The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-28

will hinder even our losses from becom-
ing too somber. Give US more light,
natural light, intellectual light, s2irit-
nal light, everlasting light. For lack
of it the body stunbles, and the soul
stumbles Oh, thou Father of Lights,
give US light
The great German philosopher in his
last moment said, II want more light "
A minister of Christ recently dying
cried out in exultation, II move into
the light!" Mr. Toplady, the immortal
hymnologist, in his expiring moments
exclaimed, Light Light" Heaven
itself is only more light Upon all
superstition, upon all ignorance, upon
all sorrow let in the light But now
the light of the first Monday is reced-
ing. The blaze is going out. The col
ors are dimming Only part of the
earth's surface is visible. Iti o'clock,
z o'clock. o'clock; observation and
darkness. 1t is Monday night And
the evening and the morning were the
first day"
THE PARTING OF THE WATERS.
Now it 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 q
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 geometer 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
'Dost thou know the balancings of the
cloudsa"
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
tions, which are the continents. Will
his finger he makes deep depressions il
them, and these are the lakes, while a
the piling up of the Alleghanies ane
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alp
and Himalayas the rest of the water
start by the law of gravitation to thu
lower places, and in their run dow
hill become the rivers, and then al
| around the earth thesAsrivers come int
convention and become oceans beneath
| as the clouds are oceans above. Hoy
soon the rivers got to their places whel
! God said, Hudson and James AM
Amazon down to the Atlantic; Oregon
and Sacramento down to the Pacific
Three-quarters of the earth being waite
and only one-quarter being land, moth
ing but Almightiness could have cage
the three fourths SO that they could nc
have devoured the one-fourth. Than
God for water and plenty of it. Wha
a hint that God would have the huma
race very clean! Three-fourths of tn
world water. Pour it through th
homes and make them pure. Pour
through the prisons and make the
occupants moral. Pour it through th
streets and make them healthy. Thel
are several thousand people asleep
Greenwood who but for the filth
streets of Brooklyn and New Yor
would have been today well and
churches Moreover, there never WI
| a filthy street that remained NOR
street.
| How important an agency OF refor
water is, was Illustrated by the IA
that when the ancient world got on
raseously wicked it was plunged In
the Deluge and kept under for mont!
till its iniquity was soaked out OF
But rejoice that on the first Tuesd'
of the worlds existence the water "
taught to know its place, and t
Mediterranean lay down at the feet
Europe, and the Gulf Of Mexico L
down at the feet of North Americ
and Geneva lay down at the feet
the Alps. and Scroon lake fell to sic
in the lap of the Adirondacks. "A'
the evening and the morning were t
second day"
GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO GROW.
Now it is Wednesday morning OF t
worlds first week. Gardening end b
ticulture will be born today. HI
queer the bills look, and so unattra
i've they seem hardly worth hayi
been made. But now all the surfa1
are changing color Something beau
. full is creeping all over them 1t
the color of emerald. Aye, it IS he
age. Hail to the green grass, go
favorite color and Gods favorite pla
2 as l Judge from the fact that he mai
a larger number of them than OF Al
thing else. But look yonder. Sol
: thing starts out of the-ground and g
higher up, higher and higher, q
. spreads out broad leaves 1t Is pa
: tree. Yonder is another growth, 8
its leaves hang far down. and it j:
willow tree. And yonder is groy
with mighty sweep-of branches j
. here they cone-tfH pear. and the
DIE, and the peach, and the pomeg1
. ate, and groves and orchards and
ests, their shadows1and their fruit
ing'the earth
= We are pushing agriculture and
" culture to great>excellence in the \