The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-16

OUT, |CansC th0u I'LL his skin with
barbed irons or his head with fish
spears?" Yea, the fish began to swim
in the very first book of Genesis, where
my text records, "And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creatures that hath life."
Do you realize that tho first living
thing that God created was the fish?
1t preceded the bird, the quadruped, the
hu nan race. The fish has priority OF
residence over every living thing. The
next thing done alter God had klndlcd
Tor our world the golden chandelier of
the sun and the SILVER chandelier of the
moon was to make the fish. The first
motion of the principle of lite, q princi-
pie that all the thousands of years since
have not been able to deliue or ana I'VE.
the very first stir of life, was in fish.
| What an hour that was when in the
Euphrates, the Gihon, the Pison and The
Hiddekcl, the four rivers of paradise.
the waters swirlcd with fins and bright
ened with scales! ALI the attributes of
the infinite God were called into action
Tor the making of that fin st fish, Lam
ceOate and translucent miracle! There
is enough wonder il the plate of a stur-
Seon o. in the cartilage of shark To
coutouni the scientists. 1t does not
take the universe to prove God. A
| fish does it.
No wonder that I.innMus and Cuyier
and Agassz and the greatest minds of
all the centuries sat enraptured before
its anatomy. Oh, its beauty aud the
adaptedness of its structure TO the Gle.
ment in which it must live; the picture
gallery on the sides of the mountain
trout unveiled as they spling up to
snatch the flies: the grayling, called the
Hover OF fishes; the salmon, ascending
the Oregon and the Severn, easily leap
,1g the falls that would stop them; the
bold perch, the gldgeon, silver and
black spoLted; the herring, moving IN
squadr"ns five miles long; the carp, for
cunning called the fox OF fishes; the
WoDdrous surgeons, formerly reserved
for the tables of royal families and the
lslnglass made out Of their membrane; :;
the tench, called the physician OF fishes,
because when applied to human all.
ments 1t is saiU to be curative: the lam
preys, so tempting to the cpicurean that
too many OF them slew Henry II--aye,
the whole world of fishes!
Enough Of them floating up and down
the rivers to iced the hemlspheres if ey-
cry ear OF corn and every head oil wheat
and every herd OF quadruped and If eve-
rY other article OF TODD in all the earth
were destroyed. Universal drought,
leaving not as much as q spear OF grass
on the round planet, would leave in the
rivers and lakes and seas for the human
race staple commodity of food which,
If brought to shore, would be enough
not only TO feed but to tatten the cutlre
human lace. In times to come the
world may be so populated that the har-
vests and vineyards ami laud ANIMALS
may be insufficient 10 iced the human
family, and the nations may be OBLIGED
TO come TO the rivers aid ocean beaches
to seek the living harvtsts that swim
the deep, and that would mean more
health and vigor and brilliancy and brain
than the human race now own.
The Lord by placing the fish in tho
first course OF the menu in paradise
making it preCede bird AID beast, indi
| Gated to the world the importance OF the
, fish as an article of human food. The
reason that men and women lived three
, and four and five aud nine hundred years
= was because they were kept on parched
corn and fish. We mix up fantastic
food that kills the most Of us before 80
years OF age. Custards and whipped
slllabubs and Roman punches and chick.
en- salads at midnight are gantlet that
lew have strength to run.
| We put on many a tombstone GLOW.
ing eplthcts saying that the person be-
meath died of patriotic services or from
exhaustion in religious work, when
nothing killed the poor fellow but lob
stcr eaten at a party four hours after he
ought to have been sound asleep in bed.
There arc men today 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
remark aud adhered to simplicity of di-
ct.
| The reason that the country districts
have furnished most Of the men and wo.
men OF our time who are dOinw the
mghtlcst work in merchandise, i'm me-
chanlcs. in law, in medicine. in theology,
III legislative and congressional halls.
and oil the presidents from Washington
doWn--at least those wi have amount
cd TO anythlng-ls because they were in
lhoSe country districts of necessity kept
on paln diet. No man or woman ever
amounted TO anything who was brought
upon lloatin@ island and angel cake. The
world must turn back to paradisaic diet
il II isto get paradisiac morals and par
adlsiaic health. The human race today
needs more PHOSPHORUS, and lhc fish is
charged and surchargcd with phosphO-
rous-phosphorous, that which shines
in the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such
statwart men that they could endure
anything and achieve everything? Next
to divine inspiration, it vas because
; they were nearly all fishermen and lived
: on fish and Il few plain condiments
Paul, though not brought up to swing
the net and throw the line, must of nc
cesslty have adopted the diet of tho
I population among whom he lived. ant
you see the phosphorous in his daring
l plea before Felix, and the phosphorou;
in his boldncss of all uttcranccs before
the wlseaCrcs on Mars hill, and the
. PHOSPHORUS as he went without irigh
to his beheading, and the phosphorou;