The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-06-04

IN his expiring moments exclaimed,
Light! LightW Heaven itself is ONLY
more light. Upon all superstition, all
upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let
IN the light. But now the light of the
llrst Monday is receding. The blaze is
going out. The colors are dimmlng.
Only part of the earth's surface is visible.
1t is O'Clock, o'clock, O'Clock; OBJ
seuratlon and darkness. 1t is Monday
night. "And the evening and the
morning were the first day."
TUESDAYS WORK.
Now it is Tuesday morning. a deli
cate and tremendous undertaking is set
apart for this day. There was 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 quanti-
ties and at right times was an undertake
ing that no one but OmnipOtence would
have dared. But God does it as easily
as you would lift glass of water. There
he hoists two clouds, each thirty miles
vide and five miles high, and balances
them. Here he lifts the CIRCUS clouds aud
spraads them out in great white banks
as though it has 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 arnory from which
thunder storms get their bayonets of fire.
Clouds VIII ch are oceans on the wing.
No wonder, long after this first Tues day
n ILL.,
with the question, "Dost thou know the
balancings ofthe clouds?''
Half of this Tuesday work done, the
other half is the work of compelling the
waters to lie down in their destined
places. So God picks up the solid ground
and packs it up into five elevations,
which are the continents. With his fin
ger he makes deep depressions in them,
and these are the lakes. while at the pill
ing up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Ne
vadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Him
alayas tho rest Of the waters start by the
law of gravltation to 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 to the At
lantis; Oregon and Sacramento down to
the Pacific"
Three-Quaaters of the earth being
water anr only one-quartor being land, =,
nothing but Almightiness could have
Gagged the threc-tourths so that they could
not have devoured the onc-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 1t
through the prisons and make their oc-
cupants moral. Pour it through the
streets and make them healthy. There
are several thousand people asleep in
Greenwood who but for the filthy streets
o. Brooklyn' and New York would have
been to-day we'll and in churches. More
over, there never was a filthy street that
remained a moral street.
How important an agency OF reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact that
when the an ;lcnt world got outrageously
wicked it was plunged into the deluge
and kept under for months till its iniquity
was soaked out OF it. But rejoice hat
oiA CilC VI GilC WOtlu CN"
istence the water was taught to know its
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
Icct of the Alps. and Scroon lake fell to
sleep III the lap of the Adirondacks.
And the evening and the morning were
the second day."
THE CREATION OF VEGETATION.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and
horticulture will be born to-day. How
queer the hills look, and 80 unattractivc
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 COL
or OF emerald. Ay, it is herbagc. Hail
to the green grass! Gods favorlte coll
or and Gods favorlte plant, as Judge
from the fact that he makes larger
number of 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 palm tree. Yonder is another
growth. and its leaves hang far down,
and it is a willow tree. And yondcr is
a growth with mighty sweep of branches.
And here they come-the pear, and the
apple, and the peach, and the pomegran-
ate, ana groves and orchards and forests,
their shadows and their fruit girdling the
earth.
We are pushing agriculture and fruit
culture to great excellence in the Nine
tccnth century, bit we have nothing
now to equal what | see on this first
Wednesday Of the worlds existence. l
take taste of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and l tell you it
minglcs in its juices all the fiavors Of
Spitzbergen and Newtown pippin and
Rhode Island grcening and Danvers
Winter Sweet and Roxbury russet and
Hubbardston Nonesuch, but added to
all, and overpowering all other iavors,
is the paradisaical juice that all the Or
chards of the Nneteenth century fail to
reach. | take taste Of the pear, and it
has all the luxury of the three thousand
varieties of the Nineteenth century; all
tho SpIkpl onl bn DO &c IL,