Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-02-11

lsSaV explains the Horrors Of Tho
flagHsthat slaughtered the fnny tribe
and down that river, which has
teaHSgnd is now the main artery Of
Etaggtslife. In Job you hear the plunge
.be5sspear into the hippopotamus as
eat dramatic poet cries out, "Canst
his skin with bnrbed irons or his
hessaS with fish spears:" Yea, the fish be-
3sswim in tho very first book Of
|'5ays where my text records, "And
|ss6shjd, Let the waters bring forth
dantly tho moving creature that
4 realize that the first living
ssatS,aat God created was the fish? 1t
lilo bird, the quadrupod, tho
q face Tho fish has priority of
4; ehg@s over every living thing. The
ng done after God had lindled
Il 4 81 world the golden chandelier Of
Il asisFTtassand the silver chandelier of the
to mako the fish. Tho first
5sSlls1f tho principle Of life. prin-
tssthat all the thousands of years since
been able to define or analyze-
n first stil. of lifc-wus in q fish.
tim hour that was when i'll tho
y:ssslsrasses, the Gihon, the Pison and the
FL fffadekel tie four rivers of paradise,
s.sssseaters swirled with fms and bright
Il scales. AL tho attributes of
finiiite God were called into action
f5s HE king ofsthat first fish Lnnceo-
4 IL tn ansluccnt niraclo There is
Ss@onder in the plate OF q stur-
sssaisorsin the cartilage of u shark to
found the scientists. 1t does not
Sts2se tho universe to provo God. A |
isrEoesit. No wonder that LinnGus
~ and Agassiz and tho greatest
VIZ of:all the centuries sat enraptured
/ Gsssnre; its anatomy.
yss55f.y ssbeauty and the adaptcdness Of
IA "a rcturc to the element in which it
ne ist live; the picture gallery on the sides
hee mountain trout unveiled as they
sslin aup to snatch the fics the gray
4 aJE,5ealled tho flower of fishes; tho salm-
on scending the Oregon and the Sew
Ed, easily leaping the falls that would
sos them; the bold perch, tho gudgcon, |
s:ver and black spotted; the herring,
III ovingin squadrons five miles long; the
dup, 4 Or cunning called the fox CT fishes;
. u ondrous surgeons, formerly re-
for the tables of royal families,
s5a tfhesising glass made cut of their men-
u ,ssEhc tcnch, called The physician OF
sizes, because when applied to human
SsSlraents;it is saitl to he curative; the
Eiidrnpreys, so tempting to tho cpicurean
setiats toe many of them slew Henry Il
the whole world of fishes!
Enough OF them floating UP and down
llles rivers to feed the hcmispheres If
d sery ear of corn and every head of
shetland: every herd of quadruped and
other article of food in all the
s;lr tiworo destroyed Universal drought,
sleaYing not SO much as spear of grass
IN t6esround planet, would learo i'll the
ageTs and sla1es and seas for the human
Tsce: staple commodity of food which,
sSaes;l1To to shore, would be enough not
sDub 1tsIISii Iiio ono 1i"t'AS1i
stiifpiessto come the world may DO SO
B topuHftedS that the harvcsts and vine
yards ind land animals may be INSULT
lssS to feed the human 1alnily, and the
be obliged 20 cnp1a to the
rivers and ocean beaches to seek the liv-
ing harvests that swim the deep, and
that would mean moro health and vigor
and brillianc;- and brain than the hui
man race now own.
IMPORTANCE OF PLAIN FOOD.
The Lord. by placing the fish in the
Grst course of the menu in paradise,
making it rrecede bird and beast, indi-
Gated to tho world the importance of the
fish rs IN 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 Oh pa-ched
corn and fish. We mix up a fantastic
food that kills tho most Of US before 90
years of age Custards and whipped sill
.labubs and Roman punches and chicken
salads at midnight are a 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 OK
haustion in religious work when moth
ing killed the poor fellow but lobster
eaten GO q party four hours after he
ought to have been sound asleep in bed.
There are men today in spT streets 50
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 mon and
women of our time who are doing the
nlightiest work in merchandise, III me-
chanics, In law, in medicine, in theology,
in legislative and congressional halls,
and all tho presidents from Washington
,lown-at least those who have amount
ed to anything-is because they were III
those country districts Of necessity kept |
on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounted to
anything who was brought up on float
ing island or angel cake. Tho world |
must turn back to paradisiac diet If it is
to get paradisiac morals and paradisiac
health. The human race today needs
more phosphorus. and the fish is charged
and surcharged with phosphorus-phos-
r,horus, that which shines in the dark
without burning.
\ WHAT made the 70 apostles such sta.-
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
haze adopted the diet OF the population
among whom he lived, and you see tie