News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

does 1t as easily as you would L1C a
glass of water. There he hoists two
clouds each thirty miles wide and five
miles high and balances them. Here
he lifts the CIRCUS clouds and spreads
them out in great white banks as
though it had been showing in heaven.
And the CIRCUS stratus clouds in long
parallel lines so straight you know an
infinite geometer has drawn them.
Clouds which are the armory from
which thunder storms get their bayo-
nets of fire. Clouds which are oceans
on the wing. No WONDER long after
this first Tuesday of creation week, Eli
hu COMPOUNDED Job with the question,
'Dost thou know the balancings of the
clouds2
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 eleva-
tfons, 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 Alleghanies and
Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees 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
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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, moth
ing but Almightiness could have Gagged
the three-fourths so that they could not
have devoured the one-fourth. Thank
God for water and plenty of it. What
a hint that God would have the human
race very cleanl 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 Brooklyn and New York
would have been today well and in
churches. Moreover, there never was
a filthy street that remained moral
street.
How important an agency of reform
water is, was illustrated by the fact
that when the ancient world got out
rageously wicked 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
in the lap of the Adirondacks. And
the evening and the morning were the
second day"
GREEN THINGS BEGIN TO GROW.
Now it is Wednesday morning of the
worlds first week Gardening End hor-
ticulture will be born today. How
queer the hills look, and SO unattract-
i've they seem hardly worth having
been made But now all the surfaces
are changing color. Something beauti
full is creeping all over them. 1t has
tho color of emerald. Aye, it is herb
age. 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 yonderl Some
thing 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
willow tree. And yonder is growth
with mighty sweep of branches And
here they come-the pear, and the ap-
pie, and the peach, and the pomegran-
ate, and groves and orchards and for
ests, their shadows and their fruit grid
ling 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 I see on this first
Wednesday of the worlds existence.
l take taste of one of the apples this
Wednesday morning, and / tell you it
mingles in its juices all the fiavors of
Spitzbergen and Newtown pippin and
Rhode Island greening and Danvers
winter sweet and Roxbury russell and
Hubbardston nonesuch, but added to
all and overpowering all other flavors
is the paradisaical juice that all the or
chards of the Nineteenth century fail to
reach.
l take taste of the pear, and it has
all the luxury of the three thousand
varieties of the Nineteenth century;
all the Seckel and the Bartlett of the
genealogical gardens of later times an
acidity compared with it. And the
grapesl Why, this one cluster has in
it the richness of whole vineyards of
Catawbas and Concords and Isabellas.
Fruits of all colors, of all odors, of all
havors. 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 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
l from being vegetarian, but an al
most exclusive meat diet is depraving
Savages confine themselves almost ex-
clusively 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 Par
adise before it gets back to the morals
of Paradise. May Gods blessing come
down on the orchards and vineyards of
America, and keep back the frosts and
the curculio. 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 evening and the morning
were the third day"
THE SUN AND MOON APPEAR.
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created 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 i'm
mensity to itself. But mightier craft
are to be hailed today on the high seas
of space. First the moons white sail
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