The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-02-09

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the isinglass made out Of their membraneI
the tenca. caile I the physician oe fishes bel
cause when applied to human ailments II n
said to be curative. the lampreys 50 tsnipu
ing 70 the epicureau chat too many of thed
slew Henry u-aye. the whole world d
fishesi
Enough OF them floating up aud down ed
rivers TO feed the hemispheres II every ear d
corn and every head OF wheat aud ever
herd OF quadruped and if every other artici
OF food Ia all the earth were destroyed
Universal drought leaving not 90 much d
a spear OF graSs on the round planet, woul,
leave In the rivers AMI lakes aud seas fol
the human race STABLE commodity OF fool
which. IL brought to Shore would be enough
not only to feed but fatten the entire humat
race.
In times to come the world may b, 4
| populated that the harvesss and vineyard
and land animals may be insu fiicient to feel
the human family, and thu nations may b
obliged 10 come TO the rivers aud oceit
beaches to seek tn, living harvests th u
swim the deep, and that would mean mo1
healh aud vigor au1 brilliancy aud brazil
than the human race now own.
Ths Lord, by placing the fish In tn, flrJ
course OF the menu In paradise. making II
precsde bird aud beast, indicated to thI
world the Importance Of the fish as al
article OF human fool. The reason thal
men aud women lived three AMI four AMI
five and nine hundred years was becsusI
they were kept on parchei corn and fish
We mix up a fantastic fool thit kill th
most OF US before thirty years OF age. Cui
tards anI whiopei silabubs and Roma,
punches and chicken sala1s at midnight arl
gantlet that few have strsn eth to run.
We put on many n tombstone glowiu1
eoithets saying that the person beneath diei
of patriotic services or from exhaustion i'd
religious work when nothing kilei tn, pooI
fellow but lobster eaten at party four hou1
after he ought TO have bsen sound asleep ii
bed. There are men to-day In our streets 4
many walking hospitals who might havI
been athlete'if IL they had taken the hint d
Genesis in my text and OF our L)ri's reI
mark anu adhered to sim ,licity os diet
The reason that tha country districts havl
Furnished most OF the men anl women oil
our time VINO are doing the mightiest wors
In merchandise, in mschsnicS in law, 10
me iiciue, in theology, in legislative and
congressional halls, and all tue presidents
from Washington down-lt least th )ss VINO
have amounted TO anythiny-i because they
were In those country districts OF necassity
keot on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounte to any
thing who was brought up on Il osting island
or angel cake. The world must turn back
to paradisiac diet il it is TO get paradisiac
morals and parad siiac health. The human
rae, to-day ne s1s more phosphorus, aud the
fish Is charged an surcharse1 vita phos.
neutrality-suspicious., that which SHINES In
the dark without burning.
What made the twsivs apostles suci stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve everything Next to divine in :
spration. it was because they were nearly
all fishermen aud lived on fish and a few
plain condiments. Paul. thou yh not brought
up to swing the net and throw the line, must
OF necessity have adopted tho diet OF the
see the phosphorus In his daring plea before
Felix, and the phosphorus in his bodest OF
all utterances before the wisacrss on Mars
Hill, and the phosphorus as he went without
fright 70 his behestiug, and tho phosphorus
you see IN the lives or all the apostles who
moved right on undaunted to certain martyr
dom. whether TO be decspitatsd or flung or
prscipices or hung in crucifx,ou.
Phosphorus, shining In tho dark without
burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent OF qu ,stions of diet. Let
those who by circumstances arc compelled
TO simplicity OF diet thank God for their res.
cue from the temptation OF killing delica
cies. The men and women who ara to de
eide the drift OF the Twentieth Century,
which Is only seven or eight steps OF, ars
now five miles back from the rail station
anas shpS for breakfast this nornine s.l,.l,r
hl OF fare to that which Christ provided for
to fishermen disciples on the banks OF Lake
slilee.
In iced the only articles of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied wers breal ani
fish which the boy who acted as sutsr TO the
700 persons Of the wilderness handed over
five barley loaves ami two fishes. The
boy must have felt badly when called OH to
give up the two fishes which he had brought
out after having caught them himself, sit
ting with his bare teet over the bank of the
lako and expecting - sell his supply at good
profit, but he felt bsttsr when by the mira
Gle the fish were multiplied and hs had more
returned TO him than he had surrenlerei.
Know also in order TO understand the
ichthyology OF the Bible that in the deeper
waters. as those OF the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. This
fools who become inudels because they eau
not understand the ingultment OF the recre-
ant Jonah in sea monster might have
saved their souls by stu lying little natural
history. "Oh," says some one, THAT story
OF Jonah was only fable Say Others:
at was iuterp olatel by same w:lte- OF later
times" Others saJ: VT was a reproluc-
ton OF the story OF Hercules devourel and
then rsstoI cd from the monster" But my
reply is that history tells Us that there were
monsters large enough TO whelm SHIPS.
The extinct icathyosaurus of other ages
was thirty feet long, and as late as the Sixth
Csntury Of the Christian era up and down
thu Mediterranean there holted monsters
compared with which mo iern whale was
a sardine or herring. The sharS has again
and again been found to swallow n man en-
tire A fisherman on the coast Of Turkey
found a sei monster which contained a wo-
man and purse of gold. l have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to take
down prophet.
But have u better reason for believing
the Old Testament account, ana that is that
Christ said IL was true aud type. of His
own resurrection, and ! suppose He ought
to know. In Matthew xii. 40, Jesus Christ
says. "For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whales belly, SO shall
the Son OF Man be three days and thres
nights IN the heart OF the earth" And that
settles it for me and for any man who does
not believe Christ duoe and an imposter.
Notics also how the Old Testament writers
drew similitude from the fisheries. jeremiah
uses such imagery TO prophesy destruction,
behold, will send for many fishers saith
the Lord, and they shall fish them" Ezekiel
uses fish imagery to prophssy prosperity,
"lt shall come to pass that the fishers shall
stand upon IL from Engedi even TO Eneg-
lain; there shall bs pace To spread forth
nets; their fish shall be according % their
kinds. as the fish OF the great sea, exceeding