The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-06-05

mg The h'aze Is going out, The col
ors are dimming, Only part of the
earth's surface is visible, 1t 6 o'clock,
o'clock, 8 o'cloch; ohscuration and
darkness, 1t is Monday night, And
the evening and the morning were the
first day"
THE PARTING OF THE WATERS,
Now II 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 it 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 a
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 geomcter 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
this first Tuesday of creation week, Eli
hu COMPOUNDED Job with the question,
"Dost thou know the balancings of the
cloudsr
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-
tons, which are the continents, With
his finger he makes deep depressons in
them, and these are the lakes, while at
the piling up of the Alleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and pyrenees and Alps
and Hilnalayas 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. y
Three-quartcrs Of the earth being water
and only one quarter being land, moth
ing but Almightiness could have Gagged
the three-fourths so that 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 cleanl Three-fourths of the
homes and make them pure Pour it
through the prisons and make their
occupants moral. Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There
are several thousand people asleep in
Greenwood who but for the filthy
streets of Brooklyn and New York
would have been today well and in
churches Moreover, there never was
a filthy street that remained a moral
street.
How important an agency of reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact
that when the ancient world got out
rageously wicked it was plunged into
the Deluge and kept under for months
till its iniquity was soaked out of it.
But l rejoice that on the first Tuesday
of the worlds existence the water was
taught to know its place, and the
Mediterranean 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 to sleep
in the lap of the Adirondacks And
the evening and the morning were the
second day"
GREEN THINGS EEGIN TO GROW.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week Gardening and hor-
ticulture will be born today How
queer the hills look, and so unattract
i've they seem hardly worth having
been made. But now all the surfaces
are changing color. Something beauti
full is creeping all over them 1t has
the color of emerald. Aye, it is herb
age 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 any
thing else. But look yonderl 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, and
its leaves hang far down, and it is 6
willow tree. And yonder is a growth
with mighty sweep of branches. And
here they come-the pear, and the APP
pie, md the peach, and the pomegran-
ate, and groves and orchards and for
ests, their shadows and their fruit grid
ling the earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nine.
teenth century, but we have nothing
now to equal what see on this first
Wednesday of the worlds existence.
l take taste of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and l tell you il
mingles in its juices all the havors o.
Spitzbergen and Newtown pippin anG
Rhode Island greening and Danver
winter sweet and Roxbury russell and
Hubbardston nonesuch, but added t.
all and overpowering all other flavor
is the paradisaical juice that all the or
chards of the Nineteenth century fail t.
reach
take taste of the pear, and it ha
all the luxury of the three thousanc
varieties of the Nineteenth century
all the Seckel and the Bartlett of tn
genealogical gardens of later times al
acidity compared with it. And tn
grapes! Why, this one cluster has il
} it the richness of whole vineyards 0