Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-15

barbcd 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 creature that hath life" Do
you realize that the FIRST living thing
that God created twas the fish2 1t pre-
coded the bird, the quadruped. the hui
man race. The fish has priority of res
idence over every living thing. The
next thing done after God had kindled
for 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 life, prin-
ctpse that all thousands of years since
have not been able TO define or analyze,
the very first stir of life was in fish.
What an hour that was when, in the
Euphratcs, the Gihou, the Pison and
the Hiddel1et, the four rivers of Para
disc, the waters swirled with fms and
frightened with scales. All the attri-
butes of the Infinite God were called
into action for the making of that first
fish. Lanceolate and translucent mira
clei There is enough wonder in the
plate of sturgeon or in the cartilage
of a shark 70 confound the scientists.
Il does not take the universe TO prove a
God. A fish does it No wonder that
Linnmus and Cuvier and Agassiz and
the greatest minds OF all the centuries
sat enraptured before it's anatomy Oh,
its beauty and the adaptness 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 sqadrons five miles
long; the carp, for cunning, called the
fox of fishes; the mondrous surgeons,
formerly reserved for the tables of roy
al families, and the isinglass made out
of their membrane; the tench, called the
physician of fishes, because when APP
applied to human ailments it is said to
be curative; the lampreys, so tempting
to the epicurean that too many of them
slew Henry IL; aye, the whole world of
fishes Enough of them floating up
and down the rivers to feed the hcmi-
spheres if every ear of corn and every
head of wheat and every herd of quad
ruped, and IL every other article of food
in all the earth were destroyed. Uni
versal drought, leaving not so much as
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 the
shore, would be enough not only TO feed
but fatten the entire human race. In
times to come the world may be so pop
ulnted that the harvests and VINEYARDS
and land animals may be insufficient to
feed the human 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.
The Lord, placing the fish in the first
course of the menu in Paradise. making
1t precede bird and beast. indicated to
the world the Importance of the fish as
an article of human food. The reason
that men lived 800 and 400 and 500 and
900 years was because they were kept
on parched corn and fish We mix up
a fantastic food that kills the most of
us before thirty years of age. Gus
tards and whipped sillabubs and Ro-
man punches and chicken salads at
midnight are a gauntlet that few have
strength TO run. We put on many
tombstone glowing epithets saying that
the person beneath died of patriotic
services or from exhaustion in religious
work, when nothing killed the poor fell
low but lobster eaten at party four
nff ha
sound aleep in bed. There are men to-
day in our streets so many walk
ing hospitals who might have been
athletes If they had taken the
hint OF Genesis in my text and
OF our Lords remark and adhered to
simplicity 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 mer- |
chandise, in mechanics, in laws, in med !
icine, in theology, in legislative and !
congressional halls, and all the presi- |
dents from Washington down-at least |
those who have amounted TO anything D. |
Is because they were in those country |
districts of necessity kept on plain diet. |
No man or woman ever amounted 20 |
anything who was brought MP on float |
ing island or angel cake The world |
must turn back TO paradisaic diet if it |
Is TO get paradisaic moral and paradi- |
safe health. The human race to-day |
needs more phosphorus, and the fish Is |
charged and surchargcd with phosphor- |
is. Phosphorus, that which shines in |
he dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such |
stalwart men that they could endure |
Nnything and achieve everything? Next
20 Divine inspiration, IL was because
they were nearly all fishermen and
lived on fish and plain condiments
Paul, though not brought up to swing
the net and throw the line. must of
necessity have adopted the diet Of tbe
population among whom he lived. and
you see the phosphorus in his daring
plea before felix, and the phosphorus
IN his boldest Of all utterances before
the wiseacrcs on Mars Hin. and tho
phosphorus as he went without fright
70 his beheading, and the phosphorus
You see in the lives of all the APOSTLES
who moved right on undaunted TO GER
tain martyrdom, whether 70 be decapi.
tated or flung of precipices or hung in
crucihXion Phosphorus. shining in the
light without burninPl No man or
woman that ever lived was independ.
ent OF the questions Of dict
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