesday OF creation
week. Elihu confounded Job win
the question, ''Dost thou know
the balancings OF the clouds!" Hall
of this Tuesday work done, the other
half Is the work OF compelling the
waters TO lie down in their destained
places. So God picks up the solid ground
and packs it up into five elevatl0ns
which are the continents. WIN MS
finger he makes deep impressions IN
them, and these are the lakes, whlle ~
the piling up OF the Alleghanies ana
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrences and Alps
and Himalayas the rest OF the waters
start by the law of gravitatton TO tne
lower places, and in their run downhill
become the rivers, and then oil 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 Coo
said: ''Hudson and James and Amazon,
down to the Atlantic; Oregon ana sac
ramento, down to the Pacific" Three
Quarters OF the earth being land, no.
thing butAlmightiness could have Gagged
The three.fourths so that they could not
have devoured the one-fourth. IhanK
God for water and plenty OF 1t. What u
hint that God would have the human
race very clean. Three-fourths Oh tne
world is water. Pour it through the
homes and make them pure. Pour IL
through the prisons and make their &C.
cupants moral. Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. And
the evening and the morning were the
second day."
Now it is Wednesday morning OF the
worlds first week. Gardening and hor-
ticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look and so unattractlve
they seem hardly worth having oeen
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 the green grass, Gods favorlte
plant, as | Judge from the fact that he
makes larger number OF them than oil
ANYTHING else. But look yonder! Some
thing 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 ana
its leaves hang far down and 1t Is Will
low tree. And yonder is growth with
mighty sweep Of branches And here
they come-the pear ana the apple, and
the peach and the pomegranate. and
groves and orchards and forests, their
; shadows and their fruit glrdling the
earth.
Notice that the first thing that God
made for food was fruit. and plenty. o.
it. Slaughter houses are OF later In
yention. Far am from being q vege'
tartan, but an almost exclusive meal
diet is depraving. Savages contine
themselves exclusively TO animal food
and that is one reason that they are
savages. Give your children more ap
ples and less mutton. The world will
have to give dominance to the fruit die
of paradise before it gets back to the
morals OF paradise. May Gods blessing
come down on the orchards and vine
wards OF America and keep back the
, frosts and the curculio. But we mus
not forget that it is Wednesday evening
in Eden and upon that perfect fruit o
: those perfect trees let the curtain drop
"And the evening and the morning
were the third day"
Now it is Thursday morning OF the
worlds first week. Nothing will b'
created to-day. The hours will be pass
ed in scattering fogs. and mists ant
vapors. The atmosphere must be swep
clean. Other worlds are to heave II
? sight. This little ship OF the earth has
! seemed to have all the ocean OF 1mmen
sity to itself. But mightier craft are Il
be hailed to-day on the high seas
peace. First the moons white sail ap
) pears and does very well until the sui
| bursts upon the scene. The light tina
? on the previous three mornings wa
! struck from an especial word nov
: gathers in the sun, moon and stars
: One for the day the others for the night
J 1t seems as if they all had within
twenty-four hours been created. All
/ this a great time in the worlds frs
Y week. The moon, the nearest neigh
: bcr to our earth appears, her photo
1! graph to be taken in the nineteenth
0 century, when the telescope shall brinI
: her within 12O miles OF New YORK
S All this Thursday and the adjoininni
: nights employed in pulling aside th
[ curtain of vapor from these flushed o
: pale faced worlds. Enough. And tn
: evening and the mornin5 were tn
fourth day."
Now it is Friday morning in the frs
: week OF the worlds existence. Water
!, but not fin swimming it: air, but not
e wing flying it. 1t is silent world
: Can it be that it was made only for veg