Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-25

| 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 up OF
| TIE Alleghanies and Sierra Nevadas and
| Pyrenoes and Alps and HimalayaS the rest
| of the waters start by the laws OF graVita-
| 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-
| yention 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-qualters of the earth
being water and only one-quarter being
| land, nothing but Almightiness could have
Gagged the three-fourthS so tnat 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-fourths OF the world
water. Pour it through the homes and
| 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 PEG
| 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 4
filthy street that remained moral street.
How important an agency Of reform water
is, was illustrated BY the fact that when
the ancient world got outrageouslv wicked,
il was plunged into the deluge and kept IN
der for months till its iniquity was soaked
ont of IL But | rejoice that on the first
Tuesday of the worlds existence the water
was taught to know its place. and the Med
itcrranean 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 10 sleep in the lap OF the Adlrou-
daoks And the evening ard the morning
were the second day
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week Gardening and horti
culture will be born to-day How queer
the hills look, and so uEattractive 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 | judge from the fact that he
makes larger number of them than Of
anything else But look yOnderl Some
thing starts out of the ground and goes
higher up. higher and higher, and spreads
ont broad leaves. II is a palm tree. OH
der is another growth. and its leaves hang
far down, and il is a willow tree. And yon-
uPF Is Il SEONln Will mighty SNCtb VI
branches. And here they comc-the pear
and the apple, and the peach and the pome-
grauate, and groves and orchards
and forests, their shadows and
THEIR FRUIT GIRDLING THE EARTH.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nineteenth
century but we have nothing now to equal
what | see on this first Wednesday Of the
worlds existence. ! take taste of one of
the apples this Wednesday morning. and
tell you il min9les in its juices all the fla
yors of SpitZbergen and Newtown pippin
and Rhode Island greening and DanverS
winter sweet and RoXbury russell and Hub
bardston noneSuch, but added 10 all and
overpowering all other tavors in the Para
diSaical juice that all the other orchards of
the Nineteenth century fail to reach !
take a taste of the pear, and 1t has all the
luxury of the three thousand varieties o.
the Nineteenth century: all the Seckel and
the Bartlett of the genealogical gardens of
later times, an acridity compared with IL
And the grapes! Why, this one cluster has
III 1t the richness of whole vineyards of Ca
t;wbaS and Concords and IsabcllaS. Fruits
of all cOorS, of all odorS, of ali tiavOrs. no
hand of man yet made 10 pluck it or tongue
10 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 il. Slaughter houses are of later
invention. Far am ! from being 4 vegeta-
lian, but an almost exclusive meat diet IS
deplaving. Savages contine 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 10 give dominance 10
the fruit diet of Paradise before it gets
back TO the morals of Paradise. May Gods
blessing come down on the orchards and
vineyards of America, and keep back the
froStS and the curculO. But we must not
forget that it is Wednesday evening i'll
Eden. and upon that perfect fruit OF those
perfect trees let the curtain drop. And
the evening and the morning were the third
day"
Now it is Thursday morning of the
world 5 first week, Nothing Will be created
to-day. The hours will be passed in scat
tering fogs and mists and Vapors. The
atmosphere must be swept clean. Other
worlds are to hove III sight. This little
ship of the earth has seemed TO have all the
ocean of immensely to itself. But mightier
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 III 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 great time IN the
world 5 first week. The moon, the nearest
ucighbor to our earth appears, her photo
graph to be taken in the Nineteenth
century, when the telescope shall bring her
within 10 miles of New York. And the sun
now appears. afterward TO be found
SIS 600 miles in diameter, and, put in as
Economical scales, to be found 10 weigh
nearly four hundred thousand times heavier
than our earth; mighty furnace, its heat
kept up by meteorS pouring into 1t as fuel.
4 world deyouring other worlds with
ITS JAWS OF FLAME.
And the stars come out, those street lamps
of heaven, those keys of pear. upon which
Gods fingers play the music of the spheres.
Hiw bright they look in this oriental even
ing! Consultations, GalaxieS. What a
twenty four hour of this first week-solar,
lunar stellar appearances. AL this Thurs
day and the adjoining nights employed in
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 il is Friday morning in the first week
of the world is existence Water, but not a
fin swimming in it: air, but not wing fly
ing il. 1t is 2 silent world. Can it be that
it was made only for vegetables But,
bark. There is q whIrl and splashing in
all the four rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hid
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