The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-03

pears, ueE pupLOSldpu W Uc tohCH III
the Nineteenth century, when the tele-
scope shall bring her within one hundred
and twenty miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, atterward
to be found eight hundred and eighty
eight thousand miles in diameter, and,
put in astronomical scales, to be found
to weigh nearly feur hundred thousand
times heavier than our earth; mighty
furnace, its heat kept up by meteors
pouring into it as fuel, a world devour-
ing 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 mus.
ic of the spheres. How bright they look
in this oriental evening! Consultations!
Galaxies! What twenty-four hours OF
this first week-solar, lunar, stellar ap-
pearances! All this Thursday and the
adjoining nights employed ip pulling
aside the curtain of vapor from these
flushed or pale faced worlds. Enough!
''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 a fin swimming it; air, but not
wing flying it. 1t is silent world.
Can 1t be that twas made only for veg
ables? But bark! There is a swirl
and splashing in all the four rivers of
Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates.
They are all asWim with life. some dart
ing like arrows through split crystal,
and others quiet in dark pools like shad-
ows. Everything, from spotted trout
to behemoth, all colored, all shaped, the
ancestors If funny tribes that shall by
their wonders of construction confound
the Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Lin
nauses and the ichthyologists of the
more than six thousand years following
this Friday of the first week.
And while l stand on the banks of
these Paradisalcal livers, watching these
fnuy tribes, I hear a whirr in the air
and look up and behold wings-wings
of larks, robbins, doves, eagles, famin.
goes, 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 morning bath in buttercups.
And while I am studying the colors they
begin to carol and chrp and 600 and
twitter and run up and down the scales
ola music that they must have heard at
heavens gate. Yes, find them in
Paradise on this the first Friday after
noon Of the worlds existence. And |
sit down on the bank of the Euphrates,
and the murmur of 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.
Now it is Saturday morning Of the
worlds first week and with this day the
week closes. But oh, what a climacter-
ic day! The ali 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 at-
ter time Job will describe as having neck
clothed with thunder. Cattle enough to
cover a thousand hills. Sheep shep-
herded by him who made for them the
green pastures. Cattle superior to the
-AIderneys and Ayrshires and Devon
shires of after times. Leopards so beau
tlful we are glad they cannot change
their spots. Lions without their fierce
ness and all the quadruped worldso gen
tie. so sleek, so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal
creation, whether they walk the earth
or swim the waters or fly the air. DO
you not notice that God gave them pre-
cedence of the human race? They were
created Friday and Saturday morning,
as man was created Saturday afternoon.
They have right to be here. He who
gals a horse, or exposes cow to the
storm, or beats dog, or mauls cat, or
CANDLES at the pigeon shooting, or tor
lures an insect, will have to answer for
it in the judgment day. You may con-
sole yourself that these creatures are
not immortal and they cannot appear
against you, but the God who made
these creatures and who saw the wrong
you did them will be there. Better look
out, YOU stock raisers and railroad COM
panies who bring the cattle on trains
without food or water for three or four
days in hot weather, a long groan Of ago
nv from Omaha to New York.
Better look out, you farmer riding be-
hind that limping horse with nail that
the blacksmith drove into the quick.
Better look out, you boys stoning bull
frogs and turning turtles upside down,
and robbing BIRDS nests. But some
thing is wanting in Paradise and the
week IS almost done. Who is there to
pluck the flowers of this Edenic lawn?
Who is there to 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 emperor and empress.
1t is Saturday afternoon. No one but
the Lord Almighty can originate hu-
man 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
that was ever kindled, the first human
ear that was ever opened, the first hu-
man lung that ever breathed, the first
human heart that ever beat, the first
human life ever constructed? That
needed the origInation of a God. lie had
no model to work by. What stupendous
work fora Saturday afternoon! He must
originate style OF human heart through
which all the blood in the body must
pass every three minutes. He must
make that heart so strong that it can,
during each day, lift what would be equal
to one hundred and twenty tous OF
weight, and it must be so arranged as to
beat over thirty-six million times every
year. About five hundred muscles must
be strung in the right place, and at least