The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-29


a 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
Outragrously wicked, it was plunged
into deluge and kept under for months
until its iniquity was soaked out of it
But rejoice that on the first Tuesday
of the worlds existence the water was
taught to know its place, and the Med
iterranean 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 AdirOndaclzs- And the
evening and the morning were the sec
Ond day"
Now it is Wednesday morning Of the
worlds first week Gardening and
horticulture viii 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 It has the
color of emerald Aye, it is heritage.
Notice that the first thing that God
made for food was fruit, and plenty OF
it Slaughter houses are OF later in
ventiOn. Far am from being a vege-
tartan, but an almost exclusive meat
diet is depraving. Savages confne
NAL food, and that is one reason that
they are savages. Give your children
more apples and less mutton. But we
must not forget that it is Wednesday
evening in Eden and upon that perfect
fruit of those perfect trees let the cur
taiE drop. And the evening and the
morning were the third day"
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be
passed in scattering fogs and mists and
vapOrs- The atmosphere must be swept
clean Other worlds are to heave in
sight. This little ship of the earth has
seemed to have all the ocean of i'm
mensity to itself But mightier craft
are to be hailed to-day on the high seas
of space. First the moons white sail
appears and does very we'll until 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. It
seemed as if they had all within TWEEN
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 telescope shall bring her within 80
| miles of New York.
And the sun now appears, afterward
r
/ and, put in astronomical scales, to be
found to weigh nearly 400, 600 times
/ heavier than our earth; a mighty fur
| mace. its heat kept up by meteOrs pour
| ing into it as fuel, a world devOuring
! other worlds with its jaws of flame.
! And the stars come out, those street
| lamps of heaven, those keys of pearl,
upon which Gods fingers play the mu-
sic of the spheres. Enough! And the
evening and the morning We're the
| fourth day"
Now it is Friday morning IN the first
| week of the worlds existence. Water,
but not a fin swimming it; air, but not
! a wing flying it. It is a silent world
Can it be that it was made only fol
| vegetables? But, bark! There is {
/ swirl and a splashing in all the fOu1
rivers of PisOn, Gihon, Hiddel1el and
! Euphrates- They are all aswim with
life, some darting like arrows through
split crystal and others quiet in darI
pools like shadows Everything from
spotted trout to behemoth. And while
stand on the banks of these Paradisaic
al rivers watching these hnny tribes
| hear the whirr in the air and lOol
up and behold wings-wings of larls
robins, doves, eagles, hamingOs, alba
trOsses, brown threshers. Creatures o
all color, blue as if dipped in the skies
fiery as if they had flown out of tn,
sunsets, golden as if they had talkeI
their morning bath in buttercups. AnC
I sit down on the bank of the Euphrates
and the murmur Of the river, togethe
with the chant OF birds in the sky put
me into a state OF somnO1ence. ''An,
the evening and the morning We're tn
fifth day"
Now it is Saturday morning of tn
worlds first week and with this day tn,
week closes But o, what a climacteri
day! The air has its population and tn
water its population Yet the land ha
not one inhabitant But here the,
come, by the voice OF God created
! horses grauder than those which il
after time job viii describe as havin.
! neck clothed with thunder; cattl
enough to cover a thousand hills; shee1
shepherded by Him who made for then
the green pastures; cattle superior t
the Attorneys and Ayrshires and Devon
shires of after times; IeOpards s.
beautiful that we are glad they cal
not change their spots; lions with