Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-04

IN suspended reservoirs, and part OF IL he
orders down into the rivers and lakes and
seas How to hang whole Atlantic oceans
IL the clouds without their spilling over
except In right quantities and at right
times was an undertaking that no one but
Omnipotence would have dared. But God
does il as easily as you would lift glass Of
water. There he hoists two clouds, each
thirty miles wide and five miles high, and
balances them. Here he lifts the cirrous
clouds and spreads them out in great white
banks as though il had been showing in
heaven. And the cirro-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 bayonets of fire.
Clouds which are oceans on the wing No
wonder, long after this first Tuesday of
creation week, Elihu confounded Job with
the question, "Dost thou know the bal
ancings OF the cloudsi"
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 1t up into five elevations, which ere
the continents. With his finger he makes
deep depressions in them, and these are
the lakes, while at the piling upof the AL
leghanies and Sierra Nevadas and Pyre-
nees and Alps and Himalayas 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 and Amazon, down to the At
lantic Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacific"
Three-quarters of the earth being water
and only one-quarter being land, nothing
but Almightiness could have Gagged the
three-fourths so that they could not have
devoured 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
it through the homes and make them pure.
Pour it through the prisons and make their
occupants moral Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There are
several thousand people asleep in Green
wood who but for the filthy streets of
Brooklyn and New York would have been
today we'll and in churches. Moreover,
there never was a filthy street that re-
mained moral street.
How important an agency of reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact that
when the ancient world got outrageously
wicked it was plunged into the deluge and
kept under for months till its iniquity was
soaked out of it. But rejoice that on the
first Tuesday of the worlds existence the
water was taught to know its place, and
the Mediterranean lay down at the 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, and
Scroon lake fell to sleep in the lap of the
Adirondacks. "And the evening and the
morning were the second day."
THE CREATION OF VEGETATION.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and horti-
culture will be born today. How queer the
hills look, and so unattractive they seem
hardly worth having been made But now
all the surfaces are changing color Some
thing beautiful is creeping all over them.
1t has the color of emerald Ay it is herb
age Hail to the green grassl Gods IA
vorite color and Gods favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that he makes larger
number of them than of anything else.
| But look yonderl Something starts out of
the ground and goes higher up, higher and
higher, and spreads out broad leaves 1t
| is palm tree. Yonder is another growth
and its leaves hang far down, and it is a
willow tree And yonder is a growth with
mighty sweep of branches. And here they
come-the pear, and the apple, and the
peach, and the pomegranate, and groves
and orchards and forests, their shadows
and their fruit girdling the earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
| culture to great excellence in the Nine
teenth century, but we have nothing now
to equal what see on this first Wednesday
of the worlds existence. | take taste of
one of the apples this Wednesday morning,
and | tell you it mingles in its juices all
the 6avors of Spitzbergen. and Newtown
pippin and Rhode Island greening and
Danvers Winter Sweet and Roxbury rus
set and Hubbardston Nonesuch, but added
to all, and overpowering all other favors,
is the paradisaical juice that all the or
chards of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach. take 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 pomological
gardens of later times an acidity compared
with it, And the grapesl Why, this one
cluster has in it the richness of whole vine
yards of Catawbas and Concords and Isa-
bellas Fruits of all colors, of all odors, of
all favors. No hand of man yet made to
pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banquet
for the human race is being spread before
the arrival of the first guest.
In the fruit of that garden was the seed
for the orchards and gardens of the hemis-
pheres. Notice that the first thing that
God made for food was fruit, and plenty OF
it, Slaughter houses are of later invention.
Far am l from being a vegetarian, but an
almost exclusive meat diet is depraving.
Savages confine themselves almost eXclu-
sively to animal food, and that is one rea-
son that they are savages. Give your chill
dren more apples 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 bless
ing 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 even
ing and the morning were the third day."
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created today. The hours will be passed
in scattering fogs and mists and vapors
The atmosphere must be swept clean
Other worlds are to hove in sight. This
little ship of the earth has seemed to have