The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-06-02

A lbupefaputtuauce cI water. God, by the
wave OF his hand, this morning gathers
part 1t IN suspended reservoirs. and
part OF 1t he orders down into the rivers
and lakes aud scss. How to hang whole
| Atlantic oceans In the clouds without
their spilling over except In right quanti-
ties and at righ. times was an undertake
j ins that no one but Omnipotence would
I have dared. But God does II as easily
az you would iift a glass OF water. There
ne hoists two clouds, each thirty miles
twlde and five miles high, and balances
them. Here he lifts the cirrous clouds aud
spraads them out In great white banks
as though 1t has been showing In heaven.
And the cirrO-stratus clouds In long
parallel lines. so straight you know an
Infinite geometer has drawn them.
Clouds w hich are The armory from which
thunder storms get their bayonets of fire.
Clouds VIII ch are oceans on the wing.
No wonder, long after this first Tuesday
OF creation week, Elihu confoupded Job
with the question, "Dost thou know the
balancings ofthe clouds?n
Half of this Tuesday work done, the
other half IS the work of compelling the
waters to lie duwn in their destined
places. SO God picks up the solid ground
and packs it up into Eve elevations,
which are the continents. With his, fin
ger he makes deep depressions in them,
and these are the lakes, while at the pill
ing up OF the Aileghanies aud Sierra Me-
vadas and Pyrenees and Alps aud Him
alayas 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: ''Ifudson and
James and Amazon, down to the At
laptis; Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacilic." a
Three-quaaters of the earth being
water anr only one-Quartor being land,
nothing but Almightiness could have
Gagged the thrce-tourhs 80 that they could
not have devoured the oue-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 itthrough the
homes and make them pure. Pour 1t
through the prisons and make their oc-
cupants moral. Pouri,it through the
streets and make them healthy. There
are several thousand people asleep in,
Greenwood who but for the filthy streets
o. Brooklyn> and New York would have
been to-day we'll and in churches. More
over, there nAver was a filthy street that
remained a moral street. r
How important an agency OF reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact that
when the an,lent world got outrageously
wicked it was plunged into the sdeluge
and kept under for months till its iniquity
was soaked out oft. But Irejoice that
on the first Tuesday of the worlds lex-
istence the water was taught to know its
place, and the Mediterranean lay dewn
at tie feet of Europe, and the Gulf af
Mexico lay down at the feet of North
America, and Geneva lay down at the
leeS of the Alps anil Scroon lake fell to.
sleep In the lap of the Adirondacks.
And the evening and the morning were
the second day."
THE CREATION OF yEaETATIoN.N n
Now it is Wednesday morning of the,
worlds first week. Gardening and
horticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look, aud so unattrac.iye
they seem hardly worth having been
made. But now all the surfaces are
changing color. SoInething beautiful is,
creeping all over them. Ithas the col,
or of emerald. Ay, tits herbage. Hail
to the green grass! Gods favorite col-
or and Gods fayorite plant, as / Judge
from the fact that he makes u larger
number of them than of anything else.
Butlook yonder! Something starts out
of the ground and goes higher up higher
and higher. and spreads out broad leaves.
II ls agnalm tree. Yonder, is another
growth. and its leaves hang far down,
and it is willow tree. And yonder is
growth with mighty sweep of branches.
And here they cOme-the pear, and the.
apple, and the peach, and the pomegran-
ate, and groves aud orchards and forests,
their shadows and their fruit girdling the
earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture TO great excellence in the Nine
teenth century, bit we have nothing
now to equal what L see on this first
Wednesday of the world Is existence. L
take taste of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and ,tell you it
mingles in its juices all the favors of
Spitzbergcn ana Newtown pippin and
Rhode Island greening and Danvers
Winter Sweet and Roxbury russeG and
Hubbardston Nonesuch, but added to
all, and oyerpowering all other fiavors,
Is the paradisaical juice that all the Or
chards OF the Nineteenth century fail to
reach. take iaste Of the pear, and. 1t
has all the luxury of the three thousand
varieties ofthe Nineteenth century; all
the Seckel and toe Bartlett of the pom
illogical gardens ofiater times an acidity.
compared with 1t. And the grapes!
why, this Que cluster has in 1t tue rich
ness OF whole Vineyards of Catawbas and
Concords and lsabellas. Fruits ofall
colors, ofall odors, of allfloyors. No,
baud OF man yet made to pluck it or
tongue to tasteit. The banquet for the
human race ID being spread before The
arrival OF the first guest. y. II
In the fruit of that garden was the
seed Tor the orchards and gardens Of the
hemispheres. Notice that the first thing
that God made for food was frnit, ana
plenty of 1t. Slaughter houses are of
LITER invention. Far am 1 from being a
vegetarian, but an almost exclusive
meat diet is depraving. Savages con-
tine themselves almost exclusively TO
animal food, and that is one red son that.
they are savages. Give youl children
more apples and less Inuston. The
world will have to give dominance to
tho fruit diet OF Paradise before it gets
back to the morals of Paradise. MAY
Gods blessing come down on the or.