Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-06

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The figure % man. wss dashed 70 piece
and The Lord. ny demoIIshins ever,
thing but the stump or fah part Of N
IDOL. practically said, lyon may kee
your fish. but kno0 from the way hsv
demolished the rest Of the idol that u
nothing divine"
THE rfsfIffKg IDOLS
Layard and Wilkinson found the fis
an object Of idols;ry sll through Assyri
end Egypt. The Milo was full of flsh
and that explains the horrors Of th
plague that slaughtered the finny trib
al up and down that river. which ba
been and Is now the main artery o
Egypts life. In Job you hear the plung
Of the spear into the hippopotamus a
the great dramatic poet cries out, "Cans
thou fIll hisskin with barbed irons or hi
head with fish sresrsY" Yea, the FISH be
gan to swim In the very first book o
Genesis, where my text records. "Ant
God said, Let the waters bring fortl
abundantly the moving creature tha
hath lifc."
Do you realize that the first Twins
thing that God created was the fishi Il
preceded the bird. the quadruped, tn
human race. The fish has priority ot
residence over every living thing. Th'
next thing done after God had kindlet
for our world the golden chandelier o.
the sun and the silver chandelier Of III,
moon was 70 make the fish. The frri
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 thu
Euphrates. the Gihon, the Pison and the
Hiddekel, tho four rivers Of paradise
the waters swirled with fins and bright.
ened with scales. All the attributes oi
the infinite God were called into action
for the making Of that first fish. Lanceo-
late and translucent miraclel There Is
enough wonder In the plate Of stur.
geon or In the cartilage Of a shark to
confound the scientists. II does not
take the universe to prove God. A
fish does II. No wonder that Linnmri
and Cuvier and Agnssiz and the creates
minds Of all the centuries sat enraptured
before Its anatomy.
Oh. Its beauty and the adaptedness Of
It's structure to the element in which II
must live; the picture gallery ON the sides
Of the mountain trout unveiled as they
spring mp to snatch the flies; the gray
ling. called the flower Of fishes; the salm-
,n. ascending the Oregon and the Sew
srn, easily leaping the falls that would
stop them; the bold perch, the gudyoon,
silver and black spotted; the herring,
moving in squadrons five miles long; the
carp. for cunning called the fox Of fishes;
the wondrous surgeons, formerly re-
served for the tables of royal families,
md the isinglass made ont Of their men,
Drane; tho tench, called the physician of
ishes. because when applied to human
ailments 1t Is said to be curative; the
ainpreys. 30 tempting to the epicurean
hat too many Of them slew Henry IL
lye. the whole world Of fishes!
Enough Of them floating up and down
he rivers to feed the hemispheres II
very ear OF corn and every head Of
wheat and every herd Of quadruped and
every other article Of food In all the
arth were destroyed. Universal drought,
eaving not 30 much an spear Of grass
n the round planet, would leave In the
ivers and lakes and seas for the human
nee staple commodity Of food which,
brought to shore. would be enough not
My 10 feed but fatten the entire human
ice.
In times to come the world may be 40
opulated that the harvests and vine
ards and land animals may be insult. |
lent to feed the human family. and the |
ations may be Obliged to come to tn
vers and ocean beaches to seek the liv. |
" harvests that swim the deep, AMI |
lat would mean more health and vigor /
ad brilliancy and brain than tho hu.
an race now own.
IMPORTANCE or PLAIN rood.
The Lord, by placing the fish In the
rst course Of the menu In paradise.
aking II precede bird and beast, indi.
tied to the world the importance OF tn,
sh IN an article OF human food. TIL,
'ason that men and women lived thre,
id four and i've and nine hundred year.
as because they were kept on parche
'rn and fish. We mix up fantasti,
'od that kills the most of us before co
nara OF age, Custards and whipped sill
bulbs and Roman punches and chicken
'ladsat midnight are a gantlet that few
I'VE strength 10 run.
We put on many a tombstone glowine
'ithets saying that the person beneatl
ed of patriotic services or from ex
Iustion IN religious work when moth
4 killed the poor fellow but lobster
ten at a party four hours after h.
'ght TO have been sound asleep in bed.
here are men today In our streets NJ
any walking hospitals who might
We been athletes II they had taken the
nt OF Genesis In my text and Of our
'rds remark and adhered TO simplicity
diet.
Tho reason that tho country districts
We furnished most OF tho mon and
,men Of our time who are doing the
ghtiest work Ia merchandise, In mo.
anies. in law. In medicine, In theology.
Legislative and congressional halls.
d all the presidents from Washington
least those who have amount
TO anything-is because they were In
nae country districts Of necessity kept
plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounted 70
ything who was brought up ON foat-
! island or angel cake. The world