Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-02-17

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cause when applied to human ailments it /,
said TO be curative; the lampreys, so teupt
ing to the epicurean that too many Of theu
slew Henry u-aye, ths whole world o
hshesi
Enough OF them floating up and down th,
rivers to feed the hemispheres il every ear o
corn and every head OF wheat and every
herd of quadruped and IL every other article
Of food in all the earth were DESTROYED
Universal drought, leaving not so much a
a spear OF grass on the round planet, would
leave in the rivers ami lakes and seas for
the human race a staple commo iity OF food
which. IL brought to shore, would be enoug GU
not only to feed but fatten the entire human
race.
In times to come the worli may b, 81
populated that the harvests and, vinegar Is
and land animals may be insu fflcient TO feed
the human family, and the nations may be
Obliged to come to the rivers aud ocean
beaches TO seek tbs living hsrvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean more
healh and vigor AMI brilliaucy aud brain
than the human race now own.
The Lord, by placing the fish in the first
course OF the menu in paradise making it
prscede bird and beast, indicated to the
world the Importance Of the fish as au
article OF human food. The reason that
men and womsn lived thres and four and
five and nine hundred years was because
they were kept on parchsd corn AMI fish.
We mix up fantastic fool that kill the
most of us before thirty years OF age. Gus
tards aud whipped slllabubs and Roman
! punches and chicken saia Is at midnight are
a gantlet that few havs 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 kille ths poor
fellow but lobster eaten at party four hours
| after he ought to have been sound asleep in
bed. There are men to-day in our streets so
many walking hospitals who mi yht have
been athletesif II they hal taken the hint OF
! Genesis in my text and OF our Lords re-
mark and adhered TO simplicity of diet.
The reason that the country districts have
| furnished most OF the men aud womsn OF
our time who are doing the mightisst W ork
In merchandise in mechanics in law, in
medicine, in theology, in legislative and
J congre Ssional halls, and all the presidents
from Washington down-at least those who
have amounted TO anything-is because they
were in those country districts of necessity
kent on plain diet.
Noman or woman ever amouutei to any
thing Who was brought up on floating island
| or angel cake. The world must turn back
TO paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac
morals and parad saac health. The human
| race to-day nesis more phosphorus, and the
fish is charged AMI surcharged with phos.
| phorus-phosphorus, that which shines in
the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such stall
wart men that they could endure anything
and achieve eysrythingr Next to divine in
| spiration, it was bscauss they were nearly
! all fishermen and lived on fish and q few
' plain condiments. Paul, thou III 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, aud You
see the phosphorus in dis daring plea before
Felix, and the phosphorus in his bodest of
| all utterances before the wisacrss on Mars
| Hill, and the phosphorus as he went without
fright to his beheaiiug, and the phosphorus
| you see in the lives o. all the apostles who
moved right on un niaunted to certain martyr.
dom. whether to be declpitated or flung or
| precipces or hung in crucitixion.
Phosphorus shining in the dark without
| burning. No man or woman that ever lived
was independent of qu sstlons of diet. Lst
| those who by circumstances are compelled
to simplicity OF diet thank God for their res
| cue from the temptation OF killing delica-
! cisS. The men and women who are to de-
eide the drift OF the Twentieth Century,
which is only seven or eight steps OF, are
| now five miles back from the rail station
| and hal for breakfast this morning a 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 aui
| fish which the boy who acted as sutler to the
1000 persons Of the wilderness handed over
five barley losves 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 them himself, sit
| ting with his bare fest over the bank of the
| lake and expecting to sell his supply at good
profit, but he felt better when by the mira
| Gle the fish were multiplied aud he had more
returned to him than he had surreniere1.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology of tho Bible that in the deeper
waters. as those of the Mediterranean. there
were monsters that are now extinct. The
| fools who become intidels because they eau
not understand the ingulfmsnt of the recrs-
ant Jonah in a sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying a little natural
| history "Oh," says some one, that story
of Jonah was only a fable" Say others:
ut was interpolated by some writer of later
timesn Others say: 1T was a reproduc-
ton OF the story of Hercules devoured and
| then rsstor cd from the monster" But my
| reply Is that history tolls us that there were
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 foated monsters
compared with which modern whale was
a sardine or a herring. The shark has again
| and again been found to swallow man en-
| tire A fisherman on the coast OF Turkey
found sea monster which contained wo-
| man and purse of gold. l have seen in
museums sea monsters large enough to take
down a prophet.
But have better reason for believing
| tho Old Testament account, and that is that
| Christ said it was true aud a type OF His
| own resurrection, and | suppose He ought
| to know. In Matthew xii, 40, Jesus Christ
saws, "For as Jonas 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 imposter.
Notice also how the Old Testam snt writer's
| drew similitude from the fisheries. jeremiah
uses such imagery to prophesy destruction,
"Behod win send for many fishers, saith
the Lord, and they shall fish them" Ezekiel
uses fish imagery to prophssy prosperity,
at shall come to pass that the fishers shall
stand upon it from Engedi even to Eneg-
lain; there shall be place to spread forth
nets; their fish shall be according to their
kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding
many" the explanation OF which is that
Engedi and Eneglsim stood on the banks
Of the Dead sea, in the waters of which
no fish can live, but the prophet says that
the time will come when these wlterS will
be regenerated, and they will be great places
for fish. Amos reproyes idoatries by say
ing, 'The day shall come upon you when
| he will take you away with hooks AMI your
postsrity with fishhooks" Solomon, in
Ecciesiastes, declares that those captured of
temptation are as fishes taken in an evil
net. Indeed Solomon knew all about the
funny tribe aud wrote a treatise on ichthy.
ology which has been lost.
Furthermore, in order that you may un-
derstand the ichthyology of the Bible, you
must know that there were five ways OF
fishing. One was by fence of reeds and
cane, within which the fish were caught.
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