Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-02-09


enough wonder in the plate of stur-
geon or in the cartilage of shark to
confound the scientists. 1t does not
take the universe to prove 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.
On, 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 gray
ling, called the flower Of fishes; the salm-
on, ascending the Oregon and the Sew
ern, 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 wond- Gus surgeons, formerly re-
served 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
ailments it is said to be curative; the
lampreys, so tempting to the epicurean
that too many of them slew Henry u
ave. the whole world of fishes.
Enough OF them floating up and down
the rivers to feed t.! 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 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,
if brought to shore, would be enough not
only to feed but fatten the entire human
race.
In times to come the world may be so
populated that the harvests and vine
yards and land animals may be ins lffi-
c;ent to feed the human family, and the
nations may be obliged to come to the
rivers and ocean beaches to seek the liv-
ing harvests that swim the deep, and
that would mean more health and vlgor
and brilliancy and brain thar the hu-
man race now own.
IMPORTANCE OF PLAIN FOOD.
The Lord by placing the fish in the
first course of the menu in paradise,
making it precede bird and 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 and nine hundred years
was because they were kept on parched
corn and fish. We nix up q fantastic
food that kills the most Of Us before 80
years of age. Custar,;s and whipped sill
labuAAs-aassss Roman --sssspcheS and chicken
salads at midnight dre a gantlet mat rev
have strength to run.
We put on many tombstone glowing
epithets saying that ths person beneath
died of patriotic services or from e1.
haustion in religious work when moth.
ing killed the poor fellow but lobster
eaten at a party four hours after he
ought to have been sound asleep in bed:
There are men today in our streets s.
many walking 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 merchandise. in me-
chanics. in law, in medicine, in theology,
in legislative and congressional halls.
and all the presidents from Washington
down-at least those who have amount
ed to anything-is because they We're in
those country districts of necessity kept
on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounted to
anything who was brought up on float
irg island or angel cake. The world
must turn back to paradisiac diet if it is
to get paradisiac morals and paradisiac
health. The human race today needs
more phosphoros, and the fish is charged
and surcharged with phosphorns-phos-
phorus. that which shines in the dark
without burning.
What made the 10 apostles such stai-
wart men that they could endure any
thing and achieve everything: Next TO
divine inspiration. it was because they
were nearly all fishermen and lived on
fish and few plain condiments. Paul,
though not brought up 70 swing the net
and throw the line, must of necessity
have adopted the diet of the population
among whom he lived, and you see the
IN nls daring plea before
Felix. and the phosphorus in his boldest
of ali utterances before the wiseacres on
Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he
went without fright to his beheading,
and the phosphorus you see in the lives
of all the apostles who moved right on
to certain martyrdom, wheth-
er to'be.decapitated or flung off preci-
pices or hung in crucifxion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark with
cut burning No man or woman that
ever lived was independent of questions
Of diet. Let those who by circumstances
are compelled to simplicity of diet thank
God FOR their rescue from the tempta-
ton of killing delicacies. The men and
women who are to decide the drift of the
goth century, which is only seven or
eight steps off, are now FIVE miles back
FROM the rail station and had for break
fast this morning a similar bill of fare
to that which Christ provided for the
fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake
Galilee.
Indeed the only articles of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied were bread
and fish which the boywho acted as suit
Ter to the 1000 people of the wilderness
handed over-fve barley loaves and two
fishes. The boy must have felt badly
when called on to give up the two fishes
which he had brought out after having
caught them himself, sitting with his
bare feet over the bank of the lake and
to sell his supply at good profit,
but he felt better when by the miracle
the fish were multiplied and he had
more returned to him than he had sur.
rendered
THE MIRACLE OF JONAH AND THE GREAT
FISH.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology of the Bible that in the deep
er waters, as those Of the Mediterranean,
there were monsters that are now e1-
tinct. The fools who become inhdels
because they cannot understand the in
yulfment Of the recreant Jonah in sea
might have saved their souls
BY -studying a little natural history.