Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-17

beaches to seek thu living harvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean more
heath AMI vigT aui brilliancy and brain
! than the human race now own.
The Lord, by placing the fish in the first
course of the menu in paradise, making it
precede bird and beast, indicated to tina
world the Importance OF the fish as an
article of human fool. 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 fool that kill the
most OF lis before thirty years OF age Gus
tards AM whipped s'llabubs and Roman
punches AMI chicken s1ais at midnight are
a gauntlet that few have strength to run.
We put on many a tombstone glowing
epithets saving that the person beneath died
| OF patriotic servic IS OF from exha ustion in
religious work whom nothiny killed the poor
| fellow but lobster eaten at party four hours
after he ought to have been sound asleep in
bed There are men to-day 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 re.
mark and adhered TO simplicity OF diet.
| The reason that thu country districts have
furnished most OF the men and women Of
our time who are doing the mightiest work
| 10 merchandise, in mechanics, in law, in
me iicine, in theology, In legislative and
congressional halls, AMI all the pr esidents
| from Washington dowl--at least those who
have amounted to anything-is because they
were in those country districts Of necessity
| keot on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amountei to any
thing who was brought up oa floating island
or angel cake. The world must turn back
TO paradisiac diet if it is to get parajisiac
morals and parad saiac health. The human
race to-day needs more phosphorus, and the
fish is charged AMI surcharged with phos.
phorus--phosphorus that which shines In
| che dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve everything Next to divine in
spration, it was because they were nearly
all fishermen and lived on fish AMI few
plain condiments. Paul, thou ,h not brought
up to swing the net and throw the line, must
of necessity have adopted the diet OF the
popu alton among whom he lived and you
see the phosphorus in his daring plea before
Felix, and the phosphorus in his bodest of
all utterances before the wisacres on Mars
Hill, and the phosphoru; 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 martyr.
+ DOM whether to be decapitated or flung of
precipices or hung in crucifxion.
Phosphorus shining in tbs dark without
burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent OF questions of diet Let
those who by circumstances are compelled
to simplicity OF diet thank God for their res.
cue from the temptation OF killing delica.
cies. The men and women who are to de-
eide the drift of the Twentieth Century,
which is only seven or eight steps off, are
now five miles back from the rail station
and ha for breakfast this morning similar
bill OF fare to that which Christ provided for
the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake
Galilee.
In Iced thu only articles Of fool thai
Christ by miracle multiplied were brsa an
fish which the boy who acted as sutler to the
7O0J persons of the wilderness handel over
Ave barley loaves AMI two fishes. Ths
boy must have felt badly when called on to
give 10 the two fishes which be had brought
out after having caught them himself, sit
ting with his bare fest over the bank of the
lake au1 expecting to sell his supply atgooi
profit. but he felt better when by the mira
Gle the fish were multiplied and hs had more
returned to him than he had surren1ers1.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology OF the Bible that In the decpsr
were monsters that are now extinct. Th,
fools who become inddels because they can
not understand the ingulfmsnt OF the recre-
ant Jonah in sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying little natural
history. Ooh" says some one, that story
of iona was only fa6le." Say others:
ut was interpolate1 by some writer of later
times" Others say: 1T was a reproduc.
ton OF the story of Hercules devoure1 and
then restor ed from the monster" But my
reply is that history tells US that there were
monsters large enough to whsm ships.
The extinct ichthyosaurus OF other ages
was thirty feet long, ami as late as the Sixth
Century of the Christian era up and down
the Mediterranean there hoated monsters
compared with which modern whale was
a ssrdine or herring. the shark has again
and again been found to swallow man en-
tire. A fisherman on the coast OF Turkey
found sea monster which contained a wo
man and purse of gold. I have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to take
down a prophet
But have better reason for believing
the Old Testament account an1 that is that
Christ said it was true ami typo OF His
own resurrection and suppose He ought
to know. In Matthew xiii, 40, Jesus Christ
saws. "For as Jonas was three days AMI
three nights in the whales bslly 50 shall
the Son of Man bs three days and three
nights in the heart of the EARTH" And that
settles it for me AMI for any man who does
not believe Christ dupe and an imposter.
Notice also how the Old Testam ant writer's
drew simiitude from the fisheries. Jeremiah
uses such imagery to prophesy destruction,
behold, will sen1 for many fishers saith
the Lord, and they shall fish them" Ezekiel
uses fish imagery to propnesy prosperity,
UIt shaII coma tn mass that the fishers shall
stand upon it from Engedi even to Eney-
lain; there shall be place to spreal forth
nets; their fish shall be according to their
many" the explanation Of which is that
Eugedi and Eneglaim stood on the banks
Of the Dead sea, in the waters of which
no fish can live. but the prophet says that
the time will come when these waters will
be regenerated, and they will be great places
for fish. Amos reproves idolatries by say
ing, The day shall come upon you when
be will take you away with hooks an your
posterity with fshhooks." Solomon, in
Ecclesiastes, declares that those captured OF
temptation are as fishes taken in an evil
net Indeed Solomon knew all about the
inny tribe and wrote treatise on icathy'
ology which has been lost.
Furthermore, in order that you may uu-
derstand the ichthyology of the Bible, you
must know that there were five ways OF
fishing. One was by fence Of reeds and
cane, within which the fish were caught
But the Rerodic government forbade that on
Lake Galilee less pleasure boats be wrecked
by the stakes driven. Another mode was by
speariug, the waters of Galilee so clear gooj
aim could be taken for the trans6xing. An;
other was by hook and line, as where Isaiah
says, THE fishers also shall mourn, and