The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-07


OF fishes; the wonGrous surgeons, former
" reserved for the tables OF royal tamlhes,
ana the isinglass made out or their MEM
brane; the tench, called the physician 81
fishes because Wien applied to human all
n.ents il is said to be curative; the lam
preys, so tempting to the epicureah thaI
too many of them slew Henry H.: aye,
the whole world of fishes. Enough OF theh
floating up, and down the rivers 10 Iee'1
the hemispheres ii every ear of corn and
every head of wheat and every nero OF
quadruped, and if every other article or
food in all the earth were destroyed; Uni
versal drought, leaving not so much Il" :, u
spear of grass on the round planet, "oGiu
leave in the rivers and lakes ana seas 1or
the human race staple commodity OF food,
which, if brought 10 shore. would De
enough not only 10 feed but tatten the
hntire human race. In times to come
the world may be 50 populated that the har-
vests and vineyards and land ANIMALS may
be insufficient to feed the human fanny,
and the nations may be Obliged to come TO
the rivers and ocean beaches to seek tne
living harvests that SWIM the deep, ana
that would mean more health and vlgor
and brilnancy 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
precedc bird and beast Indicated to the world
the Importance of the fish as an article
of human food. The reason that men ana
women lived three and four and
because they were kept on parched
corn and fish We mix up a ian
tastic food that Kills the most of Us before
thirty years Of age. CuStards and whipped
sabubs and Roman punches and chlcNen
salads at midnight are gauntlet that lew
tombstone glowing epithets saying that the
person beneath died of patriotic services
or from exhaustion i'll religious work When
nothing killed the poor fellow but lobster
ft.,,. han rIrri1t
to have been sound asleep in bed. There
arc men today 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
men and women OF our time
who are doing the mightiest work in mer-
chandisc, in mechanics, in law, IN medl-
cine. in theology, in legislative and con-
gressional halls and all the presidents from
Washington dowI-at least those who have
amounted 10 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 Floating island or angel cake The world
must turn back to paradisiac diet If it is
to get paradasac morals and paradaslac
health. The human race today needs more
phosphorus and the fish is charged and
surcharged with phosphorus. Phosphorus
that which shines in the dark without
burning
What made the twelve apostles such
stalwart 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
a few plain condiments. Paul, though not
brought up to 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 phosphorus in his daring
plea before Felix and the phosphorus III
his boldest Of all utterances before the
wiseacres on Mars hill and the phosphorus
as he went without fright to his beheadng
and the phosphorus you see in all the lives
of the apostles who moved right on
undaunted to certain martyrdom, whether
to be decapitated or flung off precipices
or hung in cricifiXiOn. Phosphorus,
shining in the dark without
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 temptation of killing
deicacics. The men and women who are
to decide the drift of the twentieth century.
which is only seven or eight steps off. are
now FIVE miles back from the rail station
anti have for brealS fast his morning Il SINH
lat bill of fare to that which Christ provided
for the fishermen diciples on the banks of
Lake Galilee Indeed, the only articles of
food that Christ by miricie multiplied were
bread and fish which the boy who acted as
sutler to the 1000 people of the wilderness.
handed over-tive 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
over the bank of the lake and expecting
to sell his supply at good profit. but he felt
better when by the miracle the fish We're
multiplied and he had more returned to
him than he had surrendered
Know, also, in order to understand the
ichthyology Of the Bible that i'll the deeper
waters as those of the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. The
fools who become intdeis because they
cannot understand the engulfment of the
recreant Jonah in Z sea monster. might
have saved their souls by studying 4 little
natural history. Oh says some one
that story of Jonah was only fable
Say others. 1T was interpolated by some
was reproduction Of the story of Hercules
deyoured aria then restored from the
monster But my reply is that history
tells us that there were monsters large
enough to whelm ships. The extinct ichthy-
osaurus Of other ages was thirty feet long
as late IS the siXth centeury Of the
Christian era, up and down the Meditclr2-
mean there 1ioated monsters compared with
which Il modern whale was q Sartliue or a
herring The shark has again and again
been found to have swallowed a man en-
tire. A fisherman on the coast of Tur-
key found Il sea monster which contained
a woman and purse OF gold. / have seen
in museums sea monsters large enough to
to take down a prophet. But | have a bet
ter reason for believing the Old Testament
account, and that is that Christ said it was
true and a type of his own resurrection. and
! suppose he ought to know. In Matthew.
18th chapter and 10th verse, Jesus Christ
says: For as Jonah was three days and
three nights in the whales belly. so shall
the Son of Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth" And
that settles it for me and for any man who
does not believe Christ dupe and an i'm
poster.
Notice. also. how the Old Testament
writers drew simllirude from the fisheries.
jeremiah uses such imagery to prophesy
destruction: Behold | will send for many
fishers saith the Lord, ';ind they shall
fish them Ezekiel uses fish imagery to
prophesy prosperity: lit shah come to pass
that the fishers shall stand upon it from
nn-Sedi even to Ln-eglaim; they shall be
Il place to spread forth nets; tlcir fish shall
be according to their kinds, as the fish OF
the great see. exceeding many The OK
planat.on Of which is that En-g2di and lGn-
eSlaim stood Oh the banks of tie Dead sea,
III the waters Of which no fish can live, but
the prophet says that the time will come
when these waters will DC regencratcG and
they VIII be great places for fish. Amos