The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-08

waters swIrIe(l WIN Inns nnd frightened
with scalesl All the attributes Of the inf
mite God were called into action for the
making Of that first fish. Lanceolate and
translucent miraclel There is enough won
der in the plate of a sturgeon or in the car
tilage of n shark to confound the scientists
It does not take the universe to prove n
God A fish does it.
No wonder that LinnRus and Culver and
Agassiz and the greatest minds of all the
centuries sat enraptured before its anatomy
Oh. its beauty and the adaptedness of
structure 10 the element in which IL must
live; the picture gallery ON the sides of the
mountain trout unveiled as they spring up
to snatch the flies: the grayling, called the
flower of fishes; the salmon, ascending the
Oregon and the Severn, easily leaping the
falls that would stop them; the bold perch
the gudgeon, silver and black spotted; the
herring, moving in squadrons 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 men,
brane; the tench, called the physician OF
fishes, because when applied to human all
ments it is said TO be curative; the lam
preys, so tempting TO the epicurean that
too many of them slew Henry II-aye, the
whole world Of fishesl
Enough OF them floating up and down
the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every
ear of corn and every head of wheat and
every herd of quadruped and if every other
article of food in all the earth were de
stroyed. 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 food which, if brought to shore,
would be enough rot only to feed but fat
ten the entire human race. In times to
come the world may be 50 populated that
the harvests and vineyards and land ami
mails may be insufficient to feed the hui
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 and bTilliancy 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 il
precede bird and beast, indicated to the
world the Importance of the fish 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 en- parched corn and fish. We
mix up a fantastic food that kills the most
of Us before 30 years of age. Custards and
whipped silabubs and Roman punches and
chicken salads at midnight are a gantlet
that few have strength to run
We put on many n tombstone glowing
epithets saying that the person beneath
died of patriotic services or from exhaus-
ton 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 d,
our Lord remark and adhered 10 simplici-
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
congressional 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
or woman ever amounted TO anything who
was brought up on floating island or angel
cake The world must turn back to para
disiac diet If 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-
us-phosphorus that which shines in the
dark without burning
TIE APOSTOLIC FISHERMEN.
What made the u apostles such stalwart
men that they could endure anything and
achieve everything! Next to divine inspi-
ration, 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
of necessity have adopted the diet of the
population among whom he lived, and you
see the phosphorus in his daring plea be-
fore Felix, and the phosphorus in his bold
ness of all utterances before the wiseacres
on Mars hill, and the phosphorus as he
went without fright to his beheading, and
the phosphorus you in the lives of all
the apostles who moved right on undaunt-
ed to certain martyrdom, whether to be
decapitated OF flung off precipices or hung
In crucilxiOn. Phosphorus shining in the
dark without burning
Norman OF woman that ever lived was in
dependent of questions of diet. Let those
who by circumstances are compelled TO
simplicity Of diet thank God for their res
cue from the temptation of killing delica-
cies. The men and women who are to de
eide the drift of the Goth century. which is
only seven or eight steps of, 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
Gaiilee
Indeed the only articles of food that
Christ by miracle multiplied were bread
and fish which the boy who acted as suit
Ter to the 1000 people of the wilderness
handed OveT-fve barley loaves AMI 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 at good profit. but he felt better
when by the miracle the fish were multi
piled and he had more returned to him than
he had surrendered.
THE ANCIENT MONSTERS.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyOlogy Of the Bible that in the deeper
waters as those Of the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that are now extinct. The
fools VINO become infidels because thev can
not understand the engulfment of the rec
reant Jonah in a sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying little nat
ural history. "Oh, " says some one, that
story of Jonah was only a fable" Say
Others, 1T was interpolated by some writer
of latey times" Others say, 1T was re-
production Of the story of Hercules de
vOured and then restored from the mon
ster." But my reply is that history tells US
IEat there were monsters large enough TO
whelm ships.
The extinct ichthyOsaurus Of other ages
was 80 feet long, and as late as the sixth
century Of the Christian era up and down