Connecticut western news., 1893-02-09

motion of the principle of life, prin- ciple that all the thousands of years since have not been able to define or analyze- the very first stir of life-was in fish.
 What an hour that was when in the Euphrates, the Gihon, the Pison and the Hiddekel, the four rivers of paradise, tae waters swirled with fins and bright ened with scales. All the attributes of the infinite God were called into action for the making of that first fish. Lanceo- late and translucent miracle! There is enough wonder in the plate of stur- geon or in the cartilage of shark to confound the scientists. 1t does not take the universe to prove God. A fish does it. No wonder that Linn8us and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest minds of all the centuries sat enraptured before it's anatomy.
 Oh, it's beauty and the adaptedness of it's structure to the element in which it must live; the picture gallery on the sides of the mountain trout unveiled as they spring up to snatch the flies; the gray ling, called the flower of fishes; the salm- on, ascending the Oregon and the Sev- ern, easily leaping the falls that would stop them; the bold perch, the gudgeon, silver and black spotted; the herring, moving in squadrons five miles long; the carp, for cunning called the fox of fshes the wondrous surgeons, formerly re- served for the tables of royal families, and the isinglass made out of their mem- brane; the tench, called the physician of fishes, because when applied to human oil, fc ic fn ho hQ lampreys, so tempting to the epicurean that too many of them slew Henry IT. aye, the whole world of fishes!
 Enough of them floating up and down the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every ear of corn and every head of wheat and every herd of quadruped and if every other article of food in all the earth were destroyed. Universal drought, leaving not so much as 8 spear of grass on the round planet, would leave in the rivers and lakes and seas for the human race staple commodity of food which, if brought to shore, would be enough not only to feed but fatten the entire human race.
 In times to come the world may be so populated that the harvests and vine yards and land animals may be insuff- cient to feed the human family, and the nations may be obliged to come to the rivers and ocean beaches to seek the liv- ing harvests that swim the deep, and that would mean more health and vigor and briliancy and brain than the hu- man race now own.
 IMPORTANCE OF PLAIN FOOD.
 The Lord, by placing the fish in the first course of the menu in paradise, making it precede bird and beast, indi- cated to the world the importance of the fish as an article of human food. The reason that men and women lived three and four and five and nine hundred years was because they were kept on parched corn and fish. We mix up fantastic food that kills the most of us before 30 years of age. Custards and whipped sil- labubs and Roman punches and chicken salads at midnight are gantlet that few have strength to run.
 We put on many tombstone glowing epithets saying that the person beneath died of patriotic services or from ex- haustion in religious work when noth- ing killed the poor fellow but lobster  ought to have been sound asleep in bed. There are men today in our streets so many walking hospitals who might have been athletes if they had taken the hint of Genesis in my text and of our Lords remark and adhered to simplicity of diet
 The reason that the country districts have furnished most of the men and women of our time who are doing the mightiest work in merchandise, in me- chanics, in law, in medicine, in theology, in legislative and congressional halls, and all the presidents from Washington down-at least those who have amount ed to anything-is because they were in those country districts of necessity kept on plain diet.
 Noman or woman ever amounted to anything who was brought up on float ing island or angel cake. The world must turn back to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac morals and paradisiac health. The human race today needs more phosphores, and the fish is charged and surcharged with phosphorus -phos- phorus, that which shines in the dark without burning.
 What made the 12 apostles such stall wart men that they could endure any thing and achieve everything? Next to divine inspiration, it was because they were nearly all fishermen and lived on fish and a few plain condiments. Paul, though not brought up to swing the net and throw the line, must of necessity have adopted the diet of the population among whom he lived, and you see the phosphorus in his daring plea before Felix, and the phosphorus in his boldest of all utterances before the wiseacres on Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he went without fright to his beheading, and the phosphorus you see in the lives of all the apostles who moved right on undaunted to certain martyrdom, wheth- CT to.be decapitated or flung off preci- | pices or hung in crucifxion.
 Phosphorus, shining in the dark with out burning. No man or woman that ever lived was independent of questions | of diet. Let those who by circumstances I are compelled to simplicity of diet thank | God for their rescue from the tempta- l tion of killing delicacies. The men and women who are to decide the drift of the 20th century, which is only seven or eight steps off, are now five miles back from the rail ste ton and had for break fast this morning a similar bill of fare to that which Christ provided for the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake Galilee.
 Indeed the only articles of food that Christ by miracle multiplied were bread and fish which the boy who acted as sut- Ter to the 1000 people of the wilderness handed over-fve barley loaves and two fishes. The boy must have felt badly when called on to give up the two fishes which he had brought out after having | ca11obt them bimse1f sittipo with bic