Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-25

hours of this first week-solar lunar,
stellar appearances. All this Thursday
and the adjoining nights employed in
pulling aside the curtain of vapor from
these flushed or pale faced worlds.
Enough And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day"
FLYING AND SWIMMING CREATURES.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds existence Water,
but not q 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 harkl There is a
swirl and a splashing in all the four
rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and
Euphrates They are all aswim with
life, some darling 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 wonder of construc-
ton cOnf0und the AgassiZes, the Cuviers
and the Linn8uses and the ichthyolo-
giets of the more than six thousand
wears following this Friday the first
week. And while | stand on the banks
of these paradisaical rivers watching
these finny tribes hear whirr in the
air. and look up and behold wings
wings Of larks, robins, doves, eagles,
famingoes, albatrosses, brown thresh-
ers 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 morning bath in
buttercrps. And while | am studying
the cOIors 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 III Paradise on this
the first Friday afternoon OF the worlds
existence And I 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"
THE LAST DAYS WORK.
Now it is Saturday morning of the
worlds first week, and with this day
the week closes. But oh, what a eli
macteric day! The air has its popula-
ton 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 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 Devonshires of after times Loop
ards so beautiful we are glad they can
not change their spots. Lions without
their fierceness, and all the quadruped
world SO gentle, 50 sleek, so perfect.
Look out how you treat this animal
creation, whether they walk the earth
or swim the waters or fly the air. Do
you not notice that God gave them
precedence of tIa2 human race? They
were created Friday and Saturday
morning, as man was created Saturday
afternoon. They have a right to be
here. He who gals a horse, or exposes
COW to the storm, or beats a dog, or
mauls a cat, or CANDLES at the pigeon
shooting, or fortunes 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 these creatures and
who saw the wrong you did them will
be there
Better look out, you stock raisers and
railroad companies who bring the cat
tie on trains without food or water for
three or four days in hot weather, a
long groan of agony from Omaha to
New York. Better look out, you farm
er riding behind that limping horse
with a nail that the blacksmith drove
into the quick. Better look out, you
boys stoning bullfrogs and turning tur-
ties upside down and robbing birds
nests But something is wanting in
Paradise, and the week is almost done.
Who is there to pluck the flowers of
this Edenic lawn? Who is there to
command these worlds of quadrupeG
and fish and bird2 For whom has God
put back the curtain from the face of
sun and moon and star? The world
wants an emperor and empress. 1t is
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
over fourteen hundred million
people, human being is not a curios-
ity.
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 origination of a God.
He had no model to work by What
work for a Saturday after
noon! He must originate a style OF
human heart through which all the
blood in the body must pass every
three minutes. He must make that
heart SO strong that it can during each
day lift what would be equal to one
hundred and twenty tons of weight,
and it must be SO arranged as to beat
over thirty-siX million times every year.
About five hundred muscles must be
strung in the right place, and at least
two hundred and fifty bones con
5tructed. Into this body must be put
at least nine million nerves Over
three thousand perspiring pores must |
be made for every inch Of fieshly sur
face
The human voice must be so con
3tructed it shall be capable of prOduc- |
ng seventeen trillion five hundred and |
billion one hundred and |
eighty-six million forty-four thousand |
;Our hundred and fifteen sounds. But |
Ill this the most insignificant part of |
he human being. The soul! All, the |
construction of that God himself would |
lot be equal to if he were any the less
IF God. It's understanding, its will, |
is memory, its conscience, its capaci-
les of enjoyment or suffering its i'm
What a work for Satur-
lay afternoon! Aye! Before night |
here were to be two such human and |
yet immortal beings constructed. The |
woman as well as the man was formed |
Saturday afternoon. Because a deep |
deep fell upon Adam, and by divine /