Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-06-05
REV. DR.. TAIMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUM-
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: lone WEEKS WORK"

week. Cosmogony, geology, astronomy, or
orthodoxy, ichthyology, botany, anatomy
are such vast subjects that no human life IS
long enough TO explore or comprehend any
cle OF them. But have thought 1 might
in an unusual way tell you little II what
| God did in one week And whether YOU
make it a week Of days or a week Of ages, |
care not for shall reach the sams practi-
cal result of reverence and worship.
The first Monday morning found swinging
in space the pilel up lumber of rocks aud
install and soil and water from which the
! earth was TO be builded. God made uu his
mind TO create a human family. aud they
/ must have n house 10 live in. But where?
Not roof, not wall, not a door, not a
room Mas fit for human occupancy. There
/ is not a pile of black basalt IN Yellowstone
/ Park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu 50
! inappropriate for human residence as was
this globe at that early perlol. Moreover,
| there wasno human architect to draw plau
no quarryman to blast the foundation stoncs,
/ 10 carpenter to hew out beam, and NJ
mason to truwel wall
The first thing neelcl was light. 1t was
not needed for God 10 work by, for He can
! work as well in the darkness. But light may
/ be necessary, for angelic INTEL Genc = are u
! see in itstul glory the process Of woril buui-
/ ing. But where are the candles, where arc
! the candelabra, whore is the chau1elier? NJ
! rising sun will roll in the morning for il the
! sun is already created its light VIII not vet
reach the earth in three days. Nor moon
/ nor stars can brighten this darkness. The
moon and stars ara not born vet, or II
created their light will not reach tha earth
! for some time vet But there Is uerI OF I'M
mediate light. Where shall 1t come from
The record makes me think that, stan linz
| over tins earth that spring morning, God
] looked upon the darkness that palei the
/ heights Of this world, aul the cAa,ms OF il,
and the awful reaches OF it, ani uttered
whether in the Hebrew OF earth or some
! language celestial | know not, that word
/ which stands for the subtle, br5 5ht, glowing
and all pervading fluid, that word whicn
! thrills and Carlands aud hts every thing 1t
! touches, that word the full meaning o. which
! all the chemists of the ages have bus.el
themselves i'll exploring, that word which
/ suggests IA force tDat flies one hundred aui
ninety thousand miles IN a second, anI by
/ undulntions seven hundred aud tweuty-seYen
/ trlllluns in seCOSd, that one word that Goi
! utterS-Light'
And Instant the darkness LeSun to shin
! mer and the thick folds Of biarEueS, t0 lit,
aud there were sclntiltiunS aui c0ru> u
tions and flashes and billowiuE up Of reSplln-
/ dence, and III great sheets 1t spread out
northward, southwark, eastward, westward,
and radiance filled the atmosphere until 1t
: COulil uOll no IlDIt VI lut ordnance. lI.nL
now TO work by while supernatural intcih-
gences look on. Light, tho first chapter Of
I the first day Of the wecG. Light, the joy OF
/ the centuries. Light, the greatest blessing
/ that ever .Ouchel the human eye. Tho rOue
/ OF the Almighty is woven out Of it, for He
/ covers Himself with light as with gar
ment. Oh, bicsSeI light. | Am - gnl thus
was the first thing created that week For
/ lack of IT the body StumbicS. . thou Father
oi Lights give US light.
Now 1t is Tuesday morning. \ delicate
( and tremendous undertaking Is set apart for
this day. There was a great slperabu
/ dance of water God. by the wave OF HIS
hand, this morning gathers part OF 1t in sus-
pended reservoirs, and pare ot 1t He orders
/ down into the rivers and lakes and seas.
/ How to lang 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 Omnipoteuce
would have dared, But God doeslt as easily
asyou would lift glass Of water. There He
4 hosts two clouds, each thirty miles wide aud
five miles high, and balances them. Here
/ He lifts the Clrrous clouds and Sprea is them
out in great white banks us though it had
been showing in heaven. And the GIRO
stratus clouds in long parallel lines, 50
straight you know an infinite geometcy na,
! drawn them. Clouds which are the armurV
from which thunder storms get their bIyo-
nets OF fire. Clouds which are oceans on
the wing. No wonder, long after this first
! Tuesday OF c. eaton week, r.llhu COnfOundel
job with the question. "Dost thou know the
balancing OF the clouds"
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 III
| to the five elevations, winch are the COntI-
nentS. With his finger he makes deep de
. presSionS in them, aud these are the lakes,
while at the piling up Of the AlleGhanies and
Sierra Nevadas and PyreneeS aud Alps and
HimalayaS the rest ot the waters start by
the law OF gravitatlon TO the lower places,
and in their run down hill become the
rivers, and then all around the earth these
| rivers como into convention and become
| oceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans
! above.
Now it is Wednesday morniug of the
worlds first week Gardening and horticul
ture will be born to-day. How queer the
hills look, and SO unattractive they seem
hardly worth having been made. But no"
| all the surfaces are changing color. Some
thing beautiful is creeping all over them.
has the color Of emerald, Ay, it is herbAgc
Hail to the green guestl Gods favorite colo
and Gods favorite plant, as | judge from
the fact that he makes larger number o
them than of anything else. But look yon
del Something starts out of the grount
and goes higher up, higher and highor, an,
spreads out broad leaves 1t is palm tree
Yonder is another growth, and its leave
hang far down, and it is a willow tree. Ant
yonder is a growth with a mighty sweep o
branches. And here they come-the pear
and the apple, and the peach, and the pome
granate. and groves, aud orchards, and for
ests, their shadows and their fruit girdin.
the earth
Now it is Thursday morning Of tho worl Is
first week. Nothing will be creatol to.dly.
The hours will be- passel in scattering f)Ei
and mists and vapors. The atmosphacl
must be swept clean. Other worlds are t
heave In sight. This little ship OF taa eartt
has seemed to have all the ocean of -
mersity to itself. But mightier craft ara Il
be hailed to-day on the high seas Of space
First, the moons white saii appears Gno
does very well until the nn bnstS upon tn.
scene. The light tbst ja the previous th:e,
mornings was st",ick from an especial wOr
now gathers in the sun. moon and stars
One for the day, tho other for the mi tht.
And she sun now appears nttarwari to b,
fouDf eight hundred and eighty -oght thou
sand miles IN diameter AMI, put in as5ro
somcnl scales, to bo found to weigh nelrl,
bur hundred thousand times heavier tina,
our earth; a mighty furnace, its heat KEEP
up by meteors ponriug into it as fuel, a worl
devouring other worlds with its Jaws 0
flame, And the stars come out thoso stree
lamps of heaven, thosa keys OF parr, upD
which Gods fingers play the music of til
spheres. How bright thsv look in this or
entail evening Consultations, Galaxe,
What a twenty-four hours OF this first wsn
solar, lunar, stellar appearancas All thi
Thursday and the adjoining nights employee
in pulling aside the curtain of vapor fro:
these flushed or pale-facei worlds.
Now it is Friday morning in the first wee
Of the worlds history. Water but not n Fl
swimming it; air, but not wing flying /
1t is silent world. Can it be that it wa
made only for vegetables But bark Their
Is swirl and splashing in all the for
rivers OF Pison, Gihon, Hidekel aud Euphr,
tes They are all aswim with life, SON
darting like arrows through split crysta