Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-25


fuel, world devourng other worlds with
it's jaws of fame. And the stars come out,
those street lamps of heaven, those keys OF
pearl, upon which Gods fingers play the
music Of the spheres. How bright they
look in this oriental EVENING" Copstella-
tionsl Galaxiesl What a twenty four
hours of this first week-solar, lunar,
stellar appearances! All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed in pull
ing aside the curtain of vapor from these
flushed or pale faced worlds. Enough!
And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day"
THE FISHES AND THE BIRDS.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds history. Water, but
not fin swimming it; air, but not a wing
flying it. 1t is a silent world. Can it be
that it was made only for vegetables? But
hark There is a swirl and a spashing in
all the four rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hid
dekel and Euphrates. They are all aswim
with life, some darting like arrows through
split crystal, and others quiet in dark pools
like shadows. Everything, from spotted
trout to behemoth, all colored, all shaped,
the ancestors of finny tribes that shall by
their wonders of construction confound the
Agassizes, the Cuviers and the LiunBuses
and the ichthyologists of the more than six
thousand years following this Friday of
the first week.
And while | stand on the banks of these
Paradisaical rivers, watching these fnny
tribes, hear a whirr in the air and l look
up and behold wings-wings of larks, rob-
ins, doves, eagles, famingoes, albatrosses,
brown threshers. Creatures of all color
blue, as if dipped in the skies; fiery, as
if they had flown out of the sunsets;
golden, as if they had taken their morn
ing bath in buttercups. And while | am
studying the colors they begin to carol
and chirp and COO and twitter and run up
and down the scales of a music that they
must have heard at heavens gate. Yes, !
find them in Paradise on this the first Fri
day afternoon of the worlds existence. And
| sit down on the bank of the Euphrates
and the murmur of the river, together with
the chant of birds in the sky, puts me into
a state of somnolence. "And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day."
BEASTS AND MEN.
Nowitis Saturday morning of the worlds
first week and with this day the week
closes. But oh, what a climacteric dayl
The air has its population and the water
it's population Yet the land has not one
inhabitant But here they come, by the
voice of God created! Horses grander than
those which in after time Job will describe
as having neck clothed with thunder.
Cattle enough to cover a thousand hills.
Sheep shepherded by him who made for
them the green pastures. Cattle superior
to the Attorneys and Ayrshires and Devon
shires of after times Leopards 50 beauti-
full we are glad they cannot change their
:
all the quadruped world so gentle so sleek,
so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal ere.
alton, whether they walk tss h;,s 'eaft a,,rSn ol
fr,,S @4s Or ny the air Do you moi
4 nU.Ice that God gave them precedence O
the human race? They were created Fri
day and Saturday morning, as man was
created Saturday afternoon. They have {
right to be here. He who gals horse, Of
exposes a COW to the storm, or beats dog
or mauls a cat, or CANDLES at the pigeoI
shooting, or tortures an insect, will have
to answer for it in the judgment day. YoU
may console yourself that these creatures
are not immortal and they cannot appear
against you, but the God who made thes,
creatures and who saw the wrong you die
them will be there. Better look out, yor
stock raisers and railroad companies who
bring the cattle on trains without food Of
water for three or four days in hot weather
a long groan of agony from Omaha to New
York.
Better look out, you farmer riding be
hind that limping horse with a nail thai
the blacksmith drove into the quick Bet
ter look out, you boys stoning bullfrog'
and turning turtles upside down, and rob
IQYrtu l. l.
ing in Paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there to pluck the flower,
of this Edenic lawn2 Who is there t.
command these worlds of quadruped ant
fish and bird? For whom has God pa
back the curtain from the face of sun anC
moon and star2 The world wants an EN-
peror and empress. 1t is Saturday after
noon No one but the Lord Almighty car
originate a human being. In the worlt
where there are in the latter part of tn,
Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred
million people, human being is not
curiosity.
But how about the first human eye tha
was ever kindled, the first human ear tha
was ever opened, the first human lung tha
ever breathed, the first human heart tina
| ever beat the first human life ever con
structed? That needed the origination o
God He had no model to work by
| What stupendous work for a Saturda,
| afternoon! He must originate style o
! human heart through which all the blooC
! in the body must pass every three minutes
| He must make that heart so strong that i
can, during each day, lift what would b
equal to one hundred and twenty tons o
weight, and it must be so arranged as t,
! beat over thirty-six million times ever.
year. About five hundred muscles mus
| be strung in the right place, and at leas
| two hundred and fifty bones constructed
Into this body must be put at least min
million nerves. Over three thousand per
! spring pores must be made for every incl
| of tleshly surface.
| The human voice must be so constructed
! it shall be capable of producing seventeen
! trillion fvehundred and ninety-two billiol
! one hundred and eighty-six million forty
! four thousand four hundred and ffteeI
| sounds But all this the most insignifican
| part of the human being. The SOUL All
the construction of that God himself woul,
not be equal to if he were any the less Of
! God. Its understanding, its will, its mem
ory, its conscience, its capacities of enjoy
! ment or suffering, its Immortality Wha
| a work for a Saturday afternoonl Aye
| Before night there were TO be two sue
| human and yet immortal bsings con
/ structed The woman US wsl az the ma
] was formed Saturday afternoon. Becaus
deep sleep fell upon Adam, and by divin
surgery portion of his side was remove
| for the nucleus of another creation, il ha
| been supposed that perhaps days an
| nights passed between the masculine an
| feminine creations. But mol Adam wa
not three hours minated.
II physician can by anRsthetics pu
one into a deep sleep in three minutes