Milford chronicle., 1893-02-10

waters swirled with fms ana brfghtene
/ with scalesl All the attributes Of the ini
mite God were called into action for Il
making Of that first fish Lanceolate an
! translucent miraclei There is enough wol
I der in the plate of a sturgeon or in the ca
tilage Of a shark to confound the scientist
/ It does not take the universe to prove
God. A fish does it.
No wonder that Linneus and Cuvier an
| Agassiz and the greatest minds Of all th
/ centuries sat enraptured before its anatomy
Oh, its beauty and the adaptedness Of il
structure to the element in which It mus
live; the picture gallery on the sides Of th
mountain trout unveiled as they spring u
to snatch the flies; the grayling, called tn
flower Of fishes; the salmon, ascending th
Oregon and the Severn, easily leaping tn
falls that would stop them; the bold perch
the gudgeon, silver and black spotted; tn
herring, moving in squadrons five mile
long; the carp, for cunning called the foi
of fishes; the wondrous surgeons, formerl
reserved for the tables Of royal familie
and the isinglass made out of their mem
brGne; the teneh, called the physician o
fishes, because when applied to human all
ments it is said to ba curative; the lam
preys, so tempting to the epicurean tina
too many Of them slew Henry II-aye, tn
whole world Of fishesl
Enough Of them floating up and dow
the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every
ear Of corn and every head Of wheat anC
every herd of quadruped and if every othel
article of food In all the earth were de
strOyed. Universal drought, leaving moi
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 com
modify OF food which, if brought to shore
would be enough not only to feed but fat
ten the entire human race. In times tC
come the world may be so populated that
the harvests and vineyards and land ami
mails may be insufficient to feed the hu-
man family, and the nations may be
Obliged to come to the rivers and ocean
beaches to seek the living harvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean more
health and vigor aud brilliancy and brain
than the human race now own.
FISH FOOD MAKES STRONG MEN.
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 as 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 80 years of age. Custarls and
whipped sillabubs and Roman punches and
chicken salads at midnight are a gantlet
that few have strength to run.
We put on many a tombstone glowing
epithets saying that the person beneath
Of
tion in religious work, when nothing killed
the poor fellow but lobster eaten at party
four hours after he ought to have been
sound asleep in bed There are men today
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 sinlplici-
ty 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, in law,
in medicine, in theology, in legislative and
halls, and all the presidents
from Washington down-at least those
who have amounted to anything-is be
cause they were in those country districts
Of necessity kept on plain diet. No man
OF woman ever amounted to anything who
was brought up on floating island or angel
eake The world must turn back to para
lisiac diet il it is to get paradisiac morals
and paradisiac health. The human race
today needs more phosphorus, and the fish
IS charged and surcharged with phosphor-
ls-phosphorus, that which shines in the
lark without burning.
THE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN.
What made the u apostles such stalwart
men that they could endure anything and
lchieve everything? Next to divine inspi-
'ation, it was because they were nearly all
ishermen and lived on fish and few plain
,ond ments. Paul, though not brought up
% swing the net and throw the line, must
If necessity nave adopted l,sgpssee5 of the
population among whom he lIsSssi, and you
zee the phosphorus in his daring plea be-
ore Felix, and the phosphorus in his bold
less of all utterances before the wiseacres
N Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he
vent without fright to his beheading, and
he phosphorus yOu sec in the lives Of all
he apostles who moved right on undaunt-
d to certain martvrdOm, whether to be
Iecapitated or flung off precipiees or hung
n crucifixion. Phosphorus shining in the
lark without burning.
No man or woman that ever lived was in
dependent of questions Of diet. Let those
Who by circumstances are compelled to
implicitly of diet thank God for their res
ue from the temptation of killing delica-
les. The men and women who are to de-
ide the drift of the Goth century, which is
My seven or eight steps Off, are now five
niles back from the rail station and had
or breakfast this morning n similar bill Of
nre to that which Christ provided for he
shermen disciples on the banks of Lake
ialilee.
Indeed the only articles of food that
]hrist by miracle multiplied were bread
nd fish which the boy who acted as suit
er to the 1000 people Of the wilderness
anded over-flve barley loaves and two
shes. The boy must have felt badly when
allied on to give up the two fishes which he
ad brought out after having caught them
imself, sitting with his bare feet over the |
ank of the lake and expecting to sell his |
upply at good profit, but he felt better |
yhen by the miracle the fish were multi |
lied and he had more returned to him than |
g had surrendered.
THE ANCIENT MONSTERS.
Know also in order to understand cae |
of the Bible that in the deeper !
'aters, as those Of the Mediterranean, there |
-ere monsters that are now extinct. The |
,ols who become inhdels because they can
OF understand the engulfment Of the rec
sant Jonah in sea monster might have |
wed their souls by studying little nat
raj history "Oh, F" says some one, that |
iory Of Jonah was only a fable" Say |
thers, 1T was interpolated by some writer |
later times" Others say, 1T was re
reduction of the story Of Hercules de
oured and then restored from the mon
,er." But my reply is that history tells us |
bat there were monsters large enough t.
helm ships.
The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages /
yas so feet leng, and IS late as the sixth
entury of the Christian era up and down |
be Mediterranean there noated monsters |
ompared with which q modern whale was /
sardine or herring. Theshark he's again
nd again been found to have swallowed O /
nan entire. A fisherman on the coast Of
'urkey found a sea monster which con 1
aimed a woman and purse Of gold.
I have seen in muaeuins cen monsters I
irge enough to take down prophet. But
have o better reason for Believing the Gid |
account, and that is that Christ 1