The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-24

No man or woman ever amounted 20
anything who was brought mp on float
ing island or angel cake. The world
must turn back to paradisaic diet II IL
Is TO get paradisaic moral and parade
sale health. The human race to-day
needs more phosphorus, and the fish Is
charged and surcharged with phosphor-
ua Phosphorus, that which shines In
the dark withou. burning.
What made the twelve apostles such
stalwart men that they could endure
anything and achieve everything? Next
To Divine inspiration, IL was because
they were nearly all fishermen and
lived on fish and plain condiments
Paul, though 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, and
you see the phosphorus in his daring
plea before Felix, and the phosphorus
in his boldest of all utteranees before
the wiseacres 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 eer-
tated or flung Off prscipices or hung in
crucifixion. Phosphorus, shining In the
| light without burning! No man or
woman that ever lived was independ-
emit of the questions of diet
Let those who by circumstances are
compelled to simplicity of diet thank
God for their rescue from the tempta-
ton of killing delicacies The men and
women who are TO decide the drift of
the twentieth century, which is only
seven or eight steps of, are now five
miles back from the rail station, and
had 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 article 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--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,
sitting with his bare feet over the bank
of the lake and expecting to sell his
| supply 1T good profit but he felt better
when by the miracle the fish were null
| tiplied and he had more returned to
him than he surrendered.
Know, ALSO in order to understand
| the ichthyology of the Bible that in the
deeper waters, as those of the Mediter-
ranean, there were monsters that are
now extinct The fools who become
infidels because they can not under
stand the engulfment Of the recreant
Jonah in sea monster, might have
saved their souls by studying a little
natural history. oh" says some one,
that story of Jonah was only fable"
Says others: 1T was interpolated by
some writer Of later times" Others
say: 1T was n reproduction of the story
of Hercules devoured and then restored
from the monster" But my reply is
that history tells 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 hoated monsters compared with
which a modern whale was a sardine or
herring The shark has again and
again been found to swallow a man en-
tire. A fisherman on the coast OF Tur-
key found sea-monster which con-
tanned n woman and purse of gold. i
have seen in museums sea-monsters
large enough to take down n prophet
But / have a better reason for believing
the Old Testament account, and that is
that Christ said it was true, and type
of His own resurrection, and / suppose
He ought to know. In Matthew xii,
40, Jesus Christ says: 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
| 1t for me and for any man who does
| not believe Christ a dupe and an inn
poster.
Notice also how the Old Testament
writer's drew similitude from the fish
cries. jeremiah uses such imagery TO
prophesy destruction: behold, i will
send for many fishers, saith the Lord,
and they shall Ash them" Ezekiel
uses fish imagery TO prophecy: 1T shall
come to pass that the fishers shall stand
upon it from En-gedi even to En-
| eBihin' they bhaii 70 Piecc W
spread forth nets; their fisb shall
be according to their kinds, as the
fsh of the great sea. exceeding many"
The explanation of which is that
En-gedi and En-egiaim 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 waters will be regenerated and
they will be great places for fish. Amos