The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-06


with scales. All the attributes OF the lnfn-
ite God we're called into action for the max
ing OF that first fish. Lanceolate and trans
lucent miracle! There is enough wonder in
the plate Of q sturgeon or IN the cartilage Of
q shark to cOnfOund the scientists. IL
does not take the universe to prove God.
A fish does it No wonder that LiDnBus
and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest
minds of all the centuries sat enraptured
before its anatomy. o, its beauty, and
the sdaptednsss Of its structure 10 the ele-
ment in which it must live. the picture gal
lerv on the sides Of the mountain trout
unveiled 6s they spring Up to snatch tie
flies; the Crawling, called the flower of
fishes; the salmon, ascending the oregon
and the Severn. easily leRping the fails that
would stop them; the bold perch, tie gud-
Reon, silver and black spotted the herring,
moving in squadrOus five miles long; the
carp, for cunning called the fox OF fishes;
the wondrous surgeons, formerly reserved
for the tables Of royal families, and the
isinglass made out of their membrane; the
tench, called the physician OF fishes, because
when applied TO human ailments II is said
20 be curative; the lampreys, so tempting
20 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 hemIspneres II
every ear of corn and every head OF wheat
and every herd of quadruped, and If every
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 a staple COM
modify of God, which, If brought to shore,
would he enough not only to feed but fatten
the entire human race. In time 10 come
the world may be so populated that the
harvests and vineyards and land animals
may be Insufficient to Iced the human fam
ilv, and the nations may be obliged TO come
TO the rivers and ocean beaches TO seek the
living, bsrvests that swim the deep, and
that would mean more health and vigOr and
brilliancy anu 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 indicated to the
world the Importance OF the fish an arti-
Gle 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
mix up a fantastic food that kills the most
of us before thirty years Of age. Custards
and whipped sillshubs and Roman punches
and chicken salads at midnight
are gauntlet that few have
strength to run. We put on many
tombstone glowing epithets saying that the
person beneath died of patriotic services, or
from exhaustion IN religious work, when
nothing killed the poor fellow but lobster
eateo at party four hours after he ought
to have teen sound asleep in bed. There
are men to-day in our streets so
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 ais
trIcts have furnished most OF the men and
women OF our time who are doing the
mightiest work in merchandise, in mechan-
L.
legislative and congressional halls, and all
the presidents from Washington down-at
least, those who have amounted to any
tblng-is because they were in these coun-
try districts of necessity kept on plain diet.
No man or woman ever amounted tn any,
thing who was brought up on floating
island or angel cake. The world must turn
back to paradlsaic diet If it is to get para
disaic morals and para isaio health. The
human race to-day needs more phosphorus,
aud the fish is charged and surcharged with
phosphorus. Phosphorus. that which shines
in the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apost es such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve eveTythingl Next to divine in
SEPARATION, 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 IF 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 ia his
boldest of all uttersnces before the WISE
acres 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 undaunted to certain
martyrdom, whether to be decapltated or
flung off preciplces or hanged in crucihxion.
Phosphorus, shining in the dark without
burning No man or woman that ever
lived vas independent of questions of diet
Let those who by circumstances are COM
PEELED to simplicity of diet, thank God for
their rescue from the temptation Of killing
delicGces. 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
and had for breakfast this morning 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 boy, who acted as
sutler to the seven thousand people of the
wilderness, handed over-ive harley 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 hav-
ing caught them himself, sitting with his
bare feet over the bank of the lake and ex-
pecting TO sell his supply at good profit, but
he felt better when by the miracle the fish
were multiplied and he had more returned
90 him than be had surrendered
Know, also, in order TO understand the
ichthyology OF the Bible that in the deeper
waters, as those Of the Mediterranean, were
monsters tha5 are now extinct. The fools
who become inadels because they cannot
understand the engulfmenu OF the recreant
Jonah in a sea monster might have saved
their souls by studying little natural his
tory. 20, " says one, that story of Jonah
was only fable Say others: ut was
tnterpolated by some writer Of later times
Others say: ut was reproduction of the
story of Hercules devoured and then restored
from the monster" But my reply is that
history tells US that there we're monsters
large enough to whelm ships. The extinct
ichthyOsaurus OF other ages was thirty
feet long, and as late as the
sixth century of the Christian era,
up and down the Mediterranean
there tioated monsters compared with which
modern whale was a sardine or herring.
The shark has again and again been found
TO have swallowed a man entire. A fisher
man on the coast of Turkey found a sea
monster which contained woman and a
purse Of gold. ! have seen IN museums sea
monsters large enough to take down a
prophet. But l have a better reason for
believing the Old Testament account, aud
that is that Christ said il was true and n