Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-06

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fin the very frst book of Genesis, where
nv text records, "And God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantlY the
| moving creatures that hath life" Do
Won realise that the first living thing
/ that God created was the fish? II pre-
ceded 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 chandelier OF
/ the sun aud the silver chandelier OF the
I moon was TO make the fish. The hrst
motion Of the principle of life, prln-
chile that all the thousands OF years
/ since have not been able 10 define or
| analyze, the very first stir OF life was
the fish. What an hour that was when
/ in the Euphrates, the Ghion, the PisoD,
I and the Hiddekel, the four rivers OF
! Paradise, the waters Swirled with hns
and frightened with scales. All the
attributes OF the infinite God were
called into action for the making or
I that first fish. LanceOlate and trnsul-
/ cent miricle! There is enough wonder
I iu the plate Of q sturgeon or In the car
tilage OF a shark 20 coniound the scien-
lists. IL does not take the universe TO
prove q God. A fish does IL. No won
I der that Linn8uS and Cuvier and Agas-
I Siz and the greatest minds or all the
I centuries sat euraptured before It's an
I atomy. Oh, its beauty, and the adapt
I edneSs Of It's structure 10 the element In
which 10 must live; the picture gallery
I on the sides Of the mountain trout mn
yelled as they spring up TO snatch the
Z flies; the Grayling. called the Flower OF
/ Fishes; the Salmon, ascending the Ore
| gOn and the Severn, easily leaplng the
| falls that would stop them; the bold
| Perch, the Gudgeon, silver and black
spotted; the Herring, moving in squad
/ rOns five miles long; the Carp, for cum
ming called the Fox of Fishes; the won
drous Surgeons, formerly reserved Tor
THE TABLES OF ROYAL FAMILIES,
ana the isingass made out OF their
membrane; the Tench, called the ply
stefan Of fishes, because when applied
to human ailments IL 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 10 feed the hemispheres
IL every ear Of corn and every head OF
wheat, aud every herd OF quadruped,
and II every other article Of food IL all
the earth were destroyed. 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 staple commodity
of food, which, II 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 vineyards and
land animals may be insufficient to feed
the human ia mily, and the nations may
be obliged to come TO the rivers and
ocean beaches TO seek the living har-
vests that swim the deep, and that
would mean more health and vigor and
brllliancy and brain than the human
race now own.
The Lord, by placing the fish in the
first course of the menu in paradise,
making it precede bird and beast, indi-
Gated 10 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 hun
dred 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. Custards
and sillabubs
AND ROMAN PUNCHES
and chicken salads at midnight are
gauntlet that few nave strength to run.
We put on many a tombstone glowing
epithets saying that the person beneath
died of patriotic services or from eX-
haustion in religious work when moth
ing killed the poor fellow but lobster
eaten az q party four hours after he
ought 10 have been sound asleep In bed.
There are men to-day in our streets so
many walking hospitals, who might
have been athletes, II they had taken
the hint of Genesis in my text aud OF
our Lords remark and adhered to sim
plicity 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, ia law, in medicine, in
theology, in legislative and congress
sional halls, aud all the Presidents from
Washington dOwn-at least, those who
have amounted 10 anything-is because
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 10 paradiSaic health. The human
race to-day needs moro 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
anything and achieve everything?
Next to divine inspiration, it was be-
cause they were nearly all fishermen
and lived on fish and few plain condi-
ments. Paul, though not brought up
20 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
bis daring plea before Felix, and the
phosphorus in his boIdest of all utter
ances before the
wISEACREs on MARS HILL,
and the phosphorus as ne went WlluOut
fright 70 his beheading, and the phos-
phorus you see In the lives Of all the
apostles, who moved right on undaunt-
ed 10 certain martyrdom, whether to be
lecapitated or flung of precipices or
hung in crucifxion. Phosphorus, shin
ing 10 the dark without burning! No
man or woman that ever lived was in
dependent of questions OF diet. Let
those who by circumstances are COM
pelled 10 simplicity of diet, thsnk God
for their rescue from the temptation OF