Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-02-09

"a
ing 70 tae epicurean that to1 many Of the ,
| fishesi ~
Enough of them floating up and down tn
rivers to feel the hemispheres If every ear q
corn and every head OF wheat and ever,
zero OF quadruped and il every other articl,
o. iood In all the earth were destroveJ
| universal drought, leaving not SO much a
spear OF gra 70 on the round planet. would
/ ieave IN the rivers AMI lakes and seas for
Gne human race staple commodity OF 70,
Wntcn. Il brought to shore wouli be enou oh
| not only to feed but fatten the entire human
race. -"''A'
In times to como the world NAV h, a.
populated that thu harvests and vineyards
ana land animals may be insu ficient to feed
tne human family, aud the nations NAV q,
onlget to come to the rivers and oca1n
beaches to seek thu living harvests that
SWIM the deep, and that would man more
nealn ana vigor AMI brilliancy and brain
IMAM the human race now owa.
The lord, by placing the Ash in the first
course OF tho menu in paradise, making il
precede bird and beast, indicated to ths
Worid the Importance of the fish a, m
article OF human fool. The reason that
men anu women lived three AMI four and
nlve and nine hundred years was becau "a
GGney We're kept on parche1 corn AMI fish.
we NIX uD fantastic fool that kill tia
tards and whipped sillabubs and Roman
punches and chicken salais at midniybt ara
gantlet that few have strength torun.
we put on many a tombstone glowing
epltnsts saying that the person beneath diei
Oh patrlotic services O. from exha ustion in
rre,iSious work when nothing killed tn, poor
a ls. nue looster eaten at party four hours
ssI ne ne, oughG 70 have been sound asleep In
oeu. Ihere are msn to-day in our streets SO
many walking hospitals who might have
naen athletes II they hal taken the hint OF
uenesis IN my text and OF our Lords ra-
marx az, and adhered TO sim ,licity OF diet.
Inc reason that thu country districts have
FURNISHED most OF the men aad women of
our time who are doing the mightiest WORK
VI mercnandlse, IN m echanics. in law, in
me1icine, In theology, in legislative and
congressional halls, AMI all thu presidents
rom Washington down-at least those who
nave amounted to anything-is because they
were in those country districts of necassity
kept on plain diet.
=, NO man OF woman ever amountei to any,
oning wno was brought up on floating islani
~ ~ anger CAKE Ths world must turn back
to paradisiac diet il it is to get para1isiac
morals and parad saiac health. The human
race to-day neeis more phosphorus and tao
nsh Is charged AMI surcharge1 with phos.
that which shines in
the dark without burning,
I" ha1 mace the twelve apostles such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
ana acnieve everything? Next to divine in.
spiratlon, 1t was because they vera nearly
all fishermen and lived on fish and a few
plain condiments. Paul. thou III not brouyht
up TO swing the net and throw the line. must
OF necessity have adopted the diet of the
population among whom he lived, and Won
sea the phosphorus in his daring plea before
renx, ana the phosphorus in his boldest of
lsof
Hlif, an the phosphorus as he went without
fright to his behaading, ard the phosphorus
you see In tho lives OF all the apostles who
moved right on undaunted to certain m artve
dom. whether to be decapitated or aunr Off
precipicss or hung in crucfixion.
Fhospherus, shining i'll the dark without
burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent of gu sstions of diet. Let
taose VINO by circumstances are compelled
to simplicity of diet thank G ID for their res
cue from the temptation OF killing deiica-
cles. Inc men AMI women who are to de-
cide the drift OF the Twentieth Century.
wnlcn Is only seven Or eignt steps of, are
now live miles back from the rail station
ana ha for breakfast this morning a similar
bill OF fare to that whica Christ provided for
the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake
Galiiee.
In iesd thu only articles of fool that
Christ by miracle mu tipiei ware brea ani
fish which the boy WAC acssi as sutler to the
1000 persons of tina wilderness handel oyar
live barley loayes AMI two FISHES. The
boy must have felt ba lily when calle on to
give up the two fishes which hs hal brought
out after having caught than himself, Sit
ting with his bare fest over the bauk of the
lake AMI expecting to sell his supply at gooi
profit. but hs felt better when by tae mira
Gle the fish We're multiplied and hs had more
returned to him than he had surren lsre /.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology OF the Bible that in ths deepar
waters. as those of the Mediterranean, thsre
were monsters that are now extinct Ths
fools who become INF lels because they eau
not un ierstani the ingulfmant OF the recre-
ant Jonah III sea monster might have
saved their souls by stu lying little natural
history. 'Oh," says some one 18th 1T story
of Jonah was only fable" Say others:
st was inEerpolatei by some writer of later
times" OShers say: ut was a reproiuc-
ton OF the story OF Hercules devourel aud
reply is that history tells us that there were
monsters large enough to whslm ships.
The extinct icathyosaurus of other ages
was thirty feet long, al as late as the Sixth
Century Of the Christian era up and down
the Mediterranean there hoated monsters
compared with which mo lern whale was
a sardine OF herring. The SHARK has again
tire. A fisherman on the coast of Turkey
found u sea monster which contained wo-
man and purse of gold. / have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to take
down prophet.
But have better reason for believing
the Old Testament account, aud that is that
Christ said it was true an l typo OF His
own resurrection, AMI suppose He on yht
to know. In Matthew xii, 40, Jesus Christ
says "For as Jonas was three days AMI
TIRES nights in thu whales bsily, 50 shall
tue Son OF Man bs three days ani three
nights In the heart OF the earth" And tnat
settles it for me an for any m an wh) does
not believe Christ dups aud an imooster.
Notice also how the Old Testam mt writers
drew similitude fro n the fisheries. Jeremiah
uses such imagery to pro ohesy destruction,
behold, will send for many fishers, saith
the Lord, and they shall fish them" Ezsxel
uses fish imagery to propaesy prosperity,
'lt shall come to pass thar ths fishers shall
stand upon it from Eugeii even to Easy-
lain; there shall be- place 3, sprea lforth
nets; their fish shall bs accor ling to their
kinds as the fish OF the great sea, exceeding
many" the explanation of which Is that
Engedi and Eneglaim stood on the banks
of the Dead sea, in the waters OF which
no fish eau livA, but tbs prophet says that
the time will como waeu thess waters will
be- regenerated, and they will be great PLACES
for fish. Amos reproves idoiatriassbj say
ing, "rhe day shall cone upon you when
ne will take you away with hooks AMI your
posterity with fishhooks.' Solo non, in
Ecclesastes, declares that those captured OF