Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-09

waters WIN HIS anu
with scalesl All the attributes of the inf
mite God were called into action for the
making of that first fish. Lanceolate and
miraclel There is enough won
der in the plate of q sturgeon or in the car
tilage Of shark TO confound the scientists.
It does not take the universe TO prove a
God. A fish does it.
No wonder that Linneus and Cuvier and /
Agassiz and the greatest minds Of all the
centuries sat enraptured heforeits anatomy. |
Oh, its beauty and the adaptedness OF its
structure to the element in which it must
live; the picture gallery on the sides of the
mountain trout unveiled as they spring up
to snatch the flies; the grayling, called the
flower of fishes; the salmon, ascending the
Oregon and the Severn, easily leaping the
falls that would stop them; the bold perch,
the gudgeon, 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
reserved for the tables Of royal families
and the isinglass made out Of their men,
brane; the tench, called the physician OF
fishes, because when applied to human all
ments it is said to be curative; the lam
preys, so tempting to the epicurean that
too many of them slew Henry II-aye, the
whole world OF fishesl
Enough of them floating up and down
the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every
ear of corn and every head of wheat and
every herd of quadruped and if every other
article of food in all the earth were de-
stroyed. Universal drought, leaving not
so much AS d spear of grass on the round
Ian Ind ha ariU 1akpG
and seas for the human race staple com.
modify of food which, If brought to shore,
would be enough not only to feed but fat
ten the, entire human race. In times to
come the world may be so populated that
the harvests and vineyards and land ami
mails may be insufficient to feed the hu-
man family, and the nations may be
obliged to come to the rivers and ocean
beaches to seek the living harvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean more
health and vigor and brilliancy and brain
than the human race now own.
FISH FOOD MAKES STRONG MEN.
The Lord by placing the fish in the first
course of the menu in paradise, making it
precede bird and beast, indicated to the
world the importance Of the fish as an arti-
Gle of human food. 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 a fantastic food that kills the most
of us before 80 years of age. Custards and
whipped sillabubs 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 exhaus
ton in religious work, when nothing killed
the poor fellow but lobster eaten at party
four hours after he ought to have beer
sound asleep in bed. There are men today
in our streets so many walking hospitals
who might have been athletes if they hat
taken the hint of Genesis in my text and O
our Lords remark and adhered to simplici
ty of diet.
The reason that the country district
have furnished most Of the men and womel
of our time who are doing the mighties
work in merchandise, in mechanics, in law
in medicine, in theology, in Legislative AM
congressional halls, and all the president
from Washington down-at least thos
who have amounted to anything-is be
cause they were in those country district
of necessity kept on plain diet, No ma
or woman ever amounted to anything VIII
was brought up on floating island or angI
cake. The world must turn back to par;
disiac diet If it is to get paradisiac moral
and paradisiac health. The human rae
! today needs more phosphorus, and the fis
is charged and surcharged with phospho
us-phosphorus, that which shines IN IL
D. darL xuitbout burning
THE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN.
What mad the 10 apostles such stalwal
: men that they could endure anything an
$ achieve everything? Next to divine insp
, ration. it was because they were nearly q
0 fishermen and lived on fish and a few pla'
!, condiments. Paul, though not brought l
|, to swing the net and throw the line, mu
. of necessity. have adopted the diet OF u
d population among whom he lived, ana yt
Q see the phosphorus in his daring plea .
8 fore Felix, and the phosphorus in his bol
r ness of all utterances before the wiseaer
. on Mars hill, and the phosphorus as
}, went without fright to his beheading, al
10 the phosphorus you see in the lives of
IS the apostles who moved right on undau1
MI - certain martyrdom, whether to
\. decanitated AZ or flung Oh rssecipices or na
in crucltiXlon. Fnospuo.
!, dark without burhlhg;
! No nm or woman enaI eyeL : iiVTu - "aS az,
d dependent O, Huestlons Oh oieS. ney sa'
10 who by circumsta,,, es are company
70 simplicity of diet thank ~oo ior one,. ~;
I. ene from the temptatio,o OF kilnno uei'
n cies. The men and wom>' n VINO are ~
t. eide the 5rift of the Goth cen tury, when
% only seven on eight stems off. re now
II miles hack from the rail station and
le for break fast this morning similar III
" e. e. - 4hat ,nhioh Chr;st ,.ro,,ida5 e.. /,
fishermen disciples on the banks of La
b Gai;Iaa l eA pi' = 80 ''>o !, -
le T,daad +ha on1v art;oIeu of food n