The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

human race. Inc ISn mas priority OF
residence over every living thing. The
hext thing done after God had kindled
ion 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-
ciple that all the thousands of years since
have not been able to define or analyze--
tho very first stir of life-was in q fish.
What an hour that was when in the
Euphrates. the Gihon, the Pison and the
Hddeliel, the four rivers of paradise,
the waters swirled with fins and bright
ened with scales. All the attributes of
the infinite God were called into action
for the making of that first fish. Lanceo-
late and translucent miracle! There is
enough wonder in the plate of a stur-
geon or in the cartilage of a shark to
,confound the scientists. 1t does not
take the universe to prove God. A
fish does it. No wonder that Linn@us
and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest
minds of all The centuries sat enraptured
before its anatomy.
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 gud econ,
silver and black spotted; the herring,
moving in squadrons five miles long; the
carp, for cunning called the fox of fishes;
the wondrors surgeons, formerly re-
served for the tables of royal families,
and the isinglass made out of their lle!n-
brane; the tench, called the physician of
fishes, because when applied to hunan
ailments it is said to he curative; the
lampreys, so tempting to the epicurean
that too many Of them slew Henry II
aye, the whole world of fishes!
Enough of them featina up and down
the rivers to feed Tie homisphares ii
every ear OF corn ard 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 a spear Of grass
on the round planet, would leave in .te
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 50
populated that the harvests and viaa-
yards and land animals may Ire insult
Gent to feed the human family, and IL
nations may be obliged to come to til
rivers and ocean beaches TO seek the lis
ing harvests that swim the deep, an<i
that would mean more health and vigGr
and brilliancy and brain than the Eu-
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, ir5fi-
Gated to the world the Importance Of t.
fish as an article of human food. he
reason that men and women lived tlrel
and four and five and nine hundred years
was because they were kept on parched
corn and fish. We mix up a fantastic
food that kills the most of us before &C
years of age. Custards and whipped ST.
labubs and Roman punches and chicken
salads at midnight are gantlet that few
have strength to run.
We put on many 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 at party four hours after r.
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 on
Lords remark and adhered to simplicity
of diet.
The reason that the country districts
have furnished most Of the men an
women of Our time who are doing tn
mightiest wori. in merchandise, in me
chanics. in law. in medicine, in theology
in legislative and congressional halls
and all tie presidents from Washin9to.
! down-at least those who have amount
ed to anything-is because they We're i
those country districts of necessity Ike, 4
on plain diet.
| No man or woman ever amounted t
anything who was brought up on float,
ing island Or angel cake. The wos'
must turn back to paradisiac diet if i j
to get paradisiac morals and paradise.
health. The human race today nee,
more phosphorus, and the fish is CHARGE
and surcharged with Phosphorus
phorus. that which shines in the dart
without burning.
What made the 12 apostles such sta
wart men that they could endure any
thing and achieve everything? Next t
divine inspiration, it was because tho
were nearly all fishermen and lived o.
fish and few plain condiments. Pau!
though not brought up to swing the ~
and throw tie line, must of neceseit
have adopted The diet of the populate:
among whom he lived, and you see til,
phosphorus in his daring plea befort
Felix, and the phosphorus in his bodies
of all utteraDcps before the wiseacres OF
Mars hill, and the phosphorus as ht
went without fright to his beheading
ami the phosphorus you see in the live
of all the apostles who moved right OF
undaunted to certain martyrdom, wheth
er to'be decapitated or flung off preci
pices or hung in crucifxion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark with
OFT burning. No man or woman tia
ever lived was independent of questic,''
rf diet. Let those who by circumstanctt
- compelled to simplicity Of di t'la
God for their rescue FROM tie ,,
ton Of killing delicacies. Ga
women vino are to decide i. e +,
Goth century, which is on!
eight steps OF. are now iiro ! l5 &.
from the rail station and had fox l.i-J.,ll
fast this morning similar bill OF e.,
to that which Christ provided for Il
fishermen disciples on the banks of La.
Cahlee.
Indeed the only articles of food tina
Christ by miracle multiplied were brea'
and fish which the boy who ected as suit
Ter to the Z 900 people of the wilderness
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