Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-25

%toukls = ttcA are Octst.is on Toe staS NO
woGcsT. long Gftsr this hrst Tuesday VI
ersa1iea week, EIlAa eoEfoaadsd Job vltA
the question:. "Dost thou know the bal-
aneirgs " tits eioudss"
Hat OF thi= tuesday work done. the
other bait IA the work Of eoupeliias the
~aters 70 lie down ia their Test asd piaos<-
- God packs Qp tbs solla ground aat
pscks IL al into ave elevations, which are
tAs-coatinenEs. With his finger he naakes
deep dspressioss In tAem, and these ara
tie lAks.. while ~ tse piiinz apet $40 Al
lssbznies aud Sierra Sesatas aad fyfs-
nees sad Alps and Himalzyas the rest of
ths waters start b. ths law Of gr--litatloa
- the lower places. and IA their run down
hill become the rivers, and thea ali around
the earth these rivers come into convention
add become occzkcs beneath, - tue clouds
are oceans above How soon the rivers got
10 their places when God said: Hudson
and James and Amazon, down 70 the At
laatic, Oregon and Sacramento down TO
the Pacific"
Three quarters Of the earth being water
and only oae-quarter being land, nothing
but Alnightiness could have caSed the
thrce-feurths 50 that they could not have
devcsred tho one-foarth. Thank God for
water AMI plenty of it. What hint that
God would have the human race very cleani
Three-sourths Of the world water. Pour
IL through the homes and makethcm pure.
poar It through the prisons and make their
occupant. moral Pour IL through tho
streets and make them healthy. There are
several thousand people asleep in Green
wood who bat for the flshy streets OF
Brooklyn and New York would have been
today well and In churches. Moreover.
there never was filrhy street that re
msincd o moral street.
How important an agency Of reform
water Is. Was illustrated by the fact that
when the ancient world got outrageousl
wicked il was plunged into the deluge and
kept under for months till its iniquity was
soaked out of it. But rejoice that on tho
first Tuesday Of the worlds existence the
water was taught To know its place, and
the Mediterranean lay down ut 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 tho
Adirondacks. And the evening aud the
morning were the second day"
THE CREATION OF VEGETATION.
Now it il Wednesday morning OF the
worlds first week. Gardening and horti-
culture viii 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 II creeping all over them.
IL has the color Of emerald Ay, 10 Is herb
age. Hail to the green grass! Gods IA
vorite color and Gods favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that he makes q larger
number CT them than of anything else.
But look yonder! Something starts out OF
the ground and goes higher up. higher and
higher. and spreads out broad leaves. 1t
Is a palm tree. Yonder is another growth,
and its leaves hang far down, and it is a
willow tree. Aud yonder is q 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 aud forests, their shadows
and their fruit girtiling 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 ilrst Wednesday
Of the worlds existence. l take taste of
one OF the apples this Wednesday morning.
and l tell you it mingles in its juices all
pippin and Rhode Island grcening and
Danvers Winter Sweet and Roxbury rus
set and Hubbardston Nonesuch, but added
TO ali, and overpowerinQ ali other flavors,
is the paradisaical juice that all the Or
charis of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach. / take a taste Of the pear, and it
has all the luxury of the t.ree Thousand
varieties Of the Nineteenth century; all the
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gardens OF later times an scidity compared
with it. And the grapesl Why. this ono
cluster has in il the richness of whole vine
yards of Cataw5as and Concords and Isa-
belias. 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
il. Slaughter houses are OF later invention.
Far am from being a vegetarian, but an
almost exclusive meat diet is depraving.
Savagcs confine themselves almost exclu-
sively to animal food. and that is one rea-
son that they are savages- Give your chill
dren moro 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 como down on the orchards and vine
yards of America, and keep back the frosts
and the curcul!o. 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 werc the third day"
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS.
Now IL is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created todny. The hours will DO passed
in scattering fogs and mists and vapors.
The atmosphere must bc swept clean.
Other worlds are TO hove in sight. This
little ship of the earth has seemed to have
all the ocean Of immensity TO itself. But
raighticr craft are TO TO hailed today on the
high seas Of space. First, the moons white
sail appears and docs very well until the
sun bursts npon the scene. The light that
on the previous three mornings was struck
from an especial word now gathers in tho
sun, moon and stars. One for the day, the
others for the night. IL seemed as IL they
bad all within tsventy-fou hours been
created. Al. this is great time in the
worlds first week. The moon, the nearest
neighbor 10 our earth appears, her photo
graph To he taken ia the Nineteenth cent
AIRY, when the telescope shall bring her
within one hundred and twenty miles Of
New York.
And the sun now appears. aftervard to
he found eight hundred and eirhty-cight
thoussnd miles ia diameter. and. put In
astronomical Scales. TO be found 20 weigh
nearly four hundred thousand times heav-
Ter than our earth: mighty furnace its