Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-25

THE FISHES AND THE BIRDS.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week Of the worlds history. Water, but
not fin swimming il; mir, but not a wing
flying it. 1t is silent world. Can it be
that it was made only for vegetables2 But
harkl There is swirl and splashing in
all the four rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hid
dekel and Euphrates. They are all aswim
with life. some darting like arrows through
spnt crystal, and Others quiet in dark pools
like shadows. Everything, from spotted
trout to behemoth, all coiored, all shaped,
the ancestors of finny tribes that shall by
their wonders of construction confound the
Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Linneuses
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 finny
tribes, hear a whirr in the air and LOOK
up and behold winRs-wings of larks, rob.
ms, 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 beard at heavens gate. Yes,
find them in Paradise ON this the first Fri
day afternoon of the world s 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.
Now it is Saturday morning of the worlds
first week and with this day the week
closes. But oh, what climacteric dayI
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 createdl 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 so beauti-
full we are glad they cannot change their
spots. Lions without their fierceness and
all the quadruped 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 precedence of
the human racer They were created Fri
day and Saturday morning, rs man was
created Saturday afternoon. They have a
right to be here He who gals horse, or
exposes COW to the storm, or beats dog,
or mauls a cat, or CANDLES at the pigeon
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 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 cattle on trains without food or
water for three or four days in hot weather,
n long groan Of agony from Omaha to New
York.
Better look out, you farmer riding be-
hind that limping horse with a nail that
the blacksmith drove into the quick Bet
ter look out, you boys stoning bullfrogs
and turning turtles upside down, and rob
bling BIRDS nests But something is want
ing in Paradise and the week is almost
done. Who is there to pluck the flowers
of this Edenic lawnp Who is there to
command these worlds of quadruped and
fish and bird? For whom has God put
back the curtain from the face of sun and
moon and starr The world wants an EN-
peror and empress. 1t is Saturday after
noon. 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 fourteen hundred
million people, human being is not
curiosity
But how about the first human eye 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 con-
structed2 That needed the origination of
a God. He had no model to work by
What stupendous work for Saturday
afternoon He must originate 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
pS gu hlS III Vip LiShu pllNCJ anu ttU lCtiSb
two hundred and fifty bones constructed.
Into this body must be put at least nine
million nerves. Over three thousand per
spring pores must be made for every inch
of heshly surface.
The human voice must be so constructed
it shall be capable of producing seventeen
trillion iivehundred and ninety-two billion
one hundred and eighty-siX million forty
tb,,,gnnI hnnlra1 M
sounds. But all this the most insignificant
part of the human being The soul All,
the construction of that God himself would
not be equal to If he were any the less of a
God. Its understanding, its will, its mem
DRY, its conscience, its capacities of enjoy.
ment or suffering, its Immortality What
IA work for Saturday afternoonl Ayel
Before night there were to be two such
human and yet immortal beings con
structed, The woman as well as the man
was formed Saturday afternoon. Because
II deep sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine
surgery portion of his side was removed
for the nucleus of another creation, it has
been supposed that perhaps days and
nights passed between the masculine and
feminine creations. But moi Adam WIS
not three hours minated.
IT physician can ny ah6stnetlcs put
one into a deep sleep in three minutes,
God certainly could have put Adam into
profound sleep in short while that Satur-
day afternoon, and made the deep and radi-
cal eXcision without causing distress. By
a manipulation of the dust the same hand
that nodded the mountains nodded the
features and nodded the limbs of the fa-
Their of the human race. But his eyes did
hot see and his nerves did not feel, and his
muscles did not mo e, and his lungs did
not breathe, and his heart did not pulsate
A perfect form he iay along the earth