The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-10

OF the clOudST Hail OF tnlS lueS-
day 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 finger He makes
deep depressions in them, and these are
the lakes, while at the piling up of the
and Sierra Nevadas and
Pyrcnees and Alps and Himalayas the
rest of the waters start by the law of
gravitation 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
Atlantic; Oregon and Sacramento down
to the Pacific" Three quarters of
the earth being water, and only one
quarter being land, nothing but AL
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 it through the streets and
make them healthy. There are several
thousand people asleep in Greenwood
who, but for the filthy streets of Brook
lyn and New York, would have been
to-day well and in churches. More
over, there never was filthy street
that remained a moral street. How
important an agency Of reform water
is was illustrated by the fact that when
the ancient world got outrageously wick
ed it was plunged into the Deluge and
kept under for months till its iniquity
was soaked out of it. But l rejoice
that on the first Tuesday of the worlds
existence 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 feet of the Alps, and Scroon Lake
fell to sleep ir the lap Of the Adiron-
dacks. Sand the evening and the
morning were the second day."
Now, it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week. Gardening and hor-
ticulture will be born to-day. How
queer 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 favorite plant, as
Judge from the fact that He makes ,
larger number of them than of any
thing else. But look yonder! Some
thing starts out of the ground and goel
higher up, higher and higher, ant
spreads out broad leaves. 1t is palm
tree. Yonder is another growth, and
its leaves hang far down, and it is {
willow tree. And yonder is growth
with mighty sweep Of branches. Ant
here they come-the pear and the ap
pie, and the peach and the pomegranate
and groves and orchards and forests
their shadows and their frui
girdling the earth. We are push
ing agriculture and fruit culture t
great excellence in the nineteenth cen
fury, but we have nothing now to equa
what l see on this first Wednesday O
the worlds existence. take taste O
one of the apples this Wednesday morn
ing, and l tell you 1t mingles in it
juices all the favors of Spitsburgel
and Newtown pippin and Rhode Islam
greetings and Danvers winter swee
and Roxbury russell and Hubbardsto
nonesuch, but added to all, and over
towering all other flavors is the para
disaical juice that all the orchards c
the nineteenth century fail to reach.
take taste of the pear, and it has a
the luxury of the 5000 varieties of tn
nineteenth century; all the Seckel an
the Bartlett of the chronological gal
dens of the later times an acridit
compared with it. And the grape.
Why, this one cluster has in it the ricf
ness of the whole vineyards Of Catav
has and Concords and Isabella.
Fruits of all colors, of all odors, {
all tlavors. No hand Of man yet mad
to pluck it or tongue to taste it. TIL
banquet for the human race is bein
spread before the arrival of the firs
guest In the fruit of that garden We
the seed for the orchards and garden
of the hemispheres. Notice that tn
first thing that God made for food we
fruit, and plenty of it. Slaughte
houses are of later invention. Far am
from being a vegetarian, but an almo'
exclusive meat diet is depraving. Sa,
ages confine themselves almost excl,
sively to animal food, and that is or
reason that they are savages. Gi,
your children more apples and less mu
ton. The world will have to civ
dominance to the fruit diet of paradi.
before it gets back to the morals
paradise. May Gods blessing con
down on the orchards and vineyards
America, and keep back the frosts ar
the curculio. Bat we must not forg,
that it is Wednesday evening in Edel
and upon that perfect fruit of tho:
perfect trees let the cartain drop. car
the evening and the morning were Il
third day."
Now it is Thursdays morning of Il
worlds first week. Nothing will
created to-day. The hours will
passed in scattering fogs and mists ar
vapors The atmosphere must
swept clean. other worlds are to no,