Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-25

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upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let
i'm the light But now the light of the
first Monday is receding. The blaze is
going out. The colorS are dimming.
Only part of the Earth'S surface is Wis
ible. Ii is six o'clock, seven o'clock,
eight O'Clock, observation and dark
ness. 1t is Monday night. and the
evening and the morning were the first
day"
Now il is Tuesday morning. A deli
cate and tremendous undertaking is set
apart for this day. There was 4 great
Superabundance of water. God by the
wave of his hand this morning gathers
part of it in suspended reservoirs and
part of it he orders down into the
rivers. and lakes and seas. How to
hang 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
OmnipOtence would have dared. But
God does il as easily as you would lift a
glass of water. There he hOiStS two
clouds each thirty miles wide and five
miles high and balances them. Here
he lifts the cirrus 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 thun-
der-StormS get their bayonetS of fire.
Clouds which are oceans on the wing.
THE CREATION.
No wonder long after this first Tues
day of Creation week, Elihu confound-
ed job with the question, "D0St thou
know the balanciugS of the clOuds?'
Half of this Tuesday work done, the
other half is the woi k of compelling the
waters TO be down in their destined
places. So God picks up the solid
ground and packs it up into five eleva-
lions which are the continents. With
his finger he makes deep depreSSionS in
them. and these are the lakes while at
the piling up of the AllcghanieS, and
Sierra NevadaS, and PyreneeS, and
Alps. and Himalayas, the rest of the
waters start by the law Of gravitation
10 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
10 the Atlantic; Oregon and Sacramento,
down to the Pacific" Three-QuarterS
of the earth being water and only one
Quarter being land, nothing but AL
mightineSS could have Gagged the three
fOurthS so that they could not have de-
voured 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 il through the streets and make
them healthy. There are several thou
sand people asleep i'm Greenwood, who,
but for the filthy streets of Brook
lyu and New York, would have
been to-day well and in churches.
Moreover, there never was filthy
street that remained Il moral street.
How important an agency OF reform
water is. was illustrated by the fact that
when the ancient world got outrageous
lv wicked, it was plunged into the
Deluge and kept under for months till
its iuIquity was soaked out Of it. But
Ireioice that on the first Tuesday of the
worlds existence the water was taught
10 know its place, and the Mediter-
ranean 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 10 sleep in the lap OF the Ad-
irondocks. And the evening and the
morning were the second day"
Now 1t is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and
horticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look, and 50 unattractive
they seem hardly worth having been
made. But now all the surfaces are
changing color. Something beautiful
is creeping all over them. 1t has the
color of emerald. Aye, it is heritage.
Hail TO the green grass, Gods favorite
color and Gods favorte plant, as Judge
from the fact that he makes larger
number of them than of anything else.
But look wonder! Something starts out
of the ground and goes higher up, high
er and higher, and spreads out broad
leaves. IL is palm tree. londer Is
another growth, and its leaves hang far
down. and it is willow tree. And
wonder is growth with mighty sweep
of branches.
TIE GROWTH.
And here they come-the pear and
the apple, and the peach and the pome-
granate and groves and orchards and
forests, their shadows and their trult
girdling the earth. We are pushing
agriculture and fruit culture to great
excellence in the nineteeth 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
I tell you it mingleS in its juices all the
havorS of Spitzbergen and Newtowi
pippin and Rhode Island grecntng and
D1nyers winter sweet and RoXbury rus
set and HubbardStOn noneSuch, Ou'
added to all, and overpOwcring all other
navors is the ParadiSaical juice that al
the orchards of the nineteenth century
fail 10 reach. l Ia Ike a taste of tn" pear
and it has all the luxury of the three
. Thousand varieties of the nineteenth
century: all the Seckel aud the Bartlett