The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29

quarters of the earth being land, no
thing butAlmightiness could have Gagged
the three-fourths so that they could not
have devoured the one-fourth. Thank
God for water aud plenty of it What a
| hint that God would have the human
race very clean. Three-fourths OF the
world is water. Pour it through the
homes and make them pure. Pour it
| through the prisons and make their oc-
cupants moral. Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. And
the evening and the morning were the
second day."
Now it is Wednesday morning Of the
worlds first week. Gardening and hor-
ticulture will be born to-day. How
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
color of emerald. Aye, it is heritage.
Hail the green grass, Gods favorite
plant, as Judge from the fact that he
makes a larger number of them than OF
anything else. But look yonder. Some
thing starts out of the ground and goes
higher up. higher and higher and
spreads out broad leaves. It Is a palm
tree. Wonder is another growth and
its leaves hang far down and it is will
low tree. And yOnder is a growth with
mighty sweep of branches And here
they come-the pear ana the apple, and
the peach and the pOmegranate. and
groves and orchards and forests, their
shadows and their fruit girdling the
earth.
Notice that the first thing that God
made for food was fruit. and plenty of
it. Slaughter houses are of later in
ventiOn. Far am from being a vege-
tartan, but an almost exclusive meat
diet is depraving. Savages confine
themselves exclusively to animal food.
and that is one reason that they are
Savages. Give your children more ap-
pies and less mutton. The world will
have TO give dominance to the fruit diet
of paradise before it gets back to the
morals of paradise. May Gods blessing
come down on the orchards and vine
yards Of America and keep back the
frOsts and the curculio. But we must
not forget that it is Wednesday evening
in Eden and upon that perfect fruit of
those perfect trees let the curtain drop.
And the evening and the morning
were the third day"
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be pass
ed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapors. The atmosphere must be swept
clean. Other worlds are to heave in
sight. This little ship of the earth has
seemed TO have all the ocean Of immen-
sity to itself. But mightier craft are to
be hailed to-day on the high seas OF
peace. First the moons white sail ap-
pears and does very we'll until the sun
bursts upon the scene. The light that
on the previous three mornings was
struck from an especial word now
gathers in the sun, moon and stars.
One for the day the others for the night
1t seems as if they all had within
twenty-fOur hours been created. All.
this a great time in the worlds first
week. The moon, the nearest neigh
Der to our earth appears. her photo
graph to be taken in the nineteenth
century. when the telescope shall bring
her within l20 miles OF New York.
AL this Thursday and the adjoining
nights employed in pulling aside the
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pale faced worlds. Enough, And the
evening and the mOrnin5 were the
fourth day."
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week Of the worlds existence. Water.
but not fin swimming it: air. but not
wing flying it. 1t Is a silent world.
Can it be that it was made only for veg
etables? But, hank, There is a swirl
and splashing in all the four rivers OF
Pison. Gihon. Hiddekel and Euphrates.
They are aswim with life. some darting
like arrows through split crystal and
others quiet in dark pools like shadows.
Everything from spotted trout to be-
hemOth: all colored. all shaped. the an
cesters of finny tribes that shall by their
wonders Of construction confound the
Agassizs. the Cuviers and the Linnau-
ses and the icthyOlOgists of the more
than 5000 years following this Friday
of the first week. And while stand on
the banks of the Paradisaical rivers
watching these fnny tribes. l hear a
whIrr in the air and l look up and be-
hold wings-wings of larks. robbins.
doves. eagles, flamiugos. albatrosses,
brown threShers. Creatures of all col
Ors, as if dipped in the skies, frey as
if they had flown out of the
sunsets, golden a. if they had
taken their morning bath in buttercups.
And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day"
Now it is Saturday morning OF the
worlds first week and with this day the
week closes. But o. what a climacteric
day. The air 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 af-
ter time Job will describe as having
neck clothed hith thunder: cattle
enough to cover a Thousand hills:
sheep shepherded by Him who
made for them the green pastures: cat
tie superior to the Attorneys and AYR
shires and DevOnshires OF after times:
leopards 50 beautiful we are glad they
can not change their spots: lions with
out their ferceneSs, and all the quadru-
ped world so gentle. so sleek, so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal Gre
alton, whether they walk the earth or
swim the waters or fly the air. Do you
not notice that God gave them prece-
Gence OF the human race? They were
created Friday and Saturday morning
as man was created Saturday afternoon.
They have right to be here.
Il is Saturday afternoon. No one but
the Lord Almighty can originate a
human being. In the world where there
are in the latter part OF the nineteenth
century over 1900, 100000 people. a
human being is not a curiosity. But
how about the first human eve that was
ever kindled, the first human ear that
was ever opened. the first human lung
that ever breathed, the first human
heart that ever beat. the first human
life ever constructed? That needed the
to work by. What stupendous work for
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