The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-08

Layaru ana Wilkinson found the nsn
an OBJECT of idolatry all through AS
syria and Egypt The Nile was full Of
fish, and that explains the horrors OF
the plague that slaughtered the finny
tribe all up and down that river, which
had been and is now the main artery OF
Egypt's life. In Job you hear the
plunge Of the spear into the hippota-
mus, as the great dramatic poet cried
out: 'Canst thou fill his skin with
barbed irons or his head with fish
spears2" 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
God created was the fish? 1t preceded
the bird, the quadruped, the human
race. The fish has priority Of residence
over every living thing. The next
thing done after God had kindled for
our world the golden chan delier Of the
sun and the silver chandelier Of the
moon was TO make the fish. The
first motion of the prin ciple Of life,
a principle that all tho 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 Euphrates, the Gihon, the Pison,
and the Hiddekel the four rivers Of
Paradise, the waters swirled with fins
and frightened with scales. All the
attributes of the infinite God were
called into action for the making OF
that first fish. Lanceolate and translu'
cent miraclel There is enough wonder
in the plate of sturgeon or in the car
tilage Of shark TO confound the scien.
lists. 1t does not take the universe to
prove God. A fish does it No wonder
that Linn@us and Cuvier and Agassia
and the greatest minds Of all the CEN
turies sat enraptured before It's anato-
my. o. 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
graylingA 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, former.
ly reserved for the tables Of royal fami.
lies, and the isinglass made out of their
membrane; the tench, called the phys.
ician Of fishes because when applied to
human ailments, 1t is said to be cura.
tive; the lampreys SO tempting to the
epicurean that too many of them slew
Henry H.; aye, the whole world Of
fishes. Enough OF them floating up and
down the rivers TO feed the hemispheres
II every ear of corn and every head oi
wheat and every herd Of quadruped and
II every other article Of food in all the
earth were destroyed Universal
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 staple commodity
of food, which, II brought to shore
would be enough not only TO feed hui
fatten the entire human race. In time;
to come the world may be so populated
that the harvests and vineyards and
land animals may be insufficient to feed
the human family, and the nations may
be obliged 10 come TO the rivers and
ocean beaches TO seek the living harvest
that swim the deep, and that would
mean more health and vigor and brill.
iancy and brain than the human race
now own.
The Lord, by placing the fish in the
first course Of the menu in paradise
making II precede bird and beast, indi
Gated 10 the world the Importance oi
the fish as an article OF human food
The reason that men and women lived
three and four and five and nine nun
dred years was because they were kept
on parched corn and fish. We mix NJ
q fantastic food that kills tho most oi
us before thirty years Of age. Custardi
and whipped sillabubs and Roman
punches and chicken salads at mid
night are gauntlet that few have
strength to run. We put on many
tombstone glowing epithets saying
that the person beneath died OF patri
otto services or from exhaustion in re
ligious work, when nothing killed the
poor fellow but lobster eaten at a party
four hours after he ought to have beer
sound asleep in bed. There are mer
to-day in our streets 80 many walking
hospitals, who might have beer
athletes, II they had taken the hint o.
Genesis in my text and of our Lords
remark and adhered to simplicity o.
diet The reason that the country dis
tricts 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 the
ology, in Legislative and congressional
halls, and all the presidents from
Washington down-at least, those who
have amounted TO anything---is because
they were in those country districts o.
necessity kept on plain diet. No man
or woman over amounted to anything
who was brought up on floating island
or angel cake. The world must turr
back to paradisaic diet II II is to get
paradisaic morals and paradisai'
health. The human race to-day need
more phosphorus, and tho FISH Il
charged and surcharged with phos
phorus Phosphorus, that which shinei
In the dark without burning
What made the twelve apostles sucf
stalwart men that they could endur,
ANYTHING and hchieve evervthinp2 Mex