Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-09

the bird, the quadruped, the human race
The fish has priority of residence Owe
every living thing The next thing don,
after God had kindled for our world thu
golden chandelier of the sun and the silvel
chandelier of the moon was to make the
fish. The first motion of the principle OF
life, principle that all the thousands Of
years since nave not been able to define Oh
analyze, the very first stir of life, was in q
fish.
What an hour that was when in the Eu,
pirates, the Gihon, the Pison and the Hid
dekel, the four rivers Of paradise, the
waters swirled with fins and frightened
with scales. All the attributes of the inf
mite God were called into action for the
making of that first fish Laneeolate and
translucent miraclel There is enough won
der in the plate of sturgeon or in the car
tilage of a shark to confound the scientists.
1t does not take the universe to prove a
God. A fish does it.
No wonder that Linnaus and Cuvier and
| Agassiz and the greatest minds of all the
centuries sat enraptured before its 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 mem
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 epcurean that
too many Of them slew Henry II-aye, the
whole world of fishes!
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 a spear Of grass on the round
planet, would leave in the rivers and lakes
and seas for the human race a 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 haryests and vineyards and land ami
mails may be insufficient TO feed the hui
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
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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 fantastic food that kills the most |
of us before 30 years of age. Custards and |
whipped sillabubs and Roman punches and |
chicken salads at midnight are gantlet |
that few have strength to run.
We put on many n 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 been
sound acieep in bed. There are men today
in our streets so many walking hospitals
who might have been athletes il they had
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our Lords remark and adhered to simplici-
ty of diet
The reason that the country districts
have furnished most of the men and women
Of our time who are doing the mightiest
work in merchandise, in mechanics, in law,
in medicine, in theology, in legislative and
halls, and all the presidents
from Washington down-at least those
~ bf1 hat tn ax-tb itaer- Il Ia
cause they were in those country districts
Of necessity kept on plain diet No man
Or woman ever amounted to anything who
was brought up ON floating island or angel
cake. The world must turn back to para
iisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac morals
and paradisiac health. The human race
loday needs more phosphorus. and the fish
IS charged and surcharged with phosphoi.
that which shines in the
lark without burning.
THE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN.
What made the u apostles such stalwart
men that they could endure anything and
achieve everything Next to divine inspi
alton, it was because they were nearly all
fishermen and lived on fish and few plain
condiments. Paul, though not brought up
o swing the net and throw the line, must
# necessity have adopted the diet of the
population among whom he lived. and YOU
zee the phosphorus in his daring plea be
ore Felix, and the phosphorus in his bold
less of all utteranees before the wiseacres ,
IN Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he
vent without fright TO his beheading, and
he phosphorus you see in the lives of all
he apostles who moved right ON undaunt ;
d to certain martyrdom. whether to be .
lecapitated or flung off precipices or hung .
II crucifiXion. Phosphorus shining in the ,
lark without burning i,
No man or woman that ever lived was in
dependent of questions of diet. Let those
Who by circumstances are compelled to i
implicitly Of diet thank God for their res
ne from the temptation OF killing delica- ;
les. The men and women who are to de
ide the drift of the Goth century. which is
My seven or eight steps of, are now five .
niles back from the rail station and had
or breakfast this morning similar bin OF
are to that which Christ provided for the ,
disciples on the banks OF Lake .
ialilee !