The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-03

| bJthtus CLOUDS III iOuR parallel Alhop 90
straight you know an infinite geometer
had 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 balancings of the
clouds?" Half Of this Tuesday work
done, the other half is the work of COM
polling the waters to lie down in their de-
stined places. So God picks up the solid
ground and packs it up into five elevations
which are the continents With His fin
gers He makes deep depressions in them,
and these are the lakes, while at the piling
up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Nevadas
and Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the
rest of the waters start by the law of grsv-
itation to the lower places, and in their
run down-hill becomes 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 Atlantic; Oregon
and Sacramento down to the Pacific"
Three-quarters OF the earth being water
and only one-Quarter being land, nothing
but Almightiness could nave Gagged the
4 50 ltlhI LlieN COulu not nave
devoured the one.fourth. Thank God for
water and plenty OF it. What hint that
God would have the human face 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 1t
through the streets and make them
| healthy. There are several thousand peo-
pie asleep in Greenwood, who, but for the
| filthy streets of Brooklyn and New York,
would have been today we'll and in
churches Moreover, there never was
filthy street that remained moral street.
How importantau agency OF reiorm water is
| was we'll illustrated by the fact that when
the ancient world got outrageously wicked
| il 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 it's 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
| Adirondac<s. "And the evening and the
morning were the second day"
Now 1t is Wednesday morning OF the
| worlds first week. Gardening ana horti-
/
the hills look, and so 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 favor.
tie plant, as Judge from the fact that He
| makes larger number OF them than of
anything else But look yonderl Some
| thing starts out of the ground and goes
higher up, higher and higher, and spreads
out broad leaves. Ii Is palm tree. Yon-
der 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, aud the peach and the
pomegranate. and groves and orchards
and forests, their shadows and their ruit
girdling the earth. We are pushing agri-
culture and fruit culture to great excel
lence in the nineteenth century, but we
| have nothing now TO equal what ] see on
| this first Wednesday of the worlds exist
ence. take taste of one of the apples
this Wednesday morning and | tell you
it mingles in its juices all the favors OF
Spitzbergen and Newtown pippin and
Rhode Island greening and Danvers win
ter sweet and Roxbury russell and Hub
bardstown nonesuch, but added to all and
| overpowering all other tlavors is the par
adisaical Juice that all the orchards of the
nineteenth century fail to reach. i take
taste of the pear, and il has ali the luxury
of the 5000 varieties of the nineteenth
century; all the Seckel and the Bartlett of
the pomological gardens OF later times, an
acridity compared with it. And the
| grapes! Why, this one cluster has in it
the richness of whole vineyards of Cataw-
has and Concords and Isabellas. Fruits
of all colors, of all odors, of all flavors No
hand of man yet made 10 pluck it or
tongue to taste it. The banquet for the
human race Is being spread before the ar
rival of the first guest. In the fruit of
that garden was the seed for the orchards
and gardens of the hemispheres Notice
that the first thing that God made for food
was fruit, and plenty of it. Slaughter
houses are of later invention. Far | am
| from being vegetarian, but almost ex-
elusive meat diet is depraying. Sayages
confne themselves almost exclusively to
animal food, and that is one reason that
they are savages. Give your children
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 blessing
come down on the orchards and vine
| yAfus OF Amerlch, anu keep Dack the trOStS
and the curcuio. But we must not forget
that it is Wednesday evening in Eden,
and upon that perfect fruit of those per-
feet trees let the curtain drop. "And the
evening and the morning were the third
day."
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week Nothing will be Gre
ated 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 all
the ocean of immensely to itself But
mightier crafts are to be hailed today on
the high seas of space. First, the moon S
white soil appears and does very we'll un-
til the sun bursts upon the scene. The
light that on the previous three mornings
was struck from an especial word now
gathers in the sun, moon and stars. One
for the day and the others for the night.
1t seemed as if they had all within tWen-
ty-four hours been created. All, this is a
| great time in the worlds first week. The
moon, the nearest neighbor TO our earth,
appears, her photograph to be taken in
the nineteenth century. when the tele-
scope shall bring her within l20 miles of
New York. And the sun now appears.
afterward TO be found SSS. 900 miles in di-
ameter, and, put in astronomical scales, to