The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-03
Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli

wave OF his NanQ, TINS morning gamers
part Of it IN suspended reservoirs. 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 Ii right quaint
ties and at right times was an undertak.
ing that no one but Omnipotsnce would
have dared. But God does it as easily
as YOU would lift a glass Of ofwater. There
he hoists two clouds, each thirty miles
VIDE and five miles high, and balances
them. Here he lifts the CIRCUS clouds aud
spraaGs them out in great white banks
as though it has been showing in heaven.
And the GIRO stratus clouds in long
parallel lines. SO straight you know an
| Infinite ceometer has drawn them.
Clouds W aich are the arnory 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 confouDded Job
with the question, ''Dost thou know the
balancings ofthe clouds:"
Half of this Tuesday work done, the
other half is the work of compelling the
waters to lie down in their destined
places. 50 God picks up the solid ground
and packs it up into FIVE 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 Alleshanies and Sierra Ne
vadas and Pyrenees and Alps and 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: ''Hudson and
James ard Amazon, down to the At
lantis; Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacltic.'
Three-quaaters Of the earth being
water anr only one-Quartor being land,
nothing but Almichtiness could have
caeed the three-tourths so that they could
not have deyoured 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 ltthrough the
homes and make them pure. Pour it
through the prisons and make their oc-
cupauts moral. Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There
arc several thousand people asleep in
Greenwood who but for the filthy streets
o. Brooklyn, and New York would have
been to-day well and in churches. More
over. there n,:ver was q filthy street that
remained a moral street.
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 deluge
and kept under for months TIL its iniQuity
was soaked out OF it. But rejoice that
on the first Tuesday of the worlds ex-
istence the water was taught to know its
place, and the Mediterranean lay down
at tie 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. an Scroon lake fell to
sleep IN the lap Of the Adirondacks.
And the evening and the morning were
the second day."
THE CREATION OF VEG EGETATION.
Now it is "Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and
horticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look, and 80 unattrac:ive
they seem hardly worth having been
made. But now all the surfaces are
changing color. Something beautiful is
creeping all over them. It has the col
or OF emerald. Ay, it is herbage. Hail
to the green grass! Gods favorite COL
or and Gods favorite plant, as l judge
from the fact that he makes larger
number Of them than of anything else.
But look yonder! Something starts out
Of the ground and goes higher up higher
and higher. and spreads out broad leaves.
It IS palm tree. Yonder is another
grow;ll. 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 and orchards and forests,
their shadows and their fruit glrdling the
earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nine
teenth century, bat we have nothing
now to equal what l see on this first
Wednesday of the worlds existence. I
take taste Of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and tell you it
mingles in its juices all the flayors Of
Spi,zbergen and Newtown pippln and
Rhode Island sreening and Danvers
Winter Sweet and Roxbury russell and
Hubbardsten Nonesuch, but added to
all, and overpowering all other favers,
is the paradsaical juice that ali the Or
chards Of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach. take q taste Of the pear, and it
has all the luxury of the three thousand
varieties Of the Nineteenth century; all
the Seckel and the Bartlett OF the POM
olosical gardens ofiater times an acidity
compared with it. And the grapes!
Why. this one cluster has i'll 1t the rich
ness OF whole vineyards ofCatawbas and
Copcords and lsabellas. Fruits Of all
colors, Of ali odors, Of all tlovors. No
hand OF man vet made to pluck 1t or
tongue to taste it. The banquet for the
h ,tnan race is being spread before the
arrival OF the first guest.
In The truit 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 fruit, and
plenty Of il. Slaughter houses are Of
/. ;cr invention. Far am l from being
vegetarian. but an almost exclusive
meat Diet is depraving. Savages con-
the themselves almost exclusively to
animal food, and shat IS one reason that
they are savages. Give your children
more apples and less mutton. The
world will Lave to give dominance TO
the fruit diet OF Paradise before it gets
back to the morals Of Paradise. May